Education Studies

You will:

• Explore and understand the complexity of the interaction between learning and local and global contexts, and the extent to which participants (including learners and teachers) can influence the learning process
• Accommodate new principles and understandings, select a range of relevant primary and secondary sources, including theoretical and research-based evidence, to extend their knowledge and understanding
• Be able to articulate their own approaches to learning and organise an effective work pattern including working to deadlines.
• Work with others, as a result of the development of interpersonal skills, to demonstrate the capacity to plan, to share goals, and work as a member of a team

Modules

• Inclusive Practice: Difference & Diversity
• Research Methods
• Global Health and International Education
• Community Education & the Organic Individual
• Poverty & Social Exclusion
• Social Psychology and Social Justice OR Developmental Psychology

You'll learn through lectures, seminars, workshops, enquiry-based learning, student-led activity, independent study, online group tutorials, school experience, and community placements. Assessment methods are varied, including essays, reports, presentations, blogs and audiovisual submissions. 

The University requires all students to demonstrate sufficient academic English language proficiency to undertake and derive full benefit from their chosen programme of study. This page acts a guide to help you meet the English language requirements for your chosen course.

Students who are not a national of a Majority English Speaking Country, as recognised by the UKVI, must meet the English language requirements of their intended programme of study.

You will:

• Explore and understand the societal and organisational structures and purposes of educational systems, and the possible implications for learners and the learning process.
• Use a range of evidence to formulate appropriate and justified ways forward and potential changes in practice.
• Improve your own learning and performance, including the development of study and research skills, information retrieval, and a capacity to plan and manage learning, and to reflect on your own learning.

Modules

• Dissertation
• Peer Relations in Childhood & Adolescence
• Leadership in Outdoor Learning
• Inequality, Poverty and Social Policy in Comparative Perspective
• Community-based Education (Includes a self-organised 4 week placement)