Early Childhood in Society (Hons) University of Worcester

Overview

The Early Childhood in Society (Hons) programme at the University of Worcester is flexible. Dependent on your career aspirations you can choose to follow one of two pathways. The Early Childhood in Society (Graduate Practitioner) pathway is for those wishing to work in early years education. Alternatively, you can follow the Early Childhood in Society (Social Pedagogy) pathway if you would prefer to work with children and families beyond the classroom.

This degree at the University of Worcester is superb preparation for employment in a range of occupations such as child and family support work, leadership in an early years setting, fostering and adoption services, play therapy facilitation, advocacy roles in charities such as UNICEF, Action for Children, and Barnardo’s, family assessment, or work in nurture hubs in schools, to name a few. You could also undertake further study, for example an MA in Social Work or a PGCE in Teaching; scroll down the page for more details. 

Where could it take you?

Employability

Working with or for young children and their families is a rapidly expanding area of expertise, offering graduates a wide range of career opportunities. Both pathways of this degree are ideal springboards for those who want to specialise in this field.

The Early Childhood in Society (Graduate Practitioner) 

Employment opportunities include:

• Educational establishment (e.g. schools) 

• Room leader or deputy manager in a nursery

• Higher level teaching assistant

• Play leader in leisure industry (e.g. on a cruise ship/hotel resort)

Early Childhood in Society (Social Pedagogy)

Employment opportunities include:

• Independent business or consultancy owner

• Education Welfare work

• Health play specialist

• Therapeutic care home worker (residential)

• Family support worker

• Non-Government Organisation (NGO) worker

• Charity worker 

• Adoption and fostering work

• Refugee work

• Alternative provision

• Child advocacy and mediation