Global Learning MA

UCL (University College London)

This online MA equips educators with skills to help their learners navigate today’s complex and interconnected world. As a pedagogical approach, global learning supports the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. It helps educators tackle key issues such as global inequality, social justice, climate change and sustainability. Global learning can be applied to educational practice, policy or research. Interest in global and sustainability issues in education is growing. Global Learning MA gives you the knowledge and skills needed to meet this demand. The course shows how education can prepare your learners for living and working in a complex world. You will explore research to understand how global education policies connect to real-life actions. This includes thinking critically about how education tackles issues like poverty, social justice, climate change and sustainability. You will also explore best practices for teaching global issues in education. This includes: Effectively embedding sustainability within the curriculum. Evaluating the quality of educational resources to teach global issues. Improving educator confidence in addressing complex topics. It also covers how to shape your learners into responsible global citizens. For example, through: Fostering critical thinking. Encouraging diverse perspectives. Promoting informed local actions to tackle global challenges. Early career or more established professionals who are interested in developing, promoting and managing educational responses to global challenges. This could be in schools, non-governmental organisations (NGOs), youth work or further and higher education. For a list of careers that may be particularly relevant, please see the Employability and Graduate Destinations sections. This programme is also available on a modular (flexible) basis, with a duration of 5 calendar years.