SEND and Inclusive Education

A programme that explores the education of children and young people with learning difficulties, disability and other needs. It challenges exclusion, aiming to enable the participation and empowerment of all. 

Skills

Gain the expertise you need to standout in today’s marketplace.

Designed with professionals in mind, the Roehampton SEND and Inclusive Education MA is intended to be a valuable career boost for classroom teachers and other inclusion or SEND professionals.

By focusing on graduating with a professional skillset, you’ll become a confident, agile, independent thinker, with the ability to adapt rapidly to change.

This incorporates;

• Engaging with aspects of theory, policy and practice relevant to international and local contexts.
• With its international profile, the programme brings together those who have significant professional experience working with children and young people with learning difficulties, disabilities, disadvantages or other additional needs, either directly in teaching, support or project work, or as policy-makers, advisory workers or managers.
• The MA draws on different disciplinary traditions and approaches to theory and practice within the field of inclusion, SEN and disability, but is underpinned by rights-based, justice-based and equalities-based principles and a rejection of deficit-based approaches to difference (including the medical model of disability).

Learning

Study a range of modules tailored to your interests and career aspirations.

You will greatly benefit from engaging with the insights, experiences and perspectives of other programme members, from a diverse range of contexts and backgrounds.

The teaching provided on modules is informed by active research and scholarship in the field of inclusion, SEN and disability theory and practice. All lecturers leading modules on the programme have high level specialist qualifications, teaching and leadership experience in the field of education and inclusion.

You’ll shape your studies around your own interests and aspirations, with optional modules including:

• Power in Education and Society: Disclosures of Difference
• Building Communities of Learning for Pupils and Practitioners
• Autism: Principles, Practices and Perspectives
• Social-Emotional Dimensions of Education and Wellbeing

Career

Take the lead in shaping a sustainable future for the education sector.

With a Roehampton MA, you will be prepared to:

• Develop your careers in education practice and leadership: teaching, advisory work, SEND coordination, inclusion management, support work.
• Move into a career in policymaking, implementation and development of inclusion, developing the inclusion and SEND workforce.
• Undertake a doctorate and move into a career in research.