Course summary

Do you want to elevate your career in Physical Education? Our MA in Physical Education and Leadership aims to enhance your theoretical understanding and applied practice of Physical Education and school-based Leadership.

• Regardless of whether you’re an aspiring or newly qualified teacher, a PE specialist or non-specialist, a current or aspiring educational leader and in whichever phase of education you currently work, this course offers a personalised professional development pathway to help you achieve your career goals.

• Through applied learning and professional inquiry, you will be encouraged to dive deep into your personal values and beliefs in order to reveal and refine your professional identity and philosophy. Through the sociological, political and micropolitical analysis of Physical Education and Leadership, you will develop a heightened awareness of the wider landscape and culture of education as well as the everyday realities of leading for change.

• You will also conduct your own professional inquiry into an area or areas of your choice. This will be within Physical Education, Sport and/or Leadership. Topics could include philosophy, sociology, pedagogy, politics, social justice, models-based practice, inclusion, socialisation and more.

• With an outstanding commitment to student wellbeing, and a course team with experience of teaching, leadership, management, research and consultancy, the MA in Physical Education and Leadership is well-positioned to enhance your subject knowledge and transferable skills which are essential for all professionals working in 21st century education.