Preliminary Examination for Part I
All Students must take the following papers alongside two subject papers:
Introduction to the Disciplines of Education
This paper introduces the Foundation Disciplines of Education – History, Philosophy, Psychology and Sociology looking at their contribution in three areas; childhood and adolescence; teaching and learning; and culture, values and diversity.
An introductory reading list is available to download here.
Language, Communication and Literacy
This paper focuses on the social, psychological and material contexts within which spoken languages and literacy develop throughout childhood. Although the primary emphasis is orientated towards education, the paper is conceived in a broad context that takes full account of the complex interactions between school, home and wider community cultures. The paper's overarching emphasis is with power and empowerment, these are inflected within different forms of communication (written, oral and non-verbal) and with the way 'literacy' may be understood within different media forms and cultural contexts. The term 'literacy' itself is taken to be problematic and has, indeed, been displaced by the concept of 'multiple literacies' within many more recent theoretical discourses.
An introductory reading list is available to download here.
If you would like a copy of the current year's full course programme for either of the above, please email ugrad@educ.ac.uk.