Education
MA

Modules

• Leadership and Professional Attributes Option One

Leadership and Professional Attributes (Option One)

This module focuses on leadership relating theory to practice. It supports you in understanding concepts and principles relating to your own professional identity and leadership in the context of national and local agendas for change.

You will be required to engage in reflection on and articulation of their professional identity and to consider the implications of models of change for leadership styles.

This module also facilitates the development of critical thinking and reflection through engagement with literature on change and the leading of innovation and change.

• Investigating Pedagogy Option One

Investigating Pedagogy (Option One)

The aim of this module is to analyse and reflect critically and systematically on the knowledge and understanding of pedagogy in practice. Included in this is an examination of evidence-informed pedagogy as an aspect of professionalism.

• Coaching and Mentoring and Professional Attributes Option One

Coaching and Mentoring and Professional Attributes (Option One)

This module provides an introduction to the theories of coaching and mentoring and self-reflection of professional identity as a coach and/or mentor. The module will involve you developing critical engagement with key literature regarding the concepts of coaching and mentoring.

• Concepts and Debates in Inclusive Practice Option One

Concepts and Debates in Inclusive Practice (Option One)

This module provides a broad overview, both nationally and internationally, of the field of inclusive education. It reflects on the implications of previous, current and relevant legislation in the United Kingdom and elsewhere on policy and practice in schools, colleges and other education-related settings.

Opportunities for critical reflection are provided throughout the module on topics such as the terminology used in the field and the tensions that exists, including, for example, the ‘standards debate’.

You'll be encouraged to use and relate your own professional experience to the various concepts and debates in the literature in order to deepen your understanding of your own practice and - more broadly - of inclusive practice in your setting.

• Primary Science Leadership Option One

Primary Science Leadership (Option One)

This module is designed for practising science leaders in the primary sector. It is specifically intended to build teachers’ capacity to reflect upon their understanding of the theoretical, conceptual and practical applications of the science curriculum.

This will necessarily involve an analysis of the role the leader plays in developing science teaching and learning. Throughout the module, issues will be illustrated by consideration of recent developments within the field of research in teacher reflection and science education.

• Pedagogical Debates in Physical Education Option One

Pedagogical Debates in Physical Education (Option One)

This module provides an insight into contemporary debates on the place and purpose of Physical Education (PE) in the wider school curriculum. It explores how different claims regarding the purpose of PE influence pedagogical practice in areas such as curriculum design, pedagogical content and instructional models and techniques.

It aims to provide you with the tools to analyse contemporary PE practices from both a philosophical and applied perspective.

• Developments in Religious Education Option One

Developments in Religious Education (Option One)

This module enables you to develop your understanding of the place of Religious Education (RE) in the curriculum through a consideration of the historical development and legal framework of RE.

You'll be required to reflect systematically on the development of RE and the implications of these developments for the teaching of RE in schools.

• Research Design Core

Research Design (Core)

This module prepares you to design a small-scale practitioner research enquiry to be reported on in the dissertation. It enables you to develop your understanding of epistemological enquiry and facilitate their acquisition of a systematic and coherent body of knowledge relating to research.

You will have the opportunity to develop your understanding of the underlying principles and concepts of planning and designing research studies, research techniques, methods of data analysis, ethical considerations in research and skills in presenting research findings.

• Organisational Culture Option Two

Organisational Culture (Option Two)

This module focuses on the importance of organisational culture with particular reference to educational institutions. It introduces you to the concept and theory of culture and an understanding of how ‘culture’ impacts upon both the Individual and the organisation.

The module will provide you with a theoretical understanding of the concept of culture as well as identifying the practical issues it raises.

• Leading and Managing Teams Option Two

Leading and Managing Teams (Option Two)

This module focuses on the role of teams in organisations and the debate as to whether they are managed or led. It introduces you to the concept and theory of team and its role in an organisation and an understanding of team leadership and team management, the establishment of teams and team roles.

The module will provide you with an opportunity to consider the practical issues associated with team building by applying your theoretical understanding to your own professional context.

• Coaching and Mentoring in Professional Contexts Option Two

Coaching and Mentoring in Professional Contexts (Option Two)

This module presents you with the opportunity to explore your professional practice within the coaching and mentoring relationship and to evaluate the coaching and mentoring culture within your professional context.

• Addressing Literacy Across the Curriculum Option Two

Addressing Literacy Across the Curriculum (Option Two)

The module is designed for teachers in the secondary and primary sectors. It is specifically intended to build your theoretical, conceptual and practical application of literacy across the curriculum.

• Issues in Religious Education Option Two

Issues in Religious Education (Option Two)

This module focuses on developing an understanding of concepts and principles relating to Religious Education in the context of international, national and local agendas for change.

You will be required to reflect systematically on practice and consider issues related to improving the curriculum experience of Religious Education. It also facilitates the development of critical thinking and reflection through engagement with literature on the leading of learning in Religious Education.

• Purpose and Value of Science Education Option Two

Purpose and Value of Science Education (Option Two)

This module provides you with opportunities to analyse and critically reflect on the arguments which surround the inclusion of science as a core element of the school curriculum. Knowledge and understanding of the elements of science education will be developed to allow an analysis of the claim of ‘science for all’.

It is expected that you may have experience in any phase of schooling (KS1 – KS4 and/or post-16) or other educational contexts. The module will require you to focus on the importance of scientific enquiry as a key aspect of science education.

Throughout the module, issues will be illustrated by consideration of recent developments within the field of research in science education.

• Inclusive Pedagogy in the Classroom Option Two

Inclusive Pedagogy in the Classroom (Option Two)

This module focuses on how our knowledge and understanding from research, professional practice and policy, in relation to inclusive pedagogy, might be applied in the classroom.

After an overview of what is described as ‘inclusive pedagogy for all’ with an emphasis on cognition for learning, you are able to focus on an aspect of inclusive pedagogy of immediate relevance to your practice.

• Purpose and Value of Mathematics Education Option Two

Purpose and Value of Mathematics Education (Option Two)

This module provides you with opportunities to analyse and critically reflect on the arguments which surround the inclusion of mathematics as a core element of the school curriculum.

Knowledge and understanding of the elements of mathematics education will be developed to allow an analysis of the three aims of the National Curriculum:

• Fluency
• Reasoning
• Problem Solving

It is expected that you may have experience in any phase of schooling (KS1 – KS4 and/or post-16) or other educational contexts. Issues will be illustrated by consideration of recent developments within the field of research in mathematics education

• Pedagogical Issues in Practice Option Two

Pedagogical Issues in Practice (Option Two)

The module is designed for practising teachers in the secondary and primary sectors who wish to explore a pedagogical area of particular interest within their classroom practice or at a whole school level such as a cross-curricular theme.

It enables you to develop an informed and critical perspective with which to review a range of pedagogical issues in practice, developing theoretical and professional understanding.

• Reflective Practice and Evidence-based Pedagogy in Physical Education Option Two

Reflective Practice and Evidence-based Pedagogy in Physical Education (Option Two)

This module provides you with the opportunity to explore contemporary pedagogical models in sport and evidence-based practice.

It will present you with the stimulus to explore how you adapt your short and medium-term planning, assessment of learning and instructional techniques appropriately for the cultural norms, learners and spaces in which educate.

• Change Agency and Strategy: From Research to Practice Core

Change Agency and Strategy: From Research to Practice (Core)

This module explores change theory which is applied to the formulation and proposal of evidence-informed innovation resulting from a small-scale practitioner research enquiry, thus aligning your research findings with policy outcomes.

• Academic Paper and Conference Presentation Core

Academic Paper and Conference Presentation (Core)

This module focuses on the evaluation of the research proposed in the 'Research Design' module and the writing of the dissertation.

It enables you to evaluate a small-scale research enquiry into a contemporary pedagogical issue within your professional practice and to communicate new knowledge through an academic paper of between 10,000 to 12,000 words.

In this module, you will explain your claims to new knowledge relating to researching and reporting on findings in the area of interest.