Education - Artist Teacher Practice PGCert

Overview

The PGCert Education - Artist Teacher Practice is a Masters programme of continuing professional development for artist teachers.

You will combine Master’s level educational research and academic study with visual arts creation and exhibiting to:

• review and develop your personal creative practice
• support ongoing enquiry into the professional artist teacher identity
• balance tensions between education and making.

Making as research and learning within a community are vital in supporting you to become an independent makers beyond the course. It also fosters diverse opportunities for both current students and alumni.

The Artist Teacher Practice course provides strong partnerships with:

• the Pitt Rivers Museum
• visual practitioners
• artist tutors (visual arts practitioners who are also engaged in educational practice in a range of contexts).

Career prospects

Students who have completed or are completing the programme have found career progression in the following ways:

• additional management responsibility within the school/department, such as head of department
• progression from arts co-ordinator in primary school to Senior Lecturer in Education (primary art)
• engagement in further arts-based master's programmes
• opportunity to contribute significantly to arts based-awards developed within educational settings, such as Arts Award and Arts Mark
• artist in residence opportunities
• presentation of research projects at the national NSEAD conference
• opportunity to publish research projects in NSEAD publications
• opportunity to present visual arts research at national conferences
• opportunity to exhibit artwork in public spaces.

There is a route towards developing visual art education doctoral work at Oxford Brookes University as a result of the completion of the MA programme.

Applicants need to be working in art education in some capacity. It is preferable that candidates have a first degree in education or an art-related practice, although this can be negotiated according to individual circumstance. Applicants do not need Qualified Teacher Status.