History of Education (MA)

This masters degree will:

• help you acquire knowledge and understanding of education through a historical perspective
• develop your skills in historical methodology by reflecting on oral, written and visual sources and interpretations
• enable you to critically review arguments and analyse the experience of education from the 18th century to the present day
• support you in undertaking a research study on an aspect of history of education in an international perspective.

This masters degree provides the opportunity to:

• study a programme that is unique in the UK
• reflect on your personal educational experience and set it within a historical framework
• study history of education beyond the classroom, through urban walks and collaboration with local museums and archives
• connect contemporary policy and practice to what happened in the past
• become part of a vibrant research community with a regular programme of seminars and workshops convened by the programme leader.

People with a strong interest in social history, including teachers working in primary, secondary and further education and local authorities; school governors; policy-makers; politicians, and people working in the field of history and education, such as archaeologists, museum curators and archivists.

A good first degree.

• History of education: concepts and international perspectives.

• Gender and class: theory and practice
• Social histories of British education
• Theory and policy in education
• Education research.

By coursework assignments of up to 5,000 words and a 20,000-word dissertation or 10,000-word report.

Face-to-face evening and occasional Saturday or online sessions.

Graduates of this masters degree are currently working as:

• senior archivist
• professor of education
• senior journalist and policy adviser.

• History of Education
• Theoretical Foundations Of Educational Ideas

• Social Histories Of British Education