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Study Details: MA/PgDip/PgCert: 1 year full-time, 2 years part-time
Our course is ideal if you are interested in physical education in its broadest terms, particularly if you are already working in the field within schools and youth sport and seek to further your professional development and career potential. We will help to enhance your understanding of physical education as a lifelong process.
You will develop a critical understanding of contemporary curriculum practice in physical education and school sport, as well as critically assess the role of different pedagogical models in teaching physical education and school sport.
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There is an increasing need for highly qualified masters graduates to work with children and young people within schools and the community. As well as the possibility to pursue, or extend, a career in physical education, other opportunities include sports club administration, governing body, community sport and higher education.
PE Teacher
Sports Club Administrator
Community Sport Officer
Healthy Lifestyles Coach
PgCert and PgDip options are also available.
Explore the ways PE and youth sport are taught and assessed, focussing on issues such as competitive sport, PE as a way of keeping students fit, teaching games for understanding and PE as an examinable subject.
Draw on child development theory to assess the experiences of young people in PE and sport. You will examine various knowledge bases, considering the challenges of conducting research about young people.
Examine diversity and inequality from a social science perspective. You will consider specific examples of legal discrimination and how they relate to sport, law, leisure and physical education professions.
Designed to prepare you for your major independent study, you’ll focus on research methods and ethics to aid you in your own study.
Undertake a major independent study into an area of your personal interest, relevant to the Physical Education course.
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