Education MA

**Overview**<br/><br/>As a teacher, education professional or recent graduate you can take this opportunity to enhance your practice by reflecting on your own personal and professional experiences and developing further skills, knowledge and understanding of aspects of specific interest.<br/><br/>This course is available for full-time and part-time study. If you choose the full-time route, the course has a distinct international and comparative perspective, while the part-time option features optional additional modules relating to teacher-led research, mathematics and early years.<br/><br/>**Course Details**<br/><br/>Throughout the course we encourage you to engage with other students and professional colleagues in order to develop critical approaches to your study of education and your practical teaching.<br/><br/>The MA comprises of modules that can be studied one by one. A key element of many modules is the provision for ‘shared enquiry’, enabling you to engage with other professional colleagues and researchers in developing critical approaches to enquiry within practical education (and education-related) contexts.<br/><br/>There is a full time pathway through this MA. This is particularly targeted at international students and has a strong international and comparative flavour, although UK students are very welcome to apply. It consists of four compulsory modules and a thesis.<br/><br/>The four modules that must be taken on the full-time pathway are:<br/><br/>School and Classroom Cultures<br/> Educational Leadership<br/> International Perspectives on Education<br/> Research methods<br/><br/>There are also a range of modules which enable teachers to engage with reflective, teacher-led research.