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Part Time
September
£4,125 or £1375 per 30 credit module
Whilst other costs are minimal, students should expect to purchase relevant textbooks and other study related materials. It is not anticipated that these costs would exceed approximately £100 per year.
Rochdale Road Campus
Face-to-face via Lectures, Seminars and Tutorials. Teaching is via Saturday day schools (3 per module).
MA Education (Teaching & Learning)
University of Huddersfield
This course will focus on developing your professional knowledge and understanding of practice related to your own context in formal education. It will help you to understand how a teacher’s role is constructed, what teacher identities are and how these shape the role of teachers. You will have the opportunity to gain research skills and reflective awareness.
Year 1 Modules
Exploring Teaching & Learning (30) You will undertake a critical analysis of the concepts of curriculum and teacher professionalism within society. There will be consideration of what makes effective teaching and learning using relevant educational research
Mentoring & Coaching (30) You will explore the role of mentoring and coaching via a critical analysis of the use of mentoring and coaching programmes as a personal and development intervention and examine issues linked to implementing and managing mentoring/coaching schemes, the role of mentors and/or coaches, the strategies that could be used within a mentoring and/or coaching session and the ethical issues governing them.
Methods of Enquiry (30) This module develops and deepens your knowledge and understanding of research methods, it considers some of the theories, methods and implication of research and the complex role of researchers.
Year 2 Modules
Special Educational Needs & Disability (30) You will study changing cultural and historical attitudes to disability including, for example, medical intervention from the early part of the 20th century and more recent social changes including the disability rights, human rights and equality, and models of health and disability.
Dissertation (60) This module will help you design and develop a piece of individual research into a current work-related or contemporary issue or problem that is related to your area of your route specialism.
The course assessment is via course work. The assessment on the course allows you to demonstrate your practical knowledge and skills alongside developing your critical and theoretical understanding of the subject.
There is no placement related to this course and we welcome applications from people within different educational settings.
Graduates often progress into roles such as HE lecturers or managers. Many also choose to continue to postgraduate study in Doctoral research.
You should have an honours degree in a relevant subject at 2:2 or above, or a professional equivalent.