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MEd - Master of Education
University of Cambridge
Part Time
OCT-25
1 year
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MEd - Master of Education
University of Cambridge
Part Time
OCT-25
1 year
MEd - Master of Education
University of Cambridge
Part Time
OCT-25
11 Months
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This PGCE-MEd course is aimed at applicants who already have knowledge of and interest in children's literature, and who want to develop expertise in the subject at master's level. In this route, students will meet old favourites in fiction, film, poetry and picturebooks and make exciting new acquaintances. They will be introduced to topical debates on the nature and social function of this controversial and multifaceted body of literature. They will also be provided with the tools for a critical assessment of texts written and marketed for a young audience.
This thematic course concentrates on a wide range of writing for children, including the ""classics"", texts for very young readers, international literature and literature for young adults. Close textual study and the history of children's literature are embedded within the course, on which students will also be expected to engage with some of the key debates in the field and to consider a range of theoretical perspectives – from Romanticism to reader-response theory gender issues to posthumanism historical studies to new historicism sociocultural viewpoints to semiotics – as well as examining critically views of young readers and their reading choices.
The PGCE-MEd route will include two modules from the following possible list: Texts, Contexts and Childhood Perspectives on Children's Literature Visual Texts and Texts and Readers. It is assessed through a dissertation on a topic of the student's own choosing, which may be either a purely literary study or a small empirical research project.
The PGCE-MEd introduces students to research skills and specialist knowledge. Its main aims are: to examine the theoretical frameworks used in the study of education and its constituent disciplines provide training in research methods appropriate to education advance students capacity for professional reflection and judgement cater for a range of specialists interested within the field of education or one of its constituent disciplines.
Applicants for this course should have achieved a UK Good II.i Honours Degree. This course is only open to students who have completed the PGCE at the Faculty of Education.
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£6,777 per year
Students from Domestic
The above mentioned fee is University Composition Fee. The mentioned fee is for the 2023-24 year entry. There might be a slight increase in 2024-25 year entry.
£17,253 per year
Students from EU
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£17,253 per year
Students from International
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