Program Description

This course provides an opportunity to engage in current debates on education by focusing on the contemporary approaches, skills and methods used in teaching, learning and educational wellbeing, and looking at how childhood is shaped by culture and society.

Our students explore how people develop through education and, by taking part in placement and volunteering opportunities, gain a broad range of skills that are transferable to careers in socially orientated professions.

Recent graduates have gone on to work in teaching, education practice, early years childcare, youth work and educational publishing or choose to progress to postgraduate level courses, such as our Education Practice MA.

You’ll cover topics including perspectives on education, thinking and learning in higher education, historical and contemporary issues, teaching diversity, how people learn, and special educational needs.

You’ll also have the opportunity to choose from elective modules in years two and three that include global comparative education, technological transformations in learning, education and equality, and education and the arts.

Key features

• Choose to study Education Studies as a single honours degree, or as a joint honours degree in combination with French, Mandarin, Spanish or Psychology.
• 97% of our summer 2017 Education Studies graduates are in work or further study (Destinations of Leavers from Higher Education 2016-17) compared to the sector average of 94.6%.
• Take part in our Erasmus+ programme for the opportunity to study in Spain or Finland between the second and third year of your course.
• Gain valuable international experience as part of your studies with our #DMUglobal programme, which has seen our students teach English to schoolchildren in Taiwan, consider inequality and segregation in New York, and support refugees in Berlin.
• This course is ideal if you’re considering becoming a teacher in the UK – successful course completion provides the foundation to progress to a PGCE qualification.
• Boost your CV through placements and volunteering opportunities at schools, art and learning centres or museums.