Education - Artist Teacher Practice
PGCert
Key facts
Overview
The PGCert Education - Artist Teacher Practice is a Masters programme of continuing professional development for artist teachers.
You will combine Master’s level educational research and academic study with visual arts creation and exhibiting to:
- review and develop your personal creative practice
- support ongoing enquiry into the professional artist teacher identity
- balance tensions between education and making.
Making as research and learning within a community are vital in supporting you to become an independent makers beyond the course. It also fosters diverse opportunities for both current students and alumni.
The Artist Teacher Practice course provides strong partnerships with:
- the Pitt Rivers Museum
- visual practitioners
- artist tutors (visual arts practitioners who are also engaged in educational practice in a range of contexts).
How to apply
Entry requirements
Specific entry requirements
Applicants need to be working in art education in some capacity. It is preferable that candidates have a first degree in education or an art-related practice, although this can be negotiated according to individual circumstance. Applicants do not need Qualified Teacher Status.
Please also see the University's general entry requirements.
English requirements for visas
If you need a student visa to enter the UK you will need to meet the UK Visas and Immigration minimum language requirements as well as the University's requirements. Find out more about English language requirements.
Pathways courses for international and EU students
We offer a range of courses to help you meet the entry requirements for your postgraduate course and also familiarise you with university life in the UK.
Take a Pre-Master's course to develop your subject knowledge, study skills and academic language level in preparation for your master's course.
If you need to improve your English language, we offer pre-sessional English language courses to help you meet the English language requirements of your chosen master’s course.
Terms and Conditions of Enrolment
When you accept our offer, you agree to the Terms and Conditions of Enrolment. You should therefore read those conditions before accepting the offer.
Application process
Tuition fees
Questions about fees?
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Tuition fees
Fees quoted are for the first year only. If you are studying a course that lasts longer than one year, your fees will increase each year.
The following factors will be taken into account by the University when it is setting the annual fees: inflationary measures such as the retail price indices, projected increases in University costs, changes in the level of funding received from Government sources, admissions statistics and access considerations including the availability of student support.
How and when to pay
Tuition fee instalments for the semester are due by the Monday of week 1 of each semester. Students are not liable for full fees for that semester if they leave before week 4. If the leaving date is after week 4, full fees for the semester are payable.
- For information on payment methods please see our Make a Payment page.
- For information about refunds please visit our Refund policy page
Additional costs
Please be aware that some courses will involve some additional costs that are not covered by your fees. Specific additional costs for this course are detailed below.
Compulsory costs
| Additional costs | Amount (£) |
|---|---|
| You will need to purchase materials for the compulsory module Developing Personal Artistic Practice. | £100 |
Optional costs
| Additional costs | Amount (£) |
|---|---|
It’s your responsibility to cover print / binding costs where coursework submission is required. Please note that a lot of the coursework is now submitted online. |
From £30 |
| You may choose to purchase books to support your studies. Many books on our reading lists are available via the Library, or can be purchased secondhand. | £20-60 per book |
Accommodation fees in Brookes Letting (most do not include bills) |
£94-265 per week |
Accommodation fees in university halls (bills included, excluding laundry costs) |
£122-180 per week |
Graduation costs include tickets, gowning and photography. Gowns are not compulsory but typically students do hire robes, starting at £41. |
Typically £0-200 |
Students are responsible for their own travel to and from university for classes. BrookesBus travel is subsidised for full-time undergraduate students that are on a course with a fee of £9,250 or more, or living in an Oxford Brookes hall of residence. There is an administration fee for the production of a BrookesKey. |
From £10 |
Funding your studies
Financial support and scholarships
Featured funding opportunities available for this course.
All financial support and scholarships
Learning and assessment
The PG Certificate: Artist Teacher Practice consists of two modules (total of 60 credits) taken part time over one year.
Study modules
Your first module will focus on the de-colonisation of the curriculum and pedagogies which support a critical appraisal of visual art and culture. Working with the Pitt Rivers Museum education team, you'll examine how experiences of colonisation are represented in their collection with activities designed to help you consider how to build anti-racist agendas in your teaching contexts.
- on-campus mode of study will be blended and include some face to face delivery from September
- distance learning and remote modes of study will be interactive, high quality and involve live seminars
- whichever mode of study you choose, you'll participate in formal and informal learning opportunities with the entire artist teacher practice course cohort.
Learning and teaching
Our teaching methods include:
- workshops
- crits
- seminars.
These are held at our Harcourt Hill Campus and the participating Oxford University museums. There is also a programme of occasional whole day intensive sessions with online resource-based learning.
Field trips
You will have opportunities to work in partnership with Pitt Rivers Museum and across the University Museums Oxford. This involves:
- working with visual practitioners and artist educator specialists
- focusing on interpretation of contemporary art, craft and/or design.
Assessment
Assessment methods used on this course
Module 1 is assessed through a 3,000 word assignment plus a 1,000 word formative essay plan. This focuses on a project run in a professional setting where you support learners to embed interpretation into a contemporary art project.
Module 2 focuses on making your own visual practice. It is assessed partly through a portfolio of evidence, a reflective journal and an individual presentation to tutors.
Research
The School of Education, Humanities and Languages is a thriving centre for educational research and teacher professional development. Students on master's level programmes therefore join a large research community comprising researchers at all levels of higher education study.
We hold two major research conferences each year - the School of Education Research Conference and the EdD Colloquium. All students are invited to attend our annual Research
Seminar Series (which attracts both internal and external speakers). We also organise a number of conferences, lectures, seminars and debates, some of which have an international reach.
The School’s six research groups exist to encourage engagement in research, publication, conference presentations, seminars and workshops:
- Inclusion and Wellbeing
- Policy, Partnership and Leadership
- STEAM pedagogy and learning
- Humanistic Perspectives on Education
- Early Years
- Applied Linguistics
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After you graduate
Career prospects
Students who have completed or are completing the programme have found career progression in the following ways:
- additional management responsibility within the school/department, such as head of department
- progression from arts co-ordinator in primary school to Senior Lecturer in Education (primary art)
- engagement in further arts-based master's programmes
- opportunity to contribute significantly to arts based-awards developed within educational settings, such as Arts Award and Arts Mark
- artist in residence opportunities
- presentation of research projects at the national NSEAD conference
- opportunity to publish research projects in NSEAD publications
- opportunity to present visual arts research at national conferences
- opportunity to exhibit artwork in public spaces.
There is a route towards developing visual art education doctoral work at Oxford Brookes University as a result of the completion of the MA programme.
Related courses
Programme changes:
On rare occasions we may need to make changes to our course programmes after they have been
published on the website. For more information, please visit our
changes to programmes page.