ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book encourages its readers to think deeply about what it means to be a student of education. Education Studies, at almost 25 years old, is a maturing UK university subject. In that quarter century, the subject has become a well-established and popular choice for UK-based and international undergraduate students, having grown from the theory for teacher training to become a diverse subject area reflecting the varied institutional contexts in which it is taught and mixture of academic disciplines at its heart. The book ends with a section called ‘the personal and professional’, which will help readers to see themselves in their studies and to understand how the transition to the graduate workplace will involve drawing on personal, academic and professional experience and skills that courses in education studies are often adept at highlighting.
