Evaluation and Research in Education
Editor: Professor Keith Morrison, Inter-University Institute of Macau
Associate Editor: Professor Stephen Gorard, University of York
Statistical Adviser: Professor Colin Baker, University of Wales Bangor
Reviews Editor: Dr. Emma Smith, University of York
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Volume: 16 Number: 2 Page: 82–94
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Evaluating Educational Studies
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I. Davies and S. Hogarth
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This paper reports on some initial findings from an ongoing research project undertaken with staff and students at one university department of Educational Studies. The project is seeking to explore the
experiences of undergraduate students who are reading Educational Studies. Graduates of the degree programme are not awarded qualified teacher status although they might undertake further training that
would qualify them to enter the teaching profession in primary schools. Perceptions of staff and students together with documentary analyses are used to comment on issues to do with recruitment and selection
to degree programmes in Educational Studies, experiences of teaching and learning and students' future career paths. The article provides an initial understanding of the nature of the increasingly common
undergraduate provision in Educational Studies. It suggests that the growth of Educational Studies degree programmes is very positive but it also raises a number of problematic issues that require further
attention.
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