Department of Early Childhood Education

In 1983, the university established a program for early childhood education and began recruitment of high school and vocational school graduates for a two-year program in early childhood education (currently discontinued). In 1990, Department of Early Childhood Education was founded (the first such department in Taiwan), which began recruiting high school graduates for a four-year pre-service teacher education program. The department is one of the oldest and the first department to train early childhood educators in Taiwan.

Department of Early Childhood Education includes an Undergraduate Program and a Master Program. The Undergraduate Program provides teacher education program, focusing on Child Study, and its application in the fields of Early Childhood Education, Children and Media, Child Welfare and Family services.The Master Program includes two sub-programs which are the Early Childhood Education Program and the Child Development program. The aims of the Master Program is to develop students ability to construct theories of early childhood and child development, to cultivate outstanding researchers in the field of early childhood curriculum and policy, and to prepare “Child-Centered” practitioners.