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Education (Transforming Practice) PACES entry only is no longer accepting new applications.
Teaching
The Transforming Practice route is offered as a blended learning route. This means that the route will be offered partly online via a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) Moodle site in tandem with a Microsoft Team, and partly via Faculty-based sessions. You will be required to attend Faculty-based teaching conferences, the first of which will be an induction day on a Friday in the Michaelmas Term, and then four subsequent Saturday conferences per year. The conferences will be an opportunity to develop and enhance the ideas you explore via the online component. You will be part of a community of enquiry, with a member of the course teaching team who will be working with you and your group on the course materials and course online discussions. These online discussions will be in the evenings within University term time and will reflect both course content and small enquiry tasks which you will be asked to undertake.
| One to one supervision | 4.5 hours per year, either in individual or group meetings. You will be allocated a personal supervisor and you might choose to have supervisions via Teams, telephone, or email, as well as face-to-face. |
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| Seminars & classes | The course consists of approximately 48 hours of face-to-face conferences and online sessions across the year. You will be required to attend Faculty-based teaching conferences on Saturdays apart from an induction day on a Friday in the Michaelmas Term and then four subsequent Saturday conferences per year. |
| Lectures | Attendance to all these sessions is a compulsory element of the course. |
| Taught/Research Balance | Equal Taught/Research |
Feedback
Throughout the programme, written work is submitted and feedback is provided. Students submit a dissertation. Informally, feedback is also provided through regular supervisions. At the end of each term, supervisors write an online report which can be viewed by the student via the Postgraduate Feedback and Reporting System.
Assessment
Thesis / Dissertation
Dissertation
The dissertation will be 12,000 words in length to be submitted in July
The dissertation will be a report on the student’s dissertation project, which will involve the development of an artefact that has been designed to transform practice. It should include a critical reflection and evaluation of the ways in which the artefact has the potential to transform practice based on key literature and ideas for future research and practice. The artefact produced through the project will be appended but is not included in the word count.
Essays
- an essay of not more than 2,000 words;
- two-page research project plan;
- an oral presentation on the research project.