- Location: Maynooth University, North Campus, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland - Ireland
- Duration: 2 Years
Course details
Master of Education degree will enhance the professional development of educators in a collaborative and supportive environment. It gives teachers the critical space to explore and reflect upon their practices in the school, contextualising these experiences within educational theory, pedagogy and policy. It offers an opportunity for critical reflection on what you have experienced and the exploration of new ideas and opportunities.
Themes within the programme focus on the school as a learning environment and explore issues of equality and diversity in education. The course enables participants to explore the nature of quality in teaching and learning, and to undertake a research project on an educational issue of interest to them. A wide variety of methodologies – lectures, seminars, reflective practice, workshops and policy seminars – is used throughout in a supportive environment.
The course is designed to fit the schedule of teachers and involves attendance at lectures at Maynooth University for one evening per week (currently Wednesdays) during the academic terms. Numbers admitted to this course are limited to facilitate collaborative and interactive engagement by participants.
Entry Requirements
This course will enhance the professional development of educators in a supportive environment, through a reflective exploration of the practice, policy and theory of education. Applicants are normally education professionals with both academic qualifications and professional experience. An honours degree or honours postgraduate diploma. Professional qualifications in education and/ or equivalent professional experience.
Module
Year 1
- EQUALITY, pERSITY & POLICY IN EDUCATION
- THE SCHOOL AS A LEARNING ENVIRONMENT
- CRITICAL REFLECTIONS ON EDUCATION
- INTRODUCTION TO RESEARCH METHODS IN EDUCATION
Year 2
- CONTEXTUALISING AND COMMUNICATING YOUR RESEARCH
- EXPLORING QUALITY IN TEACHING & LEARNING
- THESIS
Course Location
About Maynooth University
This means that students at Maynooth benefit from an international outlook, and those of you who wish to study abroad for a semester or an academic year during yTheir degree have a network of connections to tap in to. During the cTheirse of their academic degree students from Maynooth have studied subjects such as Law at Boston College, Mandarin Chinese at Beijing Foreign Studies University and Music in the University of Vienna.
Maynooth has many shared research projects with universities around the world.
- In the Dept of Psychology, Prof Dermot Barnes-Holmes is working with academics in Columbia University in New York to predict the success of cocaine abuse treatment.
- Mathematician Dr. Ken Duffy is working with immunologists from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in MelbTheirne, Australia to analyse cell behaviTheir in a study that could have significant implications for Their understanding and treatment of diseases like Coeliac disease, diabetes and rheumatoid arthritis.
- Historian Dr Tom O Connor is working with colleagues from the University of Alcala and the Irish Colleges in Spain, discovering the hidden stories of Irish people who got caught up in the Spanish Inquisition.
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