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The MA Education programme is designed for practising teachers, educators and others with a personal or professional interest in the field of education. The programme aims to provide opportunities for engagement with the key theories, concepts and ideas in education. The structure of the programme is flexible enough to meet the needs of those seeking to develop a more academic understanding of the field and those aspiring to develop their practise through critical reflection. The programme will help practitioners to adopt best practise, promote innovation and manage change.
The modules available allow teachers, educators and others to critically analyse and respond to educational and social issues within the context of theory, research and practice. The programme is designed to meet both the academic and professional needs of those teaching, coaching, managing and leading in all sectors of education.
By studying at Liverpool Hope University, you will be joining an academic community with a strong record in educational research. You will study in a supportive learning environment and be encouraged to develop your own research profile.
For more information about the modules you would study please see Curriculum.
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Normally a First Class or Upper Second Class Honours Degree in a relevant discipline.
Please note that a satisfactory Enhanced Disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service (formally the Criminal Records Bureau – CRB) is required for students where they are required to visit settings other than their own.
This degree is available as a full time course for all international students. For students whose first language is not English there is a language requirement of IELTS 6.5 overall (reading 6, writing 6), TOEFL ibt 87, or...
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<h2>Curriculum</h2>
<p>The full Masters award requires you to gain 180 credits, including a dissertation. The curriculum is constructed from 60-credit ‘Blocks’ of provision, from which students will choose two of the combinations permitted. Each 60-credit Block comprises either two 30-credit or four 15-credit modules.</p>
<p><strong>Pedagogy: Theory and Practice block</strong></p>
<p>Term 1</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Learning, Teaching and Assessment (30 credits)</span></p>
<p>This module aims to develop participants’ understanding of a range of learning, teaching and assessment strategies which promote learners’ progress in order that all can achieve their full potential. They will be helped to develop self-direction and originality in problem-solving in relation to the module content, and act autonomously in planning and implementing change in their educational setting, taking account of current thinking and literature in related areas.</p>
<p>Term 2</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Curriculum Theory & development (30 credits)</span></p>
<p>This module aims to support development of subject knowledge in the participant’s subject discipline or age phase specialism. It is focused on contribution to curriculum development within the educational setting. Participants will be guided in critiquing a range of guidance and policy documents relevant to practice with a view to identifying the key concepts and perspectives on which they are based and how they relate to and influence practice.</p>
<p><strong>Disciplines of Education</strong></p>
<p>Term 1<br> <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Core Philosophers of Education (15 credits)</span></p>
<p>This module examines the development of philosophy of education from a historical perspective. The approach taken in this module is similar to that of 'history of ideas' modules in philosophy courses where a range of historical figures from philosophy of education will be discussed. Students will engage with historical figures such as Plato, Hegel, Rousseau, Buber, Dewey and more modern thinkers such as Arendt and Freire. In this module students will critically engage with these philosopher's views on education. </p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">History of British Education 1750 to the Present Day (15 credits)</span></p>
<p>This module explores the political, social and cultural factors that have helped shape reform processes in British education (primary, secondary and university-level) since the late 18<sup>th</sup> century. Throughout this module, seminars will focus on interactions between pupils, students, teachers, activists and state institutions in attempts to alter systems of education as well as forms of teaching and learning. In particular, students will have the opportunity to explore how significant social, economic and political shifts such as the industrial revolution, the introduction of universal suffrage and the creation of the welfare state shaped attempts to transform education in the United Kingdom over the last 250 years.</p>
<p>Term 2</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Educational Inequalities in the Global Age (15 credits)</span></p>
<p>This module examines education and inequality in a global age. This module will look at the role education plays in reinforcing and/or equalising societal hierarchies with a particular focus on social class, gender and ethnicity/race. The impact of wider social developments, such as marketisation of education and globalisation will be examined. The theories taught on this module will include critical and emancipatory theories, drawing on the work of sociologists such as Pierre Bourdieu and Basil Bernstein, as well as approaches of feminist and critical race theory. Drawing on these theories, students will analyse and evaluate the potential of education for social justice. </p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Psychology of Education (15 credits)</span></p>
<p>The module will explore contemporary theoretical approaches within developmental psychology. It will be covering biological, cognitive, social cognitive, neuro-cognitive, social and emotional areas development. The module will also be both research informed with a specific focus on the inter-relationships with classic and contemporary research paradigms within early and mid-childhood development and current theorising. A range of research outcomes relating to deep critical awareness of current theoretical and methodological advances in developmental psychology and how these impact on current views of child development will be central to this module.</p>
<p><br>After completion of the taught phase (when both Blocks are completed and 120 credits has been successfully gained) then students will begin the research phase, whereby they will study a Research Methods module and then embark on a Dissertation that synthesises the two Blocks that they have studied. </p>
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