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This fully online honors degree offers practitioners in a wide range of childhood practice settings the opportunity to gain the Scottish Social Services Council (SSC) recognized qualification to be a lead practitioner.
You will have the opportunity to relate theory to real working practice and investigate, in-depth, an area of interest to you.
The course is designed to meet the Scottish subject benchmark statement, the Standard for Childhood Practice.
On successful completion of the course, you will have acquired the skills and knowledge to move on to a lead practitioner role. Similarly, you will be well equipped to take further professional qualifications or a PGDE.
You must have at least two years of work experience in an appropriate setting PLUS
A recognized SC practitioner qualification such as HNC Childhood Practice OR
A relevant SCQF level 7 qualification, for example Social Services: Children and Young People; Children’s Care Learning and Development/Playwork; or equivalent. For applicants without sufficient credits, modules are available to help you reach the required level
You must be employed within a relevant workplace environment
To complete Level 9 modules, you must have access to leadership activities/experiences
You may be required to attend a guidance interview, in person or by telephone, to discuss the course in detail and to explain the method of teaching
Alternative entry will be considered based on relevant professional qualifications recognized by SC plus appropriate experience
20 hours work permit for international students
Core subjects include:
Assuring quality in a childhood practice setting (S2)
Collaboration and reflective practice childhood practice (S1)
Developing leadership capacity in childhood practice (S1)
Practitioner research in childhood practice (S2)
You will also choose two option modules which may include:
Adolescence: development and individual differences
Care and Control
Health psychology
Individual society and health continuum
Mentoring in education and childcare
Play and Childhood
Principles and foundations of health promotion
Providing a curriculum for life
Recognizing and challenging discrimination and disadvantage
Specialist provision
The enquiring student (mandatory option)
Working in partnership
Youth behaviour and society
Contemporary issues in childhood practice (S1)
Co-ordination, partnership, and integration in childhood practice (S1 + S2)
Developing a childhood workplace project (S1)
Leading change in childhood practice (S2)
Leading a childhood practice workplace project (S2)
Promoting children’s rights and inclusion in childhood practice (S1 + S2)
Core subjects are:
Comparative childcare: a European perspective (S1)
Dissertation (S1 and S2)
Professional reflection (S1)
Childhood and adolescent mental health
Comparative health studies
Developmental disorders
Disability and society
Food and behaviour
Globalized view of childcare
Insider and outsiders
Personal and professional reflection
Psychopathology mental health and wellbeing
Research with children and young people
The UNCRC: Investigating exploitation, youth justice, and education
Applicants must have an IELTS score- 6.0 or equivalent
English (PTE) Academic-58 average with 51 in each component
TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) iBT4-Min 80 or above with min 18 in each section
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