Student Responsibility
The programme’s flexibility is an indicator of its openness to meet the needs of individual educators and the institutions within which they work. A great deal depends upon you taking independent responsibility in negotiating the pattern of your study and evaluating your academic development throughout the programme. At the same time it is important to realise that you cannot gain any Masters level award simply by showing that you are a good practitioner. Though you may well demonstrate that your study has enhanced your practice and your skills (which are indeed valuable and intended outcomes), you must demonstrate the process of critical reflection and analysis, which is a distinctive feature of research at Masters level.
While you ground your study in your personal professional or academic practice, you are called upon at Masters level to address your research topic through reflection and analysis, which leads to the generation of a coherent, personal theory. This personal theory (or standpoint), understood in relation to the theories of others, works on fruitfully in the enhancement of your own understanding and practice.
