Course Contents

The programme equips you with solid theoretical, practical, and research-based competences for professional work in early childhood education. The four central areas of competence are:

Professional practice competence

You acquire the foundations for the professional education, care, and upbringing of children. To effectively support and shape learning processes, you combine practical skills with research-informed knowledge and an open, reflective attitude.

Collaboration competence

You learn how to professionally organise collaboration and build strong educational partnerships. You deepen your skills in working with parents, institutions, and external professionals. Interdisciplinary and interconnected working are key elements of your future role.

Reflective competence & psychodynamic concepts

You critically reflect on your own pedagogical practice and learn to understand and further develop it within its specific context. At the same time, you increase your awareness of the perspectives of children, families, and colleagues. Input on inclusion and diversity further supports the development of your professional approach.

Research competence

You learn scientific methods and how to apply them in professional practice. This enables you to actively contribute to quality development and to the broader advancement of early childhood education. Towards the end of the programme, you write your bachelor thesis, supervised by academic staff and oriented towards relevant questions and needs from the field.

In the 6th semester, you can choose elective modules to develop your own academic focus – for example, on interprofessional collaboration with selected health professions or on the multilingual and translingual lifeworlds of children.