Charlotte Barrow - Writing Skills for Education Students

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Writing Skills for Education Students

Charlotte Barrow and Rebecca Westrup

Charlotte Barrow and Rebecca Westrup, under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited 2019

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Contents

Introduction

This book is about how you can get the most out of your degree and develop and enhance your knowledge, understanding and skills required to be a successful Education student. Drawing on current students experiences of studying an undergraduate Education degree programme and our experiences as lecturers, we hope the information from us and tips from our students will help you to feel prepared and confident about your studies. In this short introduction we consider what it means to be a student of Education and set out the aims of the book before explaining its structure.

What does it mean to be a student of Education?

The study of Education is interdisciplinary and draws on a number of subjects including Sociology, Psychology, History, Politics and Philosophy to develop our understanding and broaden our knowledge of how all ages learn, and the factors that can impact positively and negatively on this (Westrup, 2017). It also draws on wider aspects to critically explore the role of key facets such as society, the media and families. Education is a subject of importance to individuals, families, communities, governments and politicians, and society more broadly. The way in which we invest time and money in discussing and analysing the education system through debate and media coverage is indicative of the importance of education to the public interest.

Although throughout this book we refer primarily to Education students, note that this text is also relevant to those studying on programmes in similar disciplines such as Childhood Studies, Early Years, Education and Social Care, or as an introductory text for students undertaking a Masters in Education if prior undergraduate study has been in a different discipline learning to write in another academic field can make further study and professional development challenging, and so this book will support students in that position too.

So, what does it mean to be a student of Education? Youll find some more discussion around this in Chapter 5, but initially, it is useful for you to recognise that being a student of Education means that you are developing:

Your curiosity and enquiry around the process of teaching and learning, and not just that which happens in the classroom.

An interest in the educational experiences of learners from a wide variety of backgrounds, recognising that different opportunities and circumstances make educational successes and trajectories hugely variable.