MA in Education (Teaching and Learning) UOH Level 7 (Part time)

You should have an honours degree in a relevant subject at 2:2 or above, or a professional equivalent.

The college will determine whether a degree can be recognised as UK equivalent.

If your first language is not English, you will need to meet the minimum requirements of an English Language qualification. The minimum for IELTS is 6.0 overall with no element lower than 5.5, or equivalent.

Exploring Teaching and Learning (30 credits)
This module will develop your understanding of the ideas of curriculum: what is taught, how it is taught and why it is taught. You’ll explore elements of the hidden curriculum, including hierarchy, power, values, confidence, stereotypes and labelling. The module will also help you to understand how a teachers’ role is constructed. What are teacher identities and how do these shape the role of teachers? Is teaching a professional activity? What are the ideas around this aspect? What is a reflexive/reflective teacher and how does this enhance professional development? You’ll also consider some learning theories and their practical application within your setting.

Methods of Enquiry (30 credits)
This module will develop and deepen your knowledge and understanding of research methods, in both academic and professional contexts. It considers some of the theories, methods and implication of research and the complex role of researchers and of practitioner-researchers. You’ll explore a range of methods of enquiry in order to enable you to understand the significance and ethics of research.

Special Educational Needs and Disability: Evaluating Policy and Practice (30 credits)
In this module, you’ll study changing cultural and historical attitudes to disability including recent social changes that encompasses the disability rights, human rights and equality, and models of health and disability. You’ll explore how our understanding of SEND has developed, and the impact of this on our understanding of inclusion, as well as investigate how the needs arising from specific SEND conditions are culturally and socially defined, and what this means for educational policy and practice.

Mentoring and Coaching (30 credits)
This module will help you to explore the role of mentoring and coaching. You’ll have the opportunity to examine issues linked to implementing and managing mentoring/coaching schemes, the role of mentors and/or coaches, the strategies that could be used within a mentoring and/or coaching relationship and the ethical issues governing them.

Dissertation (60 credits)
This module will help you design and develop a piece of individual research into a current work-related or contemporary issue or problem that is related to teaching and learning. You will select and explain an appropriate research design, which can include action research, and techniques and you will interpret and evaluate the findings and report them in such a way as to encourage dissemination.

The MA Education (Teaching and Learning) is an award of the University of Huddersfield.

Assessments vary and include essays, the creation of resources to support learning, posters, and presentations.

Your module specification/course handbook will provide full details of the assessment criteria applying to your course.

On this course, you will develop an understanding of critical reflection and independent learning strategies. This will enable you to evaluate and inform your professional practice. The course also provides an opportunity to develop and deepen your knowledge and understanding of educational research.

This course can help you progress into middle and senior management roles within a wide range of educational settings whilst also enabling the development of essential skills.