BA Primary Education
Entry requirements
A level: ABB-BBB (GCSE English language 6/B and English literature 6/B, GCSE maths 6/B) IB: 32 - 30 (Maths SL5)
About this course
BA in Education, focused on primary teaching in Scotland. Core topics include Research Methods, Human Behaviour, and Ethics & Professional Practice. A 35-hour first-year placement provides experience working with children aged 0-14 in community settings, progressing to an 11-week final-year school placement. The programme includes a self-directed dissertation and a specialisation module, with a Gaelic medium pathway available.
Modules
- Placement Learning: Children’s Wellbeing & Development in the Community
- Education and Society
- Curriculum through Creativity 1
- Pedagogy and Professional Practice: Playful approaches in the Early Years
- Year 2 Pedagogy and Professional Practice: Children as learners and thinkers
- Children’s Language, Literature and Literacy
- Numeracy and Mathematics in the Primary School
- Education, Thinking and Learning
- Interdisciplinary Learning, options
- Year 3 Pedagogy and Professional Practice: Being a primary teacher
- Language Learning and Teaching in the Primary School
- Science and Technology in the Primary School
- Curriculum through Creativity 2
- Education, Wellbeing and Freedom
- Education, Evidence and Ethics
- Year 4 Pedagogy and Professional Practice: Professionalism in action
- Developing Understandings of Inclusive Literacy and Numeracy
- Professional Specialisation
- Protecting and Safeguarding Children: Role of the Primary Teacher
- Dissertation