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.

Dealing with real-world, ethical, or moral dilemmas is both challenging and pertinent to all areas of lived experience and professional, practice.  The module will introduce you to a range of theoretical models and provide opportunities to explore these in relation to real world ethical dilemmas drawn from professional practice contexts.  

How can you turn big questions about fairness and inequality into real change? This module invites you to explore the challenges facing society and take an active role in shaping solutions.

Working collaboratively, you’ll investigate pressing social justice issues - from poverty and inequality to education, democracy, and the future of work. You’ll engage with innovative projects and community initiatives, gaining insight into how research and action can drive meaningful social change.

Through partnerships with local, national, and international organisations, you’ll have opportunities to connect theory with practice and see how communities work together to create impact.

Ask bold questions, act, and be part of shaping a fairer future.

You will have the opportunity to make a difference to the lives of people and communities through an extended placement within your chosen field, either in the UK or abroad.  The placement will support you to become increasingly confident, and able to drive your own professional development.  We have exciting placement opportunities in various contexts that will introduce you to a range of innovative ways you can work with and alongside SEND organisations, practitioners, children, young people, and families which have impact in their lives.

This module will provide opportunities to understand how organisations work in contemporary society and will consider different approaches to leadership. The module will encourage you to explore your own approach to leading and managing in the 21st century and introduce you to a range of graduate futures across all organisation types including for example schools, charities, health services or your own enterprise business. The module will encourage you to think about leadership in new ways as well as understanding the challenges facing organisations in developing ethical and socially just practices and services. You will acquire a range of skills and develop your knowledge to help you make a difference through activities such as knowing where to source funding and write a funding bid to evidence good practice.

How can listening to lived experiences reshape how we understand neurodiversity? This module takes an innovative, collaborative approach to exploring difference, identity, and inclusion.

You’ll engage with first-person accounts from neurodivergent individuals, developing asset-based perspectives that challenge traditional views in education and society. Along the way, you’ll explore concepts such as identity-first language, self-advocacy, and participatory approaches that empower neurodivergent people to shape policy, research, and practice.

Through critical inquiry and reflection, you’ll build your own conceptual toolkit for working alongside children, young people, and communities in inclusive and meaningful ways.

Challenge assumptions, amplify lived experience, and help shape more inclusive futures.

This exciting module enables you to consider how you might work more effectively and inclusively with children and young people who have Special Educational Needs Disabilities. You will be able to develop hands-on practical experience with therapeutic approaches such as play therapy, life story work and Lego therapy.