Parenting, Child Care and Development

Education

The programme group Parenting, Child Care and Development is responsible for teaching in both the bachelor's programme and in the master's programme within the field of Education and Child Studies, with special emphasis on parenting and development.

Bachelor

Within the Bachelor programme, the group provides specialisation courses, including Family Pedagogy, Observation of Interactions within Families, Professional Childcare, Practical Pedagogy and the optional subject Fathers.

The programme group also majored in general subjects such as Introduction to Pedagogical and Educational Sciences and Neurobiological Backgrounds of Education and Development.

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Master

The Master's specialisation in Parenting and Child Development includes courses covering both normative and problematic parenting and development. The curriculum places a strong emphasis on the study of evidence-based prevention and intervention programmes to improve parenting quality.

Courses offered are Child care, experts and parents: historical trends, Prevention and intervention programmes in families, Digital media in the family and Attachment, parenting and development: research and clinical implications. Students are also taught methods and techniques in the course Practice of empirical research.

The Master project - or final thesis - is carried out within research themes of the programme group. The internship is usually carried out at another organisation. Students can opt for a practical internship, such as parenting support with neighbourhood teams in youth care, shadowing an educator at a nursery - or a research internship.

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NVO and SKJ registration

Dutch students completing this master's specialisation and having completed the bachelor's programme in Education and Child Studies or the pre-master's programme in Education and Child Studies at Leiden University will receive the NVO registration 'Basis pedagoog' and SKJ registration 'Master pedagoog'.