Education and Psychology

Education and Psychology is a combination that addresses two of the most important questions any society faces: how do people learn, and what psychological processes underpin that learning? Education as a discipline examines teaching, schooling, policy and the social contexts that shape educational experience, developing your understanding of how learning is facilitated across different settings and for different learners. Psychology investigates the cognitive and neurological processes that underpin thinking, reasoning, memory and language, building a scientific account of how the mind works.

Studied together, they give you both the theoretical understanding and the applied perspective needed to think seriously about how people develop and how educational systems can support that development more effectively.

At Swansea University this three-year full-time degree explores a wide range of education-focused topics including education policy, teaching and learning, wellbeing, child development, additional learning needs, equality and social justice, and digital education, alongside the psychological and neuroscientific processes that underpin cognition and behaviour. You will engage with the evidence base for effective educational practice and develop your ability to apply psychological understanding to educational questions in both theoretical and practical terms.

Graduates from Education and Psychology degrees go on to careers in teaching, educational support, school counselling and pastoral care, educational psychology preparation, youth work and community education. Many use the degree as a platform for further training as qualified teachers, educational psychologists or school counsellors, for which postgraduate qualifications are required. Others find roles in educational research, children's services, local government and policy, where the combination of educational and psychological knowledge is genuinely valuable.

The degree also provides a strong foundation for postgraduate study in education, developmental psychology, educational psychology or applied psychology.