School of Education & Childhood Studies

Education & Childhood Studies programs

• Bachelor of Early Childhood Care and Education Degree
• Early Childhood Care and Education - Infant and Toddler Certificate
• Early Childhood Care and Education - Special Needs Certificate
• Early Childhood Care and Education Certificate
• Early Childhood Care and Education Diploma
• Early Childhood Care and Education Pathway
• Early Childhood Care and Education Post-Baccalaureate Diploma
• Education Assistant Certificate

Centre for Childhood Studies

The Centre for Childhood Studies (CCS) is housed in the Faculty of Education, Health and Human Development at Capilano University. The CCS includes a partnership between faculty, the Early Childhood Care and Education Department students and the educators at CapU’s Children’s Centre.

As a member of the Canadian Early Years Lab School Association, the CCS works with the assumption that a lab school and other partner early learning centres are lively pedagogical spaces for young children, their families, students, faculty and researchers to work together on reconceptualising early childhood education practices.

The CCS engages in research that works with educators and children as co-researchers to explore what is possible and yet unknown in education. The CCS welcomes all research that acknowledges the common worlds the 21st-century child will inherit, including colonization, racism, climate change, poverty, societal inequities and other social justice issues.

Journal of Childhoods and Pedagogies

The CCS also publishes the Journal of Childhoods and Pedagogies.

This open-source publication provides a forum for students, educators, and researchers (of local and global scholarship) to engage with exploratory and innovative approaches to early childhood education, particularly childhoods, pedagogies and curriculum.