Early Childhood Education and Care, BA Hons - 2017/18

This programme is suitable for Early Years Practitioners and others working with children (aged 0 – 8) within early years settings who hold a relevant foundation degree and wish to gain a full honours degree. The BA (Hons) Early Childhood Education and Care typically follows on from the Foundation Degree in Early Childhood Education and Care or another Foundation Degree with an early years focus. The course aims to further advance your skills, knowledge and understanding to lead and transform your own practice and that of others. Clair Stevens (Senior Lecturer) also manages a Forest School and Nursery. They won Nursery of the Year 2014 in The Nursery World awards. The early years workforce requires 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 to relate learning to work related practice. A central theme of the course is the concept of ‘being, belonging and becoming’, not only in relation to children’s holistic development and learning, but also in relation to the journey that you will embark on when studying at 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.