Rethinking Early Childhood and Elementary Education, Master of Arts in Teaching and Learning

Rethinking Early Childhood and Elementary Education addresses classic and contemporary research regarding young children from infants/toddlers to 5th grade that focus on children from all cultural, racial, ethnic and socio-economic backgrounds as well as their varied abilities within the context of families, schools and communities.

Topics include: critical and innovative approaches to understanding curriculum; diverse images of the child and the way these images impact educational structures; child-centered, anti-oppressive, and asset-oriented pedagogies; new understandings of play, imagination and their critical link to social development and cognition; and multiple perspectives on understanding the child in a social context.

Program Features

A path to an advanced degree with a flexible and accommodating schedule.

Get one-on-one attention and guidance from nationally recognized faculty, and program managers.

Core courses that teach you multiple perspectives in teaching and learning; and elective courses that allow you to explore early childhood education across the curriculum.