BA in Education Studies

Students develop a broad and integrated knowledge of the scientific foundations as well as a critical understanding of important topics, definitions, theories and methods in the field of Education Studies. They gain thorough insights into the current state of the discipline and learn how to deal with both its scope and its limitations. Thus, students are able to reflect the basis, the effects and the challenges of the particular kind of knowledge the discipline generates. The program s overarching perspectives include e.g. difference in educational settings, power and violence, social inequality, interculturality and gender as well as other educationally relevant topics. On this basis, students are able to formulate science-based positions as well as to develop adequate solutions. They have acquired essential qualifications to perform different functions in both pedagogic and non-pedagogic fields in the context of a modern, knowledge-based society.