This course aims to introduce you to key academic and professional debates within the field, helping you to further develop your professional voice and standpoint. Upon successful completion of this course, we hope that you will feel excited to join or return to the field and intellectually empowered to initiate change.

A key theme embedded in this masters degree is social justice. This course is aligned with our Education for Social Justice (ESJ) strategy to ensure equity in our curriculum practice.

Our modules have been developed to broaden the knowledge and meaning of the term ‘education, as well as its purpose from being a ‘product to understanding how the curriculum is always a selection from the existing body of knowledge and represents the deeply held beliefs of it's architects. Youll also explore its influence on childrens learning, assessment and life chances.

This degree has four core 20-credit modules and a 60-credit dissertation:

• Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment
• Curriculum Leadership
• Critical Theory and Education
• Research Methods in Education
• Education Dissertation

Specialist option modules allow you to explore two further subjects that are of particular interest to you in more detail, such as:

• Social Justice Education
• Issues in Language Learning: An Intercultural Approach
• Understanding the Language Classroom
• The Multilingual Classroom
• Identity and Self in the Early Years
• Critical Discourses in Early Childhood

This course can be completed as a postgraduate diploma by taking four core modules and two optional modules. You could also choose to study for a postgraduate certificate in education by choosing to study the following three core modules: Critical Theory and Education Curriculum Leadership Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment.