BA Early Childhood Education
Entry requirements
A level: ABB IB: 34 points (A total of 16 points in three higher level subjects, with no higher level score below 5.)
About this course
BA in Early Childhood Education, an early childhood studies degree focused on children's rights, social justice, and policy and practice from an international perspective. Core topics include Research Methods, Communication & Writing, and Global & Comparative Perspective. The course is taught by experts at the UCL Institute of Education and addresses societal inequalities and global challenges. The first year covers foundational concepts through compulsory modules such as Global childhoods: her/histories, cultures, and societies, Practice-Based Community Learning I, and Theoretical perspectives of children's learning and development, alongside language and academic writing options. The second year examines inclusion, sustainability, and social justice through compulsory modules like Children with special rights: Transdisciplinary approaches to inclusion in early childhood education, Global perspectives: early childhood education for sustainability, Practice-Based Community Learning II, Research Methods in early childhood education, and Voice and choice: social justice, children's rights and democratic early childhood pedagogies. The third year centres on advanced practice and independent study, featuring compulsory modules in Practice-Based Community Learning III and Research Project. Optional modules in the final year allow students to explore topics such as Children’s Literature: culture, equity and diversity, Comparative International Policies in Early Childhood Education, and Educational leadership.
Modules
- Global childhoods: her/histories, cultures, and societies
- Practice-Based Community Learning I
- Theoretical perspectives of children's learning and development
- Arabic Level 1
- British Sign Language Level 1
- Dutch Level 1
- Academic Writing in English for Non-Native Speakers
- Academic Writing in English for Native Speakers
- French Level 1
- German Level 1
- Italian Level 1
- Japanese Level 1
- Creating Learning Environments
- Children with special rights: Transdisciplinary approaches to inclusion in early childhood education
- Global perspectives: early childhood education for sustainability
- Practice-Based Community Learning II
- Research Methods in early childhood education
- Voice and choice: social justice, children's rights and democratic early childhood pedagogies
- Children with Disabilities: Theory, Politics and Experience
- Arabic Level 1
- Arabic Level 2
- British Sign Language Level 1
- British Sign Language Level 2
- Dutch Level 1
- Dutch Level 2
- English Language Skills for Academic Purposes
- Academic Writing in English for Non-Native Speakers
- Academic Writing in English for Native Speakers
- Practice-Based Community Learning III
- Research Project
- Children’s Literature: culture, equity and diversity
- Comparative International Policies in Early Childhood Education
- Educational leadership