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Study Details: 14-15 months (full-time), 3 years (part-time)
Available at Kingsway Buildings, Chester or Riverside Campus, Chester
The MA in Creative Practices in Education is an advanced degree course for graduates and a wide range of professionals who want to develop or enhance their skills and knowledge as a creative worker within a professional context. This course is unique through combined staffing from two faculties: Education and Children’s Services together with Arts and Media and the partnerships which underpin it, providing students with the opportunity to work alongside colleagues in cultural organisations.
The course is innovative through the direct link made in practice and theory between the arts, education and the professions. It is distinctively multi-disciplinary in allowing students to draw on expertise in participatory drama and performance, fine art, dance, music, sport and PE and organisational learning within a professional context. The course is designed as a sequence of study to move students thinking into a phase that generates more expansive creative and critical practice.
Students will experience learning that fosters creative potential through studio and performance practice. Students will have the opportunity to increase specialisation during stage two of the Programme. Workshops, seminars, lectures and specialist facilities across the two faculties encourage the exploration of ideas, in a wide variety of practice based disciplines. Modules focus on the professional and theoretical contexts of performance – drama, fine art, dance and sport and PE including research methods; they also encourage an interrogation of personal and peer practice.
Students will have the opportunity to pursue practical individual projects, to study creative process and how the work might be documented for dissemination and use in future professional contexts. This includes artistic practice but extends beyond this into
In 2013/2014, we hosted one module at the Liverpool Tate gallery; subsequent years have enabled us to develop the capacity of our partners in collaboration with the Tate and the University of Chester to involve theatres and dance/drama companies. The Football Association will also host some of the modules as part of the Sport and PE strand.
We would expect students to have a first degree within a creative or cogent subject or a degree and experience of working in a creative or educational setting. Students who do not have a degree but have experience in the area will be interviewed and assessed on their ability. For students with English as an additional language, IELTS 6.5 is a prerequisite.
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Holders of the qualification will have the qualities and transferable skills necessary for employment requiring the exercise of initiative and responsibility, decision–making in complex and unpredictable situations, and the independent learning ability required for continuing professional development.
Based on previous trends, graduates from the MA in Creative Practices in Education programme might expect to take one or more of the following routes:
• Remain in education or a professional position
• Gain promotion within education or a professional context
• Move to work in higher education – either part or full time
• Gain first time employment in an education or professional organisation
At the heart of the approaches to teaching and learning are reflexivity, critical reflection and creative engagement. Students are encouraged to listen and discuss different perspectives and act on the learning to become more effective reflective practitioners who have developed the skills of criticality which has enabled them to identify and address areas for professional and academic development.
Modules include the following:
CD7301 Engagement with Creative Practice: the first double module enables students to build upon
CD7310 Cultural Organisations introduces a range of theoretical frameworks for creativity and its application to educational and professional practices. Students will explore cultural organisations and their effects on the meanings of creative practice.
CD7033 Practitioner Enquiry enables students to evaluate their own creative and professional learning; it is an opportunity to develop the skills of reflexivity and critical practice.
Students will interrogate practice to discover a question or enquiry, consider appropriate methodologies and undertake a practice-based enquiry within a professional setting.
Optional modules provide the opportunity to pursue an individual project, to study creative process and how the work might be documented for dissemination and used in future professional contexts. This includes pedagogical analysis,
Stage 3 of the course is the culmination of the Master’s degree, enabling students to give focus to their creative and professional practice through an extended research project. Stage 3 provides a choice from four modules to cater for the variety of professionals engaged with the course, enabling students to personalise their enquiry appropriate to their professional context.
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