Durham University
Master of Arts in Education
The Master of Arts in Education in Education is offered by Durham University.
Program Length: 2 YEARS.
Description
The MA in Education provides outstanding opportunities to study a wide range of educational issues. It will provide you with a clear understanding of the nature and significance of policy and practice in education, relevant to researchers as well as professionals in schools, colleges and universities.
A key feature of the course is the facility for you to draw on your own professional and personal as well as academic and theoretical interests, through being able to choose from a range of optional modules to study (see below). You will also be able to explore your own interests in depth through the completion of a dissertation.
The degree has been designed to meet the needs of educational professionals, especially those in teaching, management or administration at all levels of education. Students likely to benefit from the course are those who are interested in education, often teachers or people planning to become teachers, who have a commitment to pedagogy, and educational managers in schools, colleges and higher education institutions, as well as those working in educational administration, in the UK and overseas.
Course Structure
Full-time students study the four taught modules plus the dissertation over one year.Part-time students normally study two taught modules per year in years one and two. The dissertation is also completed in the second year of the programme.Core Modules
- Research Methods Education (30 credits)
- Critical Perspectives in Education (30 credits)
- Dissertation (60 credits).
Optional Modules
You must select 60 credits from a list of optional modules which may include:The above are examples of modules we have run in previous years. Modules are continually developed in response to student feedback and interests, as well as to reflect the changing nature of academic research within the department.
- 21st Century Technology: Implications for Teaching and Learning (30 credits)
- Arts in Education (30 credits)
- Curriculum Analysis (30 credits)
- Enhancing Teaching and Learning for Productive Thought (30 credits)
- Improving Computer Education
- Intercultural and International Education (30 credits)
- Intercultural Communication (30 credits)
- Policy Studies (30 credits)
- Psychology of the Learner (30 credits)
- Special Educational Needs and Inclusion: Rhetoric or Reality? (30 credits).