MA Art Education
The Master’s degree programme in Art Education is a threefold artistic, academic and pedagogical degree for aspiring educators in art and design. It is aimed at students working in education and in a broad cultural field, who wish to combine design, artistic, technological, academic and educational activities. Students can also specialise in the areas of cultural communication, media-based communication, research or transdisciplinarity.
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Overview of the Studies in VKD / Art Education
Overview of the Studies Master Art Education (including teaching diploma)
Übersicht Studium Master Art Education (without teaching diploma)
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Perspectives
Graduates of the MA in Art Education often have several mainstays: with the supplementary courses in pedagogy they can teach at Gymnasium level or at tertiary level.
Many fields of activity open to them lie outside the school system. Graduates may become established in the growing cultural industry as communicators, whether as curators or studio directors, in art and museum education, exhibition design, in the new media or in art education in the broadest sense. They are able to initiate, conceive of, organise and realise courses, projects, events etc. They can fill responsible positions in project management or work in public relations in the cultural sector and other related fields. Some continue their academic activity and enter research. Some work as artists and designers.
Degree
Students graduate with a Master of Arts in Art Education, with or without teaching certificate Sek II.
The Master’s degree in Art Education qualifies graduates for a teaching career in art and design, or to enter an advanced PhD programme. Supplemented by the pedagogic degree at the Pädagogische Hochschule Bern it entitles graduates to teach visual design at Gymnasium and secondary level.
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Research
The Master in Art Education participates in projects in the four Research Areas of the BUA, above all in the areas Communication Design (research fields Knowledge Visualisation, Social Communication and Design and Rhetoric) and Interpretation Research. It participates in the research of the Institut für Kunstgeschichte at the University of Bern (Curatorial Studies) and the Pädagogische Hochschule Bern (Media Education, Media Skills, Visual Literacy). It also participates in developing emergent research activities in art education, as an active member of the network of universities of art and design in German-speaking Switzerland.
Research field Art Education (German)
Master’s students participate actively in work packages for existing research projects. Due to the strong academic component of the degree, students and graduates are particularly qualified to work as research assistants in projects and to initiate projects themselves. In the long term, the BUA aims to introduce a PhD or EdD (Educational Doctorate) programme together with other Swiss providers.
