Course Code TL165
The past two decades have seen a rapid expansion of early childhood services in Ireland and an increasing awareness of the educational and training needs of the growing profession of early childhood practitioners.This course has been developed to meet those needs. The BA in Early Childhood Care and Education is an applied course where the emphasis is on encouraging and facilitating high standards of academic attainment in conjunction with work based learning in supervised practice placements. This approach is intended to assist students in obtaining the knowledge, values and skills required to generate high standards of fieldwork performance as well as enabling students to pursue further studies and engage in research. This programme provides the foundation for pursuing the theoretical and managerial components of the BA (Honours) in Early Childhood Care and Education.