Education - MA

Why study this course?

This Education MA degree is designed to provide you with a broad range of knowledge and skills within the field of education. Our programme will provide you with opportunities to develop and enhance your professional skills and understanding so that you can progress within or embark on a career in the sector.

This course will enable you to critically analyse any education system and the social circumstances within which it operates. As such, the programme will equip you to look at the institutions and processes of education from a novel perspective. This education course will equip you with a repertoire of academic and professional skills to examine existing educational provisions and identify key areas for change and development.

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This course aims to introduce you to key academic and professional debates within the field, helping you to further develop your professional voice and standpoint. Upon successful completion of this course, we hope that you will feel excited to join or return to the field and intellectually empowered to initiate change.

A key theme embedded in this master’s degree is social justice. This course is aligned with our Education for Social Justice (ESJ) strategy to ensure equity in our curriculum practice.

Our modules have been developed to broaden the knowledge and meaning of the term ‘education’, as well as its purpose from being a ‘product’ to understanding how the curriculum is always a selection from the existing body of knowledge and represents the deeply held beliefs of it's architects. You’ll also explore its influence on children’s learning, assessment and life chances.

This degree has four core 20-credit modules and a 60-credit dissertation:

• Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment
• Curriculum Leadership
• Critical Theory and Education
• Research Methods in Education
• Education Dissertation

Specialist option modules allow you to explore two further subjects that are of particular interest to you in more detail, such as:

• Social Justice Education
• Issues in Language Learning: An Intercultural Approach
• Understanding the Language Classroom
• The Multilingual Classroom
• Identity and Self in the Early Years
• Critical Discourses in Early Childhood

This course can be completed as a postgraduate diploma by taking four core modules and two optional modules. You could also choose to study for a postgraduate certificate in education by choosing to study the following three core modules: Critical Theory and Education; Curriculum Leadership; Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment.

We welcome applications from prospective UK and International students and if you already hold a relevant PGCE teacher qualification in Primary, Secondary, further education etc or have taken further training qualifications in your role such as National Professional Qualifications, you may be able to apply for credit and study fewer modules to complete this MA. Contact Claire Bradshaw, Head of the Education Subject Area to discuss further.