Early Childhood Education and Care, BA Hons - 2016/17

Bachelor's degree

In Canterbury

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Canterbury

  • Start date

    September

Fact file Length 1 year part time supported by work based learning. Location Canterbury Medway School Faculty of Education

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Location

Start date

Canterbury (Kent)
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North Holmes Road, CT1 1QU

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SeptemberEnrolment now open

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Subjects

  • Early Childhood Education
  • Early Years
  • University

Course programme

Students on the BA (Hons) Early Childhood Education and Care programme will normally be following on from the Foundation Degree in Early Childhood Education and Care or another Foundation Degree with an early years focus, from another University e.g. Open University . The Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) programme is designed to provide you with the necessary skills, knowledge and understanding for the early years workforce. The current national agenda in the early years places considerable emphasis on raising the profile and quality of work within education, health and social care. The reform of the Children’s Workforce over the past decade, has led to the need for highly qualified and motivated graduates with knowledge and understanding of the multi-disciplinary nature of working with young children and their families, as well as an appreciation of the importance of quality partnerships with parents and other agencies. This degree makes a significant contribution to meeting the demands of the sector and it will provide you with a broad in-depth, theoretical underpinning of these issues as well as providing an opportunity through options of undertaking some practical experience. Whilst studying this degree, you will engage with theory and research drawn from an interdisciplinary approach. Specifically, you may draw on the fields of education, health and welfare, sociology, psychology, geography, history, children’s rights, law and justice, political and economic science, anthropology, social policy and philosophy. You will study a degree which is embedded within a socio-cultural perspective towards children, families and their wider communities and in particular the interrelatedness of children’s development and learning as culturally, as much as biologically, determined. When you study the Ba Hons Early Childhood Education and Care degree, the concepts of ‘being, belonging and becoming’ are a central theme, is an underpinning philosophy that relates to children’s holistic development and learning, but also in relation to the journey that you as a student will embark on when you start a Canterbury Christ Church University (CCCU). For example, the state of ‘being’ values your experiences, knowledge and participation as the foundation of your professional identity; the notion of ‘belonging’ supports you and your feelings of inclusion and participation at University and in the wider early years community; and finally, the notion of ‘becoming’ supports your critical engagement with diverse perspectives on children, childhood and the wider political, societal and global issues influencing the lives of children and their families.

Early Childhood Education and Care, BA Hons - 2016/17

Price on request