11 Early Childhood and Special Education Degree Programs in Japan

Early Childhood Education Special Needs Education Health Education and Health Promotion

The courses (domains) are designed to allow students to develop a comprehensive understanding covering elementary school education as a whole, thus acquiring the knowledge and skills necessary for elementary school teachers. They also allow students to specialize further in a specific field to develop their abilities, with a focus on secondary school education. From their second year on, students join courses (domains) based on both their personal preferences and their grades in their first year. The classes to be taken to earn credits are set accordingly for each of these courses (domains).

Postgraduate Study in Special Needs Education offers specialized training in special needs education and its goal is to train highly skilled teachers with the objective to improve special needs education. The education of the physically or mentally challenged offers curricula that enables its students to acquire a teaching license for special needs education.

This course is for persons desiring an elementary school teaching license. In addition to studying infant childcare, this course cultivates the qualities and abilities for teaching in accordance with the needs of disabled children from the point of view of special-needs education. Qualifications/Licenses (Certificates) that can be obtained: Elementary School Teaching Certificate (first-class certificate) Kindergarten Teaching Certificate (first-class certificate) Special-Needs School Teaching Certificate (first-class certificate)

The Department of Children's Education is a department where students with the aspiration and passion to become elementary school teachers gather. Characterized by a sense of unity and a warm atmosphere, there is a tradition of students teaching and learning from each other. All the students are working hard toward their dreams and living a fulfilling university life. Learn with us to make your dreams come true!

The first program of its type in Japan, the Child Studies course draws on the accumulated history and traditions of early childhood education at Seitoku Gakuen to research and find solutions to the various problems associated with child care, which grow more severe each year. The program gives students a solid grounding in compassionate observation, allowing them to observe each child from a variety of angles. It also provides them with the knowledge of the issues of child development and education, as well as a practical ability to offer solutions. The program produces specialists with a deep understanding of children, such as kindergarten and primary school teachers, as well as professionals dealing with childhood issues in all fields.

The Children's Studies Course shall organize its curriculum to do research on the expertise and techniques that contribute to the enhancement of the quality of early childhood and education based on the scientific beliefs and understandings regarding children while pursuing the way to support child development and to cultivate　the ability to put this knowledge into practice.

As a graduation requirement, you will obtain a kind of elementary school teacher's license. Furthermore, although it is not a graduation requirement, a junior high school teacher type license (national language, society, mathematics, science, English), a high school teacher type license (national language, geography history, mathematics, science, English), a kindergarten teacher type license ， Special support school teacher type (all three areas of intellectual disability, physical disability, and illness) You can obtain one of the licenses. This is a program to train highly specialized teachers.

Students may select either the Elementary/Kindergarten Course or Kindergarten/Nursery School Course, depending on the license they wish to obtain. Each course offers a specialized curriculum designed to develop individuals with the practical skills necessary to make them good teachers.

Aiming to realize a shared global society through training the next generation, this department fosters primary-level educators with a broad, inclusive perspective of global society and the skills to recognize and practically solve issues among children and schools from multiple viewpoints. The department has established two academic courses to achieve these aims.

Child study classes cover a wide range of subjects such as culture, psychology, childhood education, and child welfare. The aim is not only to train nursery school and kindergarten teachers but also to study children comprehensively and develop the strength of character to work together in partnership with children.