Bachelor of Early Childhood Education and Leadership

at Victoria University

Course structure and units

YEAR 1
 

• Reconciling Australian Humanities Education
• Personal and Professional Learning
• Human Development, Sustainability and Wellbeing
• Creativity and the Arts in Education
• Playing with Play
• Professional Understandings of Quality frameworks in Early Childhood
• Educational Programs and Practice
• Safe, Secure and Supportive Relationships and Environments

YEAR 2
 

• Practice in Partnership 1
• Practice in Partnership 2
• History, Philosophy and Early Childhood Education
• Engaging with Place through Rethinking Childhoods and Development
• Engaging with Place through Play
• Materiality in Early Childhood: Visual and Creative Arts
• Moving with Young Children
• Music, Movement and Dramatic Arts

YEAR 3
 

• Thinking with Young Children: Language and Literacy
• Advocacy in Leadership and Management in Early Childhood Education
• Practice in Partnership 3
• Critical and Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood Education
• Equity, Social Justice and Diversity in Early Childhood Education
• Thinking with Young Children: Science, Maths and Technology
• Practice in Partnership 4

YEAR 4
 

• Understanding Play: Pedagogy and Possibilities
• Early Childhood in a Global Context
• The Image of the Child
• Research Methods in Early Childhood
• Ethical and Responsive Leadership
• Politics, Policy and Impact
• Inquiry Project 1
• Inquiry Project 2

• Completion of an Australian Senior Secondary Certificate (VCE or equivalent) including Units 3 and 4: a study score of at least 30 in English (EAL) or 25 in any other English (or equivalent).
  
  OR:
   
• Completion of an Australian Advanced Diploma or Diploma (or equivalent).
  
  PLUS:
   
• IELTS (or equivalent): Overall score or 6.5 (with no band less than 6.0 in Listening, Reading, Writing and Speaking).
  
  OR:
   
• Completion of a Foundation course or equivalent.

International Fees
 

• AU$27400.0

With an early childhood education degree from VU, you'll be job-ready before you graduate thanks to the extensive experience you'll gain in early childhood settings. You’ll be ready to work as an early childhood teacher throughout Australia, and progress professionally according to your ambitions and aptitude.

Graduates can find employment in:
 

• public or private kindergarten
• long day care centre
• early childhood centre in Australia
• policy development with government bodies.