12 monthsProgramme duration
36,800 GBPTuition Fee/year
25 Jun, 2027Application Deadline
SepStarting Month
Programme overview
Main Subject
Education and Training
Degree
MA
Study Level
Master's
Study Mode
On Campus
For those with a serious interest in literacy education, policy, practice or research, UCL’s Literacy and Education MA offers a compelling alternative to the vast majority of literacy postgraduate programmes.
This Master’s examines literacy and how it operates in society, rather than centring on the teaching of literacy or literacy difficulties.
Drawing on key concepts, theoretical approaches and areas of research, we’ll explore how literacy operates in a diverse and changing world. You’ll learn all about literacy as a construct: how it’s defined, how it functions in different contexts and cultures, and how a person’s literacy changes over time and impacts their everyday life.
Together, we’ll investigate identity and voice in different texts, consider the impact of technology on literacy, and explore how literacy links with constructions of power, agency and gender.
Delivered by UCL’s world-leading experts, this broad-based MA gives you the chance to work alongside researchers who are shaping new ideas and approaches nationally and globally in areas such as gender and literacy, the impact of multi-modality on literacy, second language learning and shared reading.
You’ll be supported to build your own research skills, too, and conduct your own small-scale study in an area of literacy related to your own academic and professional interests and goals.
By the end of the course, you’ll have a set of theoretical perspectives and innovative methodologies informed by the latest thinking and research. You’ll be ready to shape approaches to literacy in your own setting or country, whether through education, policy, practice or research.
Programme overview
Main Subject
Education and Training
Degree
MA
Study Level
Master's
Study Mode
On Campus
For those with a serious interest in literacy education, policy, practice or research, UCL’s Literacy and Education MA offers a compelling alternative to the vast majority of literacy postgraduate programmes.
This Master’s examines literacy and how it operates in society, rather than centring on the teaching of literacy or literacy difficulties.
Drawing on key concepts, theoretical approaches and areas of research, we’ll explore how literacy operates in a diverse and changing world. You’ll learn all about literacy as a construct: how it’s defined, how it functions in different contexts and cultures, and how a person’s literacy changes over time and impacts their everyday life.
Together, we’ll investigate identity and voice in different texts, consider the impact of technology on literacy, and explore how literacy links with constructions of power, agency and gender.
Delivered by UCL’s world-leading experts, this broad-based MA gives you the chance to work alongside researchers who are shaping new ideas and approaches nationally and globally in areas such as gender and literacy, the impact of multi-modality on literacy, second language learning and shared reading.
You’ll be supported to build your own research skills, too, and conduct your own small-scale study in an area of literacy related to your own academic and professional interests and goals.
By the end of the course, you’ll have a set of theoretical perspectives and innovative methodologies informed by the latest thinking and research. You’ll be ready to shape approaches to literacy in your own setting or country, whether through education, policy, practice or research.
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