Education Studies BA (Hons)
De Montfort University
Key Information
Campus location
Leicester, United Kingdom
Languages
English
Study format
On-Campus
Duration
36 months
Pace
Full time
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Introduction
Education Studies BA (Hons)
This course provides an opportunity to engage in current debates on education by focusing on the contemporary approaches, skills and methods used in teaching, learning and educational wellbeing, and looking at how childhood is shaped by culture and society.
Our students explore how people develop through education and, by taking part in placement and volunteering opportunities, gain a broad range of skills that are transferable to careers in socially orientated professions.
Recent graduates have gone on to work in teaching, education practice, early years childcare, youth work and educational publishing or choose to progress to postgraduate level courses, such as our Education Practice MA.
You’ll cover topics including perspectives on education, thinking and learning in higher education, historical and contemporary issues, teaching diversity, how people learn, and special educational needs.
You’ll also have the opportunity to choose from elective modules in years two and three that include global comparative education, technological transformations in learning, education and equality, and education and the arts.
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Curriculum
First Year
- Developing Professional Agency
- Historical and Contemporary Issues in Education
- Perspectives on Education
- Childhood, Social Justice and Education
- Evidence-based Teaching and Learning
- Thinking and Learning in Higher Education
Second Year
Core modules:
- Researching Education
- Contexts for Inclusion
Plus, select one or two modules from:
- Philosophy of Education
- Global Comparative Education
- Contemporary Perspectives on Childhood, Youth and Education
- Computer Programming as a Tool for Learning
- Music in the Life of the Primary School
- Perspectives on Diversity: Rhetoric or reality
- How People Learn
- Preparing for Professional Practice
- Forest School and Outdoor learning
- The ‘Priorities’ and Politics of Education
Third Year
Core module:
- Dissertation
You can choose two modules from:
- Special Educational Needs and disabilities
- Education and Equality: Class, Race and Ethnicity
- Gender and Education
- Adult Learners and Life-long Learning
- Radical Educations
- Arts and Education
- Reflection on Practice: Teaching and Learning
- Education and Wellbeing
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Career Opportunities
This course helps develop skills that are particularly useful for students who want to build a career working with young children. While this can open up opportunities for employment in primary schools, it can also include nurseries as well as other pre and after-school settings.
Many of our recent graduates have started their careers in teaching, education practice, nurseries, youth work and educational publishing. Graduates can also build on their knowledge with postgraduate opportunities, including an Education Practice MA, which opens up opportunities to work in a number of wider educational environments, including youth and community work, local authority employment, social and educational research and early years settings.