Courses Available

The Faculty offers the following specialist masters courses as well as the opportunity to conduct individual research. Full time and Part time students study alongside each other on each route, attending sessions once or twice a week.

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Educational Research gives students the skills necessary to become adept researchers and conduct research in an area of education of their choice.	A thorough training in educational research which gives students the skills necessary to become adept researches and conduct research in an area of education of their choice.
Arts Culture and Education examines issues in the arts from a range of perspectives, engaging with different discourses between arts and culture and the processes of teaching and learning.	The aim of this route is to provide a broad-based intellectual exploration of the arts in culture and education. It examines issues in the arts from a range of perspectives, providing an opportunity for students to engage with different discourses between arts and culture and the processes of teaching and learning.
Critical Approaches to Children's Literature aims to understand Children's literature through picturebooks, poetry, and media text as well as through visual literacy and theories on childhood.	Close textual study and the history of children's literature are embedded within the course which also concerns itself with exciting new texts produced by ever changing new technologies.
Educational Leadership and School Improvement develops an understanding of leadership and school improvement on both theoretical and practical levels.	Participants will develop an advanced knowledge and understanding of educational leadership and school improvement, a set of skills for analysing educational leadership and school improvement issues and practices and the ability to bring together theoretical perspectives on educational leadership and school improvement and apply an informed critique of their inter-relationship.
International Perspectives on Mathematics Education focuses on the improvement of mathematics education through engagement with theoretical, political and pragmatic issues.	The route aims to develop students' understanding of a number of substantial and important themes and issues in international mathematics education research, and to develop students' ability to interpret mathematics education research and to undertake an appropriate project within their own national contexts. Each session will examine international research pertaining to a particular mathematics education issue..
Perspectives on Inclusive and Special Education Students engage with special and inclusive education via an examination of different theories, definitions, identification and assessment procedures.	The route is designed for people who hold, or seek to hold, positions of responsibility for the education of children and young people who experience difficulties in learning. It will be relevant to those who come from a range of backgrounds. Each student will carry out an individually negotiated investigation of a specialist topic, in addition to undertaking set assignments.
Politics, Development and Democratic Education demonstrates the relevance of educational theory to educational policy concerns and practices.	The course covers topics such as class, gender, multicultralism, citizenship and social change in terms of contemporary concerns with globalisation, modernity and development.
Primary Education is for practitioners, professionals and others with an interest in Primary Education at various levels and at various stages in their careers. Part Time only.	This course fuses research and theoretical understandings with the current priorities in primary practice using, amongst other things, the Faculty's Primary Review.
Psychology and Education focuses on developmental and cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience and social psychology within an educational context.	The course is accredited as a graduate conversion course by the British Psychological Society. Candidates can obtain BPS Graduate Membership (GM) and the Graduate Basis for Registration (GBR) by taking two additional exams and by submitting extra practicals on top of the standard coursework.
Research in Second Language Education examines key theoretical perspectives and relates these to effective second language.	One unit concentrates on theoretical approaches to second language learning while the other concentrates on research into the pedagogical process of second language teaching and learning.
Researching Practice 5-18 (Primary and Secondary Schools) is premised around the concept of teacher as researcher. PGCE-MEd students only.	The course seeks to introduce teachers into the debates and ideas surrounding the development of teachers as researchers: to understand international and national policy and practices, engage with examples of teacher research in schools in the UK and beyond and to take part in their own school based research activities.
Science Teacher Researchers and Practitioners aims to develop high standards in science teaching through ensuring that practice is rooted in a scholarly base.	This course aims to ensure high standards in the provision of the service of science teaching through ensuring that practice is rooted in and continually informed by a scholarly base. To teach requires cognisance of how; to bring about learning; make decisions about approaches that will help learning to take place and ensure that activities are relevant to the state of mind and motivation of the learner.
The Theory and Application of Counselling This course can lead to accredited therapeutic counsellor status.	The increased integration of education, social services and health in the delivery of children's' services makes practitioner counsellors valuable. This course can lead to accredited therapeutic counsellor status.

The above specialist routes are supported through seminars, workshops, supervisions and, where appropriate, fieldwork. Students must complete three assignments for which they will receive individual supervision.

Core Research Training

All specialist routes, with the exception of Educational Research, Researching Practice, and Science Teacher Researchers and Practitioners, undertake together a Core Research Training course that comprises one-third of the total teaching time. Here students will develop their understanding of different research strategies, foster skills in critically appraising and synthesising published research studies and acquire the understanding and skills necessary for designing, conducting, analysing, interpreting and reporting a small-scale research study for thesis presentation.