MA Creative Arts in Education

We welcome applications from students who hold qualifications and degrees that are not in education. These may include degrees and qualifications undertaken in the social sciences, natural sciences, humanities, arts or business studies. Please note that this list is not exhaustive and every application will be considered on a case-by-case basis. We would encourage applicants to use their personal statement to indicate their interests in creative arts education and any relevant work experience.

Some modules require Disclosure and Barring Service checks.

Our Education Studies module provides a grounding in education research, theory and practice. Every other week students participate in activity sessions such as:

• A discussion and practical activity with a range of psychology practitioners
• Designing your own materials which might help to address racial inequalities in school
• Working with an expert in young people's relationships education
• Short series of pedagogy-focused sessions for students who want to work with young people in educational settings in the future

Assessment

All modules are assessed through course work and there are no final examinations. Assessments are varied and include:

• Essays
• Online projects
• Portfolios
• Presentations

Facilities and support

You'll be assigned a personal tutor and have access to module tutors via face-to-face and/or email or online tutorials. You'll also have access to a range of support including lecture notes, presentations, film clips and reading materials through our online learning environment.

Campus-based modules are taught at the School of Education at the St Luke's Campus in Exeter, which offers an excellent range of specialist facilities and one of the UK's largest Education libraries.

Research-led teaching

You will join a vibrant postgraduate community at the School of Education, studying with some of the leading scholars in their disciplines.

You will benefit from our active research culture, which promotes the sharing of ideas and knowledge to encourage innovation. Our research centres provide a focus for research and discussion for academic staff, researchers and practitioners, and organise seminar series, visiting speakers, conferences and other events.

Visiting speakers

In addition to benefiting from the expertise and experience of our academics, on this course you will also engage with high profile arts education providers.

We bring visiting speakers and organisations into our modules, as well as providing opportunities for students to understand local arts education community to see practice in context via field visits. Below are examples of the partners we work with to achieve this:

Daisi

Daisi’s vision is for artistic and cultural experience to be at the heart of young people's lives and learning. Daisi’s mission is to work in partnership with artists from a broad range of artistic disciplines, and educators to enable arts and culture to enrich and inspire the lives, learning and futures of children and young people in the South West region.

Within this remit Daisi has a close affiliation with the MA Creative Arts in Education.

Daisi believes that engagement and learning in and through the arts transforms lives, and that young people contribute to the cultural lives, futures and heritage of all of us. They aim to celebrate their achievements and to contribute intelligently to the arts education sector's evidence base of the positive impact of arts education activity on outcomes for young people. Daisi is committed to designing, supporting and sharing innovative, diverse and relevant approaches to learning in and through the arts through partnerships, such as the affiliation with the MA Creative Arts in Education course and collaborations across sector boundaries.

www.daisi.org.uk

Associate Professor Oded Ben-Horin

Associate Professor Oded Ben-Horin (Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway) held a “Science Opera” workshop for University of Exeter’s Creative Arts students as part of the European Commission’s CREATIONS project. During the workshop, students were introduced to pedagogical features of the CREATIONS project, which seeks to raise interest in science and scientific careers through a specific approach to creativity in science education: the inter-disciplinary meeting of science and art in the classroom. Two cases were demonstrated: Write a Science Opera (WASO) and Global Science Opera (GSO). In the former, students experienced exercises which may be used to realize science/art activities with a class of pupils. In the latter, the students were introduced to how global opera productions are realised in collaboration with international scientific institutions.

The full gallery of photos from Associate Professor Ben-Horin's workshop can be viewed here.

The Real School, Budapest

Visit their site.

CREATIONS Project

The MA Creative Arts in Education staff are also involved in research relevant to the course. One such project was the EU-Horizon 2020-funded CREATIONs project which aimed to engage young people in science education through creativity and the arts. Creative Arts students assisted at the CREATIONs Masterclass where the secrets of light and colour in butterflies and photography were revealed to school children in Years 7 and 8. The day involved seminars and hands on activities including looking at photography via a Camera Obscura. The event, held at the University’s Streatham campus, was led by Professor Pete Vukusic and Sam White.

Professor Vukusic’s research explores how light is manipulated in the natural world, and Sam is a specialist in photography who works in schools with his Camera Obscura. The event was a collaboration between the University of Exeter's School of Education and Faculty of Environment, Science and Economy and run with the help of PhD Physics students and the Creative Arts students. This Masterclass was also run in association with the Science and Technology Facilities Council’s Physics Masterclass Programme.

Please note that, due to data protection, the job titles and organisations listed below are independent and do not correspond.

Job Titles

• Teacher
• Subject Specialist Teacher (including music, arts, drama)
• Special Needs Teacher
• Head of Department
• Arts Manager
• Educational Therapist
• Education Officer
• Dyslexia Assessor
• Headteacher/Principal
• Education Consultant
• Dean, Faculty of Arts
• Lecturer

Employers

• Ofsted
• Devon Education Authority
• Jersey States Education Department
• Plymouth City Council
• FEA Training and Development Centre
• Camden LEA
• Exeter College
• Hong Kong SAR Government
• Danish National School of Contemporary Dance
• Ministry of Education, Cyprus
• Saltash Community School
• University of Reading

Career support

Careers support including skills training, internships, jobs vacancies, employment fairs and other events is available through the Career Zone.

This module is focused on experiencing and reflecting on educational practices. The module involves two parts: a series of lectures and seminars focusing on critical reflection, experiential learning and professional development within education; and a set of educational experiences. It allows you the unique opportunity to observe, experience and reflect on practice and to use this as an opportunity for personal, professional and academic development. The module will provide you with the tools to reflect critically upon your experience of educational practices. You will also be encouraged to reflect on your learning in your experience of educational practices and to consider how this relates to the wider issues, processes, practices, policies and theoretical ideas that you have explored in your academic study. This module thus strongly supports you in connecting theory and practice.

The educational experience of practice may either: be based on curated digital online activities; take place physically in a place of education; or occur in a virtual place of education. In the curated digital online activities, you would engage with a wealth of initial resources selected by module tutors to allow you to experience a variety of educational settings, and will build on this independently to develop your own particular focus. You will have the opportunity to search for your own physical/virtual experience, and support in this process may be available from the college Employability and Placement Advisor. It is not expected that experiences will take place in the formal school setting. You are encouraged to think about the variety of settings where education might occur and to consider experiences which will challenge your existing assumptions, perspectives and skill sets.