PGCE Secondary Education: Social Sciences

University of Wolverhampton

Social Sciences is an exciting secondary school curriculum subject area, both to study and to teach. If you take up our Postgraduate Certificate of Education in Secondary Education (Sociology), you will study the way that people behave within society, how they interact, how people influence the world, and investigate what these factors mean.The subject area covers topics such as sociology (socialisation, culture, identity, social differentiation, power, stratification, education, family, health, work, poverty, welfare religion, globalisation, media, crime, research methods); health and social care (human growth and development, communication and values, positive care environments, social aspects and lifestyle choices, activities for health and wellbeing, public health, meeting individual needs, promoting health and wellbeing, investigating disease, using and understanding research, social issues and welfare needs, understanding human behaviour); and personal, social, health, and economic education. As a trainee you will learn how to teach social sciences to pupils in the 14-19 age range within the secondary age phase, with additional experience in the 11-14 age range and primary enhancements. You will learn how to develop skills, knowledge and understanding for teaching social sciences through a combination of university-led and school-led training.Full-time (1 year)