MA PGDE Secondary (Home Economics)

As well as offering you the opportunity to learn how to teach practical food, nutrition, and textiles skills, you will engage creatively with the role of outdoor learning in the HE curriculum, gaining experience of cooking outdoors in our special campus Outdoor Learning space. Digital literacies and learning to learn and teach through new digital medium, are also key aspects in our course. We offer master’s level credits, which will engage you in a critical understanding of contemporary ‘real world’ issues from food production and consumption, through to sustainable textiles issue such as the impact of fast fashion. Furthermore, with a rising demand for food banks, the impact of food poverty on society has never been more prevalent and thus you will consider critically children’s rights and how to plan for inclusive practice to enable all young people to have the positive learning experiences they deserve. You will also learn about the role you can play as a Home Economics teacher to drive forward the discipline within its contemporary social, cultural, and political contexts. Professional enquiry is an important aspect of the teacher’s role. On our course we will teach you how to conduct research in your classroom to enable you to make evidence-based decisions in support of pupils’ learning.

As well as offering you the opportunity to learn how to teach practical food, nutrition, and textiles skills, you will engage creatively with the role of outdoor learning in the HE curriculum, gaining experience of cooking outdoors in our special campus Outdoor Learning space. Digital literacies and learning to learn and teach through new digital medium, are also key aspects in our course. We offer master’s level credits, which will engage you in a critical understanding of contemporary ‘real world’ issues from food production and consumption, through to sustainable textiles issue such as the impact of fast fashion. Furthermore, with a rising demand for food banks, the impact of food poverty on society has never been more prevalent and thus you will consider critically children’s rights and how to plan for inclusive practice to enable all young people to have the positive learning experiences they deserve. You will also learn about the role you can play as a Home Economics teacher to drive forward the discipline within its contemporary social, cultural, and political contexts. Professional enquiry is an important aspect of the teacher’s role. On our course we will teach you how to conduct research in your classroom to enable you to make evidence-based decisions in support of pupils’ learning.