Program Overview

Máster en Educación para la Justicia Social

Introduction

The Máster Universitario en Educación para la Justicia Social is designed to equip students with the necessary skills to initiate a research career and/or improve their professional specialization within the field of education committed to society. The program aims to foster critical reflection on problems of exclusion and social injustice, enable the valuation of the role of education in transforming society, and provide resources to achieve education in and from Social Justice.

Program Details

• Duration: 1 year (60 ECTS)
• Category: Professionalizing
• Language of instruction: Spanish
• Modality: Face-to-face
• Number of places: 25
• Approximate course price for first-time enrollment: 2,736 for EU residents, 5,079 for non-EU residents

Information about the Master's Program

Description of the Title

The Master's program in Education for Social Justice is designed to train students to start a research career and/or improve their professional specialization in the field of education committed to society. This involves fostering a critical reflection on problems of exclusion and social injustice, valuing the role of education in transforming society, and providing resources to achieve education in and from Social Justice.

Other General Information

• Center, department, or institute responsible: Faculty of Teacher Training and Education
• Character: Oriented towards the exercise of the profession
• Minimum ECTS according to enrollment and course: 24 ECTS (part-time enrollment), 37 ECTS (full-time enrollment)

Admission and Enrollment

Requirements for Access and Admission

To be admitted, applicants must:

• Hold an official university degree in Bachelor's, Bachelor's, Engineer, Architect, Diplomate, Technical Engineer, Technical Architect, or equivalent.
• For foreign university degrees, admission is possible after homologation to a Spanish degree or with prior verification that these studies accredit a level of training equivalent to official Spanish titles and facilitate access to postgraduate studies in the country where the title was issued.

Documentation to be Attached

• Mandatory documents:
  • ID / Passport
  • Academic certificate of qualifications from undergraduate studies
  • Curriculum Vitae
  • Declaration of average grade
  • Accreditation of Spanish language knowledge level B2 (for non-Spanish speaking students)
  • Access title: In case of having completed studies at the time of applying for access to the master's program, the degree/diploma of degree, license, diploma, or equivalent must be attached (or the receipt of having requested the title).
• Optional documents:
  • Accreditation of English language knowledge

Admission Criteria

The admission criteria are based on the following:

• Expedient academic: 60%
• Academic and pre-professional trajectory related to the master's profile: 20%
• Applicant's professional experience: 20%

Profile of Admission

The profile corresponds to university graduates who have studied Bachelor's degrees in Primary Education, Pedagogy, Psychology, Psychopedagogy, Social Work, and/or equivalent studies. However, given the interdisciplinary nature of the Master's program, students from other careers who demonstrate an interest in research and reflection from Education on Social Justice will also be considered.

Professional Outlets

The objective of this Master's program is to train intellectual and critical teachers for Social Justice.

Quality

• External monitoring: Verification, modification, monitoring, and renewal of accreditation
• Indicators of monitoring of the degree: Portal UAM DATA
• Labor insertion: Link to employment observatory
• Internal System of Quality Guarantee
• Quality UAM
• Complaints and suggestions mailbox