Education Studies (BA Hons - Single)

Overview

The course explores an area of vital concern for us all. It tackles both the big questions concerning the place of education in a rapidly globalising world, and the detail of everyday professional practice in schools and other educational institutions. Education Studies provides a sound platform for all those who want to take on socially responsible professional roles in a range of settings – including: primary teaching; play, youth and community work; and, community education, support and development.

Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities

www.londonmet.ac.uk/depts/fass/

Course contents

Three levels, each of 120 credits. If you take a Joint, you study each subject for 60 credits at each level.

Level 1 topics include:

• Making Sense of Education
• Education in the Global City
• Civilization, Curriculum and Technics
• Becoming and Educationist: Language, Writing and Enquiry

Level 2 topics include:

• Educational Research in Theory and Practice
• Agents and Agencies of Education
• Working with Children and Young People
• Learning in the Community
• A range of optional topics, including: children and young people’s literature; histories of childhood; education in film and television

Level 3 topics include:

• Completing your educational research project
• Citizenship, Education and the Public Intellectual
• Working with Young People
• A range of optional topics, including: drug education; mathematics education; researching educational lives; experiments in radical education; special educational needs; multilingualism; adults and education

Assessment

You are assessed by coursework that includes: essays, presentations, individual and group research projects and a final dissertation.

Professional accreditation/exemption

Students completing the programme will need to undertake further, post-graduate study to achieve Qualified Teacher Status (QTS).

Collaborative and international links

The course benefits from being situated within London’s largest unitary University and the global connections this affords. There are opportunities for all students to join study abroad programmes.

Careers

Successful completion of this course offers improved career opportunities in: school teaching as well as community-based leadership, reconstruction and development involving children and young people. The programme is also excellent preparation for further research or study towards M-level qualifications and beyond.

Student profiles

'I know I’ll be a better teacher because I have taken Education Studies – obviously we all know a lot about education already because we’ve been to school for years, but this course helps me to understand that experience and build on it; it means I’ll not only know what to do in the classroom, but why it is done that way… it also helps me to think about how things could be done differently.'
Isobel Maguire, Year 2

Applying and entry

Sept full-time: apply through UCAS
Sept part-time, Feb 2013 full/part-time: apply direct to the University - contact Admissions for an application form.

Entry requirements

In addition to the University's standard entry requirements, you should have GCSE English and Mathematics at grade C or above plus at least 240 points (of which at least 160 must be from a relevant area, for example: humanities, social science and literature/languages or childhood/social care professionalisms). We welcome applications from mature students who wish to develop career options related to education, teaching or community-based action and we can offer accreditation for prior experience/education.

Further information

Please contact the Admissions Office:
Tel: +44(0)20 7133 4202
Fax: +44(0)20 7133 2677
Email: admissions@londonmet.ac.uk
or for further academic questions, contact David Blundell