Artist Teacher Scheme (Postgraduate Certificate in Advanced Educational Practice) - 2012 entry

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Overview

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Artist Teacher Scheme exhibition, work by Year 1 student Simon Clarkson

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Artist Teacher Scheme exhibition, work by Year 1 student Simon Clarkson

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Artist Teacher Scheme workshop at Modern Art Oxford

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Artist Teacher Scheme workshop at Modern Art Oxford

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Major Project final work by Year 3 MA student Karen Dix

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Artist Teacher Scheme exhibition, work by Year 1 student Gill Jopia

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Major Project final work by Year 3 MA student Amy Roberts

The National Society for Education in Art and Design’s Artist Teacher Scheme programme is based on the central belief that teachers of art, design and craft across all sectors who maintain and develop their own creative practice can be significantly more effective in the classroom or studio and more likely to be satisfied with their work in education. The scheme provides opportunities for artist teachers to review and develop their personal creative practice in relation to the highest levels of contemporary practice in the contexts of higher education institutions and art museums and galleries.

Why Brookes?

The School of Education at Oxford Brookes is one of the largest Schools of education in the UK, combining high quality teaching and significant research and consultancy activity in an outstanding location, with superb sporting, recreational and study facilities.

As a Postgraduate student you will be joining a University which is widely regarded as a major contibutor to the improvement of education and learning, locally and nationally. The School of Education is a focal point for lively, informed debate on education through its seminar and lecture programmes, including the high profile Oxford Education debates. We are proud to be co-sponsors of the Oxford Academy, a community secondary school, where Oxford Brookes staff and students provide practical support to pupils and teaching staff.

We work in close partnership with hundreds of schools and colleges and other organisations.

Our 110-acre Harcourt Hill campus offers all the benefits of a complete academic community on one site.  You will be  working with highly regarded academics who are at the forefront of their subjects. Drawing on our cutting-edge, research-led teaching, our courses will advance your knowledge and develop your professional skills. Academics work alongside students from a wide range of backgrounds, and with the support of a caring and efficient administrative staff, provide a rich and diverse intellectual and social environment.

In detail

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Course content

The arts based route through the MA in Education provides an opportunity for artist educators to explore your professional identity in depth through practice based research in an educational setting. The first year aligns with the national Artist Teacher Scheme, organised by The NSEAD, and is run in partnership with Modern Art Oxford. This format allows you the opportunity to engage with wide range of professionals working in arts education, gallery education and with artist practitioners in a range of settings. The second and third years build on this structure to engage you in the exploration of how you locate yourself as an artist educator in your professional settings, encouraging the production of visual practice as research methodology. One unique feature of the full MA route is the opportunity to submit a final thesis as a major project where the outcome can be presented as 50% written component and 50% visual practice.

Integrating Contemporary Practice into the Classroom
Module1 (M level credits: 20)

Content includes:

  • Explore contemporary practice in a gallery setting
  • Extend theoretical and practical subject specific skills, knowledge and understanding
  • Critically analyse extended contemporary subject knowledge to teaching and learning
  • Share ideas, meet and work with new colleagues
  • Work with a number of art/education/gallery specialists
  • Experiment with and reflect on innovative ways to link extended practical subject knowledge to classroom practice
  • Integrate appropriate theory and practice into research
  • Present work as a portfolio of evidence with writing/annotation and examples of planning, resources and artworks produced by pupils.

 

Integrating Contemporary Practice into the Classroom
Module 2 (M level credits: 40)

Content includes:

  • Developing practical and theoretical subject knowledge through access to facilities and expertise.
  • Exploring contemporary art exhibitions and working with practitioners
  • Debating contemporary issues related to current art theory and art education theory
  • Developing a body of artwork which extends own contemporary art practice
  • Creating a reflective sketchbook / journal to demonstrate development of ideas in a critical way
  • Presenting ideas / work to a panel
  • Producing art work which does not need to culminate in specific outcomes.

 As our courses are reviewed regularly, course content module choices may change from the details given here.

Teaching, learning and assessment

Module 1
An introductory three-day exploratory course will be delivered through a series of workshops held at Oxford Brookes University and Modern Art Oxford This will be followed by two Saturday face-to-face sessions to critcially evaluate ways to integrate contemporary practice into the classroom.

Assessment is 100% coursework - a 2000-word critical reflection supported by a portfolio of evidence.

Module 2
The module begins with a three-day series of workshops and seminars followed by three further face-to-face days. 

Assessment is 100% coursework - presentation of own artwork and a presentation on the progression of ideas, artwork and reflection on professional development including evidence from the reflective journal.

Free language courses for students - the Open Module

Free language courses are available to all full-time undergraduate and postgraduate students who are studying any course on our Headington (including Marston Road), Harcourt Hill or Wheatley Campuses, and can be taken as a credit on some courses.

Key facts

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Faculty

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

Department

School of Education

Course length

Part-time: 12 months

Teaching location

Harcourt Hill Campus

Start date

August 2012

Apply / Entry reqs

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English language requirements

Please see the university's standard English language requirements.

English language requirements for visas

If you need a student visa to enter the UK you will need to meet the UK Border Agency's minimum language requirements as well as the university's requirements. Find out more about English language requirements.

Preparation courses for international and EU students

We offer a range of courses to help you meet the entry requirements for this course and also familiarise you with university life. You may also be able to apply for one student visa to cover both courses.

  • Take our Pre-Master's course to help you to meet both the English language and academic entry requirements for your master's course
  • Take our University English course to help you to meet the English language requirements of your master's course

How to apply

Please email education@brookes.ac.uk for an application form

If you would like to discuss details of this course further, contact the course leader, Rachel Payne on 01865 488339, email rpayne@brookes.ac.uk.

To join the course please contact the Graduate Studies Programme Administrator, email: wiegradstudies@brookes.ac.uk / tel: +44 (0) 1865 488567

Conditions of acceptance

When you accept our offer you agree to the conditions of acceptance. You should therefore read those conditions before accepting the offer.

Credit transfer

Oxford Brookes operates the European Credit Transfer System (ECTS). All postgraduate single modules are equivalent to 10 ECTS credits, double modules to 20 ECTS credits, and treble modules to 30 ECTS credits. A full master's course will carry 90 ECTS credits. More about ECTS credits.

Fees / funding

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TUITION FEES

Questions about fees?
Contact Student Finance on:
+44 (0)1865 483088
finance-fees@brookes.ac.uk

Scholarships and funding

For general sources of financial support, see:

Oxford

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Why Oxford is a great place to study Artist Teacher Scheme (Postgraduate Certificate in Advanced Educational Practice)

The Artist Teacher Scheme route through the MA provides strong partnership with Modern Art Oxford, a contemporary art gallery with a national high profile, and with artist tutors - visual arts practitioners who are also engaged in educational practice in a range of contexts.  The Art Education department at Oxford Brookes provides strong partnership links with a wide range of additional organisations, such as The Making, a charity based craft and design organisation based in Basingstoke, and four Oxford museums (The Ashmolean, Pitt Rivers Museum, The University Museum and The Botanical Gardens). There is also opportunity to engage with a regional group of art educators who are currently exploring the notion of a learning community, involved in current debate about art education and developed to share good practice and support art colleagues in this locality. 

Support

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Research

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