Course summary

Why this course?

• Silver in the 2023 Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) for delivering the high-quality teaching, learning and outcomes for our students

• Tailor the programme to your interests with our range of optional modules, including early childhood, SEN and disability and inclusion

• Top ten in the UK for postgraduate student satisfaction (PTES 2022, 2023)

• The 2023 Complete University Guide ranks Roehampton 2nd in London for research quality in education.

• Jointly recognised as the best modern university in the country, and the best modern university in London for research excellence. (REF 2021). 77% of our research is ranked ‘world leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’ (REF 2021)

• Teaching is mostly timetabled on weekday evenings so that part-time students can fit their master’s study around work and home commitments

• Tailor the programme: Modules include SEN, disability and inclusion, research methods and more

• Power in Education and Society: Discourses of Difference

• Social and Educational Research

• Early Childhood Pedagogy and Practice

• Representing Childhoods

• Developing Staff and Leading Teams

• Understanding Language Learning and Teaching

• Philosophy of Social Science Research

• Drawing on the wider professional experiences that students may have, of working in contexts where educational approaches are important

• Covering critical social and educational theories and perspectives, as well as policy and practices relevant to global and local educational contexts

• Achieving critical awareness and understanding of education in its broadest sense as a process of human learning and development

• Early childhood

• Education

• Health and social welfare

• Policy making

• Administration of early childhood services

• Research and developing the early years workforce in further and higher education