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 and partly via Faculty based sessions. 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. 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 will reflect both course content and small enquiry tasks which you will be asked to undertake.

Feedback

Throughout the programme, written work is submitted and detailed 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 students can view via the Postgraduate Feedback and Reporting System.

Assessment

Thesis / 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, and its evaluation and outcomes. It should end with a critical reflection on the ways in which findings resonate with key literature, policy documents 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

There are three assignments which are pass/fail.

• two-page plan and oral presentation on the dissertation;
• an essay of not more than 2,000 words.