MA Art and Education

This course is intended for artists, teachers, lecturers, art therapists, art advisors, community arts workers, gallery education officers, health workers, and others with experience in areas where art and education are important.

Theoretical Course Content
The course examines the foundations, theoretical issues, practices and inter-connectedness of art and education through a variety of discipline-based approaches. Different types of discourse are related to personal practice and the past, current and future relationship and development of art and education. Students are offered a choice of two separate and distinct study pathways: Academic, and Individual Practice. The Individual Practice element offers students the opportunity to engage with some of the concerns and practices of contemporary Fine Art in an educational context.

During the Postgraduate Certificate and the Postgraduate Diploma, two compulsory modules in art and education are studied, plus four modules from thirteen options covering current thinking in: philosophy and aesthetics and the sociology of art, including cross-cultural studies; psychology/theory of art, including gender and identity issues; a range of art therapeutic approaches and art and design histories. The balance of modules and individual practice will differ for the students following the Individual Practice pathway.

The selection of modules, academic progress, planning in reading and writing, and academic guidance, is overseen by personal and module tutors. The MA research element is typically conducted part-time in up to two years by dissertation.

Assessment:
Assessment is continuous without formal examination. With the Postgraduate Certificate and Postgraduate Diploma there is an assessed assignment for each of the six modules. The assignments and dissertation may vary from case studies, action research, formal theoretical papers to visual evidence supported by critical analysis.