Studying our Education (Practice) MA course will provide you with in-depth knowledge and skills around educational practice to support your development in the classroom. This course gives an open opportunity to select a range of units available across our different pathways, which explore a range of different aspects of education and ultimately impact practice in the classroom. To better understand children and their needs, our unit in Children’s Voice: Researching and Analysing Children’s Lives will allow you to examine children’s lived experiences based on tensions within family, welfare and education policies. This may involve considering how low pay or long working hours of parents could place constraints on family time available to children, and the implications of issues such as this for policy and practice. As an educator, child development is a core part of your learning and practice, and this is where our Early Years Education and Care unit will introduce you to theoretical concepts surrounding young children’s learning.

Another crucial area to your educational practice involves Meeting Diverse Needs, and you will do this by engaging with research literature on how diverse needs can be supported in educational settings to promote inclusion in your professional practice. Aside from teaching, our unit in Exploring Coaching and Mentoring will help you gain a better understanding of your role as a coach or mentor including how to make an effective and positive impact in your work. To add to this, you will also explore key literature and theory around leadership and management within educational contexts in our Educational Leadership in Context unit.

More importantly, you will adopt a reflective approach in our Enhancing Practice in Educational Settings unit that will enable you to identify your strengths and areas for development to be responsive to student needs. It is also important that you are adaptable and able to facilitate change in the workplace, therefore this is where our Leading Change in Education unit will enable you to adopt changing practice in education settings and how to develop positive staff relationships to bring about this change. Finally, you will complete a Dissertation in Education (Practice) in a research area that interests you. To help you with this, our Research Methods in the Workplace unit aims to develop your research skills through a range of activities.