Department Introduction

Our department is the only one in eastern Taiwan that offers university students both child development and family education studies.

We prepare students to become professionals with skills and knowledge in early childhood education and childcare, family education, child guidance, and special education.

The following are our unique features:

1. We offer service-learning programs to cultivate students’ capabilities to serve others, design projects, and enhance their team spirit:

• • • Perform children’s dramas

Students organized Yabi Children’s Theater to perform children’s dramas each year, in Hualien County areas with fewer resources. Their performances raise the public’s awareness of family education, enhance children’s humanistic spirits, respect toward gender equality, and enable young children to appreciate their cultural diversity. As a result, our students foster their humanistic culture, and local children gradually build their correct values ​​and refined characters.

• • • Toy library management

Students run the library and provide toys and learning materials for parents and children to learn together during weekends.

• • • Offer family education programs for local indigenous families

Students carry out programs funded by the Ministry of Education and focus on enhancing family relationships, health and safety issues, and the management of family resources.

• • • Care for children with special needs and support of their families

Students organize three volunteer groups (the Group for Leading Outdoor Activities; the Respite Service Group; and the Family Care Group) to serve children with special needs. Student volunteers of these groups have been assisting children and their families in the Hualien area for many years.

• • • Offer other programs to local communities

Students attend to the needs of communities and offer programs in gender education, education for indigenous children, and activities for the elderly. 

2. We provide opportunities for students to enhance their interdisciplinary capabilities:

The department offers numerous elective courses other than the three major groups mentioned above. It also encourages students to take classes, preparing themselves to become high school teachers or choose double majors. 

3. We offer international exchange programs:

Students may receive their clerkship or internship training overseas, serve the needy abroad, or study overseas as exchange students.

Future Career

Students may choose to engage in the fields listed below:

• • Related to child education:

Students can be childcare providers in infant-care centers, preschool teachers in preschools, art teachers, or after-school program teachers. They can also choose to be early interventionists, preschool teachers associated with social welfare institutions, or counselors.

• • Related to family education

Students may serve as professionals in family education centers or parent-child centers, as well as in foundations that provide services to children, teenagers and family services.

• • Related to administration and management:

Students can be administrative staff of childcare and education institutions, principals or persons in charge of preschool education at preschools, or be administrative staff at preschool education centers funded by county or municipal governments.

• • Combining various fields:

1. 1. 1. Design and production: Students can design and produce children’s products or toys, or they may teach others how to make them. Students may also produce teaching media to enable children to have fun in learning.
      2. Creation and compilation: Students may put together child or family-related magazines/newspapers, create children’s literature, or produce children’s dramas. They may also demonstrate children’s physical movements, or edit books or magazines related to early childhood education.
      3. Sharing and promotion: Students can engage in parenting counseling, promote early childhood education in the community, hosting children’s radio programs, children’s TV programs, or participating in children’s dramas.

Language of Instruction

Chinese

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