Course Overview

We urgently need to reimagine education in response to current global challenges and mass education. In classrooms, creative approaches are critical in supporting learners to connect knowledge and generate new ideas.

In this online course, you’ll explore a range of creative pedagogical tools and international perspectives. Your learning will provide you with a rich cultural lens and intercultural dialogue across countries.

This course will empower you to:

Promote a greater understanding of creative pedagogies (pedagogy, curriculum, and assessment) and their grounding in teacher and learner creativity

Promote holistic learning, interdisciplinary thinking, critical thinking, well-being, and global citizenship skills within educational settings

Empower learners to become emotionally and culturally literate and connect educators globally through the approach you take to learning

Activate social change through education

Support the delivery of a wide range of academic syllabize and exam boards, and apply this to curricula from across the world

Grow your network

This short course will enable you to network with practitioners and researchers from a range of backgrounds and share ideas about how to support the development of creative pedagogies.

Ground your learning in practice

Your learning will be grounded in professional practice and will follow an action-research cycle. You’ll be supported to critically reflect on your own professional practice in a global context. You’ll draw from a research-informed community of practice to refine and shape new pedagogies in your own context. This will develop your professional skills and knowledge.

Research-led learning

Work carried out by a core team of research-active academics will drive your learning. You’ll be taught by tutors who are aligned with one of the research centers positioned within the Carnegie School of Education:

The Centre for Creative Learning

Mental Health in Schools

CollectivED the center for coaching and mentoring

The Centre for Race, Education, and Decoloniality

Our cutting-edge research centers are creating a network of educators, service providers, and researchers who define and share best practices. Our centers encourage collaboration and ensure that your learning is informed by the latest research and developments in the sector.

General Eligibility

Applicants should usually have an HND, Foundation degree, or an equivalent award of 120 level 5 credit points. Applicants who do not meet this requirement may be assessed through the recognition of prior learning process which will include submitting evidence of the ability to study successfully at level 6. Further details will be provided on receipt of the application.

All applicants will need to have prior experience working with children or young people in a formal learning context with either individuals or groups or the whole class and will need to have access to a professional educational setting e.g. nursery, school, and alternative setting.

All applicants should have the ability to use basic word processing software and presentation software (e.g. PowerPoint and Word), and the ability to use search engines to support research.

Part Time Work Details

n/a

Language Requirement

• IELTS:

  6.5 with no skills below 5.5, or an equivalent qualification.