Preschool education

The basic goal of the professional bachelor study programme Preschool education is to qualify students for quality educational work with young children – preschool children and children in the first grade of nine year primary school and for cooperation with parents, co-workers and other professionals. In the process of education, students of preschool education become familiar with various concepts of childhood and education, and gain fundamental theoretical and practical knowledge from individual areas of kindergarten operation.

Graduates of the programme must know how to communicate with children and adults, and must be capable of planning, executing and critically analysing educational work. The elective subjects of the programme encourage students to gain a more in-depth training in those areas of work in kindergartens for which they have a special interest and ability.

An important goal of study is the acquisition of the fundamental and broadly transferable knowledge that will allow graduates, in the process of lifelong learning, to themselves seek out sources and ways of acquiring the specific knowledge and skills that they will need in work.