MA Education

A minimum of a second-class Bachelor's degree from a UK university or an overseas qualification of an equivalent standard. (Please note: one or two optional modules may have additional, specific entry requirements).

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Most graduates from the Education MA go on to either further study or highly-skilled work. The majority of those in work (over 70%) are in teaching, academic research, higher education or other education related activities (Graduate Outcomes Surveys 2017-2022).

Compulsory modules

• Dissertation on Education
• What is Education?
• The Future of Education
• Curriculum Development: Issues and Principles
• Curriculum, Policy and Practice
• Critical Perspectives on Learning and Teaching
• International Perspectives on Education Reform: Curriculum and Assessment
• Feminist approaches to knowledge and pedagogy
• Teaching Controversial Issues
• Communicating Knowledge: Possibilities and Opportunities
• Debates in the History of Education
• Perspectives on Literacy Learning
• Literacy Development
• Educating Teachers
• Multilingual Perspectives on Education (MPE)
• Professional agency and teacher activism
• Assessment for Learning
• Assessment: Issues and Practice
• Education and Identities: Citizenship, Rights, Narratives
• The Holocaust in the Curriculum
• Curriculum Research and Development in History
• The Action Researcher: Exploring Contexts and Issues
• Supporting Learners and Learning
• Developing Mentoring Practices
• Teacher as Author: Curriculum Design and Development
• Foundations of Science Education
• Global Learning: Principles and Theoretical Perspectives
• Global Citizenship Education: Research, Policy and Practice
• Education for Sustainable Development: Perspectives from Policy and Practice
• Understanding Mathematics Education
• Mathematics for Teachers
• Transforming the Geography Curriculum
• East Asian Philosophies of Education (EAPE)

Optional modules

• Curriculum Development: Issues and Principles
• Curriculum, Policy and Practice
• Critical Perspectives on Learning and Teaching
• International Perspectives on Education Reform: Curriculum and Assessment
• Feminist approaches to knowledge and pedagogy
• Teaching Controversial Issues
• Communicating Knowledge: Possibilities and Opportunities
• Debates in the History of Education
• Perspectives on Literacy Learning
• Literacy Development
• Educating Teachers
• Multilingual Perspectives on Education (MPE)
• Professional agency and teacher activism
• Assessment for Learning
• Assessment: Issues and Practice
• Education and Identities: Citizenship, Rights, Narratives
• The Holocaust in the Curriculum
• Curriculum Research and Development in History
• The Action Researcher: Exploring Contexts and Issues
• Supporting Learners and Learning
• Developing Mentoring Practices
• Teacher as Author: Curriculum Design and Development
• Foundations of Science Education
• Global Learning: Principles and Theoretical Perspectives
• Global Citizenship Education: Research, Policy and Practice
• Education for Sustainable Development: Perspectives from Policy and Practice
• Understanding Mathematics Education
• Mathematics for Teachers
• Transforming the Geography Curriculum
• East Asian Philosophies of Education (EAPE)
• reasonable adjustments
• Student Support and Wellbeing Services
• UCL Student Support and Wellbeing Services
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• UCL Student Support and Wellbeing Services.