Education, Society and Globalisation MA

• Exploiting previous knowledge of research methods and enquiry
• Creating a research plan and timeline
• Locating and contextualising the research within the literature
• Undertaking research in accordance with ethical guidelines
• Using an appropriate methodology
• Collecting evaluating and interpreting data
• Responding to changes in research intentions and outcomes
• Writing up the research

1. Undertake a substantial empirical enquiry in a professional setting.
2. Reflect on the individual experience of carrying out research.
3. Link research to the possibilities for change in a professional context.

1. Researching  methods most commonly used and appropriate within educational research and the social sciences
2. Writing a research question
3. Exploring concepts in research: validity, reliability, generalisability, bias 
4. Considering the nature of the data students will collect and issues of analysis
5. Considering ethical issues that might arise 
6. Carrying out a literature review in which to locate the research question and to support analysis
7. Writing and presenting a research proposal

Module aims

1. Analyse and critically evaluate theoretical, methodological and ethical issues in educational research.
2. Develop skills in research design.
3. Locate a research question within a review of literature.

·          Theories and models to facilitate critical reflection

·          Professional review and self-evaluation activities

·          Skills audit, assumptions analysis and needs identification

·          Personal development and learning from experience principles

·          Concepts of educator agency and professional identity

·          Critical incident analysis and context-based reflection

·          Action planning for future professional goals and learning

·          Guidance on developing a learning journey portfolio

• Advice about successful completion of assignment

This module aims to engage educationalists in reviewing and evaluating their own professional biography. It requires them to take stock of where they are currently, to reflect on their professional learning journey and to make explicit what they have learned from their experience. To do this, the module enables participants to develop the capacity to reflect critically in ways that reveal the knowledge, skills, values and beliefs on which they draw in their daily professional practice. The module also facilitates participants being able to utilise this enhanced self-awareness to identify and plan appropriate future personal and professional development and learning.

The module is designed to help you to develop the academic and communication skills required to reach your potential at post-graduate study. It will consider some of the key skills you will need to develop in order to engage and to be successful.

Topics covered include how to find appropriate academic sources, interpreting an assignment brief, planning, structuring, and APA referencing for assignments, reports, and dissertations, developing critical writing and analysis skills, designing, and delivering academic presentations, reflective practice for academic and professional development.

This module aims to:

• introduce students to the academic and professional skills necessary to engage in post-graduate study;
• support students to make a successful transition to post-graduate study;
• support students to analyse their strengths and identify areas for continuing academic and professional development.

This module introduces you to issues relating to social justice for persons with disability and mental health conditions. It will encourage discussion and critical debate regarding how these aspects are perceived globally, the nature of social inequalities encountered, and relevant policy, and legislative frameworks. Students will compare disability and mental health across two different countries (global north and global south) and examine the contribution made by a sociological perspective to understand key social processes implicated in the (re)production of inequalities.

This module aims to:

• introduce students to varying cultural and societal concepts of disability and mental health;
• encourage students to develop a critical awareness of social inequalities for persons with disabilities and mental health conditions in a national and global context;
• provide students an understanding of theoretical frameworks and models related to disability and mental health;
• enable students to evaluate relevant policy and legislation in different countries.

This module focuses on the relationship between globalisation and education. It begins by exploring key theories of globalisation and how globalisation influences national education policy making. After exploring key globalisation theories the module focuses on the economic, political and culture dimensions of globalisation and enquires into students’ personal and professional experiences of globalisation in different contexts. 

The module aims to:

1. Define globalisation in relation to key theories.
2. Explore way that globalisation influences educational policymaking.
3. Develop a clear, coherent understanding of how globalisation impact on leadership.
4. Provide opportunities for widening critical understanding of globalisation with particular to educational leadership.

Module content will be negotiated with the module tutor.

This module provides a valuable opportunity for participants, either individually or as a group, to reflect critically on an area of personal or professional relevance by engaging with appropriate literature and research in the negotiated field.

This module introduces you to the ecological systems theory to examine the cultural and social context of childhood and the many factors that affect the lives, wellbeing & development of children. Various social issues and inequalities relevant to the lives of children will be explored including the 'microsystem' of the family and school and the impact on childhood; the 'exosystem' of the community and its impact on childhood and; analysis of childhood and family policy within the 'macrosystem'.

This module aims to examine how society creates the concept of childhood and to systematically review the contexts and systems that influence the lives of children, the impact on their development, wellbeing, and life outcomes.