MA International Education (TESOL)

This unit aims to support students to:

• understand how schools can work with children, families and communities to improve a wide range of outcomes  
• think critically about the wider (‘extended’) roles schools can play in a community, beyond their formal teaching and learning remit  
• think critically about how families and local communities can work with schools and/or provide alternative educational opportunities 
• develop their awareness and understanding of the scope of extended education (i.e. where schools take on a wider role) as an international field
• engage with key debates in extended education  
• develop critical arguments about the rationales underpinning extended education

The approach adopted in this unit is mainly seminar based. (10 x 2 hours)

There will also be a school visit to contextualise and support learning in this unit (1 x 2 hours).  

Seminars will have a taught component and an activity component. 

• Identify how schools work with children, families and communities
• Critically appraise the rationales underpinning different approaches to working with children, families and communities

Apply relevant educational theories to these practices and rationales.

• Analyse and compare case studies of extended education and community schools
• Develop and sustain a coherent analysis of practices in extended education and community schools
• Synthesise theoretical information with examples from practice and literature
•    Reflect on their own performance

• Write for academic and non-academic audiences
• Effectively source and communicate information in oral and written formats
• Learn to engage with professional contexts as academic researchers.

• Develop research and evaluation skills
• Develop group-work and discussion skills
• Develop skills to engage with professionals in the field.

Summative feedback will be provided on the structured portfolio via Turnitin.

Cummings, D., Dyson, A, and Todd, L. (2011) Beyond the School Gates: Can Full Service and Extended Schools Overcome Disadvantage? 1st Edition. Routledge

Ecarius, J., Klieme, E., Stecher, L., Woods J. (2013) Extended Education – an International Perspective. Barbara Budrich Publishers

James and Williams (2017) School-Based Experiential Outdoor Education: A Neglected Necessity. Journal of Experiential Education. Vol. 40(1) 58–71

Lawson, H. and Van Veen, D. (eds) (2016) Developing Community Schools, Community Learning Centers, Extended-service Schools and Multi-service Schools. International Exemplars for Practice, Policy and Research. Springer

Noam, G. (2004)  After¿School Worlds: Creating a New Social Space for Development and Learning. Jossey-Bass.

Schüpbach, M, Lilla, N. (Eds.) (2019) Extended Education from an International Comparative Point of View

WERA-IRN Extended Education Conference Volume. Springer