Graduate Certificate in Early Childhood Education

Your studies will embed indigenous worldviews, education for sustainability, and health and wellbeing. You'll learn to recognise how relationships with self, others, cultures, and places are critical to teaching and learning with children. Graduates are inclusive education practitioners with specific capacities to lead with play-based pedagogies, and to work with complex communities.

Graduates of this course will be qualified to respond to opportunities and challenges in a range of formal and informal early learning contexts for children Birth to 8 years of age. You'll develop essential knowledge and skills to evaluate professional practice and to design creative and evidence-led responses to changing educational contexts and learners' needs.

The Graduate Certificate in Early Childhood Education is an externally accredited degree.

The course is accredited by Australian Children's Education & Care Quality Authority (ACECQA).

Graduates may meet the requirements for registration with ACECQA . There may be additional requirements for registration beyond the completion of the course.

For further registration requirements, please visit the ACECQA website.

If you have any queries about the accreditation process, please contact us for further information.

The Graduate Certificate in Early Childhood Education requires the completion of:

• 50 credit points of Core units and;
• 60 days of Professional Experience.

You will normally complete your first Professional Experience placement in your first semester, and your remaining two in subsequent semesters. Your Professional Experience is completed in three units:

• EDP702 Professional Experience 6 - 8 years
• EDP703 Professional Experience 3 - 5 years
• EDP704 Professional Experience Birth - 2 years

You can find out more information about the requirements and processes for Professional Experience placements on the Professional Experience website.