MPhil in Education (Arts, Creativity & Education)

This thematic route provides an interdisciplinary exploration of contemporary arts education and cultural debates in the UK and abroad. The course facilitates innovative thinking and practice through crossing conceptual boundaries between the arts and education, as well as supporting the use of the arts as a method of inquiry. It includes contributions from specialists in a range of disciplines, including performing arts, drama, theatre, visual art, design and technology. This course recognises that artistic practices can serve as an essential research tool in our respective fields and therefore makes available studio and performance facilities.

The main education aims are:

• examine contemporary theoretical frameworks used in the study of education and its constituent disciplines (including decoloniality; posthumanism and materialism; critical pedagogies past and present)
• provide training in research methods appropriate to arts and education, including artistic research practices;
• advance students’ capacity for professional reflection and judgment by thinking through real world dilemmas and complexities;
• cater for a range of specialists interested in the field of education or one of its constituent disciplines

Learning Outcomes

By the end of the programme, students will have:

• a comprehensive understanding of research techniques, and a thorough knowledge of the literature applicable to their specific educational domain;
• demonstrated originality in the application of knowledge, together with a practical understanding of how research and enquiry are used to create and interpret knowledge in their field;
• shown abilities in the critical evaluation of current research and research techniques and methodologies;
• demonstrated self-direction and originality in tackling and solving problems, and acted autonomously in the planning and implementation of research.

Continuing

Students wishing to continue from the MPhil to PhD or EdD are required to achieve at least a merit for the dissertation.

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