This broad-based, interdisciplinary course challenges how we think about education. Looking beyond education as taking place only in schools and universities, to studying how education occurs across all social institutions (for example, employment and families), this course develops critical understandings of education in the past, present and future- locally and globally. It seeks to help each student acquire a common set of intellectual skills and develop their own unique and principled voice for writing and speaking about education in the world. It does this through a combination of lectures, seminars, tutorials, workshops, field trips, multimedia sessions, and individual and collective research and organizing projects. This course prepares students for careers in education and a wide range of other fields, but also provides students with an intellectual set of tools that allow them to lead in transforming how we think about and practice education, in their work, community and personal lives. Students who take this programme may go on to work as teachers and educators in schools, colleges and universities. But they also can pursue careers in community and youth work, international aid and development, social care and inclusion, local and national government, media and the arts, and other related fields. The programme does not lead to Qualified Teacher Status.