MA Creative Education
Course overview
This course is designed for UAL staff who teach and/or support student learning within the University, who have already completed a higher education focussed PgCert and wish to pursue an educational enquiry in more depth. The MA Creative Education aims to develop a culture of educational research at UAL and through this, make a positive impact upon student experience.
The MA Creative Education will inspire and support you to enquire into an aspect of arts higher education that intrigues you. You will develop a research question and seek out pedagogic research relevant to your chosen focus. You will use this and your new methodological understanding to develop your own year-long educational research enquiry. Having completed the enquiry, the final unit of the course then support you to disseminate your findings to a chosen audience and evaluate the impact. This act of externalising your research project is designed to positively support your professional development beyond the duration of the course.
Course units
Unit 4: Approaches to Educational Research
This unit introduces you to the world of educational research in the context of creative education. You will learn key research terminology and important philosophical theory that will enable you to understand how your individual belief systems and prior lived experiences shape your approach to research. You will develop a proposal for your creative education research project.
Unit 5: Educational Research Project
This one-year project provides an opportunity to conduct an in-depth investigation into a creative education topic of your choice that has significance for your professional practice. You will spend the year learning about your topic through primary and secondary research, enacting the research stages identified in your proposal with ethical awareness.
You can choose to articulate your research as either text only, or text accompanied by a body of your creative practice. Whichever mode you choose, you will select and critically analyse existing research relevant to your topic and your chosen methodological approach.
Unit 6: Dissemination and Evaluation
This unit requires you to take your research project and share it with a relevant audience from the wider world of creative education. You will choose how to do this in a way that is both aligned to your topic and meaningful for your continuing professional development ambitions.
Course team
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Steph Fuller
Course Leader Creative Education
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John O'Reilly
Senior Lecturer Creative Education
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Frederico Matos
Senior Lecturer Creative Education
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Rachel Marsden
Rachel Marsden
Senior Lecturer Creative Education
Learning and teaching methods
- seminars, workshops and guest sessions
- regular study retreats
- optional peer and tutor review
- online and in-person learning experiences
- independent study and reflective practice.
Mode of study
- part-time
- 120 credits
- level 7
- taken over 2 or 3 years
- follows on from the PgCert Creative Education.
Entry requirements and how to apply
Applicants must currently be employed at UAL and have completed the PgCert in Creative Education or comparable academic credit accrued within the last 5 years or prior experiential learning.
Alumni case studies
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UAL student voices
Victoria Salmon developed her MA dissertation project into a UAL wide resource
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MA Academic Practice exhibition
Read about previous dissertation projects