Educational Science
STUDY PROGRAMME
Educational Science
Degree Conferred
Master of Arts (M.A.)
Duration
4 Semesters
Enrollment
Wintersemester
Admission restriction
Restricted admission for some subjects
Entry requirements
Proof of a higher education diploma, Bachelor's or
Master's degree with more than average performance (examination grade at least 2.4).
Application Details
Without admission restriction
The application documents include a curriculum vitae in tabular form and a letter of motivation in which applicants should introduce themselves as a person and justify their motivation to study.
Application deadline
Bewerbung mit deutschem Schulabschluss
an der OVGU
15. September
Bewerbung mit internationalem Schulabschluss
über uni-assist
15. July
Language
German
Study
Students choose one of the following specialisations upon matriculation:
- Education in social relations of difference
- Continuing education and organisational development
Objectives
The primarily research-oriented degree programme builds on disciplinary qualifying BA degrees and offers the opportunity to deepen and expand acquired subject-specific and methodological qualifications and competences. The aim of the programme is to enable students to systematically analyse, reflect on and critically evaluate phenomena and problems relevant to education and to enable them to transfer the acquired subject-specific and methodological knowledge in an application-oriented manner. They acquire the competence to link subject knowledge in an interdisciplinary manner and to contribute it to individual or group projects. By linking subject-specific requirements with transfer and application-oriented formats, competences for both systematic-critical analysis and practical, independent application are trained and further developed.
Career Perspectives
The MA degree prepares students both professionally and methodologically for academic activities and further academic qualification (doctorate) as well as for highly qualified professional activities in the non-academic sector. Examples of activities and occupational fields of graduates are:
- academic work in higher education or in research institutions
- Educational, advisory and lecturing activities in adult and out-of-school youth education
- Evaluation and expert activities
- Conceptual work (teaching-learning concepts)
- Educational planning, organisational planning
- Educational counselling, organisational counselling
- policy advice
- research and development in the field of management, concept development and implementation .
Competencies and Interests Required
- Interest in methodologically reflective and interdisciplinary thinking and work
- Openness to productive engagement with conditions of social plurality and inequality
- Ability to reflect on one's own understanding of self and the world