BA Early Childhood Development and Learning
About this course
BA in Child and Family Studies and Education. Core topics include Research Methods, Critical & Analytical Thinking, and Global & Comparative Perspective. The course is delivered over four years as a sandwich programme, with placement modules in each year requiring approximately 80 days in early years settings. Students undertake a research project in the final year.
Modules
- Collaborative and Inclusive Relationships in the Early Years Setting
- Promoting Children’s Health, Wellbeing and Safety
- The Child, the Family and the Community
- Learning and Development Through Play
- Year 1 ECDL Placement Module
- Early Years Pedagogy and Practice
- Theoretical Perspectives on Child Development
- Sustainability in the Early Years
- Undertaking Research in the Early Years
- Year 2 ECDL Placement Module
- UK Work Placement
- International Study/Work Placement
- International Perspectives of Childhood
- Effective Leadership and Management of an Early Years Environment
- Inclusion, Equality and Diversity
- Research Project
- Year 3 ECDL Placement Module