UH Mānoa launches new early childhood education degree
The goal of the program is to provide candidates with the needed competencies and experiences to nurture and guide children from birth through age 8.
The goal of the program is to provide candidates with the needed competencies and experiences to nurture and guide children from birth through age 8.
This “earn while you learn” program offers apprentices full-time work while they are enrolled in a three-year program to earn an associate’s degree in ECED.
This is the second round of funding for the project called I Paʻa Ka Huewai Pawehe.
In 2020, the state legislature enacted Act 46, an initiative aimed at dramatically increasing preschool accessibility with the ambitious goal of universal access by 2032.
Hawaiʻi P–20 works to strengthen the education pipeline from early childhood through postsecondary education and training.
Arthur Staats was a professor at UH Mānoa from 1966 to 1997, and died in 2021.
Honolulu CC’s Liz Hartline wrote There was a fire: A story for young children on Maui to help children and their caregivers.
The new certificate builds on the tuition stipend available to current and potential early childhood educators and caregivers.
The Early Childhood Educator Stipend Program is the first publicly funded tuition stipend program available for practitioners in the early childhood field.
The Hawaiʻi Early Childhood Educator Tuition Stipend Program is part of a larger initiative to develop systems of financial support for early childhood educators.