Master of Arts in Education - LJMU, UK

Educational aims of the programme

• To provide a critical and analytical framework for students to engage with academic concepts, theories, debates, and research in the globally multidisciplinary education study.
• To equip students with a critical awareness of key theoretical debates and issues, enabling them to develop an advanced understanding and an evaluative and ethical position concerning education and social justice issues.
• To provide a range of learning activities and experiences as a critical context for intellectual development, enabling students to critically engage with research in a way that is applicable and relevant to their academic and practice context.
• To enable students to reflect on and challenge their own and others’ values and assumptions to promote socially just policy and inclusive and ethical practice in education.

Target award learning outcomes – Master of Arts in Education

A student successfully completing the programme of study will have acquired the following subject knowledge and understanding and skills, and other attributes.

A student who is eligible for this award will be able to:

• Demonstrate systematic knowledge and critical understanding of theories and concepts appropriate to the study of education, globalisation, and social justice.
• Use knowledge of different philosophical views of education to inform the critical debate about its role in a range of national and international contexts.
• Demonstrate a practical understanding of how research and inquiry techniques create an original interpretation of knowledge with the study of education, globalisation, and social justice.
• Explore the implications of relevant theory, research and policy in educational governance and practice.
• Demonstrate critical awareness of the role of educational policy and practice in addressing social justice issues in the globalised world.

About LJMU

Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU), which initially opened as a Mechanics Institute in 1823, is now one of the largest higher education institutions in the UK. The University has a long history of providing training, education, and research to the maritime industry, dating back to the formation of the Liverpool Nautical College in 1892. The institution grew over the centuries by converging and amalgamating with different colleges before eventually becoming Liverpool Polytechnic in 1970.