MA Designing Education

Program Overview

Goldsmiths' MA Designing Education program explores the intersection of design and education, fostering radical pedagogies and innovative learning practices. Through a blend of compulsory and optional modules, students develop critical frameworks, design thinking skills, and practical applications for diverse educational contexts. Graduates pursue careers as educators, researchers, and leaders in various fields, leveraging their expertise in design, creativity, and critical analysis.

Program Outline

Degree Overview:

• Explores the relationship between design and education through radical pedagogies, design thinking methods, creative processes, and practical applications of design.
• Aims to uncover new opportunities for education, including new forms of learning and teaching practices and discourses.
• Emphasizes purposeful design and diverse international perspectives.
• Offers a practice-based design studio environment for collaborative learning and development of practice-based projects.
• Features mentored independent projects and directed study for individual development of interests, creativity, and curiosity.
• Enables the development and application of a critical framework or pedagogy for individual practice within the context of education.
• Provides access to international research expertise through practice-based research.

Outline:

• Compulsory Modules (90 credits):
• Critical and Radical Pedagogies (30 credits)
• Spaces and Practices of Education (30 credits)
• Independent Research Project (60 credits)
• Option Modules (60 credits):
• Selection of 60 credits from available option modules, including:
• Business of Design (30 credits)
• MA CCE design and fashion pathways - Studio practice (30 credits)
• Enterprising Leadership: An Introduction to Leadership, Enterprise, and Innovation Theory (30 credits)
• Race, Culture and Education (30 credits)
• Exploring Gender in Education (30 credits)
• Progressive Leadership and Mentoring in Education (30 credits)

Teaching:

• Teaching methods may include a blend of online, face-to-face, and independent study.
• Faculty includes Professor of Design and Innovation Mike Waller, Lecturer in Design Education Alice Hellard, Lecturer in Design Education Rose Sinclair, and Head of the Department of Design Duncan Fairfax.

Careers:

• Graduates work as educators in various contexts, including:
• International higher education
• Secondary education
• Public engagement with arts
• Museum education
• Online course development and delivery
• Skills developed include:
• Design thinking
• Intellectual courage
• Criticality and analysis
• Creativity
• Problem solving
• Research
• Initiative and personal responsibility
• Decision-making
• Commercial awareness
• Collaboration
• Independent learning
• Networking

Other:

• The program is ranked 1st in London and 7th in the UK for design (Guardian University Guide 2023).
• Students have access to fantastic facilities including workshops and fabrication labs.
• Goldsmiths is 21st in the world for design (QS World University Rankings by Subject 2024).

Please note:

• The list of option modules is indicative and subject to change.

Annual tuition fees for students starting their programme in the 2024/2025 academic year: International - full-time: £20910