School of Environment, Education and Development

Education for a Sustainable Environment MA

Year of entry: 2025

Course length: 12 months Full-Time | 24 Months Part-time

Dual Teaching - The MA programme is taught using a blended model that allows each student to decide whether they will study online or onsite.

About the course

Study on an innovative course to help address local and global environmental and sustainability challenges in and through education. The MA Education for a Sustainable Environment provides you with knowledge, insights and competencies to become effective and creative practitioners, policy makers, researchers and communicators in the field of sustainability education. Benefit from a creative blended pedagogy to encourage sustainability and flexibility.

Students on the MA Education for a Sustainable Environment take the following four core units:

- An Introduction to Sustainability Education

- Community and Policy in Sustainability Education

- Approaches to Sustainability Education

- Planning and Piloting Research in Sustainability Education.

Students will further take three elective units in other areas of Education, and one elective unit from another discipline within the School

Academic Spotlight

Dr Juup Stelma, Senior Lecturer in TESOL and Co-Programme Director of MA Education for a Sustainable Environment

“I am originally from Norway, but with a Dutch family background. Besides Norway, I have worked/studied/lived in the United States and South Korea. I have been in the United Kingdom since 1998. I did an MA TESOL and a PhD Education at the University of Leeds, and I joined The University of Manchester in 2005.”