MA Learning & Teaching in Creative Industries*

Initial Teacher Education Pathway Only

You will engage in a broad range of learning and teaching techniques suitable for roles in post-compulsory education. The module develops competencies in planning, teaching, assessing, giving feedback and supporting different forms of learning. As an introduction to the course, no prior teaching experience is assumed.

Continuing Professional Development Pathway Only

This module focuses on the concept and practice of leadership within contemporary education, adopting an individualised approach to helping you to ‘learn to lead’ and ‘lead to learn’.

You are given the opportunity to develop and reflect on different styles and approaches relating to leadership and leading change across a range of professional contexts. You will investigate a personally significant leadership challenge, with the support of colleagues and peers on the module.

What is creative education – education in creative subjects, a more creative approach to education in creative subjects or a more creative approach to all education? This module invites you to explore such questions in the context of your own professional and creative practice, through engagement with theories of creativity and contemporary perspectives on creativity in education.

You will engage in experiential workshops in order to practice techniques that expand your practical skillsets as a creative educator. We encourage you to experiment with your own learning and creative practices, to try new things in your teaching, and to explore how assessment decisions are made and justified within creative subjects.

This module will grapple with a variety of real-world theories and practices of research used to investigate education and the creative subjects.

You will investigate and use different methodologies of qualitative and practitioner research in order to better understand learning and teaching within the creative industries.

For the module’s assessment, you will generate a research proposal, which can be used for your final research dissertation/project.

In this optional module we engage with a range of critical positions on education and the curriculum, exploring what, how and why we teach.

We will explore the variety of aims and ideologies at play within education and help you to critically engage with ideas from the social sciences, psychology and education in analysis and debate. You will also learn how to use these languages to engage in your own educational practices more deeply.

This optional module supports you in developing short-courses and curricula. You will look at a variety of methods and orientations to curriculum design, including examining digital and blended learning approaches applicable to courses on and offline, as well as managing individual and collaborative learning.

For the module’s assessment you will create and evaluate your own course portfolio, allowing you to develop usable design and materials for your own professional career area.

This optional module facilitates your development as an effective coach and/or mentor in one-to-one settings. You will explore a variety of person-centred techniques and approaches for partnering with learners to support their development and empower them as individuals. This can provide an additional professional skillset for work as an educator, as well as inform your classroom teaching.

You will participate in critical and reflective learning-in-action while receiving professional supervision throughout the module.

This double-weighted module provides you with the opportunity to engage in sustained scholarly work of an innovative and independent nature. This work will focus on an area of professional interest with regards to learning and teaching in creative education.

Through your own research, you will be able to demonstrate the knowledge and expertise of an area of interest in post-compulsory education, drawing on knowledge and skills developed throughout the course under individual supervision.