Education - MA

A key theme embedded in this master’s degree is social justice. This course is aligned with our Education for Social Justice (ESJ) strategy to ensure equity in our curriculum practice.

Our modules have been developed to broaden the knowledge and meaning of the term ‘education’, as well as its purpose from being a ‘product’ to understanding how the curriculum is managed and led. You’ll also explore its influence on children’s learning, assessment and life chances. This degree has five core 20 credit modules:

Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment
Curriculum Leadership
Critical Theory and Education
Research Methods in Education
Education Dissertation
Specialist option modules allow you to explore subjects that are of particular interest to you in more detail, such as:

Applying Learning Technologies
Issues in Language Learning: An Intercultural Approach
Reflective Practice
Social Justice Education
Web-based Learning and Teaching
Understanding the Language Classroom
If you have a particular interest in studying women abuse, you are also able to choose from the following option modules:

Sexual Violence: Causes, Consequences and Interventions
Violence against Women: Issues, Research and Policy
If there’s a specific topic you’d like to study in more detail that does not appear here, you can choose an alternative education-focused topic in agreement with a subject supervisor.

This course can be completed as a postgraduate diploma by taking four core modules and two optional modules. You could also choose to study for a postgraduate certificate in education by choosing to study the following three core modules: Critical Theory and Education; Curriculum Leadership; Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment.