BA (Hons) Early Childhood Studies Learn to work with early years children and their families Course in Islamabad || Registration Open

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BA (Hons) Early Childhood Studies Learn to work with early years children and their families Course in Islamabad || Registration Open

Registration Open= +92-3315999937, +92- 3215056755 (WhatsApp Only)

Overview

Begin your journey towards becoming a skilled Early Years practitioner

Do you know that you want to work with children but haven’t yet decided what area of Early Years to go into?

This degree will give you the chance to experience all areas of Early Childhood Studies to give a better foundation for choosing which career path you wish to take.

Develop your knowledge and skills

Our BA (Hons) Early Childhood Studies course offers an exciting range of modules, designed to increase your understanding of children and to develop your practice skills and knowledge.

Study areas include:

  • Child development
  • Children’s behaviour
  • Safeguarding
  • Special Educational Needs and Disability

Practical placement options

With a minimum of two practice placements, you will be able to make critical links between theory and practice, building your confidence as an early year’s practitioner.

We believe it is invaluable to link theory that you learn on the degree, with practice. Alongside the placement opportunities on this course, we’ve introduced an optional qualification element to this course to enhance your employability prospects.

Gain your Graduate Practitioner Competencies

In the final year, this course offers you the option to complete a third practice placement in order to gain your Graduate Practitioner Competencies, enhancing employment opportunities within the early year’s sector.

If you follow the Graduate Practitioner pathway in your final year, you will graduate with both a practical and an academic qualification at Level 6. Many of our students also choose to specialise further in a career pathway such as teaching or social work.

Recognised qualification

Our BA (Hons) Early Childhood Studies degree is a recognised qualification by the Department of Education.

This means you will gain a ‘full and relevant’ qualification, which is important should you wish to work in an early years setting and be included in an employer’s staff to child ratio.

Routes for all

We also offer an Integrated Foundation Year option for those looking to develop their academic confidence and skills before beginning a full degree.

In addition, we offer a Level 6 Top-Up option for those who already have a relevant foundation degree and are looking to complete a full BA (Hons) qualification.

On this course you will:

  • Investigate, understand and analyse the fast-changing landscape of working with young children.
  • Pursue specialisms that allow you to centre your learning around your passions.
  • Gain practical experience in different early years settings.
  • Provide a firm foundation for a career within educational settings.

The Course

Develop your practice skills and knowledge of working with children

Our diverse and interesting range of modules, taught by our highly experienced and engaging lecturers, ensure that you will graduate with knowledge and skills that are highly sought after.

This list is indicative and subject to change.

Select a year

  • Introduction to Childhood
  • Child Development (0-8 Years)
  • Preparing For Professional Practice
  • Safeguarding Children And Integrated Practice
  • Children’s Rights And Policy
  • Play, Creativity And Expressive Arts

  • Careers

    Develop your career opportunities within early years professions

    With this degree, you can pursue a career as an Early Years Practitioner.

    You’ll foster and develop the abilities, social skills and understanding of children aged three to five, focusing on optimum child development and preparation for a successful transition to primary school education.

    Possible career paths include:

    • Early Years management
    • Teaching
    • Health and social care
    • Policy-making
    • Nursery management
    • Hospital support
    • Outreach worker with family centres
    • Community development

    University of Chichester alumni receive a 15% discount on our postgraduate courses.

    Integrated Foundation Year Option

    Build your academic knowledge, skills and confidence before your studies begin

    Are you interested in studying for an early years degree but feel you would benefit from a better foundation of knowledge? Then the BA (Hons) Education with Integrated Foundation Year is an ideal option for you.

    This four-year route will build your academic skills and enable you to confidently embark on an undergraduate degree, as you focus on work with young children up to the age of eight after building a strong foundation of academic knowledge.

    Studying at university can be challenging, so this course includes an introductory year to build your academic knowledge, skills and confidence.

    Foundation Year

    • Foundation in Knowledge and Skills
    • Learning Outdoors
    • Academic Support and Guidance
    • Professional Studies: Learners and Learning
    • Valuing Individual Differences
    • Education, Philosophy and Thinking: Historical Perspectives
    • From Bognor to Bogota and Beyond: An Introduction to the UN and SDGs
    • Arts in Education and Society

    Year One:

    • Child Development (0-8)
    • Preparing for Professional Practice
    • Safeguarding Children and Integrated Practice
    • Children’s Rights and Policy
    • Play, Creativity and Expressive Arts
    • The Developing Practitioner (Placement)

     

    Year Two

    • Children’s Health and Well-Being
    • Rocking The Cradle
    • Curricula Around The World
    • Childhood in Crisis: Global Perspectives
    • Special Educational Needs and Disability
    • Preparation for Independent Project
    • Working with Families
    • Understanding Behaviour
    • The Reflective Practitioner (Placement)

     

    Year Three

    • Independent Project
    • Children’s Literature and the Media
    • Criminology and Childhood
    • Learning, Teaching and Caring in Adventure Education
    • Reflective Practice Placement 2
    • Special Needs and Disability

    This list is indicative and subject to future change.

    confidence before your studies begin

    Are you interested in studying for an early years degree but feel you would benefit from a better foundation of knowledge? Then the BA (Hons) Education with Integrated Foundation Year is an ideal option for you.

    This four-year route will build your academic skills and enable you to confidently embark on an undergraduate degree, as you focus on work with young children up to the age of eight after building a strong foundation of academic knowledge.

    Studying at university can be challenging, so this course includes an introductory year to build your academic knowledge, skills and confidence.

    Foundation Year

    • Foundation in Knowledge and Skills
    • Learning Outdoors
    • Academic Support and Guidance
    • Professional Studies: Learners and Learning
    • Valuing Individual Differences
    • Education, Philosophy and Thinking: Historical Perspectives
    • From Bognor to Bogota and Beyond: An Introduction to the UN and SDGs
    • Arts in Education and Society

    Year One:

    • Child Development (0-8)
    • Preparing for Professional Practice
    • Safeguarding Children and Integrated Practice
    • Children’s Rights and Policy
    • Play, Creativity and Expressive Arts
    • The Developing Practitioner (Placement)

     

    Year Two

    • Children’s Health and Well-Being
    • Rocking The Cradle
    • Curricula Around The World
    • Childhood in Crisis: Global Perspectives
    • Special Educational Needs and Disability
    • Preparation for Independent Project
    • Working with Families
    • Understanding Behaviour
    • The Reflective Practitioner (Placement)

     

    Year Three

    • Independent Project
    • Children’s Literature and the Media
    • Criminology and Childhood
    • Learning, Teaching and Caring in Adventure Education
    • Reflective Practice Placement 2
    • Special Needs and Disability

    This list is indicative and subject to future change.

    This course offers

    • An additional year to build academic skills.
    • Lower entry requirements than the main degree pathway.
    • More insight into education degree pathways and careers.
    • Includes a school placement to give you a taster of a career in teaching.

    Learn more about our BA (Hons) Early Childhood Studies with Integrated Foundation Year option.

    Level 6 Top-Up Option

    Gain your full BA Honours degree with this flexible and accommodating top-up course

    The BA (Hons) Early Childhood (Level 6 Top-Up) is a one-year full-time or two-year part-time course. It is delivered one day a week making sure it’s flexible to accommodate your other commitments.

    The range of modules enables you to explore key aspects of childhood from the psychological and sociological, to the global and cultural, to the economic and educational.

    You will develop problem-solving, critical analysis and independent thinking skills as well as gaining knowledge of areas which are of particular interest.

    This course provides a progression for those who wish to ‘top up’ their Early Years Foundation Degree or equivalent foundation qualification to a full BA Honours degree.

    Indicative module list:

    • Independent Project (Dissertation)
    • Therapeutic Play
    • Children’s Literature and the Media
    • Criminology & Childhood
    • Learning, Teaching & Caring in Adventure Education
    • Reflective Practice Placements 2
    • Special Needs & Disability
    • Graduate Practitioner OptionThe Developing Practitioner

      Introduction to Childhood

      This module aims to introduce students to the multidisciplinary nature of Early Childhood Studies and the different ways in which childhood is viewed, discussed, and analysed. It will focus on various sociological concepts and perspectives in trying to understand young children’s lives and experiences.

      Teaching and Assessment

      Feel the support of our staff as you gain confidence in your abilities

      Teaching

      You will learn from expert practitioners and accomplished academics with a wide range of experience within the field of Early Childhood Studies.

      We bring new research together with established theory into the classroom through a mix of direct teaching, seminars, and activity-based learning.

      Within your learning sessions, you will be challenged to go further and be encouraged to be proactive, responsive and responsible for your own learning and ideas outside of the classroom.

      Our focus on group discussion and the consideration of the thoughts of others allow you to develop your own ideas.

      Assessment

      It is important that our assessments are designed to meet the various learning needs of students.

      We offer a variety of assessment methods that include presentations, assignments, exams, academic posters and placement portfolios.

      We also encourage our students to publish their work. Past students have had articles accepted in sector publications such as Early Years Educator.

      Work Placements

      Gain vital experience within a professional environment to support your learning

      As part of our BA (Hons) Early Childhood Studies, you will gain the opportunity to experience placements during both your second and third years.

      These placements will allow you to work directly within local early years settings as you apply your theoretical learning within a real-world classroom environment.

      Placements are assessed, which means you will exit the course with the equivalent of the Department for Education (DfE) full and relevant requirements for Early Years practice.

      We have incorporated the option of the Graduate Practitioner Competencies into your placements, which gives allows you to finish the course as a Graduate Practitioner.

    Why study this course?

    • The degree equips you to explore a range of careers in the early years sector.
    • It is a recognised qualification by the Department for Education.
    • It also offers pathways into a variety of careers. We offer postgraduate qualifications, in order to work within the fields of health, education and social work.
    • You’ll learn from a dedicated and highly-skilled team.

     

    Learn more about our BA (Hons) Early Childhood Studies Level 6 Top-Up option here.

    Related courses

    Gain your full BA Honours degree with this flexible and accommodating top-up course.

    BA (Hons) Early Childhood Studies with Integrated Foundation Year

    Build your academic knowledge and confidence before your Early Childhood Studies degree begins.

     

Registration Open= +92-3315999937, +92- 3215056755 (WhatsApp Only)

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