Education Studies BA Hons

De Montfort University

Bachelor's degree

In Leicester

£ 7,919.85 VAT inc.

*Indicative price

Original amount in EUR:

9,250 €

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Leicester

  • Duration

    3 Years

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.

Facilities

Location

Start date

Leicester (Leicestershire)
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The Gateway, LE1 9BH

Start date

On request

About this course

A typical offer is a minimum of 112 UCAS points from at least two A levels, or
BTEC National Diploma — Distinction/Merit/Merit or
BTEC Extended Diploma — Distinction/Merit/Merit

Key features

Choose to study Education Studies as a single honours programme, or in combination with French, Mandarin, Spanish or Psychology.
You will study a range of topics including how people learn, teaching diversity - inclusive education and technological transformers in learning.
Gain international experience related to your studies through our DMU Global programme. Education Studies students have taught English to school children in Taiwan, considered inequality and segregation in New York, and supported refugees in Berlin.
Successful completion of the course provides a foundation to progress onto a PGCE qualification, enabling you to become a teacher in the UK.
Take part in our Erasmus programme for the opportunity to study in Spain, Finland or Denmark between the second and third year of your course.
Engage with the local community and boost your CV through placements and volunteering opportunities at schools, art and learning centres or museums.

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Subjects

  • Music
  • Ms Office
  • Global
  • Teaching
  • Primary
  • Office IT
  • IT
  • Education Studies
  • School
  • Project

Course programme

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
Teaching and assessments

Staff are experienced in all stages of schooling, in further and higher education, and in this country and abroad, and are currently engaged in leading research projects, including:

  • The use of ICT in classrooms
  • Social justice
  • Citizenship education
  • Disruptive behaviour
  • Gypsy/Traveller education
  • Music education
  • Race and education
  • Global comparative education
  • Language education

A variety of teaching methods are employed, including:

  • Lectures
  • Seminars
  • Workshops
  • Placement supervision
  • Independent research
  • Self-directed study

Assessment tasks include:

  • Presentations
  • Micro-teaching sessions
  • Contributions to electronic discussion boards
  • Creating wikis and lesson planning, in addition to written assignments

There is one examination in year two. These will allow you to develop transferable skills relevant to a career working with children, including critical and reflective thinking and communicating ideas to a group.

Additional information

UCAS course code: X300 (Part-time entry: apply direct to DMU)

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Education Studies BA Hons

£ 7,919.85 VAT inc.

*Indicative price

Original amount in EUR:

9,250 €

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