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Education and Social Justice Postgraduate Diploma

Education and Social Justice Postgraduate Diploma

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Full time | Birkbeck, University of London | 1 year | OCT-24

Study mode

Full time

Duration

1 year

Start date

OCT-24

Key information
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Qualification type

Postgraduate Diploma

Subject areas

Social Sciences Education Studies

Course type

Taught

Course Summary

COURSE OVERVIEW

What are the effects of different social and political perspectives on the role of education? How does social exclusion arise?

This postgraduate programme in education and social justice provides you with well-grounded theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of education and social justice, as well as the opportunity for a comprehensive and critical analysis of literature on education, globalisation, power and resistances.

You will assess how historical perspectives explain today's educational conditions and critically examine the extent to which globalisation affects educational development.

A significant part of this course involves conducting independent research in a field of education and social justice, where you will distinguish between qualitative and quantitative research methodologies.

We offer this course as a Master's, Postgraduate Diploma and Postgraduate Certificate. For the Diploma and Certificate you study fewer modules and do not complete a dissertation.

CAREERS AND EMPLOYABILITY

You will find education and social justice graduates in the following kinds of roles:

education health and social care

social research

social policy

civil service

international development and human rights

youth and community work

the cultural industries

Modules

The module critically examines education and learning as a contested field within changing global economies and contexts. Students will be enabled to distinguish between different social and political perspectives on the role of education for change within contrasting national milieux, over time. One key aim is that the learner understands the ways in which the skills issue has been used in discourse around the need for education as an economic lever in development scenarios in late 20th and 21st century states. Additionally, the countervailing arguments around the self-sufficiency of groups purposefully excluded and neglected in different contexts will be examined. The intention is to enable the student to be capable of demonstrating a breadth of interpretative skills applicable to varying social settings at differing times.

Tuition fees

UK fees
Course fees for UK students

For this course (per year)

£7,200

International fees
Course fees for EU and international students

For this course (per year)

£13,220

Entry requirements

Our standard postgraduate entry requirement is a second-class honours degree (2:2 or above) from a UK university, or an equivalent international qualification.