Graduate Diploma in Early Childhood Education
Course Overview
Launch a rewarding and in-demand career, with VU's one-year Graduate Diploma of Early Childhood Education. Our graduate diploma allows graduates of degree programs to become early-childhood teachers. You'll engage with units focused on children from birth to five years, learning how teaching practice can include children and families as capable participants in education. If you're a domestic student(external link) or you won't be studying at VU on a student visa, you can study this course online. You'll also gain hands-on work experience in a range of settings, graduating with expertise in early-childhood learning built on a strong sense of social justice. Gain insight into the early years by studying these fascinating areas: child development teaching practice that includes Aboriginal perspectives education and curriculum studies focused on childhood and relationships family and community contexts advocacy and activism in early-childhood settings history and philosophy of early childhood ethical early-childhood professional practice.