MA Inclusive Education

Manchester Metropolitan University

Our MA Inclusive Education masters is a flexible course for anyone interested in critically exploring inclusive education. We offer a full-time route and a part-time route so you can study at a pace that suits you. From early years practitioners, teachers and leaders in education, to staff in local health authorities, health services and aspiring researchers, our course appeals to a variety of backgrounds and professions. You’ll be joining a diverse and thriving community of postgraduate students from the UK and across the world. Analyse key issues, significant debates and global concepts in the field of inclusive education. Reflect on your personal understandings of special educational needs and consider the relationship between educational values and the development of inclusive practice.Career prospectsOur MA Inclusive Education course aims to progress your career in education and enhance your academic skills for further research ventures.Through the course, you’ll develop critical thinking skills and gain the theoretical knowledge to question existing education practice, and how it could work in the future.By choosing your own topics and option module, our masters course aims to help you focus on your professional development and areas of interest – your priorities, targets and aspirations.Our graduates have used our courses to help further careers, either in their current sector, or to make an informed leap into a different role or field of education. Many of our students have gone into management and advisory positions related to inclusion and diversity in schools and other educational settings. Some have developed specialisms in areas of special educational needs, such as autism or dyslexia. We encourage you to apply your new thinking to practice and carry these creative, innovative approaches forward. This helps you to develop your skills as a systematic, evidence-driven practitioner.Many students who complete our courses intend to study at PhD level. If you’re considering pursuing a research degree (such as an MPhil, PhD or EdD) in education, this master’s course is a good foundation towards that ambition. Each year, several of our current and former students win scholarships for further study or have articles published.

Childhood, Youth and Education Studies