Master of Arts in Education

Description

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The field of education importantly needs professionals who have the capacity to develop curriculum, strengthen the pedagogy of discipline-based teaching, impart teacher training, conduct evidence-based research, influence education policies through advocacy measures, administer educational institutions and provide leadership in achieving educational goals. The Masters programme in Education offered by the School of Educational Studies at the TISS Hyderabad Campus attempts to address these needs in order to strengthen the field of Education and contribute to the professionalisation and discipline building of education in India. The full-time, campus-based MA Education programme, which commenced at TISS Hyderabad from the academic year 2013-14, focuses on all levels of education ranging from pre-school and school to higher education.

Objectives of the Programme

The overall objective of the programme is to develop capacities of students for the academic study of education with a view to facilitating their active immersion and self-reflexive involvement at the ground level whether as teachers, teacher educators, textbook writers or policy makers or in a range of other roles and capacities associated with the field of education.

The Master of Arts (Education) programme will enable students to develop a sustained and critical engagement with the discipline of Education especially as it has emerged and expanded in India. It will ensure an understanding of how Education has been shaped by subjects such as Philosophy, Sociology, History and Psychology, which are regarded as its foundational disciplines. The programme will equip students to specialise in areas of their interest with regard to different levels of education ranging from preschool, elementary or secondary schooling to higher education and develop the skill set and competency to engage comprehensively with various aspects of education policies and programmes. All the core objectives of the Masters programme are essentially located within a commitment to promoting the values of democracy, equality and equity.

Career Opportunities

Diverse career choices are open to students completing their MA in Education. Students have the option of entering the teaching profession (as teachers or teacher trainers) or developing curricula or becoming educational administrators, counsellors or researchers of education. Students who have graduated from School of Educational Studies have over the years been placed through the campus placement processes with various educational institutions, including governmental bodies, civil society organisations, policy think-tanks, CSR initiatives and funding agencies that focus their work on education. Building on the research training acquired as part of the programme, some students have also gone on to secure admissions in doctoral programmes of well-known Universities within the country and abroad.

Programme Structure

The MA Education spread over two years is offered as a full time, campus-based programme covering 80 credits. Through a combination of core and optional courses, the programme ensures that students are well equipped with foundational knowledge while also equipped to pursue interests and specialisation of their choice in relation to curriculum and pedagogies of subjects/disciplines as well as thematic areas. The programme enables students to acquire specialisation by choosing optional courses, taking basic and advanced levels of various courses, and pursuing specific dissertation topics.

Evaluation and Programme Completion

All courses will be evaluated following the TISS evaluation rules and regulations. The eleven point grading system is used for the evaluation for each course. Evaluation is based on both assignments submitted during the course as well as an end term examination. A student must achieve a pass in each course, and failing this they would need to repeat the course the next time that it is offered (i.e. the next year). Experiential learning and Dissertation are also evaluated and graded.

Distribution of Credit Hours:

Table 1: MA Education: Programme Structure

Note

*Students will choose any one of these advanced level courses: Sociology of Education, Educational Psychology (Development and Cognition), Philosophy of Education, History of Education.

**Students will choose any one from a basket of courses designed to build their professional competencies such as Project Management, Monitoring & Evaluation; Design Thinking; Education Communication.

Table 2: Typology of Courses

Fee Structure:

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