Designing Education (Taught)

Explore the relationship between designing and education, through radical pedagogies, design thinking methods, creative processes, and practical applications of design.

• You'll learn to apply design methods and design thinking to education. If you're a designer you can learn about applying your skills to education, or if you're an educator or from a non-design background you can learn to use design within education.

• We aim to use design to uncover new opportunities for education, including radical new forms of learning and teaching practices and discourses. We want these to be purposeful and to include diverse international perspectives.

• You'll be working collaboratively in a small, multidisciplinary group within a practice-based design studio environment, and you'll develop practice-based projects.

• You'll also get to develop your interests, creativity and curiosity through mentored independent projects and directed study.

• You'll develop and apply a critical framework or pedagogy for your own practice within the context of education. This could include public engagement, educational participation in commercial or non-commercial organisations, in museums or galleries, within an international context of arts NGOs or charities, or in schools, colleges or universities.

• Design at Goldsmiths has an international reputation, and studying with us you'll become part of a worldwide international designing education network, and you'll be able to access international research expertise through practice-based research.

Compulsory modules
These three compulsory modules are structured and delivered to facilitate a blend of online, face-to-face, and independent study:
Critical and Radical Pedagogies
Spaces and Practices of Education
Independent Research Project

Option modules
You will also be able to select 2 option modules (60 credits). Option modules offer a complimentary learning experience that allow you to select modules in Goldsmiths organised into the following themes:

Management and leadership
Creative and cultural entrepreneurship
Design practice and innovation
Education
Anthropology

This may also include others that are available when you begin the Masters as new, relevant modules are developed throughout the Goldsmiths community.

Current option modules available include:
Business of Design
MA CCE design and fashion pathways - Studio practice
Enterprising Leadership: An Introduction to Leadership, Enterprise, and Innovation Theory
Race, Culture and Education
Exploring Gender in Education
Progressive Leadership and Mentoring in Education

Please note that due to staff research commitments not all of these modules may be available every year.