BA (Hons) Education Studies with Languages Bachelor's degree at De Montfort University

Provides historical context to the major aspects of primary, secondary and tertiary education, as well as education in informal settings. Focusing primarily on England, the module will focus on the development of education in the 19th, 20th and 21st era. Integrates the study of the contextual history of education with the 'Self as Academic Student'. Key study skills such as: referencing; academic writing for different audiences, and critical reading and reflection will be addressed.

Looks at who is included and excluded within education in the UK and internationally. Using critical theory and lived experience, it encourages you to reflect on political, economic, social and cultural contexts to understand how and why inclusion and exclusion take place. Using concrete examples and contexts, you consider how educational inclusion can be created and the barriers that stand in the way.

Aims to support you intending on going into both teaching and non-teaching-based careers. It will equip you to make informed, critical, and confident assessments of the opportunities, debates, and challenges that are presented by the graduate landscape. In this module, you will consider what it means to develop your 'employability', identifying personal strengths, areas for personal and professional development, and opportunities by which this development might be achieved.

Working with the pedagogic framework of problem-based learning, the module explores different strands of Sustainable Development Goals at local, national and international levels.

Explores child development and in particular an individual's social and emotional development. It will examine a range of perspectives which consider how the cognitive, social and emotional realms of individual development are all closely interlinked and mutually dependent. Drawing on psychological, and socio-political theories and literature, the module will also support students in exploring and better understanding the causes underpinning different levels of student wellbeing and how the educ

Based on the principles that everyone can be a musician, that children and adults can always develop and improve musical skills, and that all teachers and intending teachers can offer rich, high-quality musical experiences for pupils. Whilst there will be an emphasis on accessible, enjoyable practical musical activity throughout the module, there are no pre-requisites and there will be absolutely no expectations that you have a particular background or expertise within music. However, you will b

Concerned with examining how technology has impacted and changed education and learning. We will consider key cultural changes, for example, that we now live in the 'digital age'; how technological change has impacted on notions of children's and young people's media literacy, e-learning, e-safety and social networking, which in turn may affect contemporary notions of time, space and identity.

Narrative remains a tremendously powerful tool in all aspects of media, in marketing, advertising, gaming, as well as all aspects of fiction. Main themes may include narrative arcs and structures, characterisation, pace, event, story-world, dialogue, clue-laying, revelation, and concealment, and means of involving the reader. The module will focus on storytelling and prose, looking at story structure, narrative structure, and drive, and how writers compel us to turn the pages. It will consider h

You will engage with key moments of transition in theatre practice and develop your understanding of those changes from a range of cultural and historical perspectives. Theatre is an ever-changing form and this module provides you with the opportunity to explore exciting moments of change throughout history such as the shift from melodrama to naturalism or the shift from naturalism to post-dramatic performance. Themes you will explore could include Justice, War and Love.

Literary and historical texts have always come down to us in material forms - from stone and wax tablets inscribed with a chisel or stylus to being held as electron charges within capacitors on computer microchips. This module is concerned with how these material forms function and how they have shaped the writings we read. You will explore three topics: 'Manuscript, writing up to the year 1500', 'Printing, 1440-2000', and 'Digital texts, the 20th century and beyond'. You will discover the revol

Will examine how humans have used, adapted, represented, changed and explored the natural world through the sciences and medicine, sport and leisure, industry, religion and visual culture, among others. You will be introduced to a diversity of historical approaches, including the history of science, medicine and technology, environmental history, sport history and visual history.

Has been designed by disabled and neurodivergent students and teachers so that the issues important to them are accurately depicted and taught. It explores the big issues in Special Educational Needs (SEND): key theories, disability activism, the neurodiversity movement, current law and policy, and the barriers that disabled students continue to face in education. You will learn to identify and critically assess the academic, professional and lived experience resources that support inclusive, pe

Equips you with an understanding of arts and creative education policy, pedagogy, curriculum design, and assessment in a time of educational, economic, technological and social change. We will explore the place of the arts and creativity in the evolving English education system and in the early years, informal, community, training therapy settings and for employability and sustainability goals. We will consider the various motivations for the inclusion of arts in education and key contemporary d

Gives you the opportunity to consider possibilities for radically different educational structures, meanings and practices. We develop Critical perspectives on education and explore alternative conceptualizations through theories of Critical pedagogy and the development of Critical Consciousness. You will be encouraged to think critically and creatively, to challenge and debate, and will have the chance to produce and defend your own educational innovations.

Encourages you to look beyond UK borders by examining education systems outside the UK, utilising comparative frameworks and considering global conceptualisations of education.