Creative Practice 2.08

The MA in Creative Practices in Education is an advanced degree course for graduates and a wide range of professionals who want to develop or enhance their skills and knowledge as a creative worker within a professional context. This course is unique through combined staffing from two faculties: Education and Children’s Services together with Arts and Media and the partnerships which underpin it, providing students with the opportunity to work alongside colleagues in cultural organisations.

To find out more about the course and to meet the programme leader, please book on to our next Open Evening.

The course is innovative through the direct link made in practice and theory between the arts, education and the professions. It is distinctively multi-disciplinary in allowing students to draw on expertise in participatory drama and performance, fine art, dance, music, sport and PE and organisational learning within a professional context. The course is designed as a sequence of study to move students thinking into a phase that generates more expansive creative and critical practice.

Students will experience learning that fosters creative potential through studio and performance practice. Students will have the opportunity to increase specialisation during stage two of the Programme. Workshops, seminars, lectures and specialist facilities across the two faculties encourage the exploration of ideas, in a wide variety of practice based disciplines. Modules focus on the professional and theoretical contexts of performance - drama, fine art, dance and sport and PE including research methods; they also encourage an interrogation of personal and peer practice.

Students will have the opportunity to pursue practical individual projects, to study creative process and how the work might be documented for dissemination and use in future professional contexts. This includes artistic practice but extends beyond this into artful inquiry, encouraging investigation and research into an emerging field of work and study. Students are able to practice in a wide range of locations including: Partnership schools, gallery and heritage settings, sports and other industries.

In 2013/2014, we hosted one module at the Liverpool Tate gallery; subsequent years have enabled us to develop the capacity of our partners in collaboration with the Tate and the University of Chester to involve theatres and dance/drama companies. The Football Association will also host some of the modules as part of the Sport and PE strand.