Teacher education courses will
commence at QMU in September 2019.
We will be a new provider of primary
teacher education courses in Edinburgh
and the surrounding area from 2019
onwards.
As stated in our mission, QMU ‘strives to
create a community without borders,
helping to improve people’s lives locally,
nationally and internationally. We are
ambitious and enterprising, and, in
everything we do, we are committed to
social justice.’ We will draw on our
existing expertise to deliver courses with
a focus on wellbeing, resilience, child
welfare and inequality, which will feature
highly in our new courses. To provide a
vibrant and stimulating teacher education
experience with this focus, we will build
on our work with a range of community
organisations, as well as forging new
collaborations with schools, parents,
local government and children’s services.
There are two course options. The BA
(Hons) Education Studies (Primary) will
give you a professional qualification to
teach in primary schools. The BA (Hons)
Education Studies is a broad based
social sciences degree with an emphasis
on education.
Our new teacher education portfolio will
sit within the Division of Psychology and
Sociology at QMU and will share the
reputable approach taken by our
psychology and sociology courses in
being intellectually rigorous and
student-centred, with a focus on
wellbeing, social engagement and
diversity at their core. Our new courses
will not just provide you with a
qualification in teaching, you will also be
able to specialise in an area from our
existing courses, become a researcher-
practitioner by engaging in research from
the outset, and gain valuable professional
experience. Our new courses are
designed to meet the challenges as well
as recognise the rewards of teaching
children in the 21st century. They will
prepare students by actively engaging
them in contemporary issues in
psychology and sociology, and helping
them develop a sound knowledge-base
of children’s developmental pathways
and the range of factors that affect them,
studying, for example, the impact of
poverty and deprivation in early years.
Students will also learn about global
health and learning inequality, the impact
of adversities such as homelessness,
neglect and migration and the
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importance of creativity and the natural
environment for our wellbeing. Our
teacher education courses are designed
for people who want to make a
difference in the world.
Our courses will:
• appeal to people with a social
conscience who want to engage with
socio-political issues and make a
difference;
• provide placements in a range of
settings, both traditional and
specialised (in the professional course);
• offer a rounded education — they will
prepare you to be an autonomous,
critically thinking reflective professional;
• engage you in an exciting variety of
learning and assessment methods and
• provide a fresh, new approach to
teacher education.
At the time of printing this prospectus
(Feb 2018), the details of this new
venture at QMU are still being finalised.