Pathway Leader: Rene Koglbauer
12 months full time.
The Pedagogy and Learning strand is for all professionals involved in teaching and learning at all sectors of education: primary, nursery, secondary, tertiary and higher education. The programme aims to help you achieve a critically reflective, practical understanding of pedagogy in its broadest sense, and all aspects of learning. Distinctive features of the course include the option to investigate learning in the classroom, and access to the collective research knowledge in this area generated by the Research Centre for Learning and Teaching (CfLAT) http://www.ncl.ac.uk/cflat/, which has a considerable reputation for research and consultancy in this field.
This pathway will obviously be of interest to teachers, but it may also be of interest to other education professionals keen to extend their understanding of pedagogy and learning in order to develop their careers
All pedagogy and learning students will benefit from undertaking personal research into teaching and learning. Practice experience, research evidence and theoretical evidence will be explored and connected through enquiry. Course participants will benefit from studying with students from other countries and developing a wider understanding of pedagogy and learning in international contexts.
Plus 20 or 40 credits from the following modules
For 2009/10, all candidates shall select modules (not already selected) from the optional modules list, so as to bring their total credits up to 180.
Teaching and learning is delivered through workshops, lectures, seminars, and colloquiums. Students are assessed on their work in the form of essays, practical assignments, project, portfolios and presentations. If the placement is chosen a diary exercise will be carried out and presented as well as a research project and presentation.