Our research into Education Theory also informs the teaching we offer at the University of Strathclyde. In courses on all levels, we keep the idea alive that studying education has a fundamentally theoretical and conceptual side, which cannot be eliminated as long as we aspire to a very much reflected and conscious educational practice. Or, in other words: the study of education, i.e. Education Studies, belongs to the Humanities as well as the Social Sciences. Those conceptual reflections represent a unique and integrated perspective on to world inasmuch they are organised around the fundamental pedagogical question for the necessity, the possibility and the actuality of human education. Understood in this way, Education Studies is an independent academic discipline in its own right, which not only reflects on its own methodology but also on its own conceptual foundation: Education Studies as academic discipline is constantly reflecting the scope of its own reflections through an ongoing reflection on its conceptual core: the notion of education – Education Studies as an academic discipline is self-reflective.
This understanding of Education Studies as an independent academic discipline shapes our teaching across different courses. Especially the Joint Honours Education (e.g. Education and History), the Master in Education Studies (MSc Education Studies) and the our commitments in the Doctorate courses PhD and EdD (pathway Philosophy and Culture) are informed by this understanding of Education Studies.