Children and Early Childhood BA (Hons)

A wide range of professions are open to you, including child protection roles, working in schools or other educational settings, parent support workers, play workers, and further study in teaching and social work. Course content is intellectually stimulating and current. It is interdisciplinary, drawing on contemporary research and discourse, ensuring your knowledge of children and families is relevant to current developments in sociology, psychology, education, health, legislation and policy. You develop theoretical, practical and reflective skills to lead to good practice when working with early years and young children, parents and other disciplinary services. You focus on child development and behaviours, assessment of children, comparison of children in the UK and across the world, and children’s services. If you don't have a full level 3 qualification in early years, we offer an Early Childhood Studies Degree Network approved pathway. After graduating, you are a fully qualified level 6 practitioner. The teaching team have an array of relevant and professional experience in childhood and early years. Active researchers and authors on the team, include the pedagogy of early literacy; poverty and the impact of childhood; early years pedagogies, which benefits your learning experience. More details: https://www.tees.ac.uk/undergraduate_courses/education_&_youth/ba_(hons)_children_and_early_childhood.cfm