Early Childhood Education
The Mission
Early Childhood Education is an interdisciplinary academic learning community dedicated
to the promotion of scholarship and research, teaching, and community service in
the field of early childhood education. Through collaboration among faculty, teachers,
students, administrators, and community partners, the Early Childhood Education engages in
new directions for early childhood education. It is self-renewing
and dedicated to high quality early childhood theory, practice, advocacy, and policy
in South Florida and throughout the world. Emphasizing diversity and democracy,
it engages in a range of projects and activities to benefit all
children and promote their rights.
The Vision
We envision early childhood educators who demonstrate excellence in classroom teaching,
research, advocacy, and leadership.
We envision educators who continue to ask new questions, create new solutions, and
explore new possibilities in theory and practice.
We envision a world transformed through early childhood education, with young children
and their families as the heart of our communities.
Building the Dream... Creating the Future
The world renews its vision, recreates itself, and becomes a community through
the eyes of children. To educate their minds and their hearts is our greatest passion.
To give young children the opportunity to think, to reason, to create, and to discover,
builds the foundation for the future and opens up new possibilities for our community’s
growth and development. Children come into this world with their unique gifts and
talents, their endless curiosity and intelligence, their resilience, their enthusiasm,
and their ability to love and be loved. Children are the heart of our heart, and
they touch the deepest places in our souls. Our passion is to nurture them and to
empower them to eventually guide us, to make us and our world better for generations
to come.
Children are today and they are tomorrow. Our passion for their education is the
driving force for Early Childhood Education. We cannot and will not wait. We are building
this dream for them and with them now.
What is the dream? Imagine a place…an “educational destination spot” for early childhood
education in South Florida.
