Research 1: An Introduction

This introductory module aims to provide students with a basic understanding of the research process. The qualitative and quantitative research paradigms will be discussed as well as a variety of methods used by researchers.

Specialist Key Issues: An Introduction to Education and Early Childhood

In this module we shall begin to explore the central themes and issues relevant to an understanding of Education Studies. The approach will encompass an introduction to the currently accepted body of knowledge, the key conceptual frameworks and some of the theoretical perspectives and relationships necessary to study within the pathway discipline.

Understanding Learning

This module will enable you to appreciate how learning has been studied and conceptualised, including an understanding of theories of cognitive development. Secondly it will develop an awareness of how you can develop and manage your own learning and gain confidence in your ability to use appropriate and effective study skills.

Human Development

This module will explore the growth and development of the whole individual in interaction with his/her environment. Students will consider features of different aspects of human development, from birth to death, using a range of theories and perspectives.

An Introduction to Critical Engagement with Equality and Identity in Education

The primary aim of this module is to enable students to focus on critical examination of how we understand and engage with the concept of inequality, particularly its hidden nature within the contexts of education and educational achievement.

Families, Schools and the Formation of Identity through Education: An Introduction

In an advanced Western society, we are educated within an organised, complex system of educational institutions from and within which identities are shaped. How are our individualities and identities formed within this system and how can we study the relationships between these institutions to gain understandings of the process and outcomes of identity formation?

Exploring the Curriculum: Theory and Practice for Education Studies

This module explores the nature, purposes and functions of a range of curricula within the discipline of education studies.

International and Comparative Perspectives in Education

This module looks at the field of comparative social provision in an increasingly globalised world. This objective is achieved by, primarily, exploring and comparing aspects of appropriate societal systems in our closest continental neighbours, but also further afield.

Research 2: Developing Understanding

This module aims to develop your understanding of the research process and through this, to support you in acquiring the skills and competencies necessary to carry out a major project.

Education and Society 1: Critical Approaches to Understanding the English Education System

Using one from a given range of national education systems, students will use a range of theoretical perspectives to analyse the relationships between the system and how and why it brings about different outcomes and destinations.

Undergraduate Major Project

The Undergraduate Major Project serves to demonstrate the student's acquisition of the discipline-related knowledge and skills that have formed the content of all preceding modules and to show that the University's expectations of all its graduates have been met.

Special Study

Education and the Inclusive Society: Identity and the Later Life Stages

What is the relationship between the age of an individual and the worth placed in them by society? This is the central question of this module which students address through related explorations of the meanings of inclusion and the construction of the mature and later identity.

Using Critical Theory and Pedagogy to Investigate Educational Text

Students begin by engaging with what is meant by an educational text and artefact. Then they will use critical theory to understand how the text can be understood in terms of producing citizens unquestioning of the social status quo and critical pedagogy to show how the text can be used to challenge this status quo.

A Critical Approach to Information Literacy and Communities of Practice

What does it mean to learn within a community of practice? What do we mean by the concept 'information literacy'? This module provides students with the opportunity to explore these questions through small groups using a collaborative online learning space, providing access to this space to other students, and then discussing it as an example of a community of practice. This module will be delivered mainly online with some face-to-face as necessary to provide anchor points for the students. Online delivery will include an expectation of engagement in online collaboration and discussion. Students will be assessed by the production of an online learning experience that can be used by others on the module; and by a written critique of this learning experience within the concept of communities of practice.

Critical Engagement of the Individual with E-Learning

This module engages the student with the e-learning world from the perspective of critical theory. Dominant paradigms of the internet as an empowering learning tool will be challenged by approaching the internet as the oppressive tool of an 'elite'. This will be done through engaging with ways of understanding how identities are constructed through the concept of e-learning.

Introduction to Educational Practice

This module provides students with the opportunity to challenge their existing personal constructs of the teacher, the learner, a lesson, a classroom or an educational setting.