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  • Indicative Fee
    Home/EU: £4128 Part-Time: £2064.00
    International: £9432 Part-Time: £4716.00
  • Financial Support
  • Course Tutor(s):Clare Brooks
  • Duration: One year full-time or two years part-time.
  • Study Method: Full-time, Part-time
  • Department: Dept of Geography Enterprise Maths and Science
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Geography Education MA

The MA Geography Education aims to enable you to develop a personal response to the challenges you may encounter in the field of geography education.

You will:

  • Engage with theoretical perspectives in education studies
  • Be stimulated and challenged intellectually with developments in geography
  • Critically reflect on your current practice and those of others in the curriculum making.

    You will achieve these broad aims through:
  • Increasing your critical understanding of the literature and concepts of geography education
  • Engaging with stimulating and interesting readings and tasks that will contribute to your personal and professional development beyond the MA
  • Developing your thinking and reflection on education, enabling you to take a leading role in education
  • Exploring professionally relevant elements of knowledge, understanding, skills and values.

    The programme aims to prepare the geography educators of the future. In other words, it looks at what kind of contribution geography can make to educating young people in the year 2020 and beyond.


Features
This MA programme:
  • Is unique – there is no other all-round masters degree for geography educators
  • Allows you to examine current issues and debates in geography education with others who have an interest or experience in the area
  • Gives you the opportunity to develop advanced professional skills and acquire the knowledge for successful subject leadership
  • Leads to a valued and widely recognised qualification
  • Provides all course materials and resources online
  • Gives you the opportunity to exchange experiences with students across the world.


Who is this programme for?
Anyone with an interest in geography education. Our students come from all sectors of education, and many are practicing teachers or involved in geography education.

Attendance
Sessions are posted online every Thursday afternoon. You are expected to engage with the readings, complete the weekly task and engage in any interactions - at least eight times for each ten-session module.
We will offer optional face-to-face seminars and workshops in addition to the online sessions, and equivalent online synchronous sessions for students unable to attend the face-to-face sessions.

How are you assessed?
Each module is assessed by the equivalent of a 5,000 word assignment. This may be in the form of an essay or article, or the production of a curriculum artefact (for example, a scheme of work or virtual learning environment project) and report. You will be encouraged to seek publication for excellent pieces of coursework. You may also complete a 20,000-word dissertation or a 10,000 word report.

Entry Requirements
A good honours degree in geography or a related subject; we encourage applications from candidates from all educational contexts and experiences. We welcome PGCE students with masters-level credits from a PGCE in a relevant subject.

The David Warren Scholarship

David Warren was appointed Academic Registrar of the Institute of Education in 1977 and retired thirty years later, from his position as Institute Secretary. He died suddenly after his retirement and is remembered fondly by everyone he worked with. He was a man of unusual warmth and interpersonal skill - which always served him well in a demanding and complex job. He originally trained to become a geography teacher and retained a lifelong interest in this field, and it is for this reason the Director with the support of David's family instigated the idea of establishing a scholarship in his memory. The scholarship, the only one of its kind available in the country, will enable UK students to undertake an MA in Geography Education. Please complete this short enquiry form to indicate your interest in applying for the scholarship: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=ap45N9Y3U4aMKwHAO_2fX5Ag_3d_3d.

 

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