Master of Education in Education (Critical Approaches to Children's Literature) PGCE entry only at University of Cambridge

This PGCE-MEd course is aimed at applicants who already have knowledge of and interest in children's literature, and who want to develop expertise in the subject at master's level. In this route, students will meet old favourites in fiction, film, poetry and picturebooks and make exciting new acquaintances. They will be introduced to topical debates on the nature and social function of this controversial and multifaceted body of literature.

Faculty: School of the Humanities and Social Sciences  |  Department: Faculty of Education  |  Duration: 11 months part-time  |  Study mode: part-time  |  Intake: October 2027  |  Location: Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

What you will study

The PGCE-MEd route will include two modules from the following possible list: Texts, Contexts and Childhood; Perspectives on Children's Literature; Visual Texts; and Texts and Readers. It is assessed through a dissertation on a topic of the student's own choosing, which may be either a purely literary study or a small empirical research project.

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