BA (Hons) Education with Integrated Foundation Year

Arts in Education and Society

You will engage with a range of discourses surrounding arts and society within the processes of teaching and learning.

A range of disciplinary subjects including performing arts, drama, theatre, music and visual arts will be explored.

In addition, key concepts such as creativity, design, performance and aesthetics will be considered from philosophical, pedagogical and social perspectives.

Childhood to Adulthood

This module develops your awareness of the biological, intellectual, social and emotional changes that occur from childhood through to adulthood. You will examine the phases of development in children from conception through to puberty, early adolescence and adolescence in a changing world. You also will examine growth and physical development in the early years, motor development and maturation.

Equality of Opportunity and Diversity

This module will explore relationships between cultural identity, social policy and issues of equality and diversity.

You will examine key features of the theory and practice of social and educational inclusion from several perspectives, and explore issues central to inclusion, human rights, equal opportunities and social justice.

You will explore patterns of inequality in selected areas of social policy and provision with reference to the British experience and some international issues.

From Bognor to Bogota and Beyond: An Introduction to the UN and SDGs

You will be encouraged to look beyond their immediate surrounding to the wider world. You’ll find out how global issues such as those outlined in the UN Sustainable Development Goals have an impact on people across the world as well as on their own lives. the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) and its role in educational provision will also be considered.

Learning Communities – Children Learning, Children Thinking

This module explores the sociological influences relating to our success as learners.

You will use research on thinking, learning and development to consider how individuals can maximise learning opportunities for themselves and help others to learn.

In addition, you will explore influences on learning, development and identity and discuss how learners are included or excluded from education settings.

Central to the module is a sociocultural perspective on learning and education that looks beyond the individual to communities and the historical contexts in which learning takes place.

Professional Practice

This module focuses on the behaviours and needs of the learner and the implications of this on the role of an educator. The module includes 16 days of school experience enabling student teachers to begin to understand different features classroom practice. It will explore how different conditions for learning are established and how these conditions are influenced by the range of other factors that can inhibit pupils’ ability to learn. The module sessions, student reflection and school experience will establish links between theory and effective practice and issues regarding children’s holistic needs that may impact learning in the classroom.

Comparative Education – the International Context

The module explores global issues in education and the different contexts in which children and young people learn and educators teach – in formal and informal settings. It begins by introducing key concepts used in international education policy and practice. It presents information and research around educational opportunities and inequalities worldwide and discusses their historical and sociological origins.

Facing Environmental Crisis: Facilitating Learning for the Ecological Self

This module is designed to introduce student teachers to the role that education might play in the face of serious environmental challenges. We will look at different perspectives of what it means to be human, the changing nature of our ecological awareness and how this might be most effectively presented in educational settings.

Forest Schools Principles and Practices

A forest school is a journey of self-discovery and awareness in the outdoors in which participants are given the freedom to explore their surroundings, themselves and others through their curiosity and imagination.

The approach is heralded by some as inspirational but described by others as re-branding of old ideas giving questionable impact.

This module explores principles that underpin the forest school approach and reflects on evidence for its effectiveness.

Global Citizenship: Living and Working in A Diverse and Interconnected World

This module will fulfil the aspiration in the University of Chichester’s Vision Statement that our students should become Global Citizens. It will enable you to critically engage with some of the key global issues of our times and prepare you to think beyond your immediate locality about how you are connected with people and environments that you may never have seen.

Humanities in Education and Society

This module is based upon the belief that a broad and balanced curriculum enhances learning and that the humanities play an important part in this. You will learn about the areas of history, geography and RE and understand how they can motivate children.

Learning From and Within the Community

This module is designed to provide you with an opportunity to investigate a variety of organisations and groups which operate within the local community that have an educational element to their work. You will have the chance to create an educational project for an organisation in the community.

Research in Education

This module is designed to develop your understanding of the role and importance of research in the field of education. It will start to prepare you for undertaking a dissertation on an aspect of Education. the module will introduce you to key important theoretical and conceptual issues in research; introduce shaping research questions, research design and the selection of appropriate data collection methods and data analysis.

Work-Based Placement (Year 2)

In order to broaden your knowledge and understanding of a range of educational contexts, and to develop insights beyond the classroom you will undertake a placement experience in an education setting of your choice.

Creativity, Technology and Learning

This module will enable you to investigate, both academically and practically, how innovative technologies can be used in learning and teaching in a wide variety of mainstream and specialist educational settings.

Education in Multi-Ethnic Britain

You will consider the benefits and challenges that result from the ever-changing demographics of the UK’s population. You will consider the historical perspectives that have resulted in the UK becoming such a diverse and multi-ethnic society.

Exploring Mathematical Thinking

What is mathematics and why does it seem to matter so much? This module will inspire you to reflect on this question and, in doing so, increase your critical knowledge of mathematics education. Your own relationship with the subject will be explored, as will ideas on the beauty and power inherent within the subject.

Mental Health and Wellbeing

This module investigates the importance of good social, emotional and mental health for children, young people and into adulthood. It will examine the current climate of children’s mental health in the UK and in comparison, to other countries. You will consider some of the features in school environments that might result in poor mental health. It will also consider cultural influences on a decline in mental health in the population of the UK.

Special Educational Needs and Disability – Engaging All Learners

You will learn how to plan, implement, and evaluate the effectiveness of interventions that contribute to removing barriers to learning, including the use of Augmented and Alternative Communication (AAC) AAC and ICT.

Work-Based Placement

This module broadens your knowledge of a range of educational contexts and provides you with insights from beyond the classroom as you undertake a placement experience in an education setting of your choice.