BA (Hons) Education Studies and Special Educational Needs University of Winchester

Program Description

Educators make a lasting impact on people’s lives. By specialising in Special Educational Needs you could make a positive impact on some of society’s most vulnerable people, while working to bring about a more inclusive society. Working in Special Educational Needs can offer some of the most rewarding, inspiring and satisfying careers possible. Our course offers you the first steps on such a pathway. Whether you want to become a teacher or work in educational charities, publishing, local government, or the service and heritage industries, Education Studies and Special Educational needs leads to challenging and rewarding careers. Whether your degree leads you to become a teacher, Special Educational Needs Coordinator, or to another graduate career related to inclusion in education, you will develop the breadth and depth of knowledge and specialist skills necessary to become a critically minded, reflective professional. You will draw on a range of disciplines including education, social policy, philosophy, history, disability studies and child development to develop you as a graduate ready to work in multi-professional contexts. Through a combination of mandatory and optional modules you will explore a range of contexts from the classroom through to how education defines the world around us and is used as a lever for social and political change. You will learn about the wide range of factors that influence why and how we educate, including: race, gender, power, health, technology, culture, ecology, inclusion and politics. Specialist modules in special and inclusive education will develop your critical understanding of the theoretical and philosophical issues around the inclusion in education of young people and adults. This will challenge you to consider how you, as a future professional, can respond to the human diversity you will encounter.

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