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MA Education in Society

University of Chester, United Kingdom
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Course Overview

The University has an award-winning Careers and Employability service that provides a variety of employability-enhancing experiences; through the curriculum, through employer contact, tailored group sessions, individual information, advice, and guidance.

Careers and Employability - Student Services aims to deliver a service that is inclusive, impartial, welcoming, informed, and tailored to your personal goals and aspirations, to enable you to develop as an individual and contribute to the business and community in which you will live and work.

We are here to help you plan your future, make the most of your time at University, and to enhance your employability. We provide access to part-time jobs, and extra-curricular employability-enhancing workshops and offer practical one-to-one help with career planning, including help with CVs, applications, and mock interviews. We also deliver group sessions on career planning within each course and we have a wide range of extensive information covering graduate jobs and postgraduate study.

Students and graduates of the University of Chester can use our services free of charge for up to two years after graduating.

General Eligibility

The MA Education in Society is open to graduates with a 2:2 honors degree in social sciences/humanities. However, applicants with degrees in other backgrounds may be considered, along with non-graduates, if they can demonstrate sufficient professional experience working with children, young people, and vulnerable adults in education or community settings.

Part Time Work Details

20 hours of work permit weekly for international students.

What You'll Study

1 Modules

Compulsory Modules:

  • Approaches to Research

  • Approaches to education

  • Dissertation

Optional Modules:

  • ACES Trauma Informed Practice

  • An introduction to the skills, principles, and practice of effective mentoring/coaching

  • Childhood in the 21st Century

  • Children and Communities

  • Co-ordinating Mentoring and Coaching Programmes

  • Effective SEND Leadership and Management

  • Emotional Wellbeing and Resilience in Early Childhood

  • Emotions and Attachment in Learning Relationships

  • Enriching and Engaging Mathematics Education

  • Evaluation of Psychometric Assessment

  • Globalisation of Education

  • How Children Learn Mathematics

  • Identifying and Assessing Learners with Dyslexia

  • Inclusive Practice

  • Leadership Theory into Practice

  • Leadership and Management in Early Childhood

  • Leading Change in Faith Schools

  • Leading Change in Schools

  • Leading and Managing Provision

  • Learning and Teaching Strategies for Learners with Dyslexia

  • Mental Health and Resilience in Learning

  • Negotiated Study 1

  • Negotiated Study 2

  • Origins and theory of autism

  • Pedagogical models of working with autism

  • Power, Politics, and Policy in Educational Leadership

  • Practitioner inquiry

  • Professional Development Review

  • Professional Knowledge and Understanding

  • Professional Practice: a pedagogy and curriculum for the early years

  • Promoting and managing positive learner behavior

  • Psychometric Assessment and Individual Learning

  • Specialist Assessor in Assessing for Access Arrangements

  • Teaching Learners with Dyscalculia/Numeracy Difficulties

  • Teaching Learners with Dyslexia

  • Teaching, Learning, and Assessment

  • Technology and Childhood

  • The Developing Child (0-5 Years)

  • The Ethics and Rationale of Psychometric Assessment

  • The Psychology of Leadership

  • The Wider Issues of Autism

  • Understanding Child Development and Learning

Language Requirement

  • IELTS5.5
  • TOEFL59
  • PTE50
  • Duolingo69

IELTS Academic: 6.5 (no less than 5.5 in any band)

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