Postgraduate Module Descriptor


EFPM910: Education Policy

This module descriptor refers to the 2019/0 academic year.

Overview

NQF Level7
Credits30 ECTS Value15
Term(s) and duration

This module ran during term 2 (11 weeks)

Academic staff

Professor David Hall (Convenor)

Pre-requisites

None

Co-requisites

None

Available via distance learning

No

The purpose of this module is to explore key issues and debates in the field of education. The module will introduce you to the ideas, theories and concepts underpinning education policy debates and to contemporary developments in this field. It seeks to enable you to critically examine education policy developments both within and between national contexts and travelling policy as it moves between different international settings. As such you will be asked to critically examine policy developments in a range of local, national and international contexts and to undertake a study of an education policy development in a setting with which you are familiar.   

Module created

01/06/2018

Last revised

29/03/2019