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| Annual Tuition Fee: | ≈ € 5,087 ≈ € 9,881 (non-EEA) | ||
| Location: | Maynooth / Ireland / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴ | ||
| Duration: | 24 months | Start Date: | September |
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Location of National University of Ireland, Maynooth
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This course aims to bring together practitioners with substantial experience in educational practice or development, in either policy formulation or implementation contexts.
Participants will have an interest in exploring innovative and critical practice, sometimes in challenging learning environments. An informing concept for the delivery of the course will be the concept of "praxis", interpreted as the use of theory to interrogate practice, together with the use of practice to extend and develop one´s theoretical positioning. This is a taught course in which the collective nature of participants´ engagement is a central element
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This course aims to bring together practitioners with substantial experience in educational practice or development, in either policy formulation or implementation contexts. Participants will have an interest in exploring innovative and critical practice, sometimes in challenging learning environments. An informing concept for the delivery of the course will be the concept of "praxis", interpreted as the use of theory to interrogate practice, together with the use of practice to extend and develop one´s theoretical positioning.
This is a taught course in which the collective nature of participants´ engagement is a central element. By coming together and exchanging ideas in a supportive learning environment, participants will simultaneously expand their learning horizons, find new frameworks in which to place their own practice and act as a resource for colleagues. The `taught´ nature of the course will attract students who wish to undertake research and research-based policy formulation at an advanced level.
This programme will explicitly address the issue of isolation and individualism experienced and criticised by practitioners in our fields who are accustomed in their work to be part of projects, teams and other collaborative ventures. This programme will play to these strengths and recruit students who might otherwise not see themselves as candidates for the very specialist and isolating study of traditional doctoral programmes. The departments will continue to recruit for the PhD degree.
The programme is aimed at education or adult education practitioners with at least five years experience working in policy formulation, research or programme support. The emphasis in this professional doctorate will be on the production of academic professionals, i.e. professionals whose practice is informed by academic study at the highest level and whose study is informed by practice.
Prospective students for this programme will have significant experience, either in the formal education system, or in adult or community education. They might come from either the state sector or from the community and voluntary sectors where research and policy work is increasingly being undertaken. These practitioners are the ideal people to join us as research and learning colleagues so that research, policy, thinking and practice in the educational field in Ireland will be informed by the latest thinking and at the highest academic level.
The research doctorate is supported by a number of taught modules to be taken over the course of the programme designed to enhance research excellence and professional training
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A Masters´ degree (or equivalent) in Education or Adult Education; Substantial experience of five years duration at a senior level in education or adult education. Interview by relevant department. A research proposal or thesis topic is not required at the application stage as the taught elements will address this task. Qualified applicants will be called for interview.
Applicants must have an IELTS score of 6, if not they may take our International
Foundation Course. Minimum English language requirement for the IFC is IELTS 4.5 or equivalent.
Additional Requirements
| Minimal degree required: | Master's degree |
| Minimal amount of work experience | Not specified |
Faculty
Social Science
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