What Makes This Course So Special?
Education for Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship is perceived to be strategically important in raising awareness, understanding and exploring applications of sustainable development and global citizenship issues within national and international contexts.
Course Intro
This course is for you if you are looking to continue your professional development and develop the required skills and knowledge to help your School meet Welsh Government ESDGC objectives. ESDGC is a key policy objective of the Welsh Government which has put forward an Action Plan to:
• Make sustainable development and global citizenship a feature of whole school policy
• Undertake to include sustainable development and global citizenship in the review of future requirements for Educational Strategic Plans (ESPs) and School Improvement Plans
• Review the place of sustainable development and global citizenship in the curriculum as part of ACCAC’s current curriculum review
• Introduce sustainable development and global citizenship into Continual Professional Development
The course will develop your understanding on a range of related issues - citizenship, human rights, children’s rights, sustainability as it relates to the school, the community and the wider world, the issues of poverty both local and global and the responses to such issues.
What you study
In common with all of the MA Education programmes, you must take the core module Research Methodology. An innovative feature is the consideration of the role of science education in ESDGC. However, it should be noted that a strong scientific background is not a necessity for this pathway as the application and implications of scientific development are the focus of this aspect of the course. The impacts of politics and ethical thinking on Scientific Development and Global Citizenship issues are also considered.
In addition to the Research module you will study two further compulsory modules:
• Education for Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship: you will consider and analyse the concept of citizenship, from its beginnings in the ancient world to the present day, the rights and responsibilities of a citizen and the processes of globalisation. An overview of conservation theory, principles and practice will be provided including scientific and ethical bases. You will consider alternative, conflicting attitudes to the environment; case studies to exemplify scientific uncertainty of cause and effect e.g. resource depletion; global climate change; biodiversity. The module will seek to define social and environmental problems within a global context, analysing poverty both locally and globally, including case studies of the abuse of human rights in the world today.
• Collaborative/individual professional project
Building on your knowledge and experience from the first module, you will undertake an ESDGC project, supported by your tutor.
You then choose another relevant, complementary module from the MA Education programme.
To complete the full MA you will present a 17,000 word research dissertation and a 3,000 word research dissemination plan.
A programme specification for this course is available.
Where Next?
A Masters degree is required for professional advancement in numerous occupations, and is widely seen as evidence of a successful commitment to high level professional development. An MA award demonstrates that you have developed advanced level skills in analysis, evaluation and research.
Interview Required
Yes. After you have made your application an informal interview will be required.
Assessment
Each module is assessed by means of either 1 or 2 assignments (this will be decided in consultation with the tutor) totalling 5,000 words.
Student Soundbite
“As well as enhancing my career prospects, the course exposed me to the key concepts of Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship which are of increasing importance on the education agenda today.”