Master of Education MEd

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Our course is excellent preparation for a job change or promotion. You will graduate with comprehensive evidence of your continuing professional development and skills in independent research to improve both your own practice and the educational settings in which you work. You will also have the expertise to pursue your studies through research (MPhil/ PhD) or through a professional doctorate (EdD).

Practitioner Research 1

We’ll introduce you to practical problems facing new researchers. Working alongside the other modules, you’ll identify what to research, and this module will help you evaluate which tools-of-the-trade to apply.

Professional Identities & Educational Biographies (20 Credits)

Investigate the construction and adaption of identity. The work of Bourdieu and Popper will be critically evaluated, biographies of education will be used, and socio-economic factors will analysed in terms of discourses associated with learning.

Theoretical Perspectives on Assessment, Learning & Teaching (20 Credits)

Recognise and explain how competing theories on the process by which individuals learn helps inform teaching, assessment, curriculum and learner support practices and, in turn, impacts on the student learning experience.

Understanding & Working with People in Groups (20 Credits)

We will contest the traditional position of political philosophers who argued we are individuals first, and then make rational decisions to join groups. You will explore how we live in a socially constructed world rather than a privately perceived one.