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Masters Degree in Education: Emotional Literacy for Children

Awarded by London Metropolitan University.

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Duration:

Two training years with an additional year to complete dissertation. (over weekends and a few Tuesday evenings)

Who should attend:

Health Workers, Teachers / Headteachers, Learning Mentors, Behaviour Specialists, Special Educational Needs Co-ordinators, Play Leaders, Adoptive Parents and Foster Carers, Learning Support / Classroom Assistants, Connexions staff], Project Workers, Social Workers, Nurses, Youth Workers, Psychologists, Psychotherapists, Counsellors.

Why this Masters Degree is special

This course will equip you to address 'Every Child Matters' in practical ways.

It will teach you how to be with children to maximize both their emotional health and learning capacity.
It will give you strategies to deal differently and positively with children’s disruptive and challenging behaviours.
It will enhance your understanding of child development and help you to make sense of children’s behaviour, in order to bring about positive change.
It will develop your creativity to contribute in a very powerful way to your professional development.
It will enhance your confidence and skills in using the arts to enable children to speak about feelings.
It will bring your knowledge and understanding of neuroscience, attachment research and learning theory up-to-date.
It will remind you why you love children and enable you to act in consistently warm and encouraging ways.
It will support your own emotional health and wellbeing.

Format and Time Commitment

The taught part of the MA runs over two years. It comprises six taught modules. Four modules are taught over eight weekend days. In addition, two modules are taught one evening a week for one term. The third year consists of private research in which you can follow your own chosen line of enquiry about Emotional Literacy for Children.

Modules:

Module One: Helping Troubled and Challenging Children
Module Two: the Role of Human Relationship in Emotional Development and Learning
Module Three: The Foundations of Learning
Module Four: Promoting and Optimising Emotional Well-being for Children
Module Five: The Emotionally Literate Child and The Emotionally Literate Organisation
Module Six: Research Methods in Education
Module Seven/Eight/Nine: Your own research project

How flexible and accessible is the course?

Very. In order to make the course as accessible and inclusive as possible, it has been designed with stand-alone modules, each with recognised credits. The more modules you complete the more credits are gained and different levels of qualification are achieved.

Teaching staff

Expert professionals from the fields of Education, Health, Psychotherapy, Parent-Child Intervention, Family Therapy and Neuroscience.

Course Directors: Julia Bird and Lynne Gerlach

Julia and Lynne have extensive experience in both education and psychotherapy. They have worked as teachers, advisers, inspectors (including OFSTED) and consultants. As UKCP Registered Psychotherapists they have worked with children, adolescents and adults. They have created the ENABLE CD Rom, an interactive computer programme designed to offer practical strategies to work with the emotional needs underlying children's challenging behaviours. They have co-authored 'Improving the Emotional Health and Well-being of Young People in Secure Units' (DoH/NCB, 2005) and ‘Feel the Difference: Learning in an Emotionally Competent School’ (CELSI, 2003). They have also contributed to the National Healthy Schools Guidance document on Emotional Health and Well-being (HAD, 2004).

Senior tutors include:

Dr Dan Hughes (International Guest Trainer) and Dr Margot Sunderland (author of 'Draw on your Emotions', the 'Helping Children with their Feelings' series and 'The Science of Parenting').

Will the course be recognised as Continuing Professional Development?

Yes. Child Professionals who wish to extend their current skills can choose to undertake the number of modules most relevant to their interests and responsibilities safe in the knowledge that modules carry University recognised credits. Professionals wishing to broaden their career opportunities, become more eligible for promotion.