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MA Professionalisierung frühkindlicher Bildung (Professionalisation of Early Childhood Education) at Leipzig University

Leipzig University, Germany

Programme overview

Master's programme aiming at lasting professionalisation of specialists and managers in early education, giving didactic-methodological, subject and practice-advisory skills. Taught in German with some English.

Faculty: Erziehungswissenschaftliche Fakultät  |  Department: Institut für Pädagogik und Didaktik im Elementar- und Primarbereich  |  Duration: 4 semesters (2 years)  |  Study mode: full-time, part-time; taught in German, partly English  |  Intake: Winter semester  |  Location: Leipzig, Sachsen, Germany

What you will study

Four-semester on-campus programme (full- or part-time) with 120 ECTS in 13 compulsory modules, one elective module and the master's thesis, plus a compulsory placement of at least 200 hours.

Career pathways

Qualifies for leading, advisory and research roles in institutions that shape, steer or administer (early) childhood education.

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Application information

Entry requirements

Professional degree or Berufsakademie degree in early childhood education or a related programme (e.g. education, social science, teacher training, social work) with at least 60 credit points on educational, didactic, psychological and/or sociological approaches to childhood; English at CEFR B2. Locally restricted admission (numerus clausus). Application period: 02.05. – 31.05.; portal: AlmaWeb.

Intake: Winter semester

Duration: 4 semesters (2 years)

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