This programme is designed for students who wish to deepen their understanding of educational issues, practices and research in order to pursue or develop a career in education or related disciplines. Criticality, academic capability and reflective professionalism are at the heart of the programme. The learning environment facilitated and structured by the programme is designed to develop constructive engagement with ideas and issue from the world of education, and to offer engagement with distinctive strands in educational sciences, professional development theory, and social research methods. Workshops, symposia, seminars and lectures characterise the programme approach to student engagement and include multi- and trans-disciplinary perspectives which we feel are of value to the contemporary professional. Individual, small-group and full-class activities provide this. Assessment practices reflect this also and are designed in order to offer appropriate modalities to demonstrate learning across key issues, policies and debates within the field of education and education research. It will also help students to develop skills that will enable them to engage with, and produce, educational research. plinary perspectives which we feel are of value to the contemporary professional.
- Design and implement evidence-based research relevant to educational settings and requirements.
- Choose between a range of media in order to select appropriate means and modes to communicate critical study, small-scale research and systemic issue and material review.
- Lead debate and discussion confidently in relation to education systems, arrangements, and practices.
- Understand the affordances of learning technologies in relation to enhancing learning and research contexts and equally be aware of its drawbacks.
- Contribute capably to team-based learning.
- On successful completion of the programme, the student will - Engage meaningfully with concepts, principles, and values from a range of academic genre and disciplines.