BA (Hons) Education Studies Bachelor's degree at the University of Hull

This module offers you the opportunity to make a difference, through education, from the beginning of your studies. As agents of educational change, you will explore the issues you are passionate about, alongside fellow students and academics. You will examine how mainstream education has been shaped through agendas of power and how knowledge contributes to maintaining or disrupting current educational provision. This module then introduces you to alternate approaches to education, and to the di

This engaging module provides foundation knowledge and skills that will enable you to develop understanding and analysis of social inequalities and the nature of discrimination in contemporary society. There will be opportunities to explore key equality legislation and policy. The module will explore the ethical and political rationale for developing equitable, diverse, and inclusive practices as part of an agenda for social justice and social change.

This module aims to build your understanding of theories of human development and learning in different phases of the lifespan. It prepares you to think of ways to support learning by introducing you to a range of theories which may complement or be in tension with one another. In developing an understanding of this underlying theoretical knowledge, you will have an awareness of different interventions across a range of situations and contexts. 'Thinking with' theories will help you understand t

Dealing with real-world, ethical, or moral dilemmas is both challenging and pertinent to all areas of lived experience and professional, practice. The module will introduce you to a range of theoretical models and provide opportunities to explore these in relation to real world ethical dilemmas drawn from professional practice contexts.

Social Justice and Social Change offers an exciting opportunity for you to make a difference from the outset of your study at the University of Hull through undertaking a placement in a relevant education setting. In scheduled learning and teaching sessions you will work collaboratively to co-produce the big social justice questions such as why are so many children still living in poverty in the UK? Why does inequality still exist? Such questions will provide drivers for social change and orient

This module will provide opportunities to understand how organisations work in contemporary society and will consider different approaches to leadership. The module will encourage you to explore your own approach to leading and managing in the 21st century and introduce you to a range of graduate futures across all organisation types including for example schools, charities, health services or your own enterprise business. The module will encourage you to think about leadership in new ways as we

You will have the opportunity to make a difference to the lives of people and communities through an extended placement within your chosen field, either in the UK or abroad. The placement will support you to become increasingly confident, and able to drive your own professional development. We have exciting placement opportunities in various informal and formal contexts that will introduce you to the transformatory potential of education.

This is a participatory, experiential, and collaborative module in which you will be introduced to a series of provocations identified by practitioners working at a grass root level in range of informal and formal educational contexts settings. The module works alongside the professional practice placement and will enable you to undertake in depth investigation into issues you are encountering in practice.

This module looks at how language is governed by the context in which it occurs, and how far this affects the way that it is learned. You will seek to answer the following core questions: Why are there so many different ways of saying the same thing? How can we best describe language use? What is the connection between language use and language learning?