EARLY YEARS
Course Title
Level Course Duration
Foundation Degree in Early Years Pedagogy (0-8)
5
2 years full-time (1 day per week)
The course enables you to combine academic study with work-based learning and develops sound theoretical and practice-based knowledge. It combines rigorous academic standards with the opportunity to experiment and develop ideas and practices that will excite children and stimulate their development. It will help you create fresh approaches to learning through play. The course covers a wide range of theoretical perspectives and current issues in early years education and explores international perspectives and contemporary developments and challenges within the sector. Accreditation of Prior Experiential Learning (APEL) is available as an entry route for those with a background in the sector but lacking formal qualifications. On successful completion of the Early Years Foundation Degree students can progress onto a work-based learning BA (Hons) Top-up programme which could lead to either Early Years Teacher Status or Qualified Teacher Status. It provides a route from Level 3 into higher education for experienced and committed early years practitioners. The course is classified as ‘full-time’ due to the work-based aspect and that all the assignments are practice-focused.
This course is designed for people currently working with young children in an early years setting or Primary school. It has been created by highly experienced practitioners to develop ‘Playful pedagogy’ for those working with children aged 0 – 8 years. You could be working in the private or voluntary sector, or in a school. The course is suitable for a range of roles within day care, play groups, before and after school clubs, schools, children’s centres, family support services, as a nanny or childminder or in early years advisory services. This sector-endorsed Early Years Foundation Degree is a two-year higher education degree course that is run in collaboration with the Open University (subject to validation).
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