Educational Sciences - Learning in Interaction

Overview

Explore The Complexity Of Cognitive And Social Learning Processes

Do you want to disentangle and understand the complex interaction of development, education, and learning? Are you curious about how processes in educational contexts relate to the cognitive and social development of children, youth, and adults? 

The Educational Sciences - Learning in Interaction programme at Utrecht University invites you to tackle these topics and more.

Education can sometimes be dull and ineffective. We can change that through recognising and developing the concept that we never learn alone. We always learn by interacting with someone or something, such as:

• People who are more knowledgeable than us  (teachers or more advanced fellow students)

• People who are equally knowledgeable as us (peers or in teams)

• Artefacts (the environment around us, books, computers, etc.)

If you’re interested in learning about and carrying out high-quality research into these interactions, you can make a real difference in learning, teaching, and instruction.

Career Prospects

This programme prepares you for a position as a researcher in a university context, such as a PhD candidate, and it also prepares you for high-level academic positions in the educational practice and policy field.

Professional Career

The programme also prepares you for a career as an applied researcher in educational institutions and services, such as:

• Education and educational research departments at universities, colleges, and professional colleges/polytechnics

• Teacher education colleges and universities

• University-related research centres, educational service agencies, and knowledge centres

• School and child advisory services

• Governmental educational departments and inspectorates

• Non-profit, private, and/or commercial educational research institutes and knowledge centres.

Accreditation

Accredited by the NVAO - Accreditation Organisation of the Netherlands and Flanders.