Creative Arts Education
Postgraduate
Online
Description
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Type
Postgraduate
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Methodology
Online
Our MA Creative Arts Education course is designed for those who wish to return to the study of education, with a view to revisit topics covered previously or to address new issues that have emerged as a result of changes in the creative arts education landscape.
To apply for this course you must be working in a teaching or supporting learning content for a minimum of one day a week across each year.
About this course
This course is delivered in two parts, between September and April on Saturdays (10:00am - 5:00pm) at our Epsom campus. Indicative attendance requirements are as follows:
Part 1: Critical issues - requires attendance every other week
Part 1: Investigating pedagogy - requires attendance at four all-day sessions and some tutorials throughout the unit
Part 2: Researching pedagogy - requires attendance at all day sessions and tutorials every other week for the first 15 weeks, and then intermittently for tutorials if required
Part 2: Reflective account of practice - requires attendance on three days across the unit.
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Subjects
- Teaching
Course programme
- Part 1
- Part 2
Our MA in Creative Arts Education is taught in two parts:
Part 1 has two 15-week units in September - January, and January - April.
- View the programme specification for 2016 entry
- View the summary specification for 2017 entry
Please note, syllabus content indicated is provided as a guide. The content of the course may be subject to change.
Course stages-
Critical Issues in Creative Arts Education
This unit examines a range of issues such as:
- Identity of Further Education (FE) or Higher Education (HE) professionals
- Educational and social theories
- The purpose of assessment and educational evaluation
- Theories of inclusive education
- Digital pedagogies
- Educational leadership
- International pedagogy in creative arts. -
Investigating Pedagogy in the Creative Arts
This unit examines:
- Identifying and scrutinising a problem
- Undertaking a literature review
- Finding and justifying appropriate methodology and methods
- Meeting requirements for research ethics
- Developing a robust research design
- Considering validity and reliability in undertaking the investigation
- Reporting the results of the investigation.
Our MA in Creative Arts Education is taught in two parts:
Part 2 has one 22-week unit (September - February) and one seven-week unit (March - April).
- View the programme specification for 2016 entry
- View the summary specification for 2017 entry
Please note, syllabus content indicated is provided as a guide. The content of the course may be subject to change.
Course stages-
Researching Pedagogy in the Creative Arts
This unit examines:
- Setting the parameters of the research
- Interrogating the literature
- Explaining choice of methodology and methods
- Exploring requirements for research ethics
- Establishing a theoretical framework
- Ensuring validity and reliability in undertaking the investigation
- Analysing and reporting the results of the investigation. -
Reflective Account of Professional Pedagogic Practice
This unit examines:
- Own values, knowledge and understanding in relation to creative arts pedagogy/professional supporting learning practice
- Own contribution to successful student learning
- Effective use of scholarship and research evidence in support of learning
- Own strength and development needs, in relation to the HEA professional values
- Analysis of creative arts aspects of pedagogy/professional supporting learning practice
- Evaluating own role in managing, mentoring, supervising or supporting others
- Relevant professional standards for teaching and supporting learning in FE/HE contexts.
- View the programme specification for 2016 entry
- View the summary specification for 2017 entry
Please note, syllabus content indicated is provided as a guide. The content of the course may be subject to change.
Course stages
- View the programme specification for 2016 entry
- View the summary specification for 2017 entry
Please note, syllabus content indicated is provided as a guide. The content of the course may be subject to change.
Course stagesCreative Arts Education