Dissertation

The dissertation is an opportunity to focus on an issue of personal/professional interest to the student. The dissertation represents one third of the MA (60 credits out of 180, approximately 15,000 words). Past dissertation studies have included such topics as:

• Assessment
• Curriculum
• Careers in childcare
• Management and leadership
• Language development
• Inclusion
• Parents roles in Taiwan
• Gender issues
• Birth to three
• Meeting children’s individual needs
• Play
• Gun and weapon play
• Children’s story telling
• The impact of national policies
• Creativity
• Digital literacies
• Key person
• Children’s rights
• Parental involvement
• Children’s friendships
• Men in childcare
• Preschool education in Korea
• Children’s drawings