Master in Educational Innovation for Sustainability
Valle de Bravo, Mexico
DURATION
4 Semesters
LANGUAGES
Spanish
PACE
Full time, Part time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
30 Nov 2023
EARLIEST START DATE
01 Oct 2023
TUITION FEES
MXN 309,600 *
STUDY FORMAT
Blended
* not including graduation fees
Introduction
The new education is not only taught, it is lived
What are the paradigms under which we are designing learning processes? Do they really lead to a good life? What are the educational innovations needed for the 21st century?
The Master of Educational Innovation for Sustainability addresses the creation of contextualized learning situations that foster sustainability and diversity, as well as the regenerative connection with oneself, our community and the place where we live. The program develops thinking, design and collaboration skills to implement pedagogies that reflect the world we want to see.
Purpose
Design pedagogical tools and educational projects to generate a positive and lasting change in society and the environment, under an interdisciplinary, systemic, ethical, inclusive and critical vision.
From the UMA we help you find accommodation in Valle de Bravo during face-to-face workshops
One of the biggest attractions that our students find when coming to UMA is getting to know Valle de Bravo; a place that allows you to connect with nature and with a vibrant community in socio-environmental matters.
The day to day in Valle de Bravo offers peace and tranquility, as well as a rich social offer, public events, and the practice of sports such as paragliding, sailing, skiing, mountain biking or climbing.
Being a tourist place, Valle de Bravo has a wide variety of accommodation for different tastes and budgets.
Ideal Students
Who is our Master's degree aimed at?
We look for interdisciplinary groups, so the Master's Degree is aimed at professionals with different profiles and work areas, for example:
Educational entrepreneurship: Design and implement educational projects with a systemic and regenerative vision.
Teaching: Professionalizes pedagogical practice with an innovative perspective.
Training: Integrate processes to contribute to new teachers that support the development of education professionals for sustainability.
Consulting: Design and develop strategic advice for the implementation of socio-environmental educational projects.
Communication: Share and promote socio-environmental visions of education.
Research: Delves into topics related to pedagogical and socio-environmental practices.
Career Opportunities
Upon finishing the Master's degree you will be able to:
- Recognize the various current educational problems and formulate proposals to address them with a comprehensive and regenerative vision.
- Design and manage formal and alternative educational projects from the commitment to sustainable development, with innovative and effective pedagogies.
- Establish indicators and measure results to redesign educational processes, sharing the experience through meaningful narratives.
- Participate in collaborative processes of formal and informal education, in interdisciplinary and intercultural groups.
- Understand in a systemic way the current socio-environmental opportunities and challenges, as well as the place that education has in them.
Scholarships and Funding
At UMA we offer two types of scholarships:
We seek to support people with high potential for change agency who are interested in studying the Master's degree, but who are in an economic situation that does not allow them to pay the full tuition fee. We have a limited number of scholarships and these are distributed to those who need it most and best meet the criteria specified below.
Within our admission application you will find a section where you can apply for the scholarship you need (see Admission Process tab), you must indicate the type and percentage of scholarship you are looking for. If you are interested in a scholarship, keep in mind that you can get a higher percentage if you submit your application in the first round of registration.
a) Partial scholarships: Scholarships of 10% to 20% of the cost of the Master's Degree, not including degree costs.
b) Exchange scholarships: Scholarships from 25% to 40% of the cost of the Master's degree, not including degree costs. These scholarships are given in exchange of time to support activities of the Master's coordination or the UMA community. You can choose between different support activities, and they can be done from anywhere and at flexible hours.
Discount for full Master's payment: 15%.
Applies if you pay for the entire master's degree in advance.
Discount for advance payment of one year: 10%.
Applies if you pay a full year in advance.
Discount for early payment of a semester: 5%.
Applies if you pay for a full semester in advance.
If you receive a scholarship, any of these discounts are applied to the amount payable after taking into account the percentage of scholarship awarded.
Admissions
Program Tuition Fee
Rankings
The awards received recognize us as one of the best educational innovations in Latin America
Curriculum
The Curriculum of the Master's Degree in Educational Innovation for Sustainability was co-designed by an interdisciplinary group of specialists and change agents with extensive experience and vision, resulting in an integrated curricular design that evolves each semester according to the experience.
The Study Plan is made up of four semesters, taking place in two years in blended mode. The program consists of 76 credits that are taken in 402 face-to-face hours with a teacher and 814 non-face-to-face or independent hours, to complete a total of 1,216 hours. The Master's degree is focused on a process of semester projects, through which the knowledge and tools acquired in the seminars are applied, professional development is explored, and vocation is investigated. Each student develops their own process according to their possibilities, questions and context. In the last year of the Master's degree, a final project is designed and implemented, which constitutes the degree work.
A) Axes and Curriculum Lines
The Curriculum is organized into three curricular axes: the specialized content axis, the change agency axis and the projects axis. These three axes reflect the UMA's educational proposal for the development of professionals (specialized axis), in order to participate in the transformation towards sustainability (change agency axis), through learning by doing (project axis).
specialized axis
This axis is disciplinary, so it is carried out only by students of the Master's Degree in Educational Innovation for Sustainability. Its purpose is for students to acquire the necessary tools and skills.
to develop education projects based on models and learning processes appropriate for the sustainability paradigm.
Curricular lines:
- Educational innovation: Explores the pedagogical and cognitive bases of the educational process, investigates innovation in education and develops practical and objective processes to identify the needs of different learning subjects and satisfy them through pedagogical strategies and methodologies relevant to those needs.
- Education for sustainability: Addresses situated, effective and specific educational processes to participate in the transformation towards sustainability, and to connect learning subjects with their environment, their context and their vision of the future.
- Educational practices workshop: Develop pragmatic skills and knowledge about formal and alternative pedagogical tools through exercises and practices.
Change agency axis
This axis is interdisciplinary, so it is shared by the different master's degrees at the UMA. Its purpose is to provide essential tools and concepts for the agent of socio-environmental change, regardless of their specialty.
Curricular lines:
- Thinking frameworks: Develops systemic, critical, evolutionary and ethical thinking frameworks for socio-environmental action.
- Socio-environmental frameworks: Develops the bases to conceptualize sustainability and socio-environmental problems, promoting a regenerative vision and emphasizing the importance of considering the human and ecological aspects as a single system
Project axis
In this axis, practices and projects are developed that apply and interconnect the contents addressed in the other two axes, according to the possibilities and context of each student. It constitutes a space for experimentation and reflection, both individual and collective. It uses active research as a methodology, which develops the ability to formally investigate our actions, in a cyclical process that allows increasingly more complex actions informed by experience.
Curricular lines:
• Professional active research: In disciplinary groups by master's degree, each student designs and implements professional experiments and projects that allow applying new knowledge and tools and investigating the socio-environmental vocation; reflecting on the experience collectively.
• Personal active research: In interdisciplinary groups between master's degrees, each student designs and implements capacity-building processes for personal development, self-directed learning and leadership; reflecting on the experience collectively.
The groups are integrated each semester in a community of practice format, each with approximately 9 students, and are coordinated by Facilitators experienced in supporting group and individual processes.