Education Studies

Our Education Studies BA (Hons) programme provides a comprehensive understanding of education, childhood, and lifelong learning. Students will explore key topics such as education policy, practice, and theory, while also focusing on social justice and inclusion.

Throughout the course, you'll gain hands-on experience through placements and volunteering from the first year. These opportunities equip you with transferable skills for careers in education and related fields. The course also offers pathways for progression into teaching or postgraduate education studies such as our Education Practice MA.

• Become career ready: Gain valuable placement and volunteering experience in schools, art centres, and museums. Our graduates thrive in roles such as primary school teachers, adult tutors, data analysts, and education health and care plan coordinators - making an impact at organisations like Hinckley Parks Primary School, Leicester City Council, South and City College Birmingham, Aspire Agency, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, Smart Statistics, and Outform.

• A teaching pathway: Foundation for progressing into Initial Teacher Training and becoming a qualified teacher in the UK.

• Personalise your learning: Choose a route in English Literature, Creative Writing, History, or Drama to complement your studies.

• Global experience: Participate in the DMU Global Programme, with past trips to Amsterdam, New York, and Berlin.

• Broaden your horizons: Open pathways into teaching, educational publishing, youth work, and postgraduate courses like the Education Practice MA.

FIRST YEAR:
Block 1: An Introduction to Education: History and Academic Discipline
Block 2: Perspectives of Education
Block 3: Childhood, Social Justice and Education OR you can select to study one route from the list below:

• Creative Writing route: Writers Salon
• Drama route: Shifting Stages
• English Language route: Evolving Language
• English Literature route: Introduction to Drama - Shakespeare
• History route: Global Cities

Block 4: Inclusion and Diversity

SECOND YEAR:
Block 1: Select one of:

• Contemporary Issues in Education and Pedagogy: A problem-based learning approach

• Preparing for Professional Practice
  Block 2: Research Methods in Education
  Block 3 Select one of:

• Understanding Learning and Wellbeing

• Cultural and Technological Transformations and Music in the Life of the Primary School

OR continue with the route selected in the first year:

• Creative Writing route: Story Craft
• Drama route: Theatre Revolutions
• English Literature route: Text Technologies
• History route: Humans and the Natural World

Block 4: SEND and Neurodiversity

THIRD YEAR:
Block 1
Select one of:

• Creativity in Education
• Radical Education
• Global and Comparative Education

Block 2
Select one of:

• The Practice and Policies of Primary Education
• Adult Learners and Lifelong Learning
• Education and Equality: Class, Race and Ethnicity

Block 3
Select one of:

• Collaborative Curriculum Design
• Gender and Education
• Reflection on Practice: Teaching and Learning (placement module)

OR continue with the route selected in the first year:
Creative Writing route: Uncreative Writing, Creative Misbehavior
Drama route: Performance, Identity and Activism
English Literature route: World Englishes: On the Page and Beyond
History route: The World on Display

Block 4: Dissertation

This is a full-time course. Each module is worth 30 credits. You will be taught through a combination of lectures, seminars, workshops, independent research and self-directed study. Assessment may include, but is not limited to:

• Presentations
• Micro-teaching sessions
• Contributions to electronic discussion boards
• Creating wikis and lesson planning
• Blogs
• Essays