Working with Children and Young People BA(Hons)

Course structure

The Supporting Learning 5–11 Years BA(Hons) is a part-time work-based programme, studied over four years.

The modular design of the programme enables you to reflect on your professional experience, to increase your awareness of current issues and practices and to develop your academic and research skills.

Typically you will:

• study for one day a week (as well as some Saturdays). This will not always be face to face at university; methods of learning include small group seminars, participatory workshops and online learning experiences as well as attending lectures led by experienced practitioners, tutors and researchers
• be supported in your individual learning and career progression throughout
• take on a series of structured work-related tasks and assignments, supported by an individual work-based mentor
• visit other settings and complementary learning environments
• conclude your studies with an individual extended professional enquiry of your own choosing.

Year 1

Modules

• The Practitioner as Learner
• Children and Young People's Learning and Development
• Understanding Barriers to Learning
• Informal Learning and Alternative Learning Strategies
• Professional Reflective Practice in Learning and Development

Year 2

Modules

• Safeguarding and Promoting Welfare and Wellbeing
• Further Professional Reflective Practice Development

Options*

• Communication, Language and Literacy Development
• Introduction to Science at Key Stages 1 and 2
• Relationships and Interventions with Young People 
• Assessing Children’s Achievements
• Group Work with Children and Young People 
• Families in Communities: The Role of the Setting
• Learning and Teaching Mathematics at Key Stage 1 and 2
• Contemporary Issues for Young People

*Option modules are indicative and may change, depending on timetabling and staff availability.

Year 3

Modules

• Equality and Inclusion
• Organisational Culture and Leadership in Children and Young People's Services
• An Introduction to Critical Perspectives in Education, Learning and Development

Options*

• The Positive Learning Environment
• Learning and Teaching English at Key Stages 1 and 2
• Young People, Transitions and Change
• Foundations for the Future
• PSHEE and Citizenship in Learning and Development Contexts 
• Understanding Participation and Community Development

*Option modules are indicative and may change, depending on timetabling and staff availability.

Final year

Modules

• Practitioners as Researchers
• The Professional Enquiry: Education, Learning and Development

Staff profile

Mark Price

Assistant Head of School

Mark Price is a principal lecturer in the School of Education and is currently the assistant head of school. He has worked as a playworker, secondary school teacher, youth worker and youth counsellor and leads the reflective practice and inter-professional practices element of the Working with Children and Young People award programme at Brighton.

The focus of much of his work with young people has been with those whose pathway through the education system has sometimes been disrupted or fragmented.

He was awarded an Excellence in Facilitating Learning award in 2010 and is co-editor of Integrated Working with Children and Young People published in 2012.

Mark has particular experience working with challenging behaviour and exploring themes of gender, sexuality and emotional literacy. He leads on modules relating to reflective practice and inter-professionalism, and is especially interested in the way that practitioners' working lives and identities develop.

International equivalencies

We can help you meet our English language or academic entry requirements.

Fees

Concerned about university fees?

You do not need to pay tuition fees upfront. If you are a UK or EU undergraduate student studying for the first time, you can apply for funding from the government to cover these. Once you leave university, you will only repay the loan if you earn above a certain amount. You may also be eligible for a maintenance loan for living costs. Find out more about student finance for part-time students.

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Info

The fees listed here are for courses beginning in the academic year 2019–20. Further tuition fees are payable for each subsequent year of study and may be subject to small increases, in line with inflation.

Where UK/EU students are subject to regulated fees, the annual fee increase cannot exceed the UK government’s maximum regulated tuition fee limit set for the relevant year. For all other students, ie those not subject to regulated fees, tuition fees are subject to a maximum annual increase of the higher of 5% or RPI.

Part-time students should contact fees@brighton.ac.uk for specific advice about their fees, you can also visit our advice for part-time students page.

You can find out more about our fees in the university's student contract and tuition fee policy (pdf).

What's included in the fee?

When costs such as health or DBS checks or use of specialist materials are incurred as a mandatory requirement of the course they are included in your tuition fee.

You may incur additional costs depending on the optional modules or activities you choose. The cost of optional activities is not included in your tuition fee and you will need to meet this cost in addition to your fees. Before you apply, contact us using the details in the Find out more tab (at the end of this page) for advice about what is included and what optional costs you could face so you can budget accordingly.

See our finance pages for advice about funding and scholarships as well as further information about fees and advice on international and island fee paying status.

Location

Campus where this course is taught

Accommodation

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Accommodation

University building

Falmer campus