Master of Arts - Education

This Education MA degree is designed to provide students with a broad range of knowledge and skills within the field of education. This course will provide students with opportunities to develop and enhance their professional skills and understanding, so that students can progress within or embark on a career within the sector.

This diverse course covers a range of disciplines, drawing from areas such as curriculum theory, psychology of learning and human potential, sociology of gender, social class, race, philosophy and the history of education.

This course aims to introduce students to key academic and professional debates within the field, helping them to develop a professional voice and standpoint. Upon successful completion of this course, London Metropolitan University hopes that students will feel enthused about returning to the field and feel intellectually empowered to initiate change.

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

The 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 managed and led. Students will also explore its influence on children’s learning, assessment and life chances. This degree has five core 20 credit modules:

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

Specialist option modules allow students to explore subjects that are of particular interest to them in more detail, such as:

• Applying Learning Technologies
• Issues in Language Learning: An Intercultural Approach
• Reflective Practice
• Social Justice Education
• Web-based Learning and Teaching
• Understanding the Language Classroom

If students have a particular interest in studying women abuse, they are also able to choose from the following option modules:

• Sexual Violence: Causes, Consequences and Interventions
• Violence against Women: Issues, Research and Policy

If there’s a specific topic students would like to study in more detail that does not appear here, they can choose an alternative education-focused topic in agreement with a subject supervisor.