MPhil in Education (Knowledge, Power and Politics)

The MPhil is a full-time course offered by the Faculty of Education. It introduces students to research skills and specialist knowledge that explores how education is shaped by power, politics, and contested forms of knowledge. Recognising that education takes a wide variety of forms and is subject to different, often competing agendas across the globe, this MPhil in Knowledge, Power and Politics explores fundamental questions relating to: the roles of education in societies; transnational debates about the nature of knowledge formation and its circulation; and the consequences for social justice. The main educational aims are: to examine the theoretical frameworks used in the study of education and its constituent disciplines; provide training in research methods appropriate to education; advance students’ capacity for professional reflection and judgment; cater for a range of specialists interested within the field of education or one of its constituent disciplines.

Applicants for this course should have achieved a Good II.i Honours Degree.