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About the course
This Early Childhood Education major within Curtin’s Master of Teaching prepares you to teach in the early years, focusing on children from kindergarten to Year 2 and broader 0–8 early childhood contexts. You’ll develop understanding of curriculum and general pedagogical approaches, alongside skills for managing and leading early childhood education and care centres. It’s a postgraduate major in Education & Teaching aimed at initial teacher preparation. The programme enhances curriculum leadership, pedagogical innovation, and educational policy understanding for professional educators.
Career outcome
Graduates can pursue roles across early childhood and junior primary settings, including early childhood teacher, junior primary teacher and early learning centre educator. The major also supports pathways into leadership and advisory work such as early learning centre manager, education advisor or reviewer, as well as roles like nanny in early childhood care contexts. This is a postgraduate major in Education & Teaching designed for teaching and early learning careers. Preparing graduates for education leadership, instructional design, and advanced teaching specialist roles.
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