History with Education Studies

Combine your study of History with education modules, enhancing your employability across two dynamic disciplines. You'll explore modern and contemporary history through an innovative, globally focused curriculum that covers European and non-European histories. Dive into topics such as colonialism, immigration, decolonisation, gender, ethnicity, and conflict, gaining a deeper understanding of our globalised world.

In parallel, you'll engage with education, childhood, and lifelong learning, discussing and debating educational structures, policies, and practices. This course sharpens your ability to critically analyse and communicate complex information. As you advance, you’ll deepen your historical interests and be challenged by expert academics in a dynamic learning environment that combines varied teaching and assessment methods.

Discover British, South Asian, European, African, and American histories while exploring specialist topics like the history of photography and sport. You'll also analyse perspectives on education and special educational needs. Gain access to DMU’s rich historical collections, including the Stephen Lawrence Papers and the Kodak collection at Kimberlin Library, to enrich your learning experience.

• Combine History and Education to enhance your employability and prepare for diverse career paths across two dynamic disciplines.

• Gain hands-on experience through placements and internships at sites like the King Richard III visitor centre, regional newspapers, and teaching opportunities abroad.

• Explore global perspectives on modern and contemporary history, with access to exclusive archives, museums, and DMU’s unique historical collections at the Kimberlin Library.

• Develop critical and analytical skills through the study of historical sources and historiography, equipping you for postgraduate study or careers in various sectors.

• Benefit from inclusive learning designed to support all learners, ensuring a supportive and diverse educational environment.

Year 1
Block 1: Modern Britain since 1800
Block 2: Journeys and Places
Block 3: Childhood, Social Justice and Education
Block 4: Ideology, War and Society in the Twentieth Century

Year 2
Block 1: Global Cold War
Block 2: Exploring Work and Society
Block 3: Understanding Learning and Wellbeing
Block 3: Music in the Life of the Primary School
Block 3: Cultural and Technological Transformations
Block 4: Investigating the Past: Theory and Method

Year 3
Block 1: Special subject
Block 2: Empire and its Aftermath
Block 3: Reflection on Practice: Teaching and Learning
Block 3: Gender and Education
Block 3: Curriculum Design and Co-Creation
Block 4: Dissertation

You deserve a positive teaching and learning experience, where you feel part of a supportive and nurturing community. That’s why most students will enjoy an innovative approach to learning using block teaching, where you will study one module at a time. You’ll benefit from regular assessments – rather than lots of exams at the end of the year – and a simple timetable that allows you to engage with your subject and enjoy other aspects of university life such as sports, societies, meeting friends and discovering your new city.

Overview
Our teaching is interactive and enjoyable. We encourage you to develop your own thoughts, ideas and viewpoints and you will build the skills you need to be effective in both historical study and the modern workplace.

Our modules are all designed to improve your skills as an effective historian from analysis and research to reasoning and evaluation. They are also constructed to help you develop aptitudes and characteristics that will improve your employability for a wide range of careers.

You will be taught by experts in their field and our history staff are renowned nationally and internationally for the quality of their teaching and research.

Education Studies programme enhances personal development and depth of thought. We believe in creative and collaborative approaches to evidence-based teaching and learning. The programme will empower students to see their own career path in education environments as individual, ongoing, multi-faceted and with many routes.

There is a varied mix of assessment including: work in pairs and in groups, primary source analysis, presentations, portfolios, podcasts and/or videos, essay writing, exams, and individual project work culminating in a dissertation. The assessments are designed to build on each other as you progress in your studies, and you will have opportunities to receive feedback on your work throughout. With a variety of different assessment methods, you can build on your individual strengths as well as develop a range of skills in creativity, project management, teamwork, verbal communication, writing for a variety of audiences and the use of different technologies.

Contact hours
You will be taught through a combination of lectures, tutorials, seminars, workshops, group work, and self-directed study. You will normally attend around 9 hours of timetabled taught sessions each week, and we expect you to undertake at least 28 further hours of independent study to complete project work and research.