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MA - Master of Arts
Plymouth Campus
Full Time
Sep 2027
1 Year
Our MA Education programme focuses on educational practice using methods of practice-related inquiry. Building on our recognised excellence in postgraduate teaching and research, this programme offers a structured pathway for professional development and scholarship in general education, including option module choices, as well as subject specialist pathways. Option modules include: Modules on sustainability matters, SEN and Inclusion. Take the opportunity to research through a specialised pathway, tailored sustainability and outdoor learning modules, or your own area of interest.Benefit from Saturday, weekday and evening tutorials offering flexibility for professional practitioners.Learn from experienced educators who have first-hand familiarity with the challenges and possibilities of educational practice.Further develop your expertise in specific educational issues of interest to you.Develop the ability to undertake systematic inquiries and the capability to respond to ethical issues through critical analysis and decision making.1 year Full Time.
In addition to core modules, Students will study some optional modules.
This module aims to use and examine different approaches to researching education practices and promote understandings of the potential place and role of research in education settings. It critically explores the differentiated nature of education research, ways in which it might interact with professional practice and how professional educators can undertake effective and appropriate research in their own settings.
In addition to core modules, Students will study some optional modules.
This is the dissertation module for the MA Education. Students must successfully complete a research proposal including ethical protocol and materials. Students engage on their own dissertation research projects. They receive supervisory support through formative assessment of three tasks prior to the proposal and during their research, wider reading and dissertation writing. (380 with spaces).
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