Enhanced Practice in Education

This programme will provide you with the skills and confidence to apply principles of practitioner-based enquiry and make effective changes in your place of work. You will develop expertise to initiate and influence positive working relationships across your organisation and beyond.

WHY THIS PROGRAMME

- This programme is designed for people at different stages in their professional careers from a range of backgrounds in education and allied fields such as social work, psychology, health and policing.

- There is a focus on collaborative learning, drawing on your own experiences and those of your academic colleagues.

- The programme will help you develop evidence-based leadership approaches and practices in critical reflection that you can apply in relation to your own practice.

- Research-informed courses will help you to consider practice and policy in the light of current educational thinking and enable you to improve your own practice to become an effective practitioner. Our optional courses ‘Critical perspectives on knowledge and power’ and ‘Critical thinking and communication’ will deepen your understanding of organisational power underpinning knowledge creation.

- Our ‘Working in an interagency environment’ course is one of the only available courses of its kind outside UK local government.

- Many of the courses on this programme offer increased flexibility and convenience through a mix of blended learning, twilight campus lectures and weekend seminars designed with the busy professional in mind.

PROGRAMME STRUCTURE

You will take four core and two optional courses, followed by a research project. The research project provides an opportunity for you to identify an area of personal and professional interest to explore in more detail. This programme follows a model of weekend teaching, usually on Fridays and Saturdays. For more information about teaching and timetabling for this programme, please contact David.Lundie@glasgow.ac.uk

Core courses
Evaluating Educational Change
Leading and Managing Change
Reflective Practice
Working in an inter-agency environment
Enhanced Practice Dissertation or Work Placement

Recommended optional courses

These optional courses are your recommended choices for alongside the above core courses as they follow the same weekend teaching model. All other optional courses listed below are available to our students but are taught on weekdays.

Perspectives on Power and Professional Practice
Critical Thinking and Communication