Education Studies BA (Hons)

Program Overview

The Education Studies BA (Hons) at De Montfort University offers a comprehensive exploration of education, childhood, and lifelong learning. Students engage in a wide range of disciplines, emphasizing personal and intellectual development, and gain a foundation for teaching in the UK. The program features block teaching, work-based learning opportunities, and international experience possibilities.

Program Outline

Education Studies BA (Hons) at De Montfort University

Degree Overview:

Overview:

• This program allows students to engage in many aspects of education, childhood, and lifelong learning.
• They will explore a wide range of academic disciplines to discuss, debate, and analyze educational structures, policies, practice, and theory.
• The program emphasizes personal and intellectual development and focuses on creative and collaborative approaches to evidence-based teaching and learning.
• It equips students to view their career paths within educational environments as individual, ongoing, multi-faceted, and diverse.

Key Features:

• Block teaching designed around students' needs for a positive learning experience.
• Focus on social justice and inclusion through work-based learning opportunities.
• Opportunity to gain a foundation for Initial Teacher Training and become a teacher in the UK.
• Routes: Explore English Language, English Literature, Creative Writing, History, or Drama alongside your main subject.
• Possibility of gaining international experience related to studies through DMU Global.

Outline:

Structure:

• Three years full-time or six years part-time
• Block teaching focuses on one subject at a time
• Opportunity to engage in local community learning environments

Module Examples:

• Perspectives of Education
• Childhood, Social Justice and Education
• Ways of Learning and Wellbeing
• Special Educational Needs, Disability and Neurodiversity
• Writers Salon (Creative Writing)
• Shifting Stages (Drama)
• Evolving Language (English Language)
• Introduction to Drama - Shakespeare (English Literature)
• Global Cities (History)
• Contemporary Issues in Education and Pedagogy
• Research Methods in Education
• Understanding Learning and Wellbeing
• Cultural and Technological Transformations and Music in the Life of the Primary School
• Story Craft (Creative Writing)
• Theatre Revolutions (Drama)
• Sociolinguistics (English Language)
• Text Technologies (English Literature)
• Humans and the Natural World (History)
• Creativity in Education
• Radical Education
• Global and Comparative Education
• Practice and Policies of Primary Education
• Adult Learners and Lifelong Learning
• Education and Equality: Class, Race and Ethnicity
• Collaborative Curriculum Design
• Gender and Education
• Reflection on Practice: Teaching and Learning (placement module)
• Uncreative Writing, Creative Misbehaviour (Creative Writing)
• Performance, Identity and Activism (Drama)
• Language and Identity (English Language)
• World Englishes: On the Page and Beyond (English Literature)
• The World on Display (History)
• Dissertation

Assessment:

• Presentations
• Micro-teaching sessions
• Electronic discussion boards
• Wikis and lesson plans
• Blogs
• Essays
• Negotiated assignments
• Research projects
• Portfolios
• Co-production activities

Teaching:

• Full-time program
• Each module worth 30 credits
• First-year normally involves attending 9 hours of timetabled taught sessions per week
• Expectation of at least 30 hours of additional independent study per week

Careers:

• Career paths in primary schools, nurseries, pre-schools, and after-school settings
• Opportunities in teaching, education practice, early years childcare, youth work, educational publishing, and the creative industries
• DMU Replay for access to audio/visual recordings of lectures
• Hawthorn Building provides facilities for replicating health and life sciences learning environments
• Edith Murphy Building provides dedicated learning spaces
• Extensive online library resources and support
• DMU Global program for international experiences

UK EU/International Institution code: D26 Duration: Three years full-time, or six years part-time Location: De Montfort University Leicester UK Fees and funding: 2024/25 tuition fees for UK students: £9,250 Additional costs: You may incur additional costs for this programme, including the cost of travelling to and from project/placement locations. How to apply Order a prospectus Book an Open Day Submit a study-related enquiry Institution code: D26 UCAS course code: X300 Duration: Three years full-time Location: De Montfort University Leicester UK Fees and funding: 2024/25 tuition fees for international students: £15,750 Find out more about available funding for international students. Additional costs: You may incur additional costs for this programme, including the cost of travelling to and from project/placement locations. How to apply Order a prospectus Submit a study-related enquiry