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Understanding Education Studies explores undergraduate education programmes in a new way. Written by those at the forefront of teaching and learning, it encourages students to delve beneath the surface of their degree subject and reveals important insights about the how, why and where next for education studies.
List of contents
1. Introduction
Section 1: Positioning Education Studies
2. Education Studies as an Undergraduate University Subject: A Short History
3. An International Insight into Education Studies
4. Exploring the Identity of an Undergraduate Education Programme
Section 2: Practices and Pedagogies of Education Studies
5. Knowing Learning Matters
6. Discovering your Philosophy of Education through Digital Storytelling
7. Assessment for Transformation: Adopting a Humanist Approach to Assessment and Feedback on a BA Education Course
8. Student Achievement and Wellbeing: Understanding Motivation through Self-Determination Theory
9. Taking a Global Perspective: The Nature and Value of Comparative and International Education (CIE) in UK Universities
10. Being 'International': The Opportunities and Challenges of Studying Education as an International Student
11. Learning about Research Methods: A Case Study
12. Education for Sustainability: Connecting Students to Outdoor Learning via Forest School
13. The Role and Value of Arts-Based Learning for Education Studies
Section 3: Challenge and Change in Education Studies
14. Education and Democracy: The Public Sphere Reclaimed for Educational Study
15. The Role of Social Justice Theory in Education Studies
16. Inclusive Curriculum Matters: Co-creating a Decolonised Education Curriculum Through Student Voices
17. Speaking through Silence: Embracing Fear and Shame in Anti-racist Education
18. Understanding Identity and Positionality through Student-Staff Interactions on an Education Studies Undergraduate Programme
19. Men and Masculinities on Undergraduate Education Studies Degrees
20. Rebalancing Power Relations in Teacher-Student Co-creation
Section 4: The Personal and Professional in Education Studies
21. Employability and Pedagogies for Employability in Education Studies
22. Career Identity, Employability and Placements in Education Studies
23. Placements as Mediational Transitions: An Opportunity for Negotiated, Identity-shaping Make-belief Experiences
24. More than your Degree Title: Transferable Skills, Employability, and Diverse Opportunities for Education Students
About the author
Mark Pulsford is an Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Education Studies at the University of Warwick.
Rebecca Morris is an Associate Professor in the Department of Education Studies at the University of Warwick.
Ross Purves is an Associate Professor of Music Education at the Institute of Education, University College London's Faculty of Education and Society.
Summary
Understanding Education Studies explores undergraduate education programmes in a new way. Written by those at the forefront of teaching and learning, it encourages students to delve beneath the surface of their degree subject and reveals important insights about the how, why and where next for education studies.
