Professional/Short course Introduction to Race, Social Justice and Sustainability

This 30 credit module, An Introduction to Race, Social Justice and Sustainability, will enable you to develop a critical awareness of processes of race and social justice in education, and how these intersect with education challenges of addressing global environment crisis, and practice into transformations towards sustainable societies.

This level 7 (Masters level) module will develop your critical reflective enquiry skills by engaging with issues and processes of race and social justice in education, addressing the global environmental crisis, and the challenges of large-scale transformations towards sustainable societies.

On successful completion of the module, you will be able to:

• critically explore research, policies, initiatives and processes of race, social, cultural, socio-economic, and socio-technical change and their relations with social justice and sustainability across education.   
• appraise and critically apply key theories, debates, controversies, and policies around social justice, and sustainability and how these intersect with the global environmental and climate crisis.    
• engage with potential educational solutions to complex socio-environmental problems.    
• articulate a critical awareness of the interconnectedness between self, communities, organisations, and systems; the implications for minority and minoritized stakeholders, their agency and voice.    

Careers / Further study

This 30 credit module can contribute towards the MA Education (three to five year version and two year version).