MA Education (Teaching and Learning)

This part-time MA is aimed at educators who want to examine teaching and learning critically. Early modules analyse curriculum and teacher professionalism, consider what makes teaching effective using educational research, explore mentoring and coaching, and introduce research methods and their theory. Later modules cover special educational needs and disability, tracing how views of disability have changed over time, from early medical intervention to rights-based models. A dissertation lets each student design an individual piece of research into a work-related or contemporary issue linked to their chosen specialism. Assessment is through coursework, which lets learners demonstrate practical knowledge while building critical and theoretical understanding. Teaching takes place as face-to-face Saturday day schools. Graduates often move into lecturing or management roles in higher education, and many continue to doctoral research.