Education BA

The BA consists of compulsory modules, a typical selection can be found below. Modules can vary from year to year, but these offer a good idea of what we teach.

The course is structured around three broad learning strands that run through each level:

• Education, Culture and Society
• Educational Theory and Development
• Professional Skills and Practice

• Understanding Learning: A module that will introduce you to some of the main theoretical approaches that have helped us to understand the different ways in which children and young people learn.
• Human Development: Childhood to Adolescence: A psychology based module that considers personal, social and emotional development, and the ways in which language, knowledge and thinking develop.
• Education and Society: This is a sociological module that looks at the structure and provision of education in England and Wales and their historical development.
• Multi-disciplinary Perspectives 1: A module that considers the range of professionals working in educational settings and introduces some of the key skills required in differing education interventions.
• Study Skills and Methods of Enquiry: A module designed to 'skill you up' to cope with your studies at university.
• Placement: A chance to put some of the ideas you have studied into practice.

• Living and Learning in Different Communities: Cultural Perspectives and Comparisons: The implications of culture, class, ethnicity and gender in education.
• Working Creatively with Children and Adolescents – Emerging Themes: A chance to develop your skills in an emerging education practice.
• Human Development: Childhood to Adolescence 2: This module continues the study of human development introduced at Level 1 with a focus on health and wellbeing.
• Individual and Group Learning in Informal Environments: This module concentrates on the key informal education approaches and considers different arenas in which this type of learning might take place – for example, museums or city farms.
• Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives 2: This module studies the differing ways in which we might develop effective communication and engagement with children, young people and families.
• Research Methods: An important module that will introduce you to the key research skills that you will need for your dissertation in Year 3.
• Placement: A chance to further develop your skills set and experience in another education setting.

• Growing Up in Twenty First Century Britain: Key debates and controversies in childhood and adolescent studies.
• Education in Formal Contexts: In this module we look at contemporary influences on education in primary and secondary schools.
• Education in Informal Contexts: A deeper consideration of informal learning approaches, for example through fairy tales, play or television.
• Research Project: A chance to research a topic that interests you.
• Placement: Final chance to build up your experience or to try something different.

Read more about the structure of undergraduate degrees at Brunel and what you will learn on the course.