Primary Education

About this course

Primary education prepares you to teach children across the primary age range, developing the subject knowledge, pedagogical understanding and professional values that effective teaching requires. Primary teachers play a foundational role in children's lives, nurturing their curiosity, building their confidence and introducing them to the full range of learning that primary education encompasses: literacy and numeracy, but also science, history, geography, the arts, physical education and personal development. The approach a teacher brings to this work, and the values that underpin it, profoundly shape children's experience. At St Mary's University College in Belfast, this four-year programme is shaped by a clear educational philosophy, as the university's own description outlines: preparing educators who will promote social justice in partnership with learners, their families and commu

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