Education

Are you an educator keen to study a specific area? Do you see yourself in a leadership role in the future? This part-time Education course at Dublin City University allows you to develop your expertise in your chosen field and learn from practising experts.

The Education course offered at Dublin City University encourages you to reflect on your own practice and thinking, while gaining a better understanding of educational research and theory. You’ll also benefit from a diverse intake of students and a dynamic learning environment. Modules are delivered in-person and online, so you can study from anywhere in the world.

Key Facts

In the first year of this program, you’ll study a specialist area covering digital learning, leadership and education, physical education, religious education or social, personal and health education and wellbeing. You’ll dedicate your second year to a supervised thesis.

Once you graduate, you’ll be the ideal candidate for principal or leadership roles in primary and post-primary schools, educational inspector roles or educator positions in higher education institutes.

Careers

The Master of Education program is designed to meet the professional and personal needs of teachers and educators. The program is intended for those who wish to make a significant contribution to the enhancement of professional practice in their chosen special option by reviewing and systematically applying appropriate theories and research to their professional practice.

Courses include:

• Computational Thinking: Design and Build to Lear

• Gaming to Learn

• Confronting Change: Designing for “Deep Learning” in the 21st Century

• Leadership in Science Education

• Creative Pedagogy

• Current Issues in Science Education