Program Overview
This Education Studies program explores the societal influences shaping childhood and theories of human development. It offers a placement in the first year for practical experience in educational settings. Graduates have career opportunities in teaching, early years childcare, and related fields, or can pursue further studies at the postgraduate level.
Program Outline
Degree Overview:
This course examines how childhood is understood and shaped by society and how educationalists and psychologists theorise personal, social, emotional and intellectual development. It covers topics including perspectives on education, thinking and learning in higher education, historical and contemporary issues and childhood, social justice and education, as well as developing your professional agency through placement in year one. You’ll also have the opportunity to choose from elective modules in years two and three that include forest school and outdoor learning, preparing for professional practice, music in school life, inclusion, education and equality, special educational needs and creativity and education.
Careers:
Graduates can work in teaching, education practice, early years childcare, youth work, educational publishing, the creative industries or choose to progress to postgraduate level courses, such as our Education Practice MA.
Other:
This course helps develop skills that are invaluable for graduates who want to build a career working with young people and children. While this can open up opportunities for employment in primary schools, it can also include nurseries as well as other pre and after-school settings. A key element of our Education Studies programme is for students to gain placement and work-based learning experience. This helps provide you with first-hand knowledge and experience of educational settings and opportunities to apply the theory from your studies to real-world contexts.
