Critical Reflection; Early Years Education (16800X)

30 credits, Level 7 (Masters)

Autumn teaching

This module inducts you into practical and academic approaches to critical reflection. You’ll consider prior (educational) experiences to shape and hone a professional practitioner-researcher identity.

Crucially, you’ll draw on your prior experiences. You’ll also familiarise yourself with academic literature to identify a key area of practitioner-researcher interest.

Contact hours and workload

This module is approximately 300 hours of work. This breaks down into about 26 hours of contact time and about 274 hours of independent study. The University may make minor variations to the contact hours for operational reasons, including timetabling requirements.

We regularly review our modules to incorporate student feedback, staff expertise, as well as the latest research and teaching methodology. We’re planning to run these modules in the academic year 2026/27. However, there may be changes to these modules in response to feedback, staff availability, student demand or updates to our curriculum.

We’ll make sure to let you know of any material changes to modules at the earliest opportunity.