Education

The MA Education program at University of Wolverhampton is designed for ‘Highly skilled Education Professionals’ such as teachers, lecturers, educational managers, and leaders in a variety of educational contexts including schools, colleges, universities, the military, and nursing. For those seeking new roles, promotion, or are in the early stages of their career, the MA in Education offers relevant career progression through the development of an extensive knowledge base and advanced transferable skills.

What skills will you gain?

• Identify the significance of relevant professional, institutional, sector and societal factors shaping education, policy, and practice.
• Have a systematic understanding and critical awareness of issues of diversity and social justice related to education policy and practice.
• Demonstrate in-depth knowledge of major educational theories, concepts and rivalries based upon seminal, recent, and contemporary educational research where both national and global contexts are interwoven.
• Evaluate critically current research and advanced scholarship through the use of critical reflection to explore the relationship between theory and practice in complex situations.
• Have a recognition of your own value positions related to education and associated claims to knowledge in education.
• Demonstrate the ability to analyse, judge and critique complex or contradictory areas of knowledge and practice and think creatively and flexibly to synthesise and transform these ideas.

Courses include:

• Critical reflection and reflexivity in professional learning

• Educational Research and Development

• Critical Approaches to Diversity, Equality and Social Justice in Education

• Critical reflection and reflexivity in professional learning

• Educational Research and Development

• Leading Change in Pedagogy