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Study Details: 12 months full-time
The Masters course in Education Studies introduces the most important questions and problems by which the discipline of education studies is characterised, along with the methodologies and methods used to answer those questions. In addition to the core modules designed to give you a solid foundation for understanding educational processes, you'll have the flexibility to choose a pair of modules from a range of specialist classes to meet your personal and professional needs. This includes a pair of work-based learning modules where you can explore how learning works, components of effective teaching and encourage professional learning through practitioner inquiry.
Education Studies is a discipline in its own right. While it draws on insights from different disciplines, such as psychology, sociology, philosophy, political studies and international relations, economics and business studies, it entertains a very specific perspective on the world.
First-class or second-class Honours degree (or international equivalent).
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The MSc Education Studies is designed for people who wish to explore a diverse range of issues and perspectives that make up education. The course prepares for professional careers which are dependent on a thorough and critical understanding of educational processes in their cultural context and the ways in which they contribute to the formation of the individual person.
As such, it addresses educational and formational processes not only with regard to formal education, i.e. schooling, but is concerned with all forms of education, that is: with all processes where the learning and (trans)formation of a person is initiated, guided, or supported.
The degree is not a teaching qualification but can enhance career opportunities in the broader field of education. It supports careers in all cultural fields where people are engaged in learning and are aspiring to some sort of personal transformation, eg:
museums
galleries
the arts
publishing houses
youth work
sports clubs
all institutions involved with professional learning and training
Core modules:
Globalisation, Society & Education Policy
Thinking about education
Frameworks for Understanding Learning
Research Methods & Reasoning
Dissertation
Optional modules:
Educational Leadership for the 21st Century
Developing as a Leader of Change
Education & Self-Formation in Cultural Contexts
Philosophy of Technology and Education
Putting Theory into Practice
Professionalism and Professional learning
Digital Media for Learning
How Teachers Learn
Contemporary Contexts for Teacher Learning & Teachers' Work
Inclusive Pedagogy
Language Learning in a Multilingual World
Alternative Education
Education & Self-Formation in Cultural Contexts
Sociology of Education
Health and Wellbeing: Policy Practice and Pedagogy
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