Education Studies (Taught)

This MEd Specialist option draws on a wide range of academic disciplines such as philosophy, psychology and sociology to further our understanding of learning and educational contexts. Drawing on up-to-date research, the programme focuses on how we learn, from early childhood through compulsory schooling and into adulthood, and offers a rigorous analysis of broader educational systems such as curricula, policies and schools in their societal context.

Students are encouraged to consider fundamental questions about the nature and aims of education; to engage with the problematic nature of educational theory, policy and practice; and to develop and express their own reasoned viewpoint on a wide range of issues.

Further information is available at https://www.stran.ac.uk/courses/postgraduate/master-of-education-med-education-studies/

Modules consist of 4 taught modules (each worth 30 M level points) and a dissertation (worth 60 M level points). Each student must undertake the module research methods in education; specialist modules include: Gifted and talented education; tackling underachievement in schools; critical perspectives on disadvantage.

Assessment is through coursework, including written assignments, seminar presentations and a dissertation.