COURSE OVERVIEW
The Master of Arts in Education will give students a foundation for a career in many different educational settings, both public and private. This programme provides a comprehensive international overview of teaching, learning and educational systems –
Students will develop important transferable skills in scholarly studies, research skills and practice. These will prove useful when students find themselves working as part of a team, or having to handle lots of data.
The master’s programme within this framework aims to prepare students to become a creative, confident, technologically-competent and forward-looking individual who has developed the skills of research, reflection and critical evaluation and is aware of the local, national and global themes, issues, policies, ideology and philosophy that effect professional practice within the chosen field.
The development of autonomous professionals is central and participants should be in a position to analyse, synthesise and evaluate information from diverse sources in order to inform their professional development. They should also be able to evaluate critically current research and advanced scholarship in their discipline and be able to evaluate methodologies and develop critiques of them and, where appropriate, propose new hypotheses. These programmes provide a safe space where students can engage in critical academic enquiry and risk taking.
In addition to this, students will develop the qualities and transferable skills necessary for employment requiring the exercise of initiative and personal responsibility, decision-making in complex and unpredictable situations, the ability to deal with complex issues both systematically and creatively, make sound judgements in the absence of incomplete data, and communicate their conclusions clearly to specialist and non-specialist audiences.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
At the end of the course, students will be able to: