Primary Education (Policy and Practice) University College London (UCL)

This masters degree will:

• meet the rapidly changing needs of professionals engaged in the challenges of educating young children
• critically examine the basis for current practice in primary schools
• provide insight into global and international perspectives on primary education
• stimulate and enhance your thinking and enable you to develop your own perspectives on primary education
• develop your research skills through evaluating research and undertaking your own research study.

This masters degree provides the opportunity to:

• engage with historical and contemporary debates and policy initiatives in primary education in the UK and internationally
• explore the dynamic relationship between educational research, policy and practice
• reflect upon and develop your professional practice, and undertake a leading role in primary education.

A wide range of professionals involved in primary education, such as class teachers, curriculum coordinators, policy advisers, consultants and lecturers in higher education.

A good first degree and, ideally, direct professional involvement with pre-school or primary education either in or outside the UK.

• The perspectives and contexts of primary education
• Contemporary issues and debates in primary education
• Research methods in education.

• Early childhood education
• Literacy practice in writing and comprehension
• Children's rights in practice
• Primary mathematics.

By coursework assignments and a 20,000-word dissertation or 10,000-word report.

Face-to-face evening and Saturday sessions.

Graduates of this masters degree are currently working as:

• advanced skills teachers
• local government advisers
• headteachers
• further education lecturers.

• Research Methods in Education
• The Perspectives and Context of Primary Education

• Children's Rights In Practice
• Contemporary Issues and Debates in Primary Education
• Early Childhood Education
• Literacy Development
• Theories of Childhood and Children's Rights

Entry requirements for this course

Contact University College London (UCL) to find course entry requirements.

View foundation and pathway programmes to help you meet academic and language entry requirements.