This MA explores how effective learning happens, what influences it, and how it can be facilitated. It invites systematic reflection on participants' learning, and on how to promote others' learning through teaching. This programme provides students with the opportunity to learn about critical perspectives on teaching and learning, and to experience active and collaborative approaches in learning communities. Students will have the opportunity to examine their own and others’ professional practice, and to participate in challenging, invigorating and thought-provoking discussions. The MA takes the profession of teaching to a new level, challenging assumptions held since schooldays and reconceptualising the purposes of education today. This programme will benefit those with several years' experience in the classroom who wish to take on more responsibility in their careers by drawing on research findings to inform their approaches in schools or colleges. Students will take this course in flexible study mode also.