Education, Society and Culture
UCL
Education is at the heart of global efforts to create more fair and equal societies. Based at the world-leading IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society, our summer school draws on the academic disciplines of history, philosophy, sociology, psychology and cultural studies to provide you with an understanding of how to reflect on issues within education and society as well as ways to become future researchers, educational practitioners, policy makers and leaders of social and political change.
Our summer school introduces you to a broad set of social science subjects and skills, through which you’ll gain an insight into a variety of theoretical viewpoints, and learn how to think about, write about and analyse the ways in which humans and societies develop.
Each day you’ll explore aspects of education, society and culture through activities, visits, project work and mini-lectures. Students studying in year two of our current Education, Society and Culture BA will offer their experiences of the undergraduate programme and introduce you to ways to engage in research.
You will work with our student Education Society (EduSoc) to examine and raise questions about our education system in the UK and create narratives for a better future education for all.
During the four days we visit UCL’s museums and experience how history and education are intertwined through an object-handling activity. We will visit an education department in a museum or gallery in London to help you to explore how the study of education, society and culture relates to potential career destinations, as well as to enjoy the exhibition.
19 August 2024
- 23 August 2024
25 PROGRAMME PLACES
ENTRY REQUIREMENTS:
A Levels
Standard grades: ABB
Contextual grades: BBB
Standard and contextual subjects: Business Studies, Classics, English Literature and/or Language (not English Language acquisition) or a Social Science preferred.
BTEC National Diploma
BTEC Level 3 Extended Diploma (QCF) or BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (RQF – teaching from 2016) with Distinction, Distinction, Distinction.
Standard GCSEs: English Language at grade B or 6 and Mathematics at grade C or 5.
Contextual GCSEs: English Language and Mathematics at grade C or 5.