Education Studies

Overview
This programme provides opportunities to engage in many aspects of education, childhood, and life-long learning. You will engage with a range of academic disciplines to discuss, debate and question educational structures, policy, practice and theory.

Our Education Studies programme enhances personal development and depth of thought. We believe in creative and collaborative approaches to evidence-based teaching and learning. The programme will empower students to see their own career path in education environments as individual, ongoing, multi-faceted and with many routes. With social justice and inclusion at its heart, alongside work-based learning opportunities, the programme inspires its staff and students to engage with local, national, and global issues. The programme aspires to achieve sector recognition for its innovative research, engaging content and modes of delivery which are transformative for its staff, students, and the wider community.

Our students explore how people develop through education and, by taking part in placement and volunteering opportunities from the first year of study and throughout their degree programme, gain a broad range of skills that are transferable to careers in socially-orientated professions.

You will cover modules including Perspectives of Education, Childhood, Social Justice and Education, Ways of Learning and Wellbeing, and Special Educational Needs, Disability and Neurodiversity. The programme will also help you to develop transferable skills and your professional agency through placement opportunities.

Recent graduates have gone on to 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.

Key features

• Engage with the local community and boost your CV through placements and volunteering opportunities in learning environments such as schools, art and learning centres or museums.

• Successful completion of the course provides a foundation to progress onto Initial Teacher Training, enabling you to become a teacher in the UK.

• Select a route through this degree in English Language, English Literature, Creative Writing, History or Drama. These carefully chosen routes will complement and enrich your understanding of your main subject, alongside broadening your skillset to give you a wider range of career paths upon graduation.

• Our students have gained international experience related to their studies through our DMU Global programme. Education Studies students have previously explored museum education in Amsterdam, considered inequality and segregation in New York, and supported refugees in Berlin.

• Benefit from block teaching, where most students study one subject at a time. A simple timetable will allow you to really engage with your learning, receive regular feedback and assessments, get to know your course mates and enjoy a better study-life balance

FIRST YEAR:
Block 1: An Introduction to Education: History and Academic Discipline
Block 2: Perspectives of Education
Block 3: Childhood, Social Justice and Education OR you can select to study one route from the list below:

• Creative Writing route: Writers Salon
• Drama route: Shifting Stages
• English Language route: Evolving Language
• English Literature route: Introduction to Drama - Shakespeare
• History route: Global Cities

Block 4: Inclusion and Diversity

SECOND YEAR:
Block 1: Select one of:

• Contemporary Issues in Education and Pedagogy: A problem-based learning approach

• Preparing for Professional Practice
  Block 2: Research Methods in Education
  Block 3 Select one of:

• Understanding Learning and Wellbeing

• Cultural and Technological Transformations and Music in the Life of the Primary School

OR continue with the route selected in the first year:

• Creative Writing route: Story Craft
• Drama route: Theatre Revolutions
• English Literature route: Text Technologies
• History route: Humans and the Natural World

Block 4: SEND and Neurodiversity

THIRD YEAR:
Block 1
Select one of:

• Creativity in Education
• Radical Education
• Global and Comparative Education

Block 2
Select one of:

• The Practice and Policies of Primary Education
• Adult Learners and Lifelong Learning
• Education and Equality: Class, Race and Ethnicity

Block 3
Select one of:

• Collaborative Curriculum Design
• Gender and Education
• Reflection on Practice: Teaching and Learning (placement module)

OR continue with the route selected in the first year:
Creative Writing route: Uncreative Writing, Creative Misbehavior
Drama route: Performance, Identity and Activism
English Literature route: World Englishes: On the Page and Beyond
History route: The World on Display

Block 4: Dissertation

This is a full-time course. Each module is worth 30 credits. You will be taught through a combination of lectures, seminars, workshops, independent research and self-directed study. Assessment may include, but is not limited to:

• Presentations
• Micro-teaching sessions
• Contributions to electronic discussion boards
• Creating wikis and lesson planning
• Blogs
• Essays