BA (Hons) Education Studies

This module is designed to give you the best possible start to your university studies, making sure you have all the essential skills you need to succeed. Through lectures and workshops we will teach you how to write in an academic style, how to find quality sources, and how to reference work, culminating in writing up a mini-research project.

What does education really look like beyond your own school experience? This module opens new perspectives on how education works, with a particular focus on secondary schools.

Starting with your own experiences, you’ll explore what education means, how it differs from schooling, and how its purpose has evolved over time. You’ll examine how education is shaped locally, nationally, and globally- through the English National Curriculum and a range of alternative approaches, including SEND provision, Montessori, and other progressive models.

With regular school visits, you’ll see secondary education in action, exploring how teachers plan, support diverse learners, and respond to issues such as inclusion, safeguarding, and sustainability. You’ll also consider education from different viewpoints - including students, teachers, families, and wider society.

Broaden your perspective, build your academic skills, and take your first step towards a career in secondary education.

This module will equip you with the necessary skills to conduct and analyse research in a specific interest, supported by academics within your subject. You'll navigate through the research process, from identifying an area of interest to presenting findings to your peers.

Formulate and execute a group led enquiry into texts, cultural artefacts, film, music or dance. You'll explore their topics in groups at supervised workshops and develop questions on the cultural object relates to the living world of human experience, as well as developing your own methods to answer these questions.

Develop a strong foundation in data collection and analysis. This module will introduce you to qualitative and quantitative data and how to analyse it; the collection of primary and secondary data; the production of high-quality graphics; and report writing.

Developing confidence in expression, oral as well as written, is a key feature of this module, which aims to familiarise you with university submission and assessment procedures. This is a clear building block towards your degree programme and places you at a distinct advantage when you move into the following year.

This module offers you the opportunity to make a difference, through education, from the beginning of your studies. As agents of educational change, you will explore the issues you are passionate about, alongside fellow students and academics. You will examine how mainstream education has been shaped through agendas of power and how knowledge contributes to maintaining or disrupting current educational provision. This module then introduces you to alternate approaches to education, and to the direct action of educators and learners to do education differently.  These approaches can act as drivers of social change to challenge poverty and inequity to enable education to create opportunities to develop  flourishing communities at local, national and global contexts

This engaging module provides foundation knowledge and skills that will enable you to develop understanding and analysis of social inequalities and the nature of discrimination in contemporary society. There will be opportunities to explore key equality legislation and policy. The module will explore the ethical and political rationale for developing equitable, diverse, and inclusive practices as part of an agenda for social justice and social change.

This module aims to build your understanding of theories of human development and learning in different phases of the lifespan.

It prepares you to think of ways to support learning by introducing you to a range of theories which may complement or be in tension with one another.

In developing an understanding of this underlying theoretical knowledge, you will have an awareness of different interventions across a range of situations and contexts.

‘Thinking with’ theories will help you understand theories in a situational way, bearing in mind that theories can be combined in various ways.