MA/PgDip Art and Design: Creative Education

This course uses a range of teaching and learning settings including lectures, seminars/workshops, tutorials, situated learning (such as ‘live’ projects) and independent learning. The combination of these aims is to develop an environment that allows you to progressively take ownership and direction of your learning so that you may develop as independent, life-long learners. This is achieved by including self-directed projects where you will have the opportunity to negotiate your learning and assessment requirements.

Indicative to the course are:

• Formal lectures
• Seminar presentations
• Workshops
• Critical analysis and independent learning.

Award specific learning activities include exercises, team based learning, site visits, visiting professionals, work placements, online activities and critical debates. You will have the opportunity to engage in a range of coursework activities in order to foster active learning through contribution to participatory exercises and through formal and informal presentations of your work.

Assessment

Assessment methods used on the course include:

• Practical, oral and written assignments (80%)
• Group presentations (20%)

Staff Profile

Sam Ingleson

Course Leader for MA Creative Education

Sam Ingleson is a multimedia visual artist who’s art practice is centred in social engagement and participatory performances.  Her current interest is collaborating to developing board games that bring groups of people together to celebrate, learn or reflect.  

Sam established Artists and Education in 2003 with Fellow artist Jo Clements. Working with a database of over 100 artists they devise, deliver, monitor and evaluate artists residencies with young people.  The company has worked extensively in the North West with external partners including: Creative Partnerships, the Arts Council and Salford and Manchester City Councils.

Sam is also part of the Community Engagement team within the School of Art & Design as Knowledge Transfer Fellowship Project Manager. Sam is responsible for management and co- delivery with Paul Haywood of an Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funded project to ‘Support Arts and Enterprise Skills in Communities through Creative Engagement with the Local Area’. Currently Sam is working on the “Guns into Goods project” with the charity CARISMA and the Greater Manchester Police to develop community leadership in an enterprise that will convert gun metals, reclaimed from the police armoury, into design concepts and goods for manufacture.