Bachelor of Primary Education Studies - Ontario

What is this course about?

CSU's Bachelor of Primary Education Studies focuses on developing practical and professional skills based on theoretical and conceptual understandings of teaching. The aim is to prepare transformative and reflective teacher practitioners ready to assume their first teaching position.

The Bachelor of Primary Education Studies offered through Ontario Campus is underpinned by a belief that all children deserve good teaching. It is important that all students, regardless of their social and cultural characteristics, receive an education which maximises their life chances. This program is shaped in the belief that social transformation, rather than social reproduction, should be an outcome of schooling for all social and cultural groups presently recognised as disadvantaged.

CSU's Bachelor of Primary Education Studies presents teaching to preservice teachers as complex intellectual work worthy of sustained critical reflection. In so doing it attempts to develop task-appropriate characteristics such as enjoyment of intellectual challenge; critical reflection on policy, practice and curricula; the formulation of adequate justifiable educational goals and the capacity to choose strategies appropriate for achieving the goals. The focus of the program, therefore, is on teaching as a social, ethical endeavour requiring far more than mere technique to execute it well.

The course also focuses on developing a pride and pleasure in the profession of teaching by emphasising the belief that by involvement in the education of young children, graduates are contributing as purposeful and effective members of society.

Course aims and objectives

The Bachelor of Primary Education Studies aims to:

• demonstrate an entry level understanding of professional teacher practice
• communicate and interact effectively with children and others
• demonstrate an accurate understanding of the way children learn
• understand the characteristics, needs and interests of children
• create for children a positive model of learning in stimulating environments
• develop a commitment to justice and equity, and to treat children accordingly
• enhance an understanding and respect for our cultural heritage, including the particular cultural background of Indigenous and ethnic groups
• evolve a personal philosophy of education based upon a sound body of knowledge of theory and its relationship with practice, and to think reflectively about this relationship
• value the pursuit of scholarly and intellectual endeavours.

Credit

Upon admission, students enrolled in the Bachelor of Primary Education Studies are awarded 176 points of credit for prior qualifications.