Early Childhood Studies Top Up (Graduate Practitioner Competencies)
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**Department for Education recognised full and relevant qualification for early years practice.**
**BA (Hons) Early Childhood Studies (Top-up) (Graduate Practitioner Competencies) is designed to provide a comprehensive course that helps students to critically analyse various aspects of children’s life such as sociological factors, legislative changes and educational influences on children’s development, focusing on the age between 0-8 years old.**
The programme is recognised by the Department for Education as full and relevant for early years practice. Within this course, students will have opportunities to be able to evaluate their everyday practice and implement changes confidently. To be able to do this, this course incorporates professional practice hours (200 hours) which is one of the distinctive features of this programme. Within these professional practice hours, students will be given opportunities to apply theories into practice at their professional practice and expand their theoretical and practice knowledge. In addition, students will gain Graduate Practioner Competencies. This programme also invites students to conduct Action Research. This exercise will help students to be implement change in practice, be academically inquisitive, independent and confident in their chosen area. Additionally, there will be opportunities to explore students’ future career within the field of early years in ‘Leadership and Management in Early Childhood Profession’ module by investigating different possible career pathways with this degree and developing various leadership, management and changing-agent skills to help students achieve their future career goals. Special Educational Needs and Disability is a module of study that provides students with the opportunity to understand the challenges with underpinning legislation and policy frameworks.
Modules
Children’s Rights and Safeguarding
Children’s Learning, Voice and Pedagogy
Special Educational Needs and Disability
Leadership and Management in Early Childhood Profession
Action Research Project
Students will be required to complete the 200 placement hours within early years settings.
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