Early Years Education (Online) MA
Postgraduate
In London
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Description
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Type
Postgraduate
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Location
London
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Duration
2 Years
The Early Years Education (Online) MA offers exceptional career development opportunities for early childhood practitioners and other professionals worldwide. This new programme builds upon the success of our established campus-based Early Years Education MA programme.
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About this course
This is a new programme and no information on graduate destinations is therefore available. Graduates of the campus-based Early Years Education MA are currently working as advisers to local and national governments; nursery, children’s centre and primary school senior leaders; further and higher education tutors; early years doctoral and funded researchers.
A minimum of an upper second-class Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a relevant subject. Appropriate experience of working with young children is desirable. Applications will be considered on a case-by-case basis.
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Subjects
- Early Years
- Professional development
- Professional
- Development
- Literature
- Methodology
- Methodology module
- Methodology and Statistics
- Small-scale research
- Dissertation
Course programme
This Master's degree offers students the opportunity to enhance their professional development and understanding of national and global issues in early learning, early years policy and curricula; critically evaluate a range of literature about young children’s learning and best practice in early education; develop their understanding of research methodology with and about young children; conduct their own small-scale research project in a setting of their own choice.
Students can expect to study an average of 300 hours per 30-credit module and 600 hours for the Dissertation. The number of weekly study hours can vary during the programme. As a general guide, students following the suggested 2-year programme structure can expect to study 7-14 hours per week and 1-2 hours per day.
Students undertake modules to the value of 180 credits.
The programme consists of four core modules (120 credits) and a dissertation (60 credits).
Core modules- Contemporary Issues in the Early Years
- Early Childhood Education
- Leadership in Early Childhood Education
- Researching Early Years Education
There are no optional modules for this programme.
Dissertation/reportAll students undertake an independent research project which culminates in a dissertation of 20,000 words.
Teaching and learningThe programme is delivered through online sessions based on Moodle, our virtual learning environment. Assessment is by 5,000-word coursework assignments and a 20,000-word dissertation.
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Early Years Education (Online) MA