Year 2 (national level 6):
Core modules:
Design and Innovation in Education (30 credits)
Develop your professional skills of problem solving, innovation and autonomy. Undertake a self-initiated project in line with your subject interests and career aspirations. Seek out and create an appropriate solution following a distinct and rigorous process of design. Gain skills particularly relevant to curriculum design, resource development and solution focused practice in education.
Dissertation in Education Studies (40 credits)
Examine a specific area of educational research that is of interest to your studies and future career goals. Demonstrate a critical appreciation for your chosen educational issue by conducting, analysing, evaluating, and communicating your independent research dissertation. Equip yourself to study at postgraduate level or to successfully gain employment at more senior levels within your current or aspired employment.
Optional modules:
Leading Change in Education (20 credits)
Explore the nature of leadership and change management in a range of educational contexts both in the UK and abroad, including psychological, political, and practical aspects. Raise your awareness of your professional responsibility as an educator and clearly identify your role as leader within the profession. Gain a deeper understanding of how your approach to professional practice can affect others and how others can affect your professional practice.
Ethics, Morals and Values in Education (20 credits)
Investigate the moral life of educational organisations and critically evaluate the values that underpin their judgements and practice. Identify dominant ethical frameworks underpinning the complexity of decision making in education and apply these to your own thinking. Explore ethical theories such as the morality of religion, the utilitarian theory, obligation or duty, promoting virtue, and whether caring for one another should be our overriding concern in education.
