MA Design and Technology Education

Attendance

Part-time

Part-time

The course consists of self-directed learning supported with some days of taught input.

Variable start dates.

At a glance

About this course

This course develops your personal capability, improves your subject knowledge and furthers your career towards subject leadership.

We designed the first year to help you achieve the PgCert in Design and Technology Education.

The course reflects the dynamic and rapidly changing design and technology curriculum in schools. It enhances your vision and philosophy of design and technology.

As a key contributor to the secondary school curriculum, the course sets the agenda for your own professional development and allows you to take a leading role in developing the subject.

The flexible structure enables you to fit your studies around professional and personal commitments, while working towards a postgraduate qualification. This can be demanding, so we offer web-based learning environments, email, discussion groups and telephone support.

Through a range of study and activity, you develop generic and specific management skills needed for today’s curriculum manager.

The course also recognises the need for teachers to update their own subject knowledge and skills in line with modern industrial practice. This helps you to provide the necessary leadership in a dynamic design and technology environment.

We structure the course on teachers’ work patterns in school and use your school as a major source of information for research and development. We also encourage active collaboration between course members working in different establishments.

Associated careers

The course is designed for teachers of design and technology in the secondary/post-16 sector. It is also aimed at both practising heads of departments and faculties and those aspiring to such positions.

Possessing this postgraduate qualification contributes significantly to career development and improves promotion opportunities in middle, and to senior, management in schools and colleges.

Course content

The flexible course design allows you to choose to study modules that match your own career plans and aspirations.

To gain the

• postgraduate certificate, you complete two (30 credit) modules
• postgraduate diploma, you complete a further two (30 credit) modules
• MA you complete a further (60 credit) module

Modules

• developing electronics and communication technology (ECT) in the design and technology curriculum • developing computer aided design and manufacture (CAD/CAM) in the design and technology curriculum • developing e-learning in the design and technology curriculum • developing education for sustainable design • developing food education in the school design and technology curriculum • managing the design and technology curriculum (successful completion results in Design and Technology Association subject leadership qualification) • research methodologies in design and technology education • open design and technology research project

Assessment

By continuous assessment, essays or projects

Entry requirements

Normally you need one of the following

• a degree in a design and technology-related subject plus a one year Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE)

• a degree in design and technology with education and qualified teacher status

• a bachelor of education degree in subjects now part of design and technology such as home
economics, craft design and technology, textiles

• a degree in a subject with some relation to design and technology, plus a two year PGCE (which includes one year of design and technology study)

• certificate in education in a design and technology-related subject with significant teaching experience

If English is not your first language you normally need an IELTS score of at least 6.5.

Fees

Home and EU students

2013/14 academic year

Typically £1,785 a stage for PgCert, PgDip and MA stages based on 60 credits per stage

How to apply

Complete the application form available at www.shu.ac.uk/study/form

Contact details

For further information please contact the Faculty of Arts, Computing, Engineering and Sciences, Sheffield Hallam University, City Campus, Sheffield S1 1WB. Phone +44 (0)114 225 5179 or email aces-helpdesk@shu.ac.uk