This article argues that, in the light of the forthcoming QAA reviews of education studies programmes in 2000-2001, there is a need to initiate discussion regarding the nature of education studies as an academic eld of study in its own right. We argue here that education studies at King Alfred's College, Winchester, provides a model of such a programme but one which QAA in their descriptors of the subject do not easily recognise. We argue that the most signi cant feature of education studies at undergraduate level is that, perhaps alone of all degree courses, it has as part of its subject matter critical examination of what it is to be 'educational'. Our claim for our own programme is that it is not just about education but is structured around a model of development and learning, based on the German idealism of Kant and Hegel, and is in itself an 'educational' experience. In conclusion, we criticise those ITE providers who do not recognise education studies de ned in this way as a relevant preparation for PGCE training.
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