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Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction: Concentration in Early Childhood
The Early Childhood emphasis of the Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction promotes scholarly and multi-disciplinary inquiry that further empowers advanced graduate students through the development of knowledge, skills, and dispositions to assume roles as leaders, advocates, and scholars in the development and implementation of high quality and innovative early childhood practices. The program provides a sound theoretical background that is integrally linked to the practice of Early Childhood Education in a diverse, global community with an emphasis on child advocacy and social justice.