MA Professional Practice and Lifelong Education

Module: 7ED007

Credits: 20

Period: 1

Type: Core

Locations: Walsall Campus

This module aims firstly to engage participants in a critical discussion about how new educational knowledge is created. Secondly, it aims to support the process of educational research via the development of a research proposal for the professional enquiry, the final module of the MA Education award.

Module: 7PC009

Credits: 20

Period: 1

Type: Core

Locations: Walsall Campus

The module encourages and investigates a more playful, risk-taking and creative response to reflective practice. It explicitly draws on students’ previous experiences of reflective practice and invites them to make a number of new connections between earlier reflections and current Masters level study. It invites students to create a patchwork text and to present that ‘text’ as a multimodal representation.

Module: 7ED005

Credits: 20

Period: 1

Type: Core

Locations: Walsall Campus

This module is designed to critically explore the practice of mentoring with in the context of professional development in education and training.

Module: 7PC001

Credits: 20

Period: 1

Type: Core

Locations: Walsall Campus

Sustaining Criticality in Professional Practice is designed to support the continuation of reflective practice in the early years of your development.

Module: 7PC006

Credits: 20

Period: 1

Type: Optional

Locations: Walsall Campus

This module offers the opportunity to explore key socio-cultural issues relating to the acquisition and practice of language and literacy and to read your own language and literacy identities and practices, and those of others, critically and reflexively through theoretical frames. It will look at the ways in which these identities, those we take up and those that may be chosen for us, situate us as learners and teachers within different educational settings and the implications this may have for practice. The module considers the relationship between literacies, languages, identities and pedagogies. It will promote the inclusion of English/ literacy skills development across the curriculum.

Module: 7PC007

Credits: 20

Period: 1

Type: Optional

Locations: Walsall Campus

This module is designed to help students develop an understanding of how professional practice is positioned within a globalised and marketised policy discourse. The impact of policy on lifelong education and professional practice will be explored. A range of theoretical concepts will be introduced to help students to critique policies, strategies and practice within institutional and professional contexts. The module will also provide a framework for conducting a piece of small-scale educational research. After undertaking a literature review students will design and carry out a piece of research linked to their professional practice.

Module: 7ED026

Credits: 60

Period: 2

Type: Core

Locations: Walsall Campus

The Professional Enquiry module engages participants in a systematic and critical enquiry into an area of education related closely to their own professional context and of personal interest. In this context, education is understood to encompass life-long learning and training as well as pedagogic and educative processes taking place within and outside of educational institutions. Participants are expected to engage critically with relevant literature and emphasise contestability in various viewpoints and positions. This small-scale research will include the collection and analysis of primary data. Participants will relate theory to practice and make recommendations based on their findings. Please note: participants enrolled to a named award route must ensure their enquiry is clearly relevant to that route.

Module: 7PC003

Credits: 20

Period: 2

Type: Optional

Locations: Walsall Campus

This module is designed to facilitate students& rsquo; exploration of the different forces at work on practitioners& #39; and managers& #39; identities in lifelong education and professional practice settings.& nbsp;Students will share experiences and be supported to analyse the different (sometimes contradictory) cultural strands evident in their workplace. Theoretical perspectives and readings will assist students to reflect critically on their work environments, enabling them to explore principles and values and empowering them in their roles as managers within their individual professional practice setting.

Module: 7ED006

Credits: 20

Period: 2

Type: Optional

Locations: Walsall Campus

This module is designed to enable the mentor to critically explore the implications of mentoring relationships with emphasis on supporting the reflective practice skills of their mentees.

Module: 7PC002

Credits: 20

Period: 2

Type: Optional

Locations: Walsall Campus

This module is aimed at experienced teachers and practitioners. It is primarily designed for, although not exclusively, those who are actively engaged in the observation process in their workplaces. The key aim of the module is to provoke a critically reflexive approach among participants to the use and impact of lesson observation in their workplaces as well as across the sector as a whole. It encourages participants to reflect on the differing models, contexts and purposes of observation and to draw on a range of theoretical tools in order examine this important area of practice through ‘critical eyes’.

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Why become a student in the Insitute of Education?

You will be taught in our state-of-the-art teaching buildings at Walsall Campus, just a short walk from the heart of the town.

We focus on preparing students for a more enriched career, personally and professionally. Our modules are designed to be flexible enough to allow you to explore what you are interested in.

We are committed to student support, from enrolment to graduation. You will have a personal tutor to support your progression through your award.

We have strong partnerships with regional and national education organisations.

Who will teach you on this course?
All of the staff that teach you on this course have experience within the feild having worked in Further Education and now work in teacher education. You will benefit from the team’s expertise, as they all actively engage in research.

The Institute of Education at the University of Wolverhampton has a strong focus on research and the part it plays in your study experience. All our lecturers are research active (see our profiles on the University web pages) and working on latest developments.

We are committed to student support, from enrolment to graduation. You will have a personal tutor to support your progression through your award.

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At the end of this course you the student, will be able to demonstrate: