- Startdatum 2 september 2024
- Studieduur 2 jaar
- Vorm Master
- Studiebelasting 1680 uur
- Locatie Online en Gouda
The aim of the Master’s programme is to deepen the knowledge and skills of experienced teachers who could become teacher leaders, principals and school leaders in Christian schools and for people working in educational aid organisations.
The language of instruction is English.
Christian Education in your context to a new level
We offer an international Master’s programme on Christian Education which fully focuses on the backgrounds and practices of education, inspired and informed by the Christian faith. We perceive a worldwide need for knowledge about Christian education and about how it can be improved. Our curriculum provides a unique opportunity to bring Christian Education into your own context to a new level while learning from lecturers and fellow students from other countries.
This Master’s programme is available for teachers who would like to become teacher leaders, for principals and school leaders in Christian schools and for people working in educational aid organisations.
Improving education from a Christian perspective is the core of our Master's programme. Therefore, working on an innovation in your own practice is the guiding principle during the programme. You will be supported to do so step by step in our four modules (each in every semester).
In each module one major theme will be discussed from theological, philosophical, historical, social concrete-practical and a teacher’s personal perspective, which inspires you to improve education and can underpin your innovation. Furthermore, you will learn in each module how to conduct (participative) action research in order to sustainable innovate and in each module we pay attention to your personal professional development.
On-campus seminar
We provide online distance learning, both in independent learning tasks as in regular online meetings with your fellow students and lecturers. Every year there is an on-campus seminar of 2 weeks, which is held at Driestar Christian University for Teacher Education, located in Gouda, the Netherlands. During your two-week stay you will meet the learning community of students and lecturers and you will have the opportunity to visit schools and probably you can even gain teaching practice in Dutch schools. Participation in the on-campus seminars is compulsory. Online meetings are planned on Tuesdays.