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Full time | Holloway | 1 year | FEB-25

Study mode

Full time

Duration

1 year

Start date

FEB-25

Key information
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Qualification type

MA - Master of Arts

Subject areas

Science (General / Combined) Mathematics Technology Engineering Studies

Course Summary

This course aims to introduce you to key academic and professional debates within the field, helping you to further develop your professional voice and standpoint. Upon successful completion of this course, we hope that you will feel excited to join or return to the field and intellectually empowered to initiate change.

A key theme embedded in this masters degree is social justice. This course is aligned with our Education for Social Justice (ESJ) strategy to ensure equity in our curriculum practice.

Our modules have been developed to broaden the knowledge and meaning of the term ‘education, as well as its purpose from being a ‘product to understanding how the curriculum is always a selection from the existing body of knowledge and represents the deeply held beliefs of it's architects. Youll also explore its influence on childrens learning, assessment and life chances.

This degree has four core 20-credit modules and a 60-credit dissertation:

  • Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment
  • Curriculum Leadership
  • Critical Theory and Education
  • Research Methods in Education
  • Education Dissertation

Specialist option modules allow you to explore two further subjects that are of particular interest to you in more detail, such as:

  • Social Justice Education
  • Issues in Language Learning: An Intercultural Approach
  • Understanding the Language Classroom
  • The Multilingual Classroom
  • Identity and Self in the Early Years
  • Critical Discourses in Early Childhood

This course can be completed as a postgraduate diploma by taking four core modules and two optional modules. You could also choose to study for a postgraduate certificate in education by choosing to study the following three core modules: Critical Theory and Education Curriculum Leadership Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment.

Modules

The module aims to: familiarise students with a wide range of previous academic experience and backgrounds with key moments in the Western intellectual history; analyse the European Enlightenment and its impact on our understanding of the world, the emergence of social sciences and the modern school; encourage students to develop a holistic understanding of the Scientific Revolution, the European Enlightenment, and the rise of capitalism and how these intersected with one another in creating the modern world and how these continue to shape and influence the contemporary world; introduce students to multiple perspectives on the social world and their implications for understanding the processes of schooling and education; introduce the students to the so called ?linguistic turn? in the social sciences and its implications for understanding the social reality, including school curricula and educational processes.

Tuition fees

UK fees
Course fees for UK students

For this course (per year)

£10,500

International fees
Course fees for EU and international students

For this course (per year)

£18,150

Entry requirements

You will be required to have: a minimum of a lower second-class (2.2) honours degree in education or social sciences. GCSE English at grade C (grade 4 from 2017) or higher (or equivalent). If you need (or wish) to improve your English before starting your degree, we may be able to help with a pre-sessional course.

University information

London Metropolitan University is home to a diverse community of learners, mentors, practitioners, innovators, and thinkers, located in the vibrant centre of London, one of the most dynamic capital cities in the world. The university's mission is to transform lives through the power of education – it does this by welcoming students from all kinds of backgrounds and supporting them to achieve success. Each student forms an important part of...more