MA in Design Education
The MA in Design Education stems from two big human ideas – designing and learning – and explores their connection. Whilst we can all re-order and improve our words, can we learn to be better designers? Whilst learning is a natural consequence of human growth, can we learn more effectively through the real-world engagement that designing provides?
Alix, MA in Design Education
1 year full-time or 3 years part-time.
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Usually experience in a professional design and/or educational context with evidence of a commitment to furthering your practice in design education. You are normally expected to hold a degree in the field of design, education, design and technology, visual cultures, architecture, curating/gallery studied or a related field. Applicants with extensive professional experience may be considered. If your first language is not English, please check our English Language requirements.
TDA-funded discount of £650 on the annual fee for teachers working in state-funded schools.
We produce graduates of consistently high calibre, including many who have become leaders in the creative industries of a number of countries, including China, Japan and Korea. Our students have won numerous awards (including UK Young Designer of the Year and Eco-Designer of the Year) and their shows have attracted positive attention in the media and achieved great acclaim in the design community. A number of graduates are now working in top London design consultancies (Fitch, Thomas Heatherwick Studios, Imagination, Pentagram) and major UK companies (John Lewis Partnership, Eden Project, Harvey Nichols).
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Contact the Admissions Tutor, Jenny Bain.
We consider how learning might reinvigorate designing and how designing might reinvigorate learning. The programme establishes a critical-creative setting in which you can challenge existing practice and explore ways to develop your own.
You complete three core modules on Researching Design Learning, Designing and Learning, and an Independent Research Project, as well as option units from a range including Design Ideation, Located Learning, and International and Cultural Perspectives. The core and option units allow you to develop understandings and expertise that you can draw together and utilise in your final project. This project will enable you to engage in significant research, in a context of your own choosing, that will inform understandings of designing and learning. The project can be undertaken as either practice-based research supported by theory, or theory-based research supported by practice.
Assessment
The MA utilises a range of assessment methods and strategies including presentation forums, critical and reflective statements (usually accompanying a portfolio of work), essays, and an individual research project (either a dissertation or a portfolio, realised outcome and report).
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