国外一年。今天的儿童面临着各种各样的新挑战，包括前所未有的媒体访问，更广泛的文化多样性，在线欺凌和更大的学校人数。他们童年的早期经历影响了他们的余生。您可以为这些成长期做出积极的贡献。童年研究是一个充满活力和令人兴奋的领域，近年来已扩展到包括来自心理学，社会学和精神分析的知识。该课程为从事婴幼儿工作的职业（无论是教育，保健还是儿童服务）奠定了基础。您对儿童的发展，童年的生态学（儿童在不同社会中的地位）有深刻的了解，并考虑我们的童年概念如何塑造和调节儿童的生活。您还将通过在每年的学习中进行实习来了解与儿童的
The BA in Childhood Studies at Essex is an interdisciplinary degree where we explore the social and emotional worlds of children from birth to 25. It is a wonderful introduction for students wishing to deepen their knowledge about children's lives and forge a career in children's education, health and well-being.<br><br>Children today face a wide range of new and challenging experiences, including unprecedented access to media, wider cultural diversity, online bullying and larger school numbers. Their early experiences of childhood affect them for the rest of their lives. You can make a positive contribution to these formative years.<br><br>Childhood studies is a vibrant and exciting field which has expanded in recent years to include knowledge from psychology, sociology and psychoanalysis. This course lays the foundations for a career working with infants and children, whether in education, health care or children's services. It can also lead to further study in a range of courses from social work or teaching to speech and language therapy.<br>You gain a solid understanding of child development, the ecology of childhood (the place of children in different societies) and consider the way our concepts of childhood shape and condition children's lives. You will also learn about the direct work with children through undertaking a placement in each year of study where you can begin to make links between theory and practice, in year one this placement can be with children of any age, in year two this is focussed on infant observation. Assessment is mainly by course work.