Bachelor of Education in Primary Education
Lusaka, Zambia
Bachelor's degree
DURATION
4 years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
TUITION FEES
STUDY FORMAT
Distance Learning
Key Summary
About: This Bachelor of Education in Primary Education trains students to teach and facilitate learning and support pupils with diverse needs. It builds research skills, digital and innovative classroom practice, and promotes values like cultural heritage, unity, democracy, gender equality and environmental protection. The programme develops reflective, confident teachers who form a personal professional education philosophy and address children's cognitive, social, emotional, motor and moral development.
Career Outcomes: Graduates can work as primary school teachers, curriculum developers, special educational needs teachers, teacher trainers or education officers in schools, NGOs, government agencies and private providers. using pedagogy, assessment and ICT skills.
The aims of the programme are as follows:
- To equip students with various competences and knowledge to enable them to teach, facilitate learning and enhance the holistic development of pupils with different learning needs at this crucial level of their education.
- To provide students with research skills that will allow them to develop new ideas, initiatives and pedagogical practices and attitudes that are essential for the educational workplace.
- To equip the students with the required skills for using modern information technology and innovative practices within the classroom.
- To promote values such as respect for Africa's common cultural heritage, national unity, democracy, gender equality, environmental protection, removal of social barrier, and respect for religious and moral values.
- Develop outstanding primary education teachers who are confident, flexible, resilient, vibrant and dynamic classroom practitioners who challenge the current teaching norms, policies and teaching methods.
- Encourage students to develop a personal and professional education philosophy that will guide their practice.
- To prepare students to not only focus on children’s cognitive development but also to support children’s emotional, social, motor and moral development.
- To create reflective educators who can enhance their own practice by assessing their teaching and pedagogical strategies.
Foundation course
Year 1
Year 2
Year 3
Year 4
At the end of the programme, the student will be expected to:
- Assess pre-reflective ways of understanding educational issues, by reflecting critically on practices in teaching, learning and assessments, hence employ initiatives to apply the aspects to the whole process of learning.
- Define the school’s role in contemporary society and especially its mission for promoting democratic values, collaboration and mutual understanding, inter culturalism and active citizenship.
- Relate the basic concepts, competencies, and principles of Education Sciences (STEAM) to actual teaching practice in all subjects offered at primary level.
- Assess the basis of educational theory and practice, through historical, philosophic, psychological, and sociological approaches.
- Contribute to the building of a more equitable and effective education system through research and other innovative modes.
- Apply the knowledge, values and skills acquired in all subjects offered at this level to their teaching practice in order to facilitate critical thinking, active learning, and creativity.
- Communicate effectively in visual, oral and written modes using technology as appropriately as possible according to the level of the learner.
- Explain the relevance of research in the development of the different pedagogies, methodologies and knowledge in the profession.
- Critically analyse assumptions underlying educational issues, inclusive of critical pedagogies, technology, inclusive education and many more.
- Apply knowledge to educational settings in creative and responsible ways.
- Evaluate the significance and relevance of different theoretical positions by reflecting on various modes of practice.
- Participate in activities related to the concepts of human rights, act as responsible citizens and protect the environment, in class, locally and in national communities.
- Propose main ideas or arguments in written texts and compare arguments/theories in order to develop logical arguments in verbal or written modes.
- Generate a variety of strategies to enhance the learning process and manage a classroom.
- Demonstrate cultural and aesthetic sensitivity across a range of social contexts to improve learning.
- Organize their own activities with self-discipline, integrity and commitment.
- Create learning environments that foster the learners’ communication skills as well as their critical and creative thinking.
- Integrate effectively various ICT tools and other modern technologies in the learning process.
- Develop teaching strategies for learners with different and special needs.
- Function as relevant agents of social change and improvement within the educational institutions they will be working with.
Unicaf University is in partnership with the Unicaf Scholarship programme which is one of the most generous scholarship programmes available. The programme supports eligible students and provides opportunities for studies towards the programmes offered by Unicaf University at a fraction of the cost. Unicaf has already offered more than US $100 million worth of scholarships to students helping them to study towards internationally recognised qualifications. The primary objective of the Unicaf Scholarship Programme is to make high-quality education affordable and accessible. Supported programmes have a strong professional and vocational focus delivered with an international perspective to ensure that students are prepared for work in the global marketplace and receive a return on their education investment.