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BA Childhood Practice

The programme is validated by the Scottish Social Services Council, their Code of Practice can be downloaded here.

The course will be studied by distance learning with materials available on-line. This will be supported by work-based reflective practice on the part of the student.

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Programme Length

As a part-time student you can only gain 60 credit points in each academic year.  There are 120 credit points at each level and so each level (equivalent to a year of study on a full-time course) will take a minimum of two years, although you can take longer.  To complete all three levels would take a minimum of six years, however most students gain credit for prior learning and enter at Level 8 so that the minimum time reduces to four years.  Students can take up to nine years to complete if they so wish.

Aims

The programme of study aims to provide practitioners with learning opportunities and resources and structured practical experience that, together with experimentation and reflection on workplace settings, will enhance professional awareness and personal effectiveness and provide them with a recognised qualification. It is based on course elements detailed in the benchmark statements provided by QAA Education Studies, SCQF and the Standard for Childhood Practice. It combines an increased understanding of theory with critical reflection on practice and aims to develop the research skills of practitioners for ongoing professional development.

Requirements

Prospective BA CP students will be required to evidence characteristics consistent with the following:

• Students will be expected to be in employment in an educational setting for a minimum of 12.5 hours per week.
• Students will be expected to have been in employment in an educational setting for a minimum of two years.

Students will have the ability to engage in on-line learning (effective word processing, email and web search skills).

Students will have routine access (at home or at work) to a computer capable of connecting to the web, accessing on-line forums and downloading appropriate documents.

Syllabus

The programme is structured into four key areas:

• The Child in the Socio-cultural Context
• Child Development and Learning
• The Developing Professional
• Personal Research/Enquiry

Courses under each of these themes are:

Level 7:

1. Study Skills (Compulsory unit for all students; 15 credits)
2. Creating the Child’s Environment (15)
3. Child Development and Learning (30)
4. Understanding Personal Effectiveness in a Professional Context (30)
5. Wider Perspectives 1 (30)

Level 8:

1. The Child in Society – Living and Learning in Families (30)
2. Principles of Development and Learning (30)
3. Management and Administration within a Childcare and Education Setting (30)
4. Wider Perspectives 2 (30)

• Plus choice from: Care and Health of Young children
• Alternative Frameworks in Science

Level 9:

1. Living, Learning and Teaching in Communities (30)
2. Effecting change in Development and Learning (30)
3. Interdisciplinary Approaches within Education and Childcare (30)
4. Informed Perspectives (30)

Level 10:

1. Global Citizenship – Children on the Move Growing up Around the World (30)
2. Effecting change in Child Development and Learning (30)
3. The Reflective Practitioner (30)
4. Research and Enquiry in Action (30)

Assessment

Formative assessment is a feature of all courses. Formative and summative assessments are designed to arise naturally from the work. Assignments focus directly on workplace applications.

APL claims will be assessed by presentation or a combination of presentation and assignment.

For further information on the above programme please contact:

Telephone: +44 (0)1224-274502
Fax: +44 (0)1224-274988
Email: bacp@abdn.ac.uk

Web:    http://www.abdn.ac.uk/bacp

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