BEd (intermediate Phase Teaching) With Specialisation in Life Skills and Social Science Teaching | Bachelor's degree | Teaching & Education | On Campus | 4 years | The University of the Free State | South Africa

The faculty educates teachers in several disciplines. Our primary role is to prepare pre-service teachers for their work in schools, ensuring that they have a strong disciplinary base for their professional work. A second major role is the teaching of in-service educators. The work is informed by and closely related to our research and community outreach. We bring to our work a keen interest in the local context, using it as an opportunity for exploring issues that are universal in education. We work closely with schools and other sites of education and attempt to keep theory and practice in dialogue with one another. The faculty offers a wide range of non-selection undergraduate certificates, diplomas, and degrees, as well as postgraduate certificates, honours, master’s, and doctoral study programs. Students in our undergraduate Bachelor of Education (BEd) degree (offered in Pre-school and Foundation, Intermediate, Senior, and FET phases) are preparing to be teachers in primary and secondary schools. The key teaching and learning tenet of the program is reflection, with an emphasis on teaching prospective teachers about teaching, as opposed to teaching them only how to teach.