Education MA (on campus)
January 2025
Welcome to Education MA on Campus at Birmingham Newman University.
We are delighted to welcome you to Education MA on Campus.
During welcome, you will get to meet the teaching staff and your fellow students.
We will be outlining some of the modules that you will be studying and we will do our best to answer any questions you may have. Here is some information that you will find useful as we welcome you to our course.
-
- Wednesday 15th January
- 10:00 – 13:00
- Room DW102
Further details to be confirmed Please bring your photo ID with you to complete the ID verification check for Student Finance confirmation.
-
Full details of your individual academic timetable will be available via your University email calendar after you have completed online enrolment and set up your student login.
-
Dr Linda Enow
Linda is a Senior Lecturer in the department of Education, Childhood and Professional Studies within the Faculty of Education. She teaches on the undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. On the undergraduate programmes, Linda’s teaching focuses on alternative education, reflective practice and research methods. Her postgraduate contribution centres on learning, teaching and educational assessment. Linda is also the MA Education (Online) programme leader.
Linda’s areas of research specialism are teacher cognition, cognitive processes in teaching, teacher development, and developing teacher expertise. She has also contributed to research on Alternative Educational Provision. Her research has been presented at national and international conferences. Linda has experience of supervising EdD and PhD students.
Linda is passionate about education and through her teaching and her research she works with teachers in schools, teaching assistants, FE professionals and practitioners. She is also a strong advocate for the contribution made by education professionals in the non-education sectors.
Dr Steve Dixon
Steve is a Senior Lecturer in Education, Childhood and Professional Studies, and teaches on a range of programmes, including the BA (Hons) in Studies in Primary Education, the Foundation Degree in Education, Teaching and Learning in Practice, the MA (Education) and the Professional Doctorate in Education (EdD), for which he also supervises doctoral students.
Previously a Senior Lecturer in ICT, Steve specialises in E-learning, and the use of multimedia in learning and teaching, with particular focus on web-based materials and web design, as well as film making (he is an Apple Certified Pro). He also acts as external consultant and external examiner for other universities.
He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and a member of the Executive Committee of BESA (the British Education Studies Association), for which he acts as Secretary. He is on the Board of Reviewers for the journals: Pastoral Care in Education, Educational Futures and Transformations, and is currently co-editor of Educational Futures.
Dr Ben Johnson
Ben is a Senior Lecturer in Education at Newman University. He has over eight years’ experience of teaching and leadership in Primary schools setting across the UK. He completed his PhD in 2020 conducting a narrative inquiry into teachers’ perceptions on creating communities of practice that disrupt heteronormativity in primary schools. His research interests include, critical pedagogy, developing equality, inclusivity and diversity provision in schools, social justice and issues of teacher agency and empowerment.
Miranda Barker
Miranda is a Senior Lecturer in Education and Special Educational Needs and Inclusion. She works within the Education, Childhood and Professional Studies courses teaching on the BA in Studies in Primary Education, Education and SEND as well as Master’s and Foundation Level courses.
Miranda has been a primary teacher, Special Educational Needs Coordinator, Multi-Academy Trust Lead for SEND and Inclusion and a Specialist Teacher for Warwickshire Local Authority.
Dr Jo Trowsdale
Jo Trowsdale is Senior Lecturer in Education, Childhood and Professional Studies.
She leads the MA in Education (on-campus), teaching Sociology of Education and Research Methods. She also teaches Creativity for BA Education Studies.
Jo has extensive experience in teacher education in both primary and secondary phases. As a regional director of the national Creative Partnerships programme (2002-11) she enabled school improvement, curricula and pedagogic developments between professional artists, businesses and teachers.
Her research is concerned with the importance of ‘art making’ practices as a context for more personally meaningful, inter- and transdisciplinary learning that stimulates pupils’ affective as well as cognitive dimensions. This includes the role of the arts in STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics) education.
Jo is a co-convenor for the new STEAM Education Research network of the British Education Research Association (BERA) and continues to work directly with schools, teachers, pupils and artists. She is a Senior Fellow of the HEA.
-
The MA Education team is comprised of highly experienced and research-active staff who are specialists in the range of Named Awards we offer.
Our team works closely with Student Support services to ensure you gain a personalised experience on the programme; and we embed planning for declarations of individual learning needs.
On the programme we examine, interrogate and reflect on all areas of education. Including the overarching areas of learning, teaching and assessment, this programme offers routes into educational leadership, inclusion, coaching and mentoring, safeguarding, early childhood education and social justice.
We value professionals with interest and expertise in learning, training and development in sectors outside of the standard education sector of schools. This means if you have innovative ideas of how to use education in non-school settings, your contribution will be most welcome as it enriches the experiences and diversifies the learning context. We welcome experiences both from the UK and the international context.
-
Reading that you may find useful on the course:
- Biesta, G. J. J. (2016) Beautiful risk of education. London: Routledge.
- Cottrell, S. (2023) Critical thinking skills: effective analysis, argument and reflection. 4th edn. London: Bloomsbury Academic (Bloomsbury study skills).
- Creswell, J. W. & Creswell, J. D. (2023) Research design: qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods approaches. 6th edn. Thousand Oaks, California: SAGE Publications.
- Wyse, D., Selwyn, N., Smith, E & Suter, L. E. (2017) The BERA/SAGE handbook of educational research. 1st edn. London: SAGE Publications.