MA in Education

Learn how to excel as a modern educator in an increasingly interconnected world. Gain an evidence-based, best practice approach to navigating the opportunities and challenges presented in education.

via University of Hull

Program Fee: £8,950 (instalments and funding options available)

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Course Overview

This course is built to help you rise to your role of a modern educator, while fostering a disposition for exploring and investigating national and global education practices, policies, and contexts.

You’ll discover how to evaluate and develop your professional offering, as well as how to embrace both challenges and opportunities by using the right evidence, theories, and frameworks.

You can expect to:

Study the purpose of education and its place within a complex system of histories, politics, geographies, economies, and potential futures
Understand the potential of education in promoting and enabling social justice, sustainable development, and lifelong learning
Adopt and refine a systematic, critical, and rigorous approach to being an educator in your specific context, informed from a global education mindset
Examine the opportunities created for teachers and learners within an ever-evolving landscape of educational technologies and learning spaces
Learn about the interdependent, cyclical nature of education and research as a social process, where translational research exists at the heart of best practice

Course details

Mode:	100% online (with optional events)
Length:	two years (part-time)
Fees:	£8,950 (instalments and funding options available)
Start dates:	January, May and September
Next welcome week:	20 May 2024
Next start date:	27 May 2024
Application deadline:	May 2024 (date TBC).

How you're assessed

All assignments are based on coursework and submitted online. There are no exams.

You’ll regularly receive formative assessments, both formally and informally, to help you analyse your performance and develop your learning. They do not contribute towards the final mark of any module.

Near the end of each module, you’ll take on a summative assessment, which will formally measure your output against the requirements of the module. Your growth will also be supported via patchwork assessment.

This highly personalised approach to learning involves cycles of peer and tutor feedback, ongoing self-reflection, and interconnected weekly tasks. Through this, you’ll develop a deep, transformative understanding of your studies and profession.

Your summative assessments may include the following

Practical work – examples include projects, presentations, debates, and events.
Written work – examples include essays, case studies, individual reports, and strategies.
Patchwork – weekly challenges such as blogs, infographics, and plans that are ‘stitched’ together to create a final narrative.

What are the entry requirements?

A minimum 2.2 Honours degree or international equivalent, ideally in a subject related to education
If you don’t have a 2.2 Honours degree or international equivalent in a related subject, equivalent professional qualifications/personal experience may be considered
Such applicants will need to provide evidence of ability by submitting a 500-word essay that explores – with reference to published evidence – the role of education in society
A personal statement of around 300-500 words. Click here for details of what should be included
One professional or academic reference
An IELTS 6.0 score (with minimum 5.5 in each skill) if your first language isn’t English (or other English language proficiency qualifications accepted by the University of Hull)

Course modules

The Education Explorer (30 credits)

This introductory module will enable you to visualise and locate your work within the wider field of education. We’ll take you on a journey from the past through the present, and to possible futures of education, highlighting key themes and including the evolving significance of education across cultures and sectors.

You can also expect to critically and systematically evaluate the different opportunities and challenges presented in various global settings. Near the end of the module, you’ll use the knowledge gained to create an action plan that will support your efforts throughout the rest of the programme, ensuring that your learning is focused on your specific needs and context

The Digital Educator (30 credits)

During this module, you’ll develop a detailed understanding of educational technologies and how to use digital tools pedagogically within the appropriate settings. You’ll also learn how to keep abreast of the latest innovations in this ever changing field.

Additionally, your coursework will help you hone your problem-solving skills and learn how to overcome resistance to change. You’ll delve into the ways you can actively and consistently engage colleagues to embrace useful technologies and related innovative teaching processes for the benefit of learners.

The Transformative Educator (30 credits)

Through exploring evidence-based research, you’ll develop an in-depth knowledge of how education intersects with social justice, diversity, equality, and sustainability.

Your coursework will enable you to analyse and evaluate arguments about how inclusive practices might be developed in a range of educational settings, along with how the Sustainable Development Goals can be integrated into your own place of work.

The Education Research Practitioner (30 credits)

With this module, you’ll gain a practical and ethical understanding of participatory research methods to support your progress into becoming an education-led researcher and a research-informed educator.

The concept of translational research will be central to your studies. You’ll develop your understanding of research integrity and enhance your ability to clearly communicate research and insights to different audiences.

The Education Change Maker (60 credits)

The final stage before achieving your full Masters, this extended piece of work will allow you take the learning from all your modules and apply this to a current professional challenge. You’ll be able to work on this challenge over the duration of this final module.

You’ll be supported to engage independently in research in your area of choice, and effectively interweave both theory and evidence to showcase your disposition of inquiry and newly developed capabilities as an educational change maker.

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