Education University of Plymouth

Overview

The Education course from University of Plymouth helps you expand your knowledge and understanding of how education works and allows you to transform your own practice.

The Professional Doctorate in Education enables you to:

• Focus your attention on the nature of educational practice itself. Approach education in its broadest sense. Study and theorise the nature of your work from a social perspective - then relate this back to your own practice.

• Engage with a range of new ideas with which to re-think educational practice on a carefully organised course with a clear structure based on a social perspective on education.

• Study on a flexible and work-friendly programme that has been structured to fit around your existing commitments. You will study part time over five years (two years of taught modules and three years of thesis) but you can take up to six years if you need to.

• Begin to engage with new educational theory at the University-based sessions. Participate in lively discussions and share ideas with others on your course in seminars, lectures and workshops.

• Access a wide range of support and resources to fuel your independent study. Draw on books, journals and an online environment where you will communicate with and draw support from your peers and from staff with a long history of excellence in professional development.

• Meet and share ideas with others in your cohort from a range of disciplines. Tap into this diversity to compare the interrelationship between policy and practice across different educational areas and institutions.

• Make your mark on the future of education as part of our learning community where you can link into active and renowned research networks.  

• Attend our annual postgraduate research conference and present your ongoing ideas in a supportive environment.