Education Studies, BA - 2017/18

This thought-provoking and stimulating course offers the opportunity to explore the fundamental questions underpinning education, across the lifespan from the cradle to the grave. Education Studies is concerned with understanding how people learn and develop throughout their lives, examining education in the wider context of social, cultural and political domains. You will have the opportunity to study education critically through the traditional academic disciplines of sociology, philosophy, history and psychology. At Canterbury Christ Church University we also move beyond this core, exploring issues such as sustainability, extremism and the role of the arts in education. The course is taught by a passionate team of lecturers, all active in education research communities, but most with a background as school teachers. This helps them support our students in the move from school to university settings. You will have tutorials with a personal academic tutor as a way of bringing coherence to the course and ensuring progression for all. The Education Studies experience is interesting and thought provoking and has allowed me to experience and learn about parts of education I had never thought about before. Education Studies has allowed me to decide from a breadth of educational job opportunities exactly what interests me and where I want to hold a career.” (Carmen, Year 3 student)