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

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

Examines who is included and excluded within education in the UK and internationally. Using critical theory and lived experience, encourages reflection on political, economic, social and cultural contexts to understand how and why inclusion and exclusion take place. Considers how educational inclusion can be created and barriers that stand in the way.

Supports those intending careers in both teaching and non-teaching sectors. Equips learners to make informed, critical and confident assessments of opportunities, debates and challenges in the graduate landscape. Considers what it means to develop 'employability', identifying personal strengths, areas for professional development, and opportunities for achievement.

Explores different strands of Sustainable Development Goals at local, national and international levels using problem-based learning pedagogic framework.

Explores child development and an individual's social and emotional development. Examines range of perspectives on how cognitive, social and emotional realms of individual development are closely interlinked and mutually dependent. Draws on psychological and socio-political theories to explore causes underpinning different levels of student wellbeing and how the education system supports children towards higher wellbeing.

Based on principles that everyone can be a musician and that all teachers and intending teachers can offer rich, high-quality musical experiences for pupils. Emphasises accessible, enjoyable practical musical activity with no pre-requisites and no expectations of particular background or expertise in music.

Examines how technology has impacted and changed education and learning. Considers key cultural changes in the 'digital age' and how technological change has impacted notions of children's and young people's media literacy, e-learning, e-safety and social networking.

Explores narrative as a powerful tool in media, marketing, advertising and gaming. Covers narrative arcs and structures, characterisation, pace, event, story-world, dialogue, clue-laying, revelation and concealment. Focuses on storytelling and prose, examining story structure, narrative drive and how writers compel readers. Develops understanding of showing rather than telling and capacity of strong image to carry emotional content.

Engages with key moments of transition in theatre practice and develops understanding of changes from range of cultural and historical perspectives. Explores exciting moments of change throughout history such as shift from melodrama to naturalism or shift from naturalism to post-dramatic performance. Themes include Justice, War and Love.

Concerned with how material forms of texts function and how they have shaped the writings we read. Explores three topics: 'Manuscript, writing up to the year 1500', 'Printing, 1440-2000', and 'Digital texts, the 20th century and beyond'. Considers how print disrupted manuscript culture, how changing economics of textual dissemination affect what gets written and disseminated, and how reading is shaped by the medium in which writing is embodied.

Examines how humans have used, adapted, represented, changed and explored the natural world through sciences and medicine, sport and leisure, industry, religion and visual culture. Introduces diversity of historical approaches including history of science, medicine and technology, environmental history, sport history and visual history.

Designed by disabled and neurodivergent students and teachers to accurately depict issues important to them. Explores key issues in SEND: key theories, disability activism, neurodiversity movement, current law and policy, and barriers that disabled students continue to face in education. Teaches how to identify and critically assess academic, professional and lived experience resources that support inclusive, person-centred educational practice.

Equips understanding of arts and creative education policy, pedagogy, curriculum design and assessment in time of educational, economic, technological and social change. Explores place of arts and creativity in evolving English education system and in early years, informal, community, training and therapy settings. Considers various motivations for inclusion of arts in education and key contemporary debates regarding intercultural and multicultural arts education, nature of 'creativity' and crea

Considers possibilities for radically different educational structures, meanings and practices. Develops critical perspectives on education and explores alternative conceptualisations through theories of critical pedagogy and development of critical consciousness. Encourages critical and creative thinking, challenges and debates, and provides chance to produce and defend own educational innovations.

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