Overview

This Early Childhood Education - Initial Certification and Bilingual Extension at Columbia University focuses on urban settings and centres issues pertaining to multilingualism and multiculturalism in curriculum, teaching, and learning, espousing a critical social justice perspective. Our students (who must be bilingual and biliterate in Chinese, French, Korean, or Spanish in order to be admitted to the program) are prepared to engage in the real world issues pertaining to the education of young multilingual learners via pedagogical, political, psychological, and sociological perspectives.

Through a curriculum that integrates early childhood education and bilingual education content, we aim to enable our initial certification students to become outstanding bilingual early childhood teachers and leaders in the education of young multilingual learners. Honoring the importance of understanding children’s development and learning in light of their cultural practices and multilingual repertoires, our Master of Arts program emphasizes collaboration with families and other professionals, and considers how policies have historically and continue to contemporarily affect families’ access to social services.

Programme Structure

Courses include:

Differentiation and inclusion in early childhood classrooms
Child development and intersectional identities
Home/school/community partnerships
Integrated curriculum in early childhood education: curricular inquiry and design
Integrated curriculum in early childhood education: diversity, equity, and technologies
Play, language, and early childhood curriculum
Language and teaching in the primary reading/writing classroom
The artistic Lives of young children
Foundations of bilingual/bicultural education

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 12 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2027-09-02 00:00:00
- Apply before 2027-04-01 00:00:00

Language

English

TOEFL^® IBT

100

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Credits

39 SCH

Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

Manhattan, United States

Disciplines

Language Studies Early Childhood Education View 386 other Masters in Early Childhood Education in United States

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Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

English requirements

TOEFL^® IBT

100

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Other requirements

General requirements

Online Degree Application, including Statement of Purpose and Resume
Transcripts and/or Course-by-Course Evaluations for all Undergraduate/Graduate Coursework Completed
Results from an accepted English Proficiency Exam (if applicable)
$75 Application Fee
Two (2) Letters of Recommendation, Preference that one (1) be academic

Tuition Fees

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Non-residents

38358 USD / year

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Out-of-State

38358 USD / year

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In-State

38358 USD / year

≈ 38358 USD / year

Living costs

Manhattan

United States

2638 - 5751 USD / month

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Start dates & application deadlines

Language

Credits

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Campus Location

Disciplines

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Other requirements

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Living costs

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Financing

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