MA Dance Education

The MA Dance Education offers the opportunity for practicing or aspiring dance teachers to update their knowledge with the most cutting edge, evidence informed dance teaching practice while earning a postgraduate dance teaching qualification at the same time.

Focusing on the Professional, Conservatoire and Higher Education dance teaching contexts, this distance learning course allows you to access your learning from anywhere in the world, at any time of day, to fit in with the often-unpredictable life of a professional dance artist. This means that you can tailor your course to your other professional or personal commitments. The course can also be taken full or part-time to aid this flexibility.

The first phase of the course, which can be taken as a stand-alone PGCert (4 months full-time, 8 months part-time), develops your understanding of professional dance pedagogy and theories of learning, how these ideas apply to practice, dance science for teaching, continued professional development best practice and how all of these ideas apply to your own teaching practice using opportunities to transfer the learning you are doing on the course directly into your everyday professional life.

The second phase develops your professional practice through philosophical understanding of issues relating to the dance education field and research into personal professional practice and beyond. You will be able to extend your dance teaching practice and situate your own knowledge within the broader landscape of dance education and research.

Course Duration: 1 year (full time) or 2 years (part time).

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