Education MA

This programme is designed for participants across the world, and explores the global forces that influence education, encouraging students to relate their learning to their contexts. The MA in Education's uniquely diverse student body comes together in the core modules for town-hall style lectures and debate and divides into smaller groups to study optional modules alongside students from other programmes.

Students undertake modules to the value of 180 credits.

The programme consists of two core modules (60 credits), two optional modules (60 credits) and a dissertation (60 credits).

• What is Education?
• Understanding Research

Students choose from over 25 modules - a selection of modules is listed below.

• Critical Perspectives on Teaching and Learning
• Curriculum, Policy and Practice
• Sociology of Education
• Philosophy of Education: Values, Aims and Society
• Assessment: Issues and Practice
• Education and Development in Asia
• Gender, Sexuality and Education
• Education, Ethics and Imagination in a Globalising World
• International Perspectives on Education Reform: Curriculum and Assessment
• Design and Use of Technologies for Education
• Assessment for Learning
• Contemporary Issues and Debates in Primary Education
• Rights and Education
• Teaching Controversial Issues
• Education Traditions and Systems in Europe
• Shakespeare in Education
• Contemporary Issues in English Education
• Digital Technologies for Mathematical Learning
• Understanding Mathematics Education
• Philosophy of Education: Knowledge, Mind and Understanding

All students submit a written dissertation.

Modules are available as distance learning, face-to-face or mixed-mode. (Please note, some modules are only available in one mode.) The programme is flexible, so you can take one or two modules a year, or maybe more, and spread your studies out as you see fit.