Education (Internationalisation) MA

Master

In Huddersfield

£ 6,500 VAT inc.

Description

  • Type

    Master

  • Location

    Huddersfield

  • Duration

    1 Year

On this course you’ll have the opportunity to develop an understanding of critical reflection and how to employ independent learning strategies to enable you to evaluate and inform your professional practice.You’ll also develop and deepen your knowledge and understanding of educational research and be able be able to use these skills in researching an aspect of the internationalisation of education for your dissertation.

A further key component is the ability to exchange and share learning with and from others; you’ll have ample opportunities to work with students from a wide range of disciplines and organisations.

The course is tailored around you.You can expand on your teaching and learning focus by choosing from a range of options to match your role, experience or organisation to help you progress as an informed, reflective and inspirational practitioner.

You’ll be taught by an outstanding team of teachers, and will have access to our extensive professional and academic network which feeds directly into course design and delivery and to excellent facilities and specialist equipment.

Facilities

Location

Start date

Huddersfield (West Yorkshire)
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Queensgate, HD1 3DH

Start date

On request

About this course

On this course you’ll explore the increasingly international nature of higher education. You’ll analyse the impact of globalisation on education policy and examine the dominant patterns of education that have arisen in response to the pressures of globalisation and global institutions.You’ll have the opportunity to examine the concept of the global knowledge economy and how it is affecting the international approach to higher education and evaluate the place of higher education in economic development.

This MA course provides you with a broad range of module options allowing you the opportunity to tailor the programme to suit your current role and/or future career ambitions. Successful study at this level supports you in your current role, helps give you the confidence to tackle a wide range of workplace challenges and supports you in taking advantage of wider promotional and developmental opportunities.

The course offers a recognised qualification, a broadening of horizons and a chance to pursue particular areas of interest.

You should have an honours degree in a relevant subject at 2:2 or above, or a professional equivalent.

The University will determine whether a degree can be recognised as UK equivalent.

International students whose first language is not English are expected to have IELTS level 6.0 with no element below 5.5 or equivalent.

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Subjects

  • Coaching
  • Mentoring
  • Statistics
  • Early Childhood Education
  • Teaching
  • Design
  • Disability
  • Learning and Development
  • International
  • Public

Course programme

Core module:

Education Society and Development

This module helps you examine the dominant patterns of education that have arisen in response to the pressures of globalisation and global institutions. You'll evaluate how the dominant (neo-liberal) systems are affecting education and leading to an increased focus on education as a preparation for the workplace. The module will help you understand the knowledge economy and global competition and the resulting policy formulation related to education, training and human resource development.

Methods of Enquiry

This module will develop and deepen your knowledge and understanding of research methods, in both academic and professional contexts. It considers some of the theories, methods and implication of research and the complex role of researchers and of practitioner-researchers. You'll explore a range of methods of enquiry in order to enable you to understand the significance and ethics of research.

Dissertation

This module seeks to deepen your knowledge and understanding of educational research. You'll learn about traditions of educational research; positivism, interpretism and action research and the strengths and challenges of carrying out research in these traditions. This module provides you the opportunity to carry out a piece of research based on a contemporary or work-related issue or problem.

Option modules:

In addition you choose two modules from the list below which may include –

Managing Learning and Development in Organisations

This module will help you to develop an understanding of the links between learning and development, organisation goals and broader human resource policies and practice in a variety of organisational contexts. You'll explore how the learning and development agenda can be promoted by examining learning & development policies, roles, functions, as well as strategies, methods and techniques for establishing learning and development needs.

International Approaches to Early Childhood Education

The module will help you to reflect on a range of international perspectives on early childhood education. It will emphasise the relationship between theoretical perspectives and aspects of practice in early childhood education. You'll critically engage with debates about early childhood education and will focus on the education of children in a range of settings.

Comparative Approaches to Learning

This module will help you explore the increasingly international nature of education. You'll examine different approaches to education and the ways different cultures define the key concepts of education. The module will help you to understand international perspectives on what is valuable knowledge and how it is learned. You'll explore how culture impacts on education, how it affects the structures and processes that take place in classrooms and you will use this knowledge to consider how this affects learners and ideas that travel across cultural boundaries.

Mentoring and Coaching

This module will help you to explore the role of mentoring and coaching. You'll have the opportunity to examine issues linked to implementing and managing mentoring/coaching schemes, the role of mentors and/or coaches, the strategies that could be used within a mentoring and/or coaching relationship and the ethical issues governing them.

Exploring Teaching and Learning

This module will develop your understanding of the ideas of curriculum: what is taught, how it is taught and why it is taught. You'll explore elements of the hidden curriculum, including hierarchy, power, values, confidence, stereotypes and labelling. The module will also help you to understand how a teachers’ role is constructed. What are teacher identities and how do these shape the role of teachers? Is teaching a professional activity? What are the ideas around this aspect? What is a reflexive/reflective teacher and how does this enhance professional development. You'll also consider some learning theories and their practical application within your setting.

Developing Effective Leadership

This module will provide an opportunity to consider and reflect upon leadership within an organisational setting. You'll actively engage with such concepts as the role of the leader, how that role links to and differs from management and how leaders need to be developed within their organisations. The module will also help you to understand concepts of vision, values, culture, strategic planning, modelling behaviours and developiment of organisations and individuals.

Critical Social Policy in Education and Public Services

This module will help you examine the historical, political and legislative developments leading to current national and local policy agendas relevant to those working in education and other public services. Emphasis will be placed on the relationship between theoretical perspectives and aspects of practice in a range of contexts such as early years, youth work, teaching, learning and development, health care, community work, family support and social care.

Education, Extremism and Community Cohesion

This module will enable you to critically examine how policy approaches to countering extremism and promoting community cohesion have addressed and impacted on policy and practice within various educational sectors; The module will enable theoretical analysis of the various meaning/s of these concepts and of how they have been framed by policy and translated into educational practice.

Management in Professional Practice

This module critically explores theories of management and organisation, the impact of political and economic changes on management practices, managing collaboration and managing change in organisations. You'll critically explore approaches to managing oneself, managing others and managing public service and voluntary sector organisations alongside a systematic understanding of the practical management skills required of a professional role in the public and voluntary sector.

Special Educational Needs and Disability: Evaluating Policy and Practice

In this module you'll study changing cultural and historical attitudes to disability including, medical intervention from the early part of the 20th century and more recent social changes that encompasses the disability rights, human rights and equality, and models of health and disability. You'll explore how our understanding of SEND has developed, and the impact of this on our understanding of inclusion, as well as investigate how the needs arising from specific SEND conditions are culturally, socially and historically defined, and what this means for educational practice.

Understanding Educational Statistics

This module is an introduction to how statistics relevant to professionals working in educational settings can be identified and analysed. You'll aim to explore techniques for descriptive analysis and summary of secondary datasets and will have the opportunity to carry out some basic statistical modelling. This module is designed for those who have not studied statistics before, the focus will be on how to examine and comprehend pre-existing datasets.

Current Practice in Vocational Education and Training

This module aims to consider the practice of VET from an international perspective and will encourage you to assess the impact of globalisation on national VET policy. You'll have the opportunity to explore philosophical stances on VET, including work-based learning, and how these shape policy.

Understanding E-Learning

You will be introduced to a range of ICT tools and techniques for innovation in teaching and learning. Emphasis is placed on the selection of approaches appropriate to the learners’ needs. Alongside the practical aspects of using these tools you will consider how they can transform learning and develop a deeper, theoretical and analytical understanding. You'll also explore current debates in the field of e-learning.

E-Tutoring

This module will help you to develop understanding and skills in the area of online tutoring, facilitation, and in the design, planning and implementation of e-learning and blended learning courses.

Current Practice in Vocational Education and Training

This module aims to consider the practice of VET from an international perspective and will encourage you to assess the impact of globalisation on national VET policy. You'll have the opportunity to explore philosophical stances on VET, including work-based learning, and how these shape policy.

Informal Education, Employability and Entrepreneurship

In this module you'll be encouraged to develop a systematic understanding of the personal, professional and practical skills which support informal education, volunteering, employability, enterprise and entrepreneurship. Alongside this you'll have the opportunity to critically explore theories of informal education and the influence of social and economic policy including key concepts such as intrapreneurship, citizenship, social enterprise, innovation and a knowledge-based economy.

Education (Internationalisation) MA

£ 6,500 VAT inc.