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Undergraduate Prospectus 2017 | Education and Philosophy

Education
Key Information
Why study this course?

Course type

Studying education means considering its relationship to the economy,
its historical evolution, its impact on people’s life chances and identities,
how education is organised, and how learners learn. Keele goes even
further by placing education in a very contemporary and even future
focused context, exploring the ways in which the world of education
is changing and looking at education from philosophical, historical,
psychological, cultural and sociological perspectives. This course
examines changing ideas about childhood, learning, schooling and
education, and factors such as poverty, social policies and digital
technologies which impact on these.

For information on dual
honours combinations
please visit www.keele.
ac.uk/ugcourses or page 158

Education at Keele is distinctive because of its strong focus
on contemporary issues in education and policy making.

Indicative modules

First year
• Understanding Learning
• Childhood, Policy
and Education
• Back to the Future: Issues
in the History of Schooling
• Education in Britain: past,
present, future
• Digital Technologies: Rethinking
Learning and Teaching
• Too Poor to Learn? Poverty,
Education and Social Policy
Second year
• Education Matters:
Contemporary Issues
and Debates in Education
• Play, Power and Pedagogy
• Reflective Teaching:
Critical and Reflective
approaches to Teaching
in Secondary Education
• Research Strategies and
Methods in Education
• Comparative Education
• Special Education

Third year
• Dissertation (Independent
research project)
• Education, Work and Identity
• Race, Politics and Education
• Educating for Global Citizenship

What will this mean
for my future?

Our undergraduate Education
programme is not a teachertraining course per se, but a study
of education itself. However, the
course does open up a range of
opportunities in settings from
pre-school to adult learning,
as well as in a variety of other
contexts. On graduating you
might work in the social services,
in health, or in local or central
government. The course also
sets you up well for further
professional study to qualify as
a teacher, lecturer, social worker
or work in the legal profession.

Single honours, dual
honours, major, minor

Course duration
Three years

Indicative entry
requirements
BBB or ABC

For further information on
entry requirements please
visit www.keele.ac.uk/
entryrequirements

Study abroad
Yes

98%

Student Satisfaction
with teaching on
this course

Katherine Hud
Education and History

The course has opened up such a wide range of possibilities for me. This year I
am working as an English Language Assistant in Austria and I have applied to do
a master’s next year. The Education course is intellectually stimulating and the
dissertation in particular has given me skills which will be valuable in the future.

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