MA IN EDUCATION: EMOTIONAL LITERACY FOR CHILDREN (a collaborative weekend programme between London Metropolitan University and The Institute for Arts in Therapy and Education)
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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.
One term: Certificate in Emotional Literacy for
Children
One Year: Post-Graduate Certificate in Education: Emotional Literacy
for Children (London Metropolitan
University)
Two Years: Post Graduate Diploma in Education: Emotional Literacy
for Children (London Metropolitan
University)
Three Years: MA in Education: Emotional Literacy for Children
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 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.
Who will benefit from the course
• Teachers / Headteachers
• Learning Mentors
• Behaviour Specialists
• Special Educational Needs Co-ordinators
• Play Leaders
• Health Workers
• Connexions staff
• Project Workers
• Social Workers
• Adoptive parents and foster carers
• Youth Workers
• Psychologists
• Psychotherapists
• Counsellors
• Psychoanalysts
• Nurses
• Learning Support / Classroom Assistants
