Program Overview

Education Studies - SEN, Disabilities and Inclusion (with Foundation Year)

Overview

This course explores the world around the child with a focus on children with additional needs. Students will develop a specialist knowledge of the demands and needs of children with special needs or disabilities and learn skills to launch a rewarding career.

Why Oxford Brookes University?

• Perfect preparation: Build essential study skills with an integrated foundation year.
• Yearly placements: Gain hands-on experience in special schools, family centres, and forest schools or join support workers in a local authority.
• Trauma-Informed Practice specialism: Explore trauma-informed and trauma responsive, relational practices at each level of the degree.
• Social justice focus: Develop skills in supporting children with a variety of diverse needs such as children in care, young carers, or unaccompanied children.
• Field trips: Explore different educational approaches on yearly self-funded field trips, which have a distinct SEND and inclusion element.

Course Details

Course Structure

• Foundation Year: Study a Foundation in Humanities, building confidence and essential academic skills.
• Year 1: Explore human development, education from medieval times to now, and new approaches like outdoor learning.
• Year 2: Examine the developing brain, contemporary issues around children with diverse needs, and tailor parts of the course to your interests.
• Year 3 (Optional): Choose a year abroad at a partner university or continue to your final year.
• Final Year: Study young people in challenging circumstances, alternative learning spaces, and complete a dissertation.

Learning and Teaching

• A wide variety of modules ensure that you will be able to develop a depth of knowledge about complex educational issues.
• Modules involve tackling discrimination, addressing inequalities, challenging attitudes and beliefs, being an advocate for children and young people, and making a positive difference.

Assessment

• Assessment is 100% coursework.
• Coursework may be in the form of written essays, group presentations, observational studies, case studies, the creation of a learning object, critical/thematic reviews of literature, development of a portfolio of work, participation in online activities, independent study, or a dissertation.

Field Trips

• Field Trips are optional and the cost will be in addition to your course fees.

Study Modules

Foundation Year

• Compulsory modules:
  • Being Human: Love, Sex and Death
  • Cultural Moments
  • Language, Vision and Representation
  • Research Project
  • The Reflective Learner
  • Nation and Identity
• Optional modules:
  • Customs, Icons and Symbols
  • Development Studies
  • Political Philosophy
  • French Beginners 2
  • Spanish Beginners 2
  • Origins of the Climate Crisis: A Global History of the Environment
  • Global Issues
  • Creating Criminology 2
  • Young Children's Outdoor Learning
  • Modern British Art

Year 1

• Compulsory modules:
  • History of Education
  • Introduction to Studying in Education
  • Child and Adolescent Development
  • Placement 1: Understanding Education
  • Nurturing Inclusivity
• Optional modules:
  • Young Children's Outdoor Learning
  • Pedagogies to Promote STEAM
  • Pedagogies to Promote Play

Year 2

• Compulsory modules:
  • Placement 2: Contextualising Education
  • Psychology of Education
  • Becoming a Researcher
  • Contemporary Issues in Education Studies
  • Children with Diverse Needs
• Optional modules:
  • The Social World of Childhood and Youth
  • Supporting Wellbeing
  • Creative and Therapeutic Approaches
  • Children's Literature
  • Outdoor Learning
  • Independent Study Module

Optional Placement Year

• Year Abroad: Study in a non-UK university or undertake a work placement.

Final Year

• Compulsory modules:
  • Dissertation
  • Philosophy of Education
  • Young People in Challenging Circumstances
  • Alternative Spaces for Learning
  • Placement 3: Professional Development in Practice
• Optional modules:
  • Children, Youth and Families in Society
  • International Contexts and Comparisons
  • Compassion and Care in Practice
  • Environments for Learning
  • STEAM in Pedagogy and Research
  • Children in the Outdoors: Critical Issues
  • Independent Study

Careers

• Studying BA Education (SENDI) empowers you with a wealth of specialist knowledge to kickstart your career.
• Your annual placements help you build a network of professional connections.
• Graduates pursue careers in youth work, charities, schools, or postgraduate training.

Entry Requirements

• Standard offer: UCAS Tariff Points: 48, A Level: DD, IB Points: 24, BTEC: PPP or MP
• Specific entry requirements: Please see the University's general entry requirements.
• Screening: All applicants will be screened for fitness to practise and a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check will be made.
• English language requirements: Please see the University's standard English language requirements.

Tuition Fees

• Home (UK) full time: £5,760 (Foundation); £9,535 (Degree)
• Home (UK) part time: £720 per single module (Foundation); £1,190 per single module (Degree)
• International full time: £16,750

Additional Costs

• Please be aware that some courses will involve some additional costs that are not covered by your fees.