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.
Please note that specialist routes and option modules on offer may change, so contact Admissions teams to check availability for your year of application.
Plymouth Institute of Education
Plymouth Institute of Education courses offer many opportunities for work-based learning, and lead on to postgraduate study or a career in a range of educational and health settings.As well as conducting research into many aspects of education, with Plymouth Institute of Education you can undertake a wide range of masters, doctoral and CPD programmes, with flexible study options to suit your needs.
The programme provides a clear framework for study, designed to suit both professional practitioners and those interested in the scholarship of education. Our specialist and optional modules are designed to allow you the opportunity to pursue your own areas of interest, supported by knowledgeable and research-active academics.
- 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.
Programme design
The programme is designed to offer you maximum curricular choice within a clear structure by asking you to:
- choose from a limited range of modules and specialisms or the general education pathway
- set your own assignment topic related to module content within all modules
- undertake optional modules in practice related inquiry and negotiate topics of personal interest with your lecturer
- design your own research project on your chosen aspect of educational practice for your dissertation module.
The way we assess work is through carefully constructed assessment modes that will prepare you for the different elements of dissertation work.
Teaching methods
We use a wide range of pedagogies to support inclusion and participation in higher education. The following is a list:
- onsite whole class or tutorial sessions with module lecturers
- online contact with lecturers and/or fellow students
- directed study (specific tasks related to the module and set by lecturers for completion in your own time)
- self-directed inquiry, research or scholarship (which may include undertaking a project, reading, work with children, work with colleagues, investigation of topic of interests, etc).
Networking and socialising
As a postgraduate student in Plymouth Institute of Education you will be kept informed of postgraduate conference events and socialise with other masters and doctorate students at tea breaks on our taught Saturdays.
There is a history of inviting masters dissertation students to attend the annual on-campus Institute of Health and Community/Plymouth Institute of Education postgraduate conference.
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