BA (Hons) Early Childhood Studies Bachelor's degree at East London

Gain essential skills to boost your career prospects, particularly for roles connected to health and wellbeing fields. You'll engage with digital platforms, industry-led workshops, and real-world tasks to build confidence in communication, research, and digital professionalism. Throughout, you'll map your career aspirations, develop a strong online presence, and learn to identify the skills employers seek. With support from academic staff and career coaches, you'll reflect on your personal stren

Prepare for success in higher education by developing the academic, personal, and professional skills needed for your studies and beyond. You'll learn effective time management, research strategies, digital proficiency, and academic writing techniques, with a strong focus on reflective learning and goal setting. Through interactive workshops, group discussions, and guided independent study, you'll gain confidence in using university systems, working collaboratively, and responding to feedback. T

Practical maths skills are essential across health and education careers. You'll explore statistics, probability, and basic financial numeracy, learning how to apply them to real workplace scenarios. Workshops, tutorials, and digital practice sessions will build your ability to analyse data accurately and confidently. Special emphasis is placed on using tools like spreadsheets and calculators within healthcare and education settings.

Essential communication skills underpin success at university and beyond. This module focuses on developing your oral, written, and interpersonal abilities, preparing you to adapt your communication style to different academic and professional contexts. You'll explore contemporary issues in media and communication, build your active listening skills, and learn how to structure persuasive arguments. Group work and interactive workshops provide a supportive environment to practise and refine your

Future educators need strong project management and reflective skills, and this module sets you on that path. Through a year-long educational project, you'll develop leadership abilities, professional communication, and practical knowledge of teaching and learning processes. Regular feedback and supervisory support ensure that your project evolves successfully, helping you connect theory to real-world education contexts.

This module help you succeed at university and prepare for your future career. Think of it as your guide to personal growth – helping you understand yourself better and build practical skills for employment. You will learn how success is not just about what you know, but how you use that knowledge and work well with others. Along the way, you'll explore: Self-awareness through reflection and goal setting; Working with others to build teamwork and collaboration skills; Meta skills that make a rea

This module introduces students to foundational research knowledge, methods and ethical principles relevant to studying people, practice and professional contexts. It aims to develop students' understanding of research as a systematic and ethical process, while building confidence in applying research skills through practice-based inquiry. The module supports students' transition into research-informed study by developing critical thinking, ethical awareness and academic communication skills app

This module will develop your understanding of people's social and cultural experiences in a range of contexts and will prepare you to think about practical support for children's, and young people's lives and rights. You will learn about a range of theoretical perspectives that will help you understand the experiences of children, young people and young adults. As part of this module, you will present key recommendations for improvements to their lives.

This module explores the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and data-driven approaches in education. Students examine how educational data is generated, analysed and applied to enhance learning, teaching, assessment and educational decision-making. The module combines technical literacy with critical reflection on ethical, legal and social implications of AI in educational contexts.

This module introduces students to play as the central pedagogy through which infants and young children learn, develop, and flourish. It explores holistic development from conception to age eight, recognising children as relational, embodied, creative, and capable learners. Drawing on developmental knowledge, play theory, and practice-based examples, students examine how play supports neurological, cognitive, emotional, social, physical, and communicative development. The module foregrounds inc

This module introduces students to the central role of care, wellbeing, safety, and belonging in early childhood. It explores how nurturing relationships, respectful care routines, and safe environments underpin children's learning, development, and flourishing. Students examine health, wellbeing, safeguarding, and risk through an ethical and pedagogical lens, recognising care as an active, relational, and professional practice. The module is placement based where students will develop the knowl

This module will provide you with the opportunity to pursue and acquire skills, competencies and experience required for successful development to, and in, a range of potential future career areas.

In this module, as part of your early childhood or education degree, you will extend your critical understanding of theory and research from a range of social science disciplines used to explore and analyse the lives and experiences of children and young people (including education, psychology, sociology, human geography and social policy). You will explore issues of social justice, critically considering: how these aspects are addressed within key policies, organisations (including grassroots a

Building Research Communities develops knowledge and understanding of research theories, concepts and processes and the research skills required for independent, ethical and applied research in early childhood and education. This module is rooted in the principles of research-informed teaching which includes learning about research findings in their field of study; learning research processes and methodologies and learning to work in research 'mode' which builds on pedagogical principles of enqu