Childhood Practice

Degree

This programme has been developed to enable students with experience of working in childhood practice to meet the requirements of the Standard for Childhood Practice (SSSC and QAA, 2007). The programme has been designed to enable practitioners to gain an academic and professional qualification whilst remaining in employment.

What will I study?

The programme contains work-based elements and will be rooted in practice. You will review your experience and use this review as the basis for planning and setting targets for professional development within the programme. 

Courses to be studied are dependant on your previous qualifications (HNCs, PDAs and SVQs). In consultation with the programme leader, your studies will be made up of the following courses.

Core courses

• Professional enquiry: the standard for childhood practice
• Professional enquiry: planning a project
• E-learning developments & communication
• Professional enquiry: taking action & making an intervention
• Professional enquiry: sustaining & communicating improvements in practice
• Leadership, management & professional values
  

Optional courses 

• Childhood practice: global perspectives
• Self-evaluation & quality management
• Key issues & debates in contemporary childhood
• Multi-professional collaboration in children's services
• Social & cultural contexts of childhood
• Practice placement

How will I learn?

Teaching is delivered through a combination of lectures, work in groups and other popular education methods. As this is a work-based learning programme, in addition to formal learning, you will draw from your own practice in the field of childhood practice.

Special features

This degree has been designed to meet the registration requirements of the Scottish Social Services Council’s for manager/lead practitioner in day care services for children.

Childhood Practice Entry Requirements

All students will be required to have a degree (or equivalent) in any academic discipline. Students should also have completed or be prepared to undertake an HNC, PDA, SVQ3, SVQ4 or equivalent professional qualifications in Children’s Care, Learning and Development or Playwork.  Students will be expected to undertake placement based assignments and must currently be working in a pre-5 setting or similar working environment.

What are my career prospects?

The programme will allow those in leadership roles, and aspiring leaders, in childhood practice settings to progress their personal and professional development. The programme will be delivered in a way that can enable learners to take forward their professional development, irrespective of their professional background.

Find out more

For further information, please contact:

Mrs Mary Wingrave
Programme Leader
tel: +44(0)141 330 8156
e-mail: m.wingrave@educ.gla.ac.uk

Miss Joanne McFadden
Programme Administrator
Tel: +44(0) 141 330 3049
email: childhoodpractice@educ.gla.ac.uk