MA (ED) DEVELOPING EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABLE GLOBAL FUTURES
For ambitious educationalists that are interested in building new futures for education
Reading: a world-class university
The Institute of Education at the University of Reading is one of the leading providers of teacher training in the UK. The University is ranked also as one of UK's 20 most research-intensive universities and as one of the top 200 universities in the world. We also offer highly flexible and professional masterprograms, designed for both part-time and full-time students and run a successful Doctoral programme. Through its multi-million pound investment, the University of Reading offers twenty-first century facilities while continuing to maintain its mature parkland and interesting mix of traditional and modem architecture. Students have a vibrant and lively town on their doorstep which is only 20 minutes from London and conve¬niently located close to HeathrowAirport, making it the perfect place to study.
Programme aims:
•Promoting the capacity for educational policy-making for sustainable social, economic and environmental futures: developing concepts and contexts of leadership in education for a world of rapid and radical change.
•Enabling leadership that transcends national and international boundaries and that:
promotes educational creativity and innovation;
- develops communities of learning;
- empowers individuals through personalizing education in a changing world;
- developing 'learning institutions' without boundaries;
- promotes comparative approaches to education;
- uses the creative potential of 1СГ to reform delivery of education;
•Developing the capacity to build new forms of educational professionalism that are robust, responsive to changes in global society and constructed around issues of social justice and equity.
Teaching and assessment
The programme is modular in line with Reading and international policy but participants will be able to select projects that enables a personalized pathway to be followed through focusing upon 'themes of choice' negotiated with a tutor.
Participants will be able to build capacity to deliver educational change through being able to evaluate policy and policy drivers, critique 'innovative institutional practice' and strategically consider costs and benefits of different solutions and scenarios. Building social and moral institutional climates and constructing appropriate infra-structures to create sustainable change and reform agendas.
Research and analysis tools will be introduced to enable progression through the programme. Each module will be introduced through observing and analyzing institution-based practice and policy leading to guided reflection. Reflection will be supported from different perspectives by a range of experts and personal tutors.
Teaching can be through 'on-site' delivery in intensive courses backed up by regular remote instruction. Blended learning will be the norm where the degree of face-to-face meeting and remote support is calculated on the needs of the situation.
Career prospects
This will be a 'high value' qualification to those who complete and will give credibility to career portfolios for work across the globe as those qualified will be able to lead curriculum change in their own countries. They will become expert internationalists in education over the period of the course and have the capacity for PhD study. Participants will understand the role of research in educational change and be able to relate what they have learnt closely to their own practice so that theory and practice re-enforce each other effectively. They will gain comparative experience and understanding through the course.
Admission requirements
Entrants to this programme are normally required to have obtained a good Honours degree of at least 2.2 or equivalent level and to have relevant professional experience. The language of delivery and assessment will be English assessed at level IELTS 6.5. Students will be educationalists or education administrators with high levels of motivation, ambition and self-determination.
www.reading.ac.uk/education
To apply for the MA programme: ‘Developing Education for Sustainable Global Futures’ Read:http://www.reading.ac.uk/education/Professionaldev/ioe-cpd-global-futures.aspx
1. Are you interested in obtaining this highly valued qualification from one of the Worlds top 200 universities?
2. Do you have some professional experience in teaching or education more generally?
3. Do you have a good first degree (Bachelors Degree 2.1 or equivalent)?
4. Do you have IELTS 6.5 or can you obtain this before starting the programme?
If you have answered yes to all of these Apply Now:
Go to http://www.reading.ac.uk/Study/apply/pg-applyhow.aspx
You will find clear instructions on how to apply for the programme. Make sure you apply in good time before you intend starting the course (at least 3 months)
Make sure you send full documentation (copies of your qualifications) with your application.
Any questions – please contact either Dr Trevor Davies – admissions tutor at: t.c.davies@reading.ac.uk Or Nailya Mukanovna Tulebayeva – on site co-ordinator at Semey State PedagogicaI Institute: (8 722 2) 63-63-24, 34-10-76 naila53@gmail.com
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