MA Learning & Teaching in the Creative Industries

Core module on 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.

Assessed by practical micro-teaching and written coursework.

Runs throughout Trimester One (Sept-Jan).

Core Module on Experience Educator Pathway Only

This module focuses on the concept and practice of leadership, defined as mobilising people to effect change, within contemporary education. We adopt an individualised approach, helping you to ‘learn to lead’ and ‘lead to learn’ in your own educational contexts which can include both formal and informal roles.  

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.

Assessment format depends on the topic of the investigation (written and/or multimedia).

Runs throughout Trimester One (Sept-Jan).

Core module on both pathways.

What is creative education – Is it 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 practise 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.

Assessed by a portfolio of learning (written and/or multimedia).

Runs throughout Trimester Three (May-August).

Core module in both pathways.

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

You will learn to use different methodologies of qualitative and practitioner research in order to better understand your learning and teaching and answer larger questions about creative education. 

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

Runs throughout Trimester One (Sept-Jan). 

Optional module available for both pathways

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

You will explore the variety of aims and ideologies at play within education and critically engage with ideas from the social sciences, psychology and education in analysis and debate. These conversations will inform your own educational practices.

Assessed by a written essay or presentation.

Runs throughout Trimester Two (Jan-May).

Optional module are available on both pathways.

This optional module supports you in developing short courses across a range of academic and professional settings in creative subjects. 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 short course of study, allowing you to develop usable design and materials for your own professional career. The submission is via portfolio (written and/or multimedia).

Runs throughout Trimester Two (Jan-May).

Optional module available on both pathways

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, and it can inform your existing one-to-one and classroom teaching.

You will participate in your own coaching/mentoring practice throughout the module and will receive professional supervision from an expert coach.

Assessed by a reflective portfolio of practice (written and/or multimedia).

Runs throughout Trimester Two (Jan-May).

Core module on both pathways

This module provides the opportunity to produce an extended piece of educational research that explores an area of your academic interest or professional practice. In addition to regular peer-led seminars, you will receive individual tutorials from an experienced research supervisor.

Runs throughout Trimester Two and Three (Jan-August).