Education - Artist Teacher Practice MA

Overview

Our MA Education – Artist Teacher Practice allows you to review and develop your personal creative practice in relation to the highest levels of contemporary practice.

This course is aimed at those working within art education in any sector including those who work:

• in community arts
• as artists in residence
• as gallery or museum educators
• with community or youth arts groups.

You will combine Master’s level research and academic study with visual arts creation and exhibiting. And gain insight into balancing tensions between education and making.

We will encourage you to exhibit artworks digitally, locally, regionally and nationally. We will support you, as an educator of art, design and craft, to maintain and develop your own creative practice. We believe this helps you to become more efficient professionally. As well as more satisfied with your educational work.

Career prospects

A Masters in Artist Teachers Practice can support career progression in the following ways:

• additional management responsibility within the school/department, such as head of department
• progression from learning support assistant to arts coordinator in primary education
• progression from school-based educator to university lecturer/ associate lecturer
• opportunity to contribute significantly to arts based-awards developed within educational settings, such as Arts Award and Arts Mark
• artist in residence opportunities
• develop to doctoral study
• opportunity to develop and run subject specific CPD to colleagues within school federations or across multi-academy trusts
• opportunity to present artist teacher projects within school federations or across multi-academy trusts
• opportunity to publish research projects in NSEAD publications
• opportunity to present visual arts research at national conferences
• opportunity to exhibit artwork in public spaces
• employment as research associates on research projects.