Module overview
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- Adopt an objective approach, reflecting on your own and others' value systems
- Use your knowledge and understanding critically to locate and justify a personal position in relation to education and psychology
- Assimilate new principles and understandings as they relate to key areas in education and at the intersection of education and psychology
- Identify and reflect critically across aspects of subject knowledge and their application in educational contexts and policies
- Formulate and justify potential changes in practice
Knowledge and Understanding
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
- Essential grounding in the research process as it applies to education and, for joint honours students, as it applies to education and psychology
- Underlying values and principles relevant to education and some of the core domains in the study of education and in the study of education and psychology.
- Diversity of learners and the complexities of the education process
Transferable and Generic Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- Collect and apply numerical data appropriately, present data in a variety of formats including graphical and tabular and analyse and interpret both numeric and non-numeric data
- Organise and articulate opinions and arguments in speech, writing and other appropriate media using relevant specialist vocabulary
- Process and synthesise empirical and theoretical data, to create new syntheses and to present and justify a chosen position having drawn on relevant theoretical perspectives
Syllabus
Learning and Teaching
Teaching and learning methods
| Type | Hours |
|---|---|
| Independent Study | 122 |
| Teaching | 18 |
| Total study time | 140 |
Resources & Reading list
Textbooks
Field, A (2018). Discovering statistics using IBM SPSS statistics.. London: Sage.
Williams, K. and Carroll, J. (2017). Referencing & Understanding Plagiarism. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan.
Pears R. and Shields, G. (2019). Cite Them Right: The Essential Referencing Guide. London: Bloomsbury Academic.
Pallant, J (2020). SPSS survival manual: A step by step guide to data analysis using IBM SPSS. London: Routledge.
Assessment
Summative
This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.
| Method | Percentage contribution |
|---|---|
| Coursework | 100% |
Referral
This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.
| Method | Percentage contribution |
|---|---|
| Coursework | 100% |
Repeat
An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.
| Method | Percentage contribution |
|---|---|
| Coursework | 100% |