Course summary
Develop your critical thinking about educational issues in a community that shares your passion for teaching and learning. Study global approaches to education through research, theories and practice, and develop your career in the direction you choose. If you share our passion for education, our diverse postgraduate community can help you develop your critical thinking about educational issues along with your professional career. You can choose to take our broader MA Education (available in Cambridge, Chelmsford and by distance learning), or focus your learning on one of five specialist pathways: MA Education with Early Childhood (available in Cambridge, Chelmsford and by distance learning) MA Education with Montessori (available in Chelmsford and by distance learning) MA Education with Special Educational Needs and Disability (available in Cambridge, Chelmsford and by distance learning) MA Education with Leadership and Management (available in Cambridge, Chelmsford and by distance learning) MA Education with Technology (available in Chelmsford and by distance learning) Whichever pathway you choose, our team of expert practitioners will encourage you to build on your own experiences and contexts to think critically about key issues in education, and help you develop and explain your critical positions using the latest research, theories and practice. If you’re a current practitioner, the course will also contribute to your continuing professional development. You will study alongside people from a range of different backgrounds and fields of education, allowing you to learn from their experiences, share best practice and extend your professional network. You will also be supported to gain relevant work experience, usually through a voluntary position in an educational setting or with other organisations that work with children and families. You can join the course full-time in either January or September, but if you have credits from a PG Cert or PGCE you can choose to take it part-time from September.
Modules
Exploring Educational Research; Developing Educational Research; Postgraduate Major Project in Education.
Assessment method
You'll demonstrate your developing knowledge and theoretical understanding through different methods that will also expand the skills you need in practice to best support children and young people, as well as your own leadership and management abilities. You’ll be able to show how you’ve learned to engage other professionals across different disciplines, empowering them to be as effective as possible. Instead of sitting exams, you’ll benefit from individual and collaborative assessments, including research projects and group presentations. These will help you develop core strengths in critically analysing data, understanding organisational structures, and the process of change management, including evaluating appraisal methods, benchmarking, and how to grow a vision and embed a culture. You’ll also complete an extended evaluation of issues that apply directly to your specific interests and career context. Each assignment will progress your learning, assessing your ability to communicate with clarity, both verbally and in written reports for a range of audiences. Part of your assessment will require you to reflect upon and analyse a current place of work within a wider educational context, but this does not need to be your own.
Entry requirements
Normally applicants should have a first degree with honours at a minimum classification of 2:2 or equivalent. Exceptional entry is offered to professionals with extensive professional experience. Arrangements also exist to incorporate Accredited Prior Learning (APL). If English is not your first language you will be expected to demonstrate a certificated level of proficiency of at least IELTS 6.5 (Academic level) or equivalent English Language qualification, as recognised by Anglia Ruskin University.
Fees and funding
Tuition fees
No fee information has been provided for this course
Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website .
Additional fee information
Please refer to our website for details:
https://aru.ac.uk/study/tuition-fees
Provider information
Anglia Ruskin University
East Road
Cambridge
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