CareerFit CourseFinderLeadership & Advocacy in the Early Years - Sligo
- Course code
- SG_HLEAD_M09
- QQI level
- Level 9
- NFQ type
- Level 9 NFQ
- Duration
- 2 years part-time online. Study Hours Students can expect 3 hours of online lectures and 6-8 hours of individual study weekly. On-Campus Attendance The programme is structured around two modules each semester. Each semester includes an onsite residential programme at our Sligo campus.
- Attendance
- Online or Distance
- CAO points
- —
Course summary
Through this programme students will develop key skills to help them build their own leadership and advocacy capacity, to shape and influence the key organisations and agencies in the early years sector and to effectively bring about real change.
On completion of this programme you will be able to:
- Document, recognise and reflect on your existing bank of knowledge, skills and experience.
- Critically assess and apply central theories of leadership and management from within and outside the sector, in an international context
- Engage in effective professional advocacy communication, networking and lobbying.
- Understand how contemporary ECCE organisations work, how to effectively engage and change them, and why it can be so challenging to achieve this?
- Compare policy in the Irish early years sector with other leading Early Years comparators internationally, through study, networking and direct experience
- Engage critically in research, with an in-depth knowledge of crucial social issues related to children and, the skills to conduct ethical research of your own.