This master's is for those with a broad professional interest in all sectors of education. The course will help you achieve a critically reflective but practical understanding of current issues and debates about pedagogy and learning within and beyond specific subjects, key educational trends and policies in the UK and globally, and educational research. This course aims to be a capacity-building programme that offers exposure to a range of experiences and ideas about teacher training and educational systems; to develop knowledge and understanding of international literature and the research base relevant to: teacher development, teacher education, curriculum development, educational reform, issues of educational policy and implementation; to offer teacher trainers access to a range of alternative methods, ideas and experiences in aspects of teacher training and educational systems; to develop subject knowledge within a context of models of teaching, learning and pedagogical practices; to enable teachers to extract examples of best practice which they will be able to use to inform the development of local needs within their own particular contexts; to develop understanding and experience of a range of research methodologies, techniques and skills, so that research processes and products are seen as integral to notions of professional development; to develop analytical and critically reflective skills.