Master's in Elementary Education (with Early Childhood Education Concentration)
Contact the Early Childhood advisor with any questions you might have about ECE at TXST!
Tim Kinard: timkinard@txstate.edu
At Texas State, we value a diversity of experiences and the experience of diversity. We use these values to build on our students' personal experiences to help them hone their educational expertise to better serve the youngest residents of Texas and beyond.
Early learning is our passion
We are committed to helping you create a personalized educational journey that is based on human relationships and our shared passion: Leading the learning of the very young.
If you are interested in:
...deepening your expertise in leading early learning...
...seeking ways to defend the young's right to use playful exploration as a learning tool...
...creating a play-based curriculum to hone and recognize a broad range of literacy skills, build vocabulary, solve problems, and create meaningful understandings of our physical and social worlds...
...utilizing very young people's natural play, problem-solving skills, and home cultures to master essential knowledge and skills...
...designing learning environments that truly honor and utilize linguistic and cultural differences, while celebrating our diverse population...
...then the department of C&I at Texas State University can build on your skills to help you create change in Early Education through its Master of Arts (MA) and Master of Education (MEd) degrees in Elementary Education with an Early Childhood Education Concentration. Educators working in the field of Early Childhood Education or Early Learning can obtain a 36-hour M.Ed. degree that includes 36 hours of coursework and no thesis.
-
Our Mission
The elementary Master's program with a concentration in Early Childhood Education within the Department of Curriculum and Instruction prepares working educators to identify, understand, and disrupt thinking that positions the youngest learners as having deficits in their capabilities or home lives, or as lacking in knowledge and skills. We work to disrupt this thinking in order to help our graduate students build learning environments and curricula that utilize and celebrate the problem-solving, linguistic, and theory-building skills students learn at home (and in the languages of home). This commitment is in keeping with Texas State University's mission as a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI). We are committed to helping our graduate students be active in the mission of making schools "ready" for students, rather than expecting the young to be "ready for school," based on an injurious definition of "readiness" that serves some young children but marginalizes others.
