Foundation Degree in Working with Young People
The Open University old
Summary
- Exam(s) / assessment(s) is included in price
- Tutor is available to students
Overview
Making a difference to the lives of young people is both rewarding and worthwhile – whether you’re a volunteer in a youth club or organisation like the Guides or Scouts, or working professionally in an informal education setting. This practice-based foundation degree explores the ethics, values and purposes of youth work, and the understanding and skills needed to work effectively with young people. By the end of your studies you’ll be a more confident, reflective practitioner, and well on the way to an honours degree.
Key features of the course
- Designed to support young people’s personal and social development
- Focuses on work with young people aged 13–19 years
- Enhances your employability
- Builds a solid foundation for further study.
Description
Course details
This qualification has two stages, each comprising 120 credits. Stage 1 provides the underpinning knowledge and skills needed for more advanced study at Stage 2.
You’ll explore the origins and scope of youth work; its underpinning values and changing contexts; and the roles and responsibilities of practitioners and policy makers – reflecting on your own practice throughout. Then a work-based module will help you develop practical and analytical skills needed to work directly with young people (individually and in groups).
- Working with young people: an introduction (E108)
Understand the key principles and ideas which underpin work with young people, and learn to take a reflective stance towards your own and others’ practice.
- Introduction to working with young people in practice (E118)
Develop the skills needed to work effective with young people – individually and in groups – and enhance the quality of the relationships you build with them.
You’ll start with a work-based module designed to develop the practical and analytical skills needed to lead and manage work with young people. Then you’ll investigate diverse experiences of childhood in different communities around the world – including notions of childhood; the range of influences in children's lives; transitions from childhood to youth; the role of youth in contemporary cultures; and the problems and challenges faced by many young people as they attempt to establish themselves as adults.
A nationally recognised qualification in its own right, the foundation degree is also equivalent to the first two thirds of the BA (Honours) Youth Work (Q55) degree.
Learning outcomes, teaching and assessment
This qualification develops your learning in four main areas:
- Knowledge and understanding
- Cognitive skills
- Practical and professional skills
- Key skills
The level and depth of your learning gradually increases as you work through the qualification. You’ll be supported throughout by the OU’s unique style of teaching and assessment – which includes a personal tutor to guide and comment on your work; top quality course texts; e-learning resources like podcasts, interactive media and online materials; tutorial groups and community forums.
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