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Study Details: Up to 6 years (part-time)
The MA in Special Educational Needs and Disability is a new and unique postgraduate programme designed in response to a changing agenda for special education. This programme will enhance your skills and knowledge of Special Educational Needs and Disability in light of new policy.
You will use a practice-based approach to develop your confidence to improve outcomes and real-life chances for children, young people and adults, and develop capacity for professional career development in mainstream, special settings, further and higher education settings as well as those in employment and social care contexts.
The MA in Special Educational Needs and Disability embeds the National Award for Special Educational Needs Coordination (SENCO). It is designed to provide those working with children and families in mainstream and special education and also those in social care settings, with an enriched and enhanced programme of study leading to a Postgraduate Certificate, Postgraduate Diploma or MA in Special Educational Needs and Disability.
Graduates or non-graduates with professional experience will be invited for interview. National Award for Special Educational Needs Coordination (SENCO) applicants will have Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) and normally be working in SEN, or aspiring to acquire specialist SEN knowledge and skills.
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This course is ideal for anyone working within Special Educational Needs and Disability who wants to develop their practice and further their career.
There are 12 modules on offer, in which you will pick your choice of six to enable to you specialise in your particular areas of interest.
We offer four indicative pathways if you wish to follow a particular route:
Specific modules will be chosen at each level of study.
These modules focus on:
1. Professional Knowledge and Understanding
2. Leading and Managing Provision
3. Developing a Positive Ethos and Culture
4. Evaluating Specific Learning Difficulties
5. Reimagining Special Educational Needs Beyond Labels
6. Understanding Behavioural Emotional and Social Difficulties (BESD) through a psycho-socio perspective
7. Advanced Practice in Speech, Language and Communication Needs
8. Severe and Profound Cognitive Impairments
9. Complex Behavioural Difficulties: Theory and Practice
10. Aspects and Impact of Neurodiversity in Education, Training and Employment
11. Access to Education, Training and Employment
12. Adapting to Specific Needs in Education, Training and Employment
13. Dissertation (compulsory for MA)
A central theme of the programme is the development of person-centred, inclusive thinking which foregrounds individual interests and needs of children, young people and adults with SEN and/or disabilities is at the heart of all practice.
Approaches to teaching and learning will be varied to encourage discussion, reading and reflection on your own role and practice. At the heart of all teaching and learning on the MA Special Educational Needs are the essential skills of critical analysis and reflection, where you draw on the knowledge and experience you gain in the context of your own professional environment and to help you to link this to theory, research and policy. Learning and teaching methods are designed to engage you in utilising previous and current experience to address real-life issues and approaches to
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