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| Application Deadline: | Applications are considered throughout the year | ||
| Annual Tuition Fee: | ≈ € 4,851 - ≈ € 12,070 (non-EEA) | ||
| Location: | Newcastle Upon Tyne / United Kingdom / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴ | ||
| Duration: | 36 months | Start Date: | September |
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| Languages: | English | ||
Location of Newcastle University
The Doctorate in Education (EdD) is a professional doctorate. The aim of the EdD programme is to provide a thorough grounding in the theory and practice of educational research. The EdD comprises a taught element and a research element. The programme provides flexibility in the choice of modules, when these are taken, and in the design and format of the research study and thesis.
The EdD is primarily designed to appeal to experienced professionals who work full-time within the field of education (e.g. schools, further education or higher education), and who wish to undertake doctoral study part-time (although the full-time route is also available).
Students take compulsory research methods modules to provide a grounding in research, and they complement this with optional (specialist) modules related to their own professional situation. They then complete an empirical research study, which should be related to an issue of professional concern or interest.
The EdD enables students to:
* Gain an advanced knowledge and understanding of education.
* Couple a deep theoretical understanding of educational concepts with their practical application within their own professional context.
* Undertake a general training in research methodologies within education.
* Undertake a specific training in research methodologies relating to an approved research project in education.
* Conceptualise, design and implement a research project which will make an original and significant contribution to knowledge and understanding in education.
* Critically evaluate educational literature.
* Communicate their research and ideas clearly and effectively to an academic and practitioner audience.
* Gain a range of professional and key skills which will enable them to engage in teaching and/or research at an advanced level in higher education or in a senior professional capacity in other fields of employment.
Contents
The EdD is worth 540 credits. It consists of:
* A taught stage (200 credits) and
* A research stage (340 credits)
During the taught stage, students must complete research methods modules worth 40 credits - these are the compulsory modules. This leaves 160 credits to be gained from optional (specialist) modules.
The research stage consists of a thesis of approximately 50,000 words.
The taught stage
Students must take modules to the value of 200 credits at taught stage.
40 credits worth of research methods modules are selected from:
* Research Skills (20 credits)
* Research Strategies and Methods (20 credits)
* Introduction to qualitative methods (20 credits)
* Introduction to quantitative methods (20 credits)
Students must then choose enough specialist modules to total 200 credits (when added to their research methods modules). The modules on offer change from year to year, but may include:
Counselling, Communication and Culture, Critical Reflection on Professional Practice; Developing Thinking Skills; Economics for Development; Human Resource Management in Education; Investigating Learning; Leadership and Strategic Management; Managing and Supporting Learning; Middle Management in Education; Middle Management in Education; The nature of explanation and enquiry; Thinking Through Teaching; Bridging: Creating and Translating Professional Knowledge in Teaching; Coaching for Change in Teaching; Developing Innovative Curriculum Through Pupil/Student Enquiry; Contemporary Issues in Mathematics Education; Counselling Children and Young People; Developing Pedagogy in MFL: Living Languages; Education and the State - Philosophical and Historical Perspectives; Education Policy for Development; Educational Management: Theory and Practice; Educational Technology for Development; Emotional Intelligence; Geography in Transition: Developing Pedagogy; Human Resource Management in Education; Investigating Learning; Leadership & Strategic Management; Management of Change ; Policy and Practice of Assessment; Policy, Planning of School Effectiveness; Students, Teachers and Managers in Popular Culture; Teaching Thinking Skills.
The research stage
The research stage (340 credits) consists of a thesis of approximately 50,000 words.
When an EdD student has completed 200 credits at taught stage, they are asked to write a research proposal and to identify potential supervisors - from a `Supervisors list´.
IELTS
You are normally required to take an English Proficiency Test.
Most European Universities recognise the IELTS test.
Take testRequirements
A minimum of a good first degree (an upper-second-class Honours degree or higher) in a relevant subject (eg education, social sciences), or an international equivalent. Applicants can also transfer to the EdD (internally) from the MEd in Education or MA in Education Research (transferring 100 credits). Experience of teaching and/or educational research is desirable but not essential. Applicants whose first language is not English require IELTS 6.5, TOEFL 90 (Internet-based) or 577 (paper-based), or equivalent.
Additional Requirements
| Minimal degree required: | Master's degree |
| Minimal amount of work experience | Not specified |
Language Proficiency
| IELTS Band: | 6.5 |
| Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE): | Grade B (Score: 75) |
| TOEFL Paper-based: | 577 |
| TOEFL Internet-based: | 90 |
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