Education Leadership MA

The University of Cumbria’s MA Education Leadership provides excellent opportunities for colleagues in both local and international contexts to gain an award at Masters level in just one year. Modules are designed to take account of the your own educational experience and background. Face to face and full time allows you to work within a focused and dynamic academic community on campus. Modules draw on current international research and the resources available to you reflect a wide range of educational research both in the UK and in an international context. This programme will provide professionals with the theoretical basis of education leadership, to inform their practice and understanding of the role of effective leadership as a catalyst for social change. Options at the stage of dissertation take account of the different interests and educational roles and contexts that you aim to work in when you graduate.<br/><br/>**Course Overview**<br/>Our full-time MA Education Leadership is designed to help you gain the mastery you need, in terms of knowledge, understanding and skills in order to respond effectively to the changes and challenges in the world of education today. It also provides a choice of themes for study and an approach to extend and develop your educational leadership knowledge, skills and interests for career development.<br/><br/>In this MA, you will be able to accumulate credit through the successful completion of modules which are geared to your needs and appropriate to your stage in terms of career and interests. It provides an opportunity to consider theory and practice in education through a wide range of professional lenses; including teacher, lecturer, governance, leadership and management.<br/><br/>**On this course you will...**<br/>- Join an established, world-class education department.<br/><br/><br/>- Be guided by tutors who are experts in their field.<br/><br/><br/>- Enjoy an academic community that has a reputation for excellence.<br/><br/><br/>- Authentic and purposeful assessment.<br/><br/><br/>- Completion of a dynamic, research informed MA Education Leadership in just one year.<br/><br/><br/>**What you will learn**<br/>This is an internationally recognised one-year advanced study masters degree (QAA, 2020). It consists of three semesters (36 weeks), with four shorter 30 credit modules and one longer 60 credit dissertation module. Collaboratively, students critically evaluate current research, scholarship and practice to systematically address a range of complex issues in education leadership. They critically engage with this complexity, develop skills and knowledge in relation to quality of education, communicate ideas and share findings.<br/><br/>This MA is specifically designed to support each student’s professional development and enrich their contribution or accelerate career development in their chosen leadership context. Learners on this programme demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of research in a chosen field of education leadership, enhancing their capacity to show originality in the application of knowledge and practical understanding.<br/><br/>This MA is designed to run as full-time face-to-face experience. We seek to create a stimulating and innovative community of learning that is facilitated by an expert tutor team. You will experience a learning environment that is well equipped, flexible, and stimulating. This provision will also allow you to access material and appropriate learning activities on programme and module virtual learning environments.<br/><br/>**Modules**<br/>- Theories of Education Leadership<br/><br/><br/>- Education Policy<br/><br/><br/>- Leading Advanced Professional Learning<br/><br/><br/>- Challenging Disadvantage<br/><br/><br/>- Critical Analysis of Theory and Practice <br/>