Description
The 3-year degree in Elementary Education trains elementary education professionals capable of intervening in various educational settings, by providing the adequate knowledge and skills that would enable them to: observe and evaluate different educational contexts within the area of early childhood and elementary education where they might develop their professional activity; build a global view on children and their life and learning contexts, developing skills for action in fields related to early childhood and elementary education; develop learning skills, critical and inventive thinking, intellectual curiosity and openness to diversity, in a perspective of lifelong training; access master's degrees in teaching pre-school and elementary and middle (5th-6th years) schools. This cycle of studies confers on graduates in Elementary Education knowledge and skills that enable them to exercise various professional functions, particularly those that focus on the child and on the network services that assist the child. These may be associated to syllabus enrichment programmes, extracurricular activities and activities to support the integration of children in schools.
Access to higher education
This course provides the technical and scientific capacity to access the courses of the second cycle (Master)
Careers
The Degree in Elementary Education, enabling the acquisition of comprehensive skills in the different areas of scientific, technological, artistic, humanistic and pedagogical knowledge, opens a variety of career opportunities in the field of early childhood and basic education.
This cycle of studies enables to the exercise of non-teaching educational functions, particularly in:
- Support centres to study attendance/help and leisure activities;
- Institutions that promote childcare in prolonging the school time/schedule;
- Pedagogical innovation projects;
- Animation projects for public and school libraries and reading mediation / promotion;
- Services of study attendance of hospitalized children or that are unable to attend school;
- School support services to immigrants;
- Support services for children with special educational needs.
