Professional Studies in Childhood

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Postgraduate

In Birmingham

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Description

  • Type

    Postgraduate

  • Location

    Birmingham

  • Duration

    2 Years

  • Start date

    Different dates available

Overview
If you are already pursuing a career working with children, this course will help to enhance your qualifications. The early years sector is rapidly diversifying and there is a growing need for highly-trained staff who are knowledgeable, flexible and adaptable.
This FdA in Professional Studies in Childhood provides you with a high level of academic knowledge and enhanced practical skills in the development and education of young children. It also concentrates on helping you develop important management skills with children. Success in this field requires an in-depth understanding of children’s social, physical, emotional and intellectual needs.
You will also look at provision, which must be planned against a background of changing legislation and fluctuating trends in public opinion. In addition, you will develop appropriate management skills in order to be able to plan strategies within the constraints of each organisation.
Duration of the course
You will complete this course over 2.5 years part-time by taking one session per week on a Tuesday (1pm – 7pm) or Wednesday (3pm – 9pm).
Why should I choose this course?
You will enhance your understanding of the varying characteristics of childhood and the ways in which children’s needs are met.
You will develop your individual and personal professionalism, improving your knowledge of the self and enhancing your performance in the workplace as well as your fundamental research and study skills.
You will concentrate on developing a greater depth of understanding of ways to enhance child development through the creation of learning opportunities.
It has a flexible approach to learning, which enables you to enhance your knowledge and skills whilst maintaining full or part-time employment.
This course can lead onto a BA (Hons) degree, which then allows progress onto postgraduate level courses.

Facilities

Location

Start date

Birmingham (West Midlands)
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Summer Row, B3 1JB

Start date

Different dates availableEnrolment now open

About this course

Entry requirements
Childhood Studies FdA
A Level 3 qualification such as a NNEB, BTEC ND or DCE.
You must be working in an appropriate childcare environment for 8-10 hours per week (paid or unpaid).
A letter of support will also be required from your line manager.
Find out more information on alternative entry requirements.

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4.4
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  • Its one of the best place to live and enjoy thanks for everything. I had a great time, thanks for the same.
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  • Overall, very positive. I have enjoyed the content of the lectures and the opportunities provided throughout.
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  • I enjoy going to university. I've made lot of friends from different backgrounds. The university has given me with a discounted parking card too.
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cognitoe

5.0
04/09/2018
What I would highlight: Its one of the best place to live and enjoy thanks for everything. I had a great time, thanks for the same.
What could be improved: Everything was OK.
Would you recommend this course?: Yes

Rachel Moore

4.0
03/06/2017
What I would highlight: Overall, very positive. I have enjoyed the content of the lectures and the opportunities provided throughout.
What could be improved: .
Would you recommend this course?: Yes

Aqila Samimy

4.5
01/06/2017
What I would highlight: I enjoy going to university. I've made lot of friends from different backgrounds. The university has given me with a discounted parking card too.
What could be improved: .
Would you recommend this course?: Yes

Sohnia

4.0
27/05/2017
What I would highlight: Everyone at the university has been very nice and I feel that I can always approach staff members and get a response which will satisfy my curiosity.
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Would you recommend this course?: Yes
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2018

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Subjects

  • Design
  • Mentoring
  • Part Time
  • Approach
  • Child Development
  • Early Years

Course programme

Upon successful completion FdA students will have the option of progressing onto the final year of the BA (Hons).
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Year 1
Academic Skills (SEC)
Your vital skills and abilities will be developed to enable you to study effectively at an undergraduate level. Key learning concepts will be identified and related to skills relevant to the industry, which will then be developed through a variety of tasks and activities. This is done in a relevant context that takes into account the wider education and community focus of your course as a whole.
Exploring Child Development
Detailed knowledge of children's development and how it changes over time is crucial to professional practitioners in meeting the holistic developmental needs of children. Through the use of observational study, you will recognise how best to work with children. Theoretical exploration of cognitive, language, personal, social and emotional domains and their influences on each other will be covered and related to practice.
Professional Management Practice 1
This module allows you to explore the legal perspectives and current issues relating to management within the workplace. You will reflect on your professional development and draw on your experience and consider how it relates to managing the professional environment.
The Protection of Children
You will examine the professional practice of people working in a child-centred environment, where work with both children and families is undertaken. You will develop an evaluative approach to childcare practice including safeguarding issues, anti-bullying strategies and multi-agency working as an on-going process for enhancing the quality of service delivery.
Young Children's Learning
You will explore young children's learning within the context of current concepts of childhood. You will reflect upon the role of the early years practitioner, investigating issues such as how to support children's developing independence, how to document learning experiences and what it means to be 'creative'.
Year 2
Behaviour and Individual Differences
You will be focusing on the child as an individual to ensure that you gain an understanding of disability, special needs and higher ability issues. Support for parents, families and children will be explored together with behaviour management strategies. You will also be reflecting upon legislation and integration and how school policies impact on the individual child.
Language and Literacy as Communicative Tools
Language is one of the key developments of childhood, and the ability to communicate is fundamental to all other aspects of learning and development. You will be encouraged to respond to children's language and learning needs and consider language delay and other related disorders to help you provide a supportive language and literacy environment.
Management and Childhood
You will focus on the skills needed for the management and organisation of the working environment and the ability to manage change and the need for a robust recruitment process within the industry. This will enable you to develop your operational and professional skills related to your practice.
Research For Enquiry
You will be developing your expertise in the evaluation and use of essential research tools through class activities and scenarios. You will be encouraged to challenge research through your own analysis and establish your own research objectives and tools in order to collect and evaluate information and data.
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Using ICT Creatively
Students will be introduced to a number of creative concepts which can be used to design and/or enhance learning activities and achieve chosen national curriculum objectives / early learning goals. Design approaches will include the creation of a number of audio/visual materials delivered using multimedia, web-design, and graphics / dtp packages. It will also include a range of hardware resources and specialist equipment. The emphasis will be centred on encouraging students to use their individual flair, imagination and ingenuity whilst satisfying the specific learning needs / styles of children.
Creativity & Play
These two crucial development elements will be explored through theory and your own creative processes through a series of interactive sessions. You will be linking the academic side with your work-based experience in order to fully recognise the significance of play in children's learning and development.
Interpersonal Communication Skills for Managing The Professional Environment
Awareness of self and others is vital to the aims and objectives of this module, and it explores the individual processes and the analysis of effective management functions within the workplace environment. Understanding your own communication skills, and how to encourage these developments in other people, is crucial.
Health, Fitness and Wellbeing
A key aspect in children and young peoples' development is how fitness contributes to health and wellbeing. You will critically explore how sport can contribute to health and how practical guidelines for this are developed by practitioners. This also includes the identification of drugs and the practicalities of working with children and young people involved with drug use.
Mentoring for Learning
In order to support the practice of mentoring, you will build on your knowledge, skills and attitudes as well as participating in practical activities in order to enable you to explore ideas within mentoring and develop your understanding of it as a learning resource.

Additional information

Teaching & assessment Part-time students attend one afternoon/early evening per week. Teaching is carried out by appropriately qualified and experienced lecturers and a typical teaching week will have up to 6 teaching contact hours made up as follows: Large group teaching - 4 hours of lectures in lecture rooms Small group teaching - 1 hour in small groups discussing topics presented in lectures Tutorials - 1 hour including a mixture of personal, group and academic tutorials per week Individual study This is a work-based vocational programme and students are advisedto commit 10 hours a week of your own study time in preparation for teaching sessions and preparing for and completing assessment. UCB Online provides a 24 hour access to learning and support material. Assessment There is a strong focus on the vocational nature of this course including live project work and group assessment. The modes of assessment are varied and include essays/reports, portfolio building, presentations, opportunities for research, the production of a creative resource and a training manual. An estimated breakdown of the assessment for this course is as follows: Coursework - 100% Please note that the information provided above is indicative only and actual timetables and assessment regimes will be issued to students at induction. Our teaching and assessment is underpinned by our Teaching, Learning and Assessment Strategy 2015-2020.

Professional Studies in Childhood

Price on request