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Bachelor’s Degree in Early Childhood Education

CES Resolution

RPC-SO-28-No.467-2023

DURATION

4 Years

MODALITY

Online

Academic Identity

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Manage the implementation of course syllabi across academic programs and thesis projects, as well as guide the provision of support to meet student needs, through the application of agile, dynamic, and straightforward methods and procedures, in order to promote the development of outstanding academics, professionals, and researchers who are creative, humanistic, possess leadership skills, critical thinking, and a strong sense of civic responsibility. Article 52 of the Organic Regulation of Organizational Management by Processes of the Universidad de las Fuerzas Armadas – ESPE. RESOLUTION: ESPE-HCU-RES-2024-056, dated June 20, 2024.

“To be a leading university in knowledge and technology management within the national higher education system, with international prestige and recognized as a benchmark for the practice of ethical, civic, and service-oriented values to society.”

Organize learning environments based on the epistemological foundations of educational sciences, neuroscience, the comprehensive development of the individual, and the arts, addressing social, cultural, ecological, ancestral, and gender diversity at the local and national levels, through the formulation and/or management of projects.

Integrate knowledge through curricular adaptations, grounded in contemporary pedagogical, psychological, and didactic perspectives, within the ongoing dynamic between theory and practice, innovating models of education, care, and emotional support for children in early childhood, in order to enhance the transformation of the country’s cognitive and social framework.

Manage learning environments that engage students through action research across the various occupational fields of the program, strengthening specific competencies that contribute to learning processes for cognitive development, motor development, emotional growth, and playful expression, oriented toward respect for early childhood.

Develop, through processes of analysis and reflection throughout their education, metacognition, self-regulation, autonomy, leadership, and respect for cognitive, cultural, gender, and environmental diversity, as well as peace as an ethical commitment, in order to contribute to the fulfillment of the principles of Buen Vivir.

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The professional we train and the competencies you will develop

In the professional training of graduates holding a Bachelor’s Degree in Early Childhood Education within the field of Educational Sciences, their work environment comprises the settings in which future professionals of the Early Childhood Education program will be employed. These settings may include:

Child Development Centers for Good Living (CIBV)
Growing with Our Children (CNH),
Child Development Centers (CDI),
Educational Units in the First Year of Basic Education – Preparatory Level

Reception Institutions for Early Childhood Care
Municipal Early Childhood Education Centers
Early Stimulation Centers
Play Centers (Ludotecas) – Hospital Educational Intervention
Demand for competencies in Early Childhood Education in areas such as advisory services for didactic materials, educational books, and learning environments.
Public and private health centers that provide care to pregnant women, for the development of prenatal education, parent education programs in educational institutions, foundations or NGOs, and educational institutions that support adolescent mother

What learning outcomes or achievements will enable the development of the capacities and attitudes of future professionals to strengthen their values related to relevance, bio-consciousness, responsible participation, honesty, and others?

-Develops values, attitudes, and qualities for Good Living that promote ethics and civic responsibility throughout the professional trajectory.

-Manages diverse professional fields and environments in an innovative manner, incorporating social entrepreneurship within the domain of educational knowledge.

– Development of sensitivity and critical analysis in response to works of art or artistic phenomena in auditory and visual manifestations.

– Applies leadership from a contextualized perspective.

– Critically analyzes the profession’s deontological protocols.

– Values professional education and practice as the foundation of their life plan.

-Recognizes and values early childhood education from the ancestral cultures of Zones 2 and 9.

Applies, in a relevant manner, the foundational principles of Early Childhood Education public policies within institutional, family, and community contexts.

Analyzes principles of child development to provide a theoretical foundation, based on theories, models, and paradigms of the teaching–learning process within socio-educational systems.

Integrates sociological, anthropological, psychopedagogical, and neurocognitive theories into the development and management of pedagogical models.

Designs, manages, and evaluates contextualized and inclusive curricular models, integrating media convergence for educational purposes in early childhood education.

Organizes and manages inclusive and collaborative learning communities, relevant to their context, that generate opportunities for the development of intercultural and democratic learning environments.

Uses communication resources and ICT to expand sources of information and socio-educational interactions in the creation of open, democratic, intercultural, and inclusive learning environments.

Organizes, interprets, constructs, and evaluates knowledge in a critical, creative, and integrated manner, oriented toward practice and metacognition.

Leads educational processes through engagement with the issues of individuals, systems, processes, and learning contexts that constitute the object of pedagogical knowledge.

Designs, plans, implements, and evaluates contextualized, flexible educational programs and projects adapted to the learning needs of educational subjects.

Organizes, interprets, constructs, and evaluates knowledge in a critical, creative, and integrated manner, oriented toward practice and metacognition.

Operationalizes the policies, laws, and regulations governing early childhood care and education established by the Ecuadorian State.

Analyzes the historicity of education, highlighting national and international pedagogical thought.

Systematizes procedures and techniques in the use of language for aesthetic, persuasive, and communicative purposes.

Develops processes of analysis, systems, and logic through electronic intelligence applied to the enhancement of teaching thinking.e.

Identifies alternative modalities for the use of technology in the evaluation and research of early childhood educational software and for educational needs.

Develops statistical thinking through the use of strategies and the interpretation of statistical representations, with argumentative capacity for problem-solving.

Demonstrates an entrepreneurial and innovative attitude.

Conducts a geopolitical assessment of the global and national context.

Diagnoses, understands, and intervenes through proposals and research in socio-educational phenomena, processes, and systems.

Designs, plans, implements, and evaluates contextualized, flexible educational programs and projects adapted to the learning needs of educational subjects.

Applies action research in the processes of diagnosis, design, planning, implementation, evaluation, and systematization of educational reality.

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Spaces, moments, and experiences that bring the program to life

CES Resolution

RPC-SO-15-No 309-2020

Program Code

ISOF-SQ-2023

Accreditation

In process

Application Dates

March – April 2025 / August – September 2025

Program cost:

Article 356 of the Constitution of the Republic establishes, among other principles, that third-level public higher education shall be tuition-free, and that this gratuity is linked to the academic responsibility of students.

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Profiles and outcomes

Applies, in a relevant manner, the foundational principles of Early Childhood Education public policies within institutional, family, and community contexts.

Analyzes principles of child development to provide a theoretical foundation, based on theories, models, and paradigms of the teaching–learning process within socio-educational systems.

Integrates sociological, anthropological, psychopedagogical, and neurocognitive theories into the development and management of pedagogical models.

Designs, manages, and evaluates contextualized and inclusive curricular models, integrating media convergence for educational purposes in early childhood education.

Organizes and manages inclusive and collaborative learning communities, relevant to their context, that generate opportunities for the development of intercultural and democratic learning environments.

Uses communication resources and ICT to expand sources of information and socio-educational interactions in the creation of open, democratic, intercultural, and inclusive learning environments.

Organizes, interprets, constructs, and evaluates knowledge in a critical, creative, and integrated manner, oriented toward practice and metacognition.

Leads educational processes through engagement with the issues of individuals, systems, processes, and learning contexts that constitute the object of pedagogical knowledge.

Designs, plans, implements, and evaluates contextualized, flexible educational programs and projects adapted to the learning needs of educational subjects.

Organizes, interprets, constructs, and evaluates knowledge in a critical, creative, and integrated manner, oriented toward practice and metacognition.

Operationalizes the policies, laws, and regulations governing early childhood care and education established by the Ecuadorian State.

Analyzes the historicity of education, highlighting national and international pedagogical thought.

Systematizes procedures and techniques in the use of language for aesthetic, persuasive, and communicative purposes.

Develops processes of analysis, systems, and logic through electronic intelligence applied to the enhancement of teaching thinking.e.

Identifies alternative modalities for the use of technology in the evaluation and research of early childhood educational software and for educational needs.

Develops statistical thinking through the use of strategies and the interpretation of statistical representations, with argumentative capacity for problem-solving.

Demonstrates an entrepreneurial and innovative attitude.

Conducts a geopolitical assessment of the global and national context.

Diagnoses, understands, and intervenes through proposals and research in socio-educational phenomena, processes, and systems.

Designs, plans, implements, and evaluates contextualized, flexible educational programs and projects adapted to the learning needs of educational subjects.

Applies action research in the processes of diagnosis, design, planning, implementation, evaluation, and systematization of educational reality.

Curriculum Structure

Current Curriculum

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Admissions and costs

CES Resolution

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Accreditation

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