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Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)
Stoke-on-Trent Campus
Full Time
Sep 2026
3 Year
Whether working in a school, family learning setting or in the community, you can play a vital role in helping people to succeed. And our Education Studies degree will help you get started. Your future could involve coaching and mentoring others, helping children or adults who have special educational needs, championing reading or maths projects, supporting vulnerable teenagers, or running outdoor activities. The possibilities are endless. You’ll have the opportunity to work across age ranges – right from early years to post-16 learning. And the broad nature of the course means you can keep your options open for future careers. Education is one of the important aspects of children's, young people's and adult's lives. It can define a future, develop confidence in learning in many ways, ensuring we can all participate successfully in our local and national communities. This degree combines an understanding of how education is a natural and essential part of our world, embracing theory as well as opportunities to develop education experiences across a range of educational sectors both professionally and within our communities. You’ll combine theory and work experience to develop the skills needed for a range of educational roles, from mentoring, coaching, deepening educational engagement and working with children and families to teaching and beyond. This course is for those who want to work with people in any professional context that involves learning and supporting children and young people to learn. During the course you will experience the opportunity to work on projects, encounter different ways of learning and also benefit from volunteer, community and professional placements so that you can explore your role in learning and educational practices. As a graduate from our BA (Hons) Education programme, you could progress onto roles in the community, within schools and colleges, training organisations, educational support and welfare. Students also progress into post-graduate opportunities such as teacher training, education and social work . In addition to our education studies programme we now offer optional pathways in Special Educational Needs and Disabilities, Mental Health and Wellbeing. These pathways provide an opportunity for specialism in these important educational fields, through studying specialist modules, and also tailored work experiences. On successful completion of study, depending on your choice of specialism pathway, we will issue you with one of the following awards: * BA (Hons) Education Studies * BA (Hons) Education Studies (Special Educational Needs) * BA (Hons) Education Studies (Mental Health and Wellbeing)
The module has been designed to enable you to reflect upon the concept of childhood, in relation to the family and society. It draws upon differing disciplines within education such as sociology and psychology as well as politics. This will enable you to reflect upon your understanding of the child and how this relates to your practice.
In this module you will examine the current legislative and policy frameworks relating to child protection including contemporary and historical legislation and practice. You will explore how notions of risk and child protection have changed over time and how this informed professional practice. There will be opportunities for practical application so that you can develop your understanding of the boundaries and limitations of professional roles and responsibilities, when to make referral to protective and specialist services and how to contribute to the overall process.
This module sets the thermostat for future study and career potential, it provides the foundation to build and achieve from and provides an opportunity to showcase yourself. It provides the catalyst for traditional and academic skills sets to flourish, this will help you study today, in preparation for jobs of tomorrow.
The module equips learners with theoretical and practical skills they can use for themselves and with the future learners. This module is the first step towards your career, it broadens your horizons in terms of your social capital, and the types of jobs and journeys your degree can afford for you.
This module provides an opportunity to explore how and why we have schooling, and our current compulsory education system. You will reflect on your own experiences of education and how education policies and approaches provide potential or opportunity. We will also explore limitations and societal, social, political and economic challenges in educational contexts. This introductory module will enable you to have a broad understanding of educational contexts so that you can start to consider your potential role in the many possible and exciting future educational opportunities.
This module provides an opportunity to explore how and why we have schooling, and our current compulsory education system. You will reflect on your own experiences of education and how education policies and approaches provide potential or opportunity. We will also explore limitations and societal, social, political and economic challenges in educational contexts. This introductory module will enable you to have a broad understanding of educational contexts so that you can start to consider your potential role in the many possible and exciting future educational opportunities.
This module involves engaging in extensive reading and researching around current debates and issues within the wider English education sector, from early years through to adult learning to evaluate their impact upon practice. This will enable you to consider education practice within a wider political spectrum.
This module helps you to explore what it means to practice in the field of comparative education studies. Over the course of your studies, you will investigate and learn to articulate your own personal philosophy and values exploring different education systems and approaches. Thinking about alternative educational approaches through project-based learning will deepen and develop your skills. It is important to think about real life projects and how education can enhance everyone's potential.
An important role as an educational professional is about working with children, young people and adults as they become learners and encouraging them to continue to be motivated to learn. This module is all about the idea of what learning is and how and why we can learn some things easily, but other things are much harder. There are many theories about how we learn and whether learning is about knowledge or whether it is about being able to do things or a mixture. What do these theories tell us? Are they helpful for educational professionals? How might we make sense of them in the many learning spaces that educational professionals might use, and the different groups we encounter? This module will include thinking about our own learning experiences, exploring some theories and then creating some different ways of learning in practical and sharing ways.
This module will enable you to develop an understanding of research methods, the ethical considerations needed to undertake educational research and methods of recruiting participants. The module will enable you to prepare for your independent research project in your final year by giving you a starting point for critiquing literature in your chosen field as well as offering you the opportunity to identify any relevant policy and legislation in your chosen area.
This module will provide you with a practical insight into coaching and mentoring within a range of educational contexts. You will learn about different models of coaching and mentoring. This will enable you reflect on your own practice and consider the qualities skills and dispositions required to provide effective coaching and mentoring to children and young people.
No matter what work you undertake in the education sector, it is likely that you will need to work with others who hold different views and values to you as well as adopting different sets of work practices. This module prepares you for this by exploring processes and practices, that help or hinder effective teamwork and collaborative work.
Digital Future of Education - 21st Century Learners is an opportunity to showcase innovative professionals whilst simultaneously facilitating the learning of others. There will be opportunity for students to present and disseminate their Digital Training Resource. This provides a real-world opportunity to use and showcase their subject knowledge and innovative skills in front of an authentic audience. This opportunity would not be assessed and provides a safe space to celebrate their achievements on the module, and, as a professional.
In this module you will be able to explore an education area of interest to conduct primary research. Your research focus will be agreed with the module tutor and a suitable research supervisor assigned to you. After University ethical approval is granted, you will carry out data collection and independently progress with your study under supervisor guidance.
104-112 Grades/points required
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