Education Studies (Primary) (Q94)

Ready for a career supporting and shaping young minds? Start your journey towards becoming a primary school teacher or other fulfilling roles within education through our practice-focused primary education studies degree. You’ll learn what it takes to educate, support and inspire children from ages 3 to 12 in a range of settings within schools and beyond. It’s not essential to be working in a school to study this course. Whether you’re already working or volunteering in education or looking at a future career, you’ll gain the skills and expertise to make a lasting difference as you inspire the next generation.

Key features of the course

• Develop your understanding of the key themes, practice and policies of primary education

• Explore wider topics including child development, child psychology and youth studies

• Ideal for people working, volunteering or looking to work in schools, the community or wider education settings

• Provides a solid foundation for a range of careers or future study such as teacher training

• Designed to fit around work commitments with no exams and dedicated time to prepare assessments

This qualification has three stages, each comprising 120 credits. In Stage 1, you’ll study two modules that will provide you with a broad introduction to primary education, childhood studies and child psychology. Then, in Stage 2, you’ll study a module that further develops your subject knowledge of the primary curriculum. You’ll follow this with one from a choice of four options. Finally, in Stage 3, you’ll complete your degree with two further modules – one that includes a comparative study of primary education in local, national and international contexts; and one that introduces you to the methods used, and the issues encountered, in research with children and young people.