Utrecht University

Master in Educational Sciences: Learning in Interaction (Research)

Explore the complexity of cognitive and social learning processes

Educational Sciences: Learning in Interaction is a small-scale two-year programme, designed to prepare you for a career in research (for example, as a PhD candidate), or for work in education policy and consultancy. Our programme emphasises Learning in Interaction by recognising that we never learn alone. We always learn by interacting with someone or something, including the people around us, such as teachers and peers, but also the artefacts in our environments, such as technology and books. Throughout the programme, you will learn about research through doing research, within a small community of peers and teachers.

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

Multidisciplinary

This multidisciplinary Master's programme allows you to synthesise insights from education, psychology, neuroscience, and linguistics. Our lecturers represent different disciplinary backgrounds, such as developmental psychology, educational sciences, experimental psychology, human movement science, linguistics, pedagogy, natural sciences, and sociology. This broad range of perspectives will help you develop a comprehensive outlook on education.

Why this programme in Utrecht?

• Internationally oriented: collaborate with students from multiple countries, meet researchers and scholars from abroad, participate in international research seminars and/or complete an internship abroad.
• The possibility to follow a clinical track in order to obtain the Dutch clinical starting qualification ‘NVO orthopedagoog’.
• The possibility to specialise in community-engaged research by completing the UniCity track.
• Extensive training in advanced measurement technology (e.g. eye-tracking) and statistical modelling, as well as qualitative research approaches.