Embark on a journey to uncovering the contemporary challenges surrounding education. Become a successful and dynamic educational professional with a proactive approach to navigating the ever evolving education sector. Whether you want to work in a school, as a youth worker, train as a child psychologist, or maybe shape educational policy, our programme equips you with advanced transferable skills in communication, critical thinking, and problem-solving, preparing you for a wide range of careers working with learners.

**Why choose this course?**
- Global Top 300 for Education (Times Higher Education World University Subject Rankings, 2022)

- Examine contemporary challenges in education including inequality, the emergence of artificial intelligence and social change

- Prepare for a wide range of careers across the education sector and beyond

- Benefit from real-world industry experience with a placement year opportunity

- A chance to broaden your horizons and study abroad at a partner university

Investigate how the education system operates in the modern world and examine a range of theories from disciplines such as sociology, history, psychology and philosophy. You will cover a broad range of topics from key psychological theories and models to explain how young people develop in the classroom, to core social science principles of designing, implementing, and analysing social research. Our programme adopts a distinctive approach to exploring learning theories and themes, such as social mobility and inequality.

Our unique combination of educational theory combined with active practical application will provide insight into real world situations to help enhance your skills and expertise as a practitioner in the classroom. You will consider how theories, ideas, and concepts can be applied in practice across a range of environments and age groups, from young people in classrooms to adults in the local community.

Throughout the programme, you will gain a thorough understanding of education in the past and present and what this means for our future. You will be encouraged to reflect on how political ideas and ideologies shape policy, and learn to design educational solutions for emerging issues such as artificial intelligence and climate change. This can be explored further through your own 'Independent Research Project' by investigating an area of your choice involving data collection and analysis.

Through the use of field trips, guest speakers, and practical learning opportunities such as placements in schools, you will be able to apply your theoretical knowledge to real-world settings, building advanced skills in critical thinking, communication and emotional intelligence. You will have the opportunity to engage with the local community of Stoke-on-Trent and/or Newcastle-under-Lyme to investigate the challenges of inequality in society and how this can impact a person's life and how we can navigate the challenges of marginalisation of particular groups such as the working class, those from ethnically diverse backgrounds, or children with Special Educational Needs (SEN).

**About Keele**

Keele University was established in 1949 by the former Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University. Founded to meet the needs of a changing world, Keele has always had a pioneering vision to be a different kind of university.

We excel in both teaching and research, with some of the most satisfied students in England, and research that is changing lives for the better at a regional, national and global level.

Our beautiful 600-acre campus is one of the biggest in Britain – but all the most important services and facilities are on your doorstep, with accommodation, teaching spaces, facilities including a medical centre, sports centre and pharmacy, and a range of shops, eateries and entertainment venues – including the Students’ Union – clustered around the centre.