Overview
Course In Depth
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Entry Criteria
Careers and Employability
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Overview
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Course Length: | 3 Years Part-Time |
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Start Dates: | September 2021, January 2022, September 2022, January 2023 |
Subjects: | Education and Teaching |
Location: | Blended Learning |
This Masters degree has been developed to address the needs of teachers and other professionals working in educational practices and contexts. If you are a practitioner in a setting such as a school, college, youth and community centre, voluntary service, or health and social care setting, this programme will enable you to enhance your professional learning and practice. You will develop skills in critical reflective practice, critical thinking and leadership. You will also investigate and critique contemporary policy, analyse the nature and status of evidence in educational settings, and explore and experience mutual ways of working. The course contains a mixture of compulsory and optional modules, enabling you to develop a strong academic underpinning to your work, while also tailoring your studies to focus on areas of professional and/or personal interest.
In Depth
What will I study?
In Year 1 you will focus on the nature of critically reflective practice and study two additional modules from a selection of options. You may wish to investigate education and social policy, participate in Action Learning Sets with your peers, engage with inclusive education and social justice, explore an aspect of professional practice through self-directed study, develop professional leadership skills, or immerse yourself in contemporary issues in evidence-informed practice.
In Year 2 you will study two further elective modules from the range of options, as well as develop your knowledge of research methods and methodologies in a dedicated project design module from which you will prepare a research proposal. This will form the foundation for a 15,000 word dissertation in Year 3.
How will I study?
The course is delivered through blended learning. Each module typically includes two or three face-to-face sessions at St James’ in central Manchester alongside online learning.
How will I be assessed?
Assessment is through coursework focusing on a range of professional learning activities and projects. Opportunities for formative feedback will be scheduled throughout each module.
Who will be teaching me?
This programme is delivered by a team of research-active academic staff who have a range of areas of expertise. These include social justice, educational policy and practice, reflective practice, practice development, and research methods and methodologies.
Modules
Expand AllPRL4000Critical Reflective Practice (20 credits)
PRL4007Project Design: Research Methodologies and Methods (20 credits)
PRL4010Dissertation (60 credits)
You will select four of the following modules:
PRL4001Perspectives on Policy and Practice (20 credits)
PRL4002Professional Learning Communities: Summer School (20 credits)
PRL4003Professional Practice for Social Justice (20 credits)
PRL4004Models of Learning in Professional Practice: Self Directed Study (20 credits)
PRL4005Complexity and Challenge in Professional Leadership (20 credits)
PRL4006Contemporary Issues in Evidence-Informed Practice (20 credits)
Optional modules provide an element of choice within the programme curriculum. The availability of optional modules may vary from year to year and will be subject to minimum student numbers being achieved. This means that the availability of specific optional modules cannot be guaranteed. Optional module selection may also be affected by timetabling requirements.
Timetables
You can expect to receive your timetable at enrolment. Please note that while we make every effort to ensure that timetables are as student-friendly as possible, scheduled teaching can take place on any day or evening of the week.
Disclaimer
Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of our published course information, however our programmes are subject to ongoing review and development. Changing circumstances may necessitate alteration to, or the cancellation of, courses.
Changes may be necessary to comply with the requirements of accrediting bodies, revisions to subject benchmarks statements, to keep courses updated and contemporary, or as a result of student feedback. We reserve the right to make variations if we consider such action to be necessary or in the best interests of students.
Entry Criteria
Entry Requirements
You should have a degree equivalent to UK first-class or second-class honours (2:2 or above) in a relevant subject. You should also be employed in, or have sustained and appropriate access to, a relevant professional context. Any professional/early career inductions associated with your practice should normally have been completed prior to joining this programme.
Recognition of Prior Learning
Edge Hill University recognises learning gained elsewhere, whether through academic credit and qualifications acquired from other relevant courses of study or through recognition of an individual’s professional and employment experience (also referred to as ‘experiential learning’). This may include credit or learning undertaken at another university.
Previous learning that is recognised in this way may be used towards meeting the entry requirements for a programme and/or for exemption from part of a programme. It is your responsibility to make a claim for recognition of prior learning. For guidance, please consult the University’s academic regulations (sections C7 and F3.1) or contact the faculty in which you are interested in studying.
Career Prospects
What are my career prospects?
On successful completion of this programme, you will be equipped with the knowledge and skills required to make a significant and positive contribution to a range of practice development and enhancement initiatives. You will therefore be well placed to apply for more senior positions both within your current setting and at other providers.
Finance
Tuition Fees
Tuition fees for part-time study on this MA are £34 per credit for UK students enrolling on the programme in academic year 2021/22, i.e. £680 per 20 credit module. 180 credits are required to complete a Masters degree.
EU/EEA and Swiss students who have settled or pre-settled status under the EU Settlement Scheme, as well as Irish nationals, may be eligible for the UK part-time tuition fee rate.
The University may administer a small inflationary rise in part-time postgraduate tuition fees in subsequent academic years as you progress through the course.
Financial Support
For comprehensive information about the financial support available to eligible UK students joining postgraduate courses at Edge Hill University in academic year 2021/22, together with details of how to apply for potential funding, please view our Money Matters 2021/22 guide at www.edgehill.ac.uk/postgradfinance2021.
EU/EEA and Swiss students who have settled or pre-settled status under the EU Settlement Scheme may be eligible to apply for financial support. Irish nationals should ordinarily apply to Student Universal Support Ireland (SUSI). Please see www.edgehill.ac.uk/eufinance for further details.
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How to Apply
There is an online application process for this programme.
Applications for September 2021 entry will open soon.
Visit www.edgehill.ac.uk/applydirect for more information about the application process.
Should you accept an offer of a place to study with us and formally enrol as a student, you will be subject to the provisions of the regulations, rules, codes, conditions and policies which apply to our students. These are available at www.edgehill.ac.uk/studentterms.
Get in Touch
If you have any questions about this programme, please contact:
- Professional Learning Team
- Tel: 01695 657133
- Email: ProfessionalLearning@edgehill.ac.uk
If you would like to talk to the programme leader about the course in more detail, please contact:
- Mary McAteer
- Tel: 01695 650980
- Email: Mary.McAteer@edgehill.ac.uk
Course Changes
Expand All This page outlines any material changes to course content, programme structure, assessment methods, entry criteria, and modes of study or delivery, implemented in the past two years.18th June 2019 - Change of Programme Title
Covid-19 - Educational Enquiry and Professional Learning Essential Information
Educational Enquiry and Professional Learning Course Statement
The face-to-face sessions that would usually take place at St James' in Manchester will be delivered online. For the autumn semester, delivery of each module will consist of 180 hours of online learning comprising synchronous (seminar, tutorial) and asynchronous (supported online learning, discussion boards) learning activities and academic support.Teaching and Learning at Edge Hill University in 2020
In this video Pro Vice-Chancellor, Lynda Brady, answers your questions and explains how teaching will work when you join us at Edge Hill University in September.
Campus Facilities at Edge Hill University in 2020
In this video Pro Vice-Chancellor, Lynda Brady, explains how we’re preparing the campus for your arrival in September and the facilities that will be available.