Whether you take our part-time or full-time course, you will start your MA Education with two core modules.
In your first module, you’ll critically explore current key issues in education nationally and internationally, from performance measurement to the purposes of education. You’ll ask challenging questions and make informed judgements about your own position within debates, and how you respond to them. You’ll interrogate how ideology and culture has shaped the experience of learning and teaching today.
And in the second core module, you’ll develop your understanding of these issues further by considering the theory which underpins them. Through this, you’ll start to develop your own theoretical position. You’ll evaluate and learn to think with a range of theoretical frameworks. And you’ll explore how theory informs how we interpret and analyse key issues in education today.
You’ll join students from other education-based masters courses in a third core module, Principles and Practice of Educational Research. We’ve designed this module to develop your understanding of critical issues and methodologies within research and help prepare you for completing your own dissertation.
In the fourth module, you’ll pursue your own individual interests by choosing one of a series of option modules. Our option modules are designed and delivered by active researchers from within our internationally renowned Educational and Social Research Institute (ESRI). We’ve designed these option modules to reflect our world-class research carried out at the Faculty of Health and Education.
Our taught modules are assessed by coursework. This allows you to focus the topic of your work on areas that suit your professional and personal interests.
The final part of your masters is a dissertation. For many students, this is the most challenging part of the course, but also the most interesting and most rewarding.
With guidance from your expert teaching and support team, you’ll design and carry out a research project of your own and complete a written thesis. Some recent examples of topics include:
- a critical analytical review of UK literacy policies
- a focused analysis of the ways gender is constructed in popular children’s books
- an critical analysis of the economic discourses involved in the global education reform movement (GERM)
- teachers’ and parents’ perceptions of school readiness
You’ll also benefit from our integrated support network of services offered at Manchester Met, as well as our programme-specific support provided by your programme team. You’ll have a personal tutor to accompany you throughout your studies. Your tutor aims to provide tailored support and advice from start to finish.
As a student at Manchester Met, you’ll also be able to access Masterclass. Masterclass is a wide range of optional reading groups, writing workshops and events designed specifically for and with masters students in the Faculty of Health and Education.
