Unit name | Developing Subject Knowledge |
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Unit code | EDUCM0065 |
Credit points | 20 |
Level of study | M/7 |
Teaching block(s) |
Academic Year (weeks 1 - 52) |
Unit director | Professor. Brown |
Open unit status | Not open |
Pre-requisites |
None |
Co-requisites |
None |
School/department | School of Education |
Faculty | Faculty of Social Sciences and Law |
This unit is designed for in-service teachers who want to update their own subject knowledge in a particular area. The unit will support further study, decided in negotiation with the tutor, in one or more areas of their specialist subject - chosen appropriate to the participant’s background knowledge and interests.
Participants may be able to attend a course of lectures in the relevant University Department or may be given tutorial guidance in reading. As well as the central work on developing subject expertise there are two further strands to the unit that support reflection and the drawing out of implications for classroom practice.
These two strands are outlined below:
Unit Aims
By the end of the unit students will be able to demonstrate:
The unit will normally be conducted independently on the basis of an appropriate number of one-to-one meetings with the tutor who is supervising the student.
Summative assessment:
The final assignment can be presented as a continuous piece of writing of 4000 words which:
However, in negotiation with the tutor it is possible to be creative about ways of satisfying these criteria outside of the format of a standard assignment.
The key texts for the MSc in Education are the research journals found in the Graduate School of Education Library and online.
Participants will also engage with journals specific to education within their specialist/chosen subject.
Other texts will be recommended dependent upon the subject content learnt and ways of learning it, negotiated with the tutor.