BA (Hons) Early Childhood Studies Online at University of East London

If you're interested in learning more about children and childhood and you envisage a career working with and for children and their families, this course will give you an excellent foundation.

Studying by distance learning allows you to study at your convenience. It gives you the flexibility to study from any location within a structured and supported framework. It also gives you the opportunity to combine gaining an academic qualification with your work or family commitments.

Our course will give you a fascinating insight into the way children experience their childhoods and how that experience influences them as they develop. 

You'll look at childhood from a range of different critical perspectives and explore the factors that influence the childhood experience. You'll examine issues such as health, early-years legislation and global inequalities in childhood.

Students on the online learning course come from all over the world, including the Middle East, Southeast Asia and Australasia, as well as the UK.

Early Childhood Studies prepares you to be a thoughtful and flexible early years practitioner, working with and for children and families in a range of settings and professional roles.

You'll come to understand that there are many different ways of understanding early childhood. We give you a range of academic and professional perspectives on childhood, then ask you to explore the deeper philosophies, beliefs and attitudes that underpin them.

You'll learn how children develop, from conception onwards, how they experience life and how that experience forms the basis of their later development.  You'll develop an understanding of the factors that influence childhood, and of how this knowledge is critical in supporting the learning and development of children. 

We'll teach you about how early years services are structured in this country, and how to work across the system to get the best results for children. 

You'll also benefit from field-based learning as you carry out the third-year research project which you'll devise yourself.