Exam 0606 Module Six Review and Practice Test

Pedagogy (BSc)

Subject area expanse: Social sciences
UCAS code: 8G46
Side by side intake: September 2022
Elapsing: iii years
Fashion: Full time

Why written report this class

Dr Mark Connolly on Education.

A year abroad or on placement

Expand your horizons; gain feel with study away options or a professional person placement.

Education in context

Explore debates effectually classroom practise that relate to wider issues in club.

Organisational connections

Learn from leading institutions through links to law, probation and prisons, as well as government at local and national levels.

Placement opportunities

Undertake a placement with the help of our dedicated Employability and Placement director.

Our BSc Didactics is designed for students who have an involvement in educational activity and are looking for the opportunity to pursue this interest in a wide social science context.

Your written report volition be informed by our research in education and the latest developments in policy and exercise, encompassing aspects of culture and identity, childhood and youth, gender and ethnicity, and social justice and inclusion.

Cadre modules are aimed at developing a deep agreement of the social, historical, political, economical and developmental contexts of education – in Wales, the United kingdom and internationally.

Having a broad understanding of education provides you with an essential basis for challenging many of our common sense beliefs nigh education and society, enabling y'all to play a office in helping to transform and improve how we think nigh and practice education.

Entry requirements

Nosotros take a combination of A-levels and other qualifications, as well equally equivalent international qualifications field of study to entry requirements. Typical offers are as follows:

A level

BBB-BBC

Extended/International Project Qualification: Applicants with grade A in the EPQ/IPQ will typically receive an offer one form lower than the standard A level offer. Please note that any bailiwick specific requirements must still be met.

This course range reflects our typical standard and contextual offers. We carefully consider your contextual data (the circumstances in which you've been studying) upon application. Eligible students applying for this course volition exist given an offer at the lower finish of the advertised grade range.

International Baccalaureate

31-thirty overall or 665-655 in 3 HL subjects.

Welsh Baccalaureate

The Welsh Baccalaureate Advanced Skills Challenge Certificate will be accepted in lieu of ane A-Level (at the grades listed above), excluding any specified subjects.

Other qualifications from within the UK

BTEC

DDM-DMM in a BTEC Extended Diploma in any subject.

T level

D in T Level Pedagogy and childcare.

Additional entry requirements

GCSE

Grade C or course four in GCSE English language Language.

IELTS (academic)

At least half-dozen.5 overall with a minimum of 5.v in each subskill.

TOEFL iBT

At least 90 overall with minimum scores of 17 for writing, 17 for listening, 18 for reading and 20 for speaking.

PTE Academic

At least 62 overall with a minimum of 59 in all communicative skills.

Trinity ISE II/III

II: at least two Distinctions and two Merits.
Iii: at least a Pass in all components.

Other accepted qualifications

Please visit our English Linguistic communication requirements page for more information on our other accepted language qualifications.

You must have or exist working towards:
- English language or Welsh language at GCSE form C/four or an equivalent (such every bit A-levels). If you lot require a Pupil visa, you must ensure your linguistic communication qualification complies with UKVI requirements.

Nosotros do non have Critical Thinking, Full general Studies, Citizenship Studies, or other similar equivalent subjects.
We will accept a combination of BTEC subjects, A-levels, and other qualifications, subject to the course specific grade and subject requirements.

You lot are not required to complete a DBS (Disclosure Disallowment Service) check or provide a Certificate of Skillful Conduct to study this course.

If you are currently subject to any licence condition or monitoring restriction that could affect your ability to successfully complete your studies, you volition be required to disembalm your criminal record. Weather include, but are not limited to:

admission to computers or devices that tin can store images
utilize of net and communication tools/devices
curfews
liberty of movement, including the ability to travel to outside of the United kingdom or to undertake a placement/studies exterior of Cardiff University
contact with people related to Cardiff University.

Please encounter our admissions policies for more data about the application procedure.

Tuition fees for 2022 entry

Your tuition fees and how you pay them will depend on your fee status. Your fee condition could be home, island or overseas.

Learn how we decide your fee status

Fees for dwelling status

Year	Tuition fee	Deposit
Twelvemonth one	£9,000	None
Year two	£ix,000	None
Year 3	£nine,000	None

Students from the European union, EEA and Switzerland

If y'all are an EU, EEA or Swiss national, your tuition fees for 2022/23 exist in line with the overseas fees for international students, unless you qualify for home fee status. UKCISA have provided information about Brexit and tuition fees.

Fees for island condition

Learn more about the undergraduate fees for students from the Channel Islands or the Isle of Homo.

Fees for overseas condition

Year	Tuition fee	Deposit
Year one	£18,700	None
Year two	£18,700	None
Twelvemonth three	£18,700	None

Larn more about our tuition fees

Financial support

Financial support may exist available to individuals who encounter certain criteria. For more information visit our funding section. Please note that these sources of fiscal back up are limited and therefore not everyone who meets the criteria are guaranteed to receive the support.

Additional costs

You should exist prepared to invest in some key textbooks and to comprehend the costs of basic printing and photocopying. You lot may too want to buy copies of other books, either because they are especially important for your grade or because yous find them particularly interesting.

If you take a laptop computer, you will take the choice of purchasing software at discounted prices.

Students who choose to report abroad for a semester in their 2nd year volition go along to pay tuition fees to Cardiff University and will also need to pay for travel, accommodation and other related costs.

Form specific equipment

What the student should provide:

Yous do not need whatsoever specific equipment to written report on this program. Access to a laptop computer would be advantageous every bit many readings are available electronically and almost assessments are prepared using standard word processing software.

What the University will provide:

Networked computers with advisable file infinite and all necessary software. Access to essential and background reading for each module plus a wide range of journals and other online resources. You volition also have access to specialised software packages where appropriate. All course documents will be available online (via the VLE) and hard copies of essential documents will be provided if requested.

Accommodation

Nosotros have a range of residences to adjust your needs and budget. Find out more than on our accommodation pages.

Living costs

We're based in one of the Great britain'southward most affordable cities. Find out more most living costs in Cardiff.

Course construction

We are currently working with our students to update and improve the content of this form. The information shown beneath reflects the current curriculum and is likely to alter. The review of the course is expected to exist completed by August 2022 and this page will be updated past terminate of Oct 2022 to reverberate the changes.

This is a iii-twelvemonth, full-fourth dimension course, consisting of 120 credits a year. You lot will study half-dozen 20-credit modules a yr, with a 40-credit dissertation in year 3. Each yr includes a number of optional modules that allow you to tailor your studies to suit your own interests and skills. The final degree classification that you are awarded is based on the grades you achieve in the modules that you take in years two and 3.

The modules shown are an example of the typical curriculum and will be reviewed prior to the 2022/2023 academic yr. The concluding modules will exist published by September 2022.

Year one

Yous will take five core twenty-credit modules in Year One. These are designed to introduce you to the key ideas and inquiry in Education and to teach you the skills needed to succeed at university. You will also accept the opportunity to take one additional 20-credit optional module from within the School to brand up the full 120 credits y'all need to consummate Year One.

In the first year, yous will meet your personal tutor who will help you to brand the transition to higher education and back up you throughout your fourth dimension with us.

Year ii

In Year Two you will study three core 20-credit modules.. You volition as well choose three 20-credit options from a selection roofing the social sciences. A credit-bearing placement module is besides available. The core modules will focus on what happens in schools, the sociology of education, and social science research methods. Your personal tutor will be available to help you choose modules that best suit your interests and time to come career choices.

In this yr you volition besides have the opportunity to consider transferring onto a four year plan, spending your tertiary twelvemonth on a professional work placement or studying abroad, returning to Cardiff to complete your studies in the fourth year.

Year three

Your final year will consolidate your knowledge and allow you to continue to explore topics that best suit your future career aspirations. Y'all must accept 60 credits from the Education portfolio and complete a twoscore-credit dissertation. A dissertation involves designing, conducting and writing-up a small-scale enquiry project under the supervision of a member of academic staff. Your remaining 20 credits can be taken from a range of modules across the Schoolhouse.

The University is committed to providing a wide range of module options where possible, but please exist aware that whilst every endeavor is fabricated to offer pick this may be limited in certain circumstances. This is due to the fact that some modules have limited numbers of places available, which are allocated on a first-come, first-served basis, while others have minimum student numbers required before they will run, to ensure that an appropriate quality of education can be delivered; some modules require students to have already taken particular subjects, and others are core or required on the programme you are taking. Modules may also exist limited due to timetable clashes, and although the University works to minimise disruption to pick, we suggest yous to seek advice from the relevant Schoolhouse on the module choices available.

Learning and cess

In the Schoolhouse of Social Sciences yous will learn from scholars who are shaping the futurity of their fields. Our courses reverberate both the core ideas of their disciplines and gimmicky debates, theories and inquiry.

Pedagogy methods include a mixture of lectures, seminars, independent written report and cocky-directed learning that draw use of on-line resources, private work and group tasks. Lectures generally provide an overview of the relevant topic, introducing key concepts or enquiry, and highlighting contemporary issues or debates. An increasing number of lectures are at present recorded. In contrast to lectures, seminars give yous the opportunity to discuss particular readings, research or topics in item. This allows you to consolidate your understanding and get feedback on your individual learning. Seminars likewise enable you to hone your communication, presentation and collaborative skills every bit you accept function in group discussions and other tasks.

As social science develops in response to the social world, and so our curriculum also changes. Our students play an important role in these developments, with the Student-Staff Panel beingness consulted almost major changes and all students completing module evaluations and an annual pupil survey.

How will I exist supported?

A personal tutor will guide y'all for the duration of your studies. The tutors are available to discuss progress and provide advice and guidance on your bookish studies. The Educatee Hub, located in the Glamorgan Building, is also open every day and can provide advice on how to access university services.

All modules inside the course brand utilize of Cardiff University's Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) Blackboard, on which you lot will find form materials, links to related materials and information relating to assessment tasks including, for case, cess criteria, links to past papers, and guidelines for submitting assessments.

Additional module-specific support is provided by seminar tutors, lecturers and/or module convenors; support for the dissertation is provided by a supervisor who will see with you regularly.

How will I be assessed?

All modules are assessed by at least ii different cess tasks. Typical assessment formats include individual and group assignments, coursework, presentations and exams. We take care to ensure that all degree schemes include a range of different cess types and that deadlines are spread throughout the bookish year.

Feedback is provided on assessments and other learning in order to provide students with the opportunity to reflect on their electric current or recent level of attainment. It can exist provided individually or to groups. It tin take many forms. It is responsive to the developmental expectations of our programmes and disciplines.

The range of feedback includes one-to-one individual feedback; generic feedback; peer feedback; breezy feedback; self-evaluation to submit along with the assessment.

Bookish staff and peers can utilise a variety of methods to evangelize these types of feedback: written feedback; note of a text; oral feedback; seminar discussion.

Formative Feedback

Formative feedback is feedback that does non contribute to progression or degree classification decisions. The goal of formative feedback is to meliorate your agreement and learning earlier you complete your summative assessment. More specifically, formative feedback helps you to:

place your strengths and weaknesses and target areas that need work;
assist staff to support you lot and address the problems identified with targeted strategies for comeback.

Formative feedback is routinely provided in seminars every bit seminar piece of work often contributes to the module assessment. In addition, all modules include a specific determinative cess that is designed to aid you prepare for the subsequent summative assessment.

Summative Feedback

Summative feedback is feedback that contributes to progression or degree classification decisions. The goal of summative assessment is to indicate how well you have succeeded in meeting the intended learning outcomes of a Module and will enable you to identify action required (feed forward) in order to improve in futurity assessments.

All feedback on coursework is provided electronically to ensure information technology is readily accessible and easy to read. Exact feedback is provided for presentations but written feedback volition also be provided where the presentation makes a significant contribution to the module mark.

Feedback on exams is usually provided as written feedback for the whole course only you are also able to discuss your individual exam paper and the marking it was awarded with the module convenor.

All marks and feedback are made with reference to the module specific marker criteria.

What skills will I exercise and develop?

The Learning outcomes for this Program describe what you lot will be able to practise as a result of your study at Cardiff University. They will assist y'all to empathise what is expected of y'all and bookish staff volition focus on precisely what they want you to achieve inside each Module.

The Learning Outcomes for this Program tin be establish below:

Knowledge & Understanding:

On successful completion of the Program you will be able to demonstrate:

An agreement of the key ideas, theories and concepts used in education and their relationship to themes, theories and findings from cognate disciplines.
An agreement of the primary research methods used inside the social sciences and the philosophical issues that inform their awarding and employ in research settings.
A disquisitional and in-depth understanding of inquiry and theory in selected sub-fields of education and the relevance of this piece of work to contemporary social debates, issues or problems.
An understanding of the role empirical show plays in the creation and constraint of theory, and how theory guides the collection and interpretation of empirical data.

Intellectual Skills:

On successful completion of the Program you will be able to demonstrate:

Critically evaluate existing knowledge, scholarship and research in educational activity and use this knowledge to reach a balanced sentence most the merits and relevance of competing claims and theoretical perspectives.
Critically evaluate the utilize of evidence in social science disciplines and policy debates, drawing on both broad methods preparation and subject specific noesis
Utilise knowledge and skills to empathise and explain social phenomena of interest to education and apply this agreement to new or novel questions.

Professional Practical Skills:

On successful completion of the Programme you will be able to demonstrate:

Pattern and use a range of data drove instruments needed to explore and sympathize the social earth
Critically evaluate, synthesise and interpret primary and secondary data generated using dissimilar methods, using specialist software where necessary
Work both collaboratively and individually on theoretically informed and empirically-grounded projects that draw on appropriate and relevant research evidence

Transferable/Key Skills:

On successful completion of the Programme you will be able to demonstrate:

The capacity for problem-solving and originality in thinking past using knowledge and skills to tackle familiar and unfamiliar problems
Academic and personal skills such as critical thinking, writing, oral presentations, trouble solving, group work, time-management, and the use of it.
The power to communicate complex information in a variety of formats including reports, oral presentations, posters and dissertations

Careers and placements

Career prospects

We are committed to helping you achieve your professional ambitions, encouraging you to recall nigh life beyond academy from day i. Our caste programmes offer modules and back up to give you a competitive advantage on graduating.

Turning theory into applied application and providing experience of the working world are of import aspects of all our degree schemes, which will help to prepare our graduates for life after higher education.

Nosotros also offer bespoke career support to our students at every phase of study and afterwards their graduation. Our dedicated careers advisors deliver a tailored range of careers events throughout the year.

Our graduates have gone onto a range of careers in criminal justice, education and curriculum planning, inquiry, policing, legal professions, social work and social care, administration and direction.

Placements

There are a number of placement or report abroad opportunities associated with this Program. Students will have the opportunity to cull an optional module that include a work-based placement in year two. In addition, students have the option of studying away or spending a year on placement in year 3, extending their studies to a 4 yr programme. The application process for spending a year abroad or on placement will have identify at the beginning of your second year of studies. These opportunities may exist partly conditional upon achieving certain minimum academic results in other modules.

The Schoolhouse of Social Sciences has a dedicated Employability and Placement Director who can offer advice on available piece of work placements, internships, work feel and opportunities to enhance your CV and broaden your horizons. Support with job applications and interview techniques is also available.

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HESA Data: Copyright College Education Statistics Agency Limited 2021. The College Teaching Statistics Agency Limited cannot accept responsibility for any inferences or conclusions derived by 3rd parties from its information. Information is from the latest Graduate Outcomes Survey 2018/19, published by HESA in June 2021.

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