Enhanced Practice in Education (Taught)

Designed with the busy professional in mind, the Masters in Enhanced Practice in Education will provide you with the skills and confidence to make effective changes in your place of work. You will develop expertise to initiate and influence positive working relationships across your organisation and beyond.

WHY THIS PROGRAMME

• This programme is designed for people at different stages in their professional careers from a range of backgrounds in education and allied fields such as social work, psychology, health, and policing.

• Many of the courses on this programme offer increased flexibility and convenience through a mix of blended learning, twilight campus lectures and weekend seminars designed with the busy professional in mind.

• There is a focus on collaborative learning, drawing on your own experiences and those of your academic colleagues.

• The programme will help you develop evidence-based leadership approaches and practices in critical reflection that you can apply in relation to your own practice.

• Research-informed courses will help you to consider practice and policy in the light of current educational thinking and enable you to improve your own practice to become an effective practitioner.

• Our optional courses ‘Critical Perspectives on Knowledge and Power’ and ‘Critical Thinking and Communication’ will deepen your understanding of organisational power underpinning knowledge creation.

• Our ‘Working in an Interagency Environment’ course is one of the only available courses of its kind outside UK local government.

PROGRAMME STRUCTURE

You will take four core and two optional courses, followed by a research project or work placement. The research project provides an opportunity for you to identify an area of personal and professional interest to explore in more detail. This programme follows a model of weekend teaching, usually on Fridays and Saturdays. For more information about teaching and timetabling for this programme, please contact shaista.shirazi@glasgow.ac.uk.

Core courses
Evaluating Educational Change
Leading and Managing Change
Reflective Practice
Working in an inter-agency environment

Optional courses
A Cultural History Of Animals
Critical Thinking and Communication
Ecology, Environment and Conservation
Environmental Communication
Environmental Ethics and Behaviour Change
Environmental Politics and Society
Events Management
Heritage, Interpretation And Development
Innovation and Technology in Sustainable Tourism
Leadership for Sustainability and Innovation in Tourism
Perspectives on Power and Professional Practice
Reading the Environment: Old and New World Romanticisms
Tourism And Regional Development
Tourism Marketing
Tourism Sustainability And Climate Change
Writing the Environment: Modern and Contemporary Nature Writing
Leadership for Sustainability and Innovation in Tourism
Innovation and Technology in Sustainable Tourism
Critical Thinking and Communication

Research project
Enhanced Practice Dissertation

CAREER PROSPECTS
On successful completion of the programme, you will have the knowledge, understanding and skills to progress into leadership roles within your organisation.

If you work directly with young people (teachers, social workers, youth workers, police officers, probation officers, health workers), this programme can be an important step in your professional development.

The programme will support your career development as a class teacher, lecturer, policy developer, special education professional, head teacher, education administrator or researcher. The programme provides a foundation for further academic study such as a professional doctorate.