Education MA

**Please check the Sheffield Hallam University website for the latest information.** <br/><br/>**Course summary**<br/><br/><br/>- Focus your studies on your interests including any age of education.<br/><br/><br/>- Explore contemporary debates, comparative understandings of education and innovative practice across a range of educational sectors.<br/><br/><br/>- Develop employability skills that link closely to your education specialism and career aims.<br/><br/><br/>The MA Education course is designed to extend your critical understanding of education in its broadest sense.<br/><br/>**How you learn**<br/><br/>All our courses are designed around a set of key principles based on engaging you with the world, collaborating with others, challenging you to think in new ways, and providing you with a supportive environment in which you can thrive.<br/><br/>Our course philosophy is that a supportive and inclusive learning environment is the key driver of all good educational experience. The way the course is delivered includes a range of activities, to inform you of key theoretical components, but also to facilitate independent thought and the development of critical enquiry.<br/><br/>You learn through:<br/><br/><br/>- in-class discussion and debate<br/><br/><br/>- group tasks<br/><br/><br/>- individual projects<br/><br/><br/>- tasks utilising digital platforms<br/><br/><br/>- case study analysis<br/><br/><br/>**Work placements**<br/><br/>The skills you gain on this course will be relevant to your personal development and career progression in a range of roles in education in both formal and non-formal settings. We offer many and varied placement opportunities for you as part of the course - examples of these include: teaching and student support in higher education; policy research in education, childhood and inclusion, teaching EAL and TESOL, support services for disabled students.<br/><br/>**Future careers**<br/><br/>This course offers you flexible professional and personal development opportunities. It is ideal if you are a teacher, either experienced or recently qualified, or another educational practitioner working in an educational setting. It is also well suited to those in a role supporting some aspect of learning, or an education care role.<br/><br/>However, we also welcome students with an interest in education; there is not a requirement for professional experience. Many students progress to our masters course from undergraduate courses in a related discipline or have a specific interest in education that they would like to pursue.