About the Degree

The BA Education, Culture and Childhood combines two academic subject areas—Education Studies and Childhood Studies. You will gain a detailed understanding of the themes underpinning current educational policy and practice and critically engage with issues surrounding child development and the meaning of childhood.

The diversity of the curriculum enables you to develop a wealth of high-level transferable skills. A work placement at level two allows you to further develop and apply these skills in a professional workplace setting of your own choosing.

A wide range of assessment methods are used across the programme, many of these having a practical and applied focus.

The programme is attractive in terms of employability because it responds to the increased demand for highly skilled people with expertise in education and childhood studies who are able to work across traditional disciplinary and professional boundaries.

Many graduates in the areas of Education and Childhood Studies progress to full-time postgraduate study. Research skills and critical inquiry are embedded throughout the programme and form the focus of the core modules at levels two and three.

The programme will equip you with the knowledge, understanding and skills needed to pursue both a range of graduate careers and further full-time study.