Module Leader: Jaqueline Dynes

Core module MA Education

This module aims to offer a critical framework for understanding education in its wider social and historical contexts. The module focuses principally on the UK but also considers global developments and offers students opportunities to consider their own national contexts.

The module will explore the social purposes of education, considering issues such as: education and social justice; education, the state and social provision; education and the economy; educational inequalities; widening participation. We shall look at how shifts in these areas have informed developments in schools, post-compulsory and higher education.