Degrees for Education

Objective of Expertise in Higher Education:
Specialists with the knowledge, skills and attitudes that enable them to: Intervene in education from the integral reflection and theoretical foundation of their teaching practice, with a humanistic orientation of social and professional ethics, to resignified or transform those processes.
Inform their teaching practice from the integration of psycho-pedagogical knowledge, contextual and instrumental acquired.
Building educational strategies of intervention and support that affect the formation of their students.

Admission Profile:

Graduate degrees in the areas of education, humanities or social sciences or other areas, provided they are showing at least two years experience in the practice of teaching upper half.

Admission Requirements
Interview with the coordinator of the Specialty
Original birth certificate and two copies.
Six child-size photographs (black and white)
Original: certify degree, bachelor’s, professional card and two copies of each.
Letter to study the reasons Specialty

Art Practice and Education MA

The MA in Art Practice and Education is primarily designed to enable you to develop an art practice in relation to education. The course is defined through a number of disciplines: painting, installation, performance, photography, print, site specific work and video in which interdisciplinary approaches to practice are actively encouraged.

The course is for teachers who want to re-engage with contemporary issues in fine art, and also for those practitioners who have equivalent experience or ambitions to further their work outside the state education system, in galleries, community and contextual arts or in residencies where educational insights are important.

Course Content
The course is built around a modular structure. The balance between studio based practice and theoretical modules is 67:33. The two elements of making and writing are structurally separate, but close liaison between the respective tutors ensures that research in contemporary theoretical issues enhances practice both in artmaking and education.

Students will attend on Wednesday afternoons and evenings throughout the two years and will need to be able to commit to a minimum of 16 hours per week. You will be invited to attend seminars, lectures and visits which may take place on other days of the week.

You will share modules and staff with MA Fine Art and MA Art Education students and benefit from contact with contributions from visiting artists, critics and theoreticians, supported by seminars, lectures and tutorials. You will be offered the opportunity to work in disciplines of research and theory, as well as studio practice in installation, video, performance and computer generated imagery and re-engaging in an informed and critical way with traditional practices such as painting and drawing.

The course is module-based, divided into three stages over two years: Postgraduate Certificate; Postgraduate Diploma and Master’s, Each stage is 32 weeks long and consists of two semesters - a total of 96 working weeks.

Stage 1 - Postgraduate Certificate
You will need to complete a core education module, a chosen option module and a module in advanced studio practice.

Stage 2 - Postgraduate Diploma
Advanced studio practice enables you to develop and critically evaluate your practice in relation to an appropriate educational context. This will form part of a Contextual Research Presentation that can be presented as an extended essay.

Stage 3 - Master’s
Synthesis and resolution is exclusively practice based and affords you the opportunity to demonstrate your ability to synthesise your educational research in the form of artwork for final exhibition.

The Cleveland State University educational administration and supervision program is based on a conceptual framework of the Administrator/ Supervisor as a Visionary Practitioner. Graduates achieve outcomes reflecting the five knowledge bases that compose this model: organizational change, relational, developmental, contextual, and ethical. These knowledge bases are applied to the programs within the environments of urban and suburban schools, which are culturally diverse and include students with disabilities.

The Bachelor of Arts Degree in Early childhood Studies will prepare graduates with the requisite knowledge and skills to effectively work with young children and their families from birth through eight years of age. Students will acquire knowledge and skills in order to serve typically developing young children and those with disabilities within the natural settings of home, community, and schools.

The academic program will offer core curricula and practica in early childhood development and pedagogy while highlighting the contextual influences of family, culture, language, and society. The Early Childhood Studies Program is distinctive in that the major emphasizes the first eight years of life as extremely significant in children’s development.