Education Studies for Teaching Assistants

This Foundation Degree in Education Studies for Teaching Assistants (run by Bath Spa University, taught at Bath College) will offer you a two-year undergraduate programme that will develop the knowledge, critical understanding and skills needed to explore education in a variety of ways. Youll learn about education, key theories of teaching and learning and child development as well the wider issues concerning the political, economic and historical contexts surrounding education, Special Educational Needs and the importance of an holistic approach to the wellbeing of children and young people in society through collaboration with other agencies. The programme will enable you to develop your current role and to understand cultural, historical, social and political constructs of education, schooling and childhood and to develop your own vision of what education might become in the future.