MA Education and Social Justice

About this course

This programme is ideal for educators, researchers, practitioners, policy makers, and leaders from educational settings, community and voluntary organisations, and policy sector as well as for current undergraduate students.

The MA Education and Social Justice programme at Liverpool John Moores University is ideal if you are passionate about developing knowledge, understanding and skills to address issues of equity, diversity, inclusion, and social justice. It is ideal for educators, researchers, practitioners, policy makers, and leaders from educational settings, community and voluntary organisations, and policy sector as well as for current undergraduate students.

A key focus of this programme is to equip students with requisite knowledge, skills, and strategies to tackle challenges in meeting UN Sustainable Development Goals. You will learn to question accepted theory and policy, view education from a global perspective and explore key issues such as equity, inclusion and accessibility. This programme involves critical multi-disciplinary study and deepens your understanding of education in a local and global context. We welcome UK and international students.

Please note this MA does not provide Qualified Teacher Status.

The programme offers you an opportunity to:

• Critically explore educational issues at the intersection of race, ethnicity, class, ability, language, gender, sexual orientation, and immigration trajectories
• Critically interrogate education policy, discourse and practice in a supportive and stretching learning community
• Explore and analyse social, political, historical, philosophical, and cultural issues in education.
• Focus on social justice practice, ethical global pedagogies, education for sustainability, and critical global citizenship education.
• Enjoy and contribute to the rich environment created by a diverse breadth of learners

Students need an undergraduate degree (lower second-class level or above). We welcome international students with relevant qualifications.