Master of Education Degree in Indigenous Multicultural Languages and Literature

The Master of Education Degree in Indigenous Multicultural Languages and Literature prepares highly specialised personnel for higher education, government departments, and Non-Governmental organisations with research and innovation skills. Study areas include Indigenous African languages, knowledge systems, literature, heritage, and culture, with a specialist focus on these same areas. The orientation is research, industrialisation, and innovation.

Learning is structured across two levels and two semesters. Modules include Advanced Information Communication Technology in Education, Advanced Research Methods and Statistics, Theories of Literature, Multiculturalism, and Critical Literary Studies, Advanced Gender Studies in Education, Advanced Financial Management in Educational Institutions, and multiple Indigenous languages and knowledge systems modules such as African Oral Literature and Indigenous Knowledge and Syntax, Innovation and Linguistic Pluralism in Zimbabwe. The programme includes a Dissertation.

Graduates can work as classroom practitioners, lecturers, training officers, heads of departments, school managers, education officers, examination officers, curriculum developers, writers of literature, editors, and consultants in language, literature, heritage, and cultural matters. It also supports further studies through doctoral studies in African languages, knowledge systems, literature, heritage, and culture.

Modules

• Advanced Information Communication Technology in Education
• Advanced Research Methods and Statistics
• Theories of Literature, Multiculturalism, and Critical Literary Practice in Africa
• Tourism, Sustainable Development and Language Cultural Heritage Studies and Management
• Practice in Africa Tourism, Sustainable Development and Language Cultural Heritage Studies and Management
• Curriculum and Pedagogical Issues in Indigenous Languages, Knowledge Systems, Literature and Multicultural Education
• Advanced Gender Studies in Education
• Advanced Financial Management in Educational Institutions
• Social History, Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Multiculturalism in African Literature
• African Oral Literature and Indigenous Knowledge
• Measurement and Evaluation in Indigenous Languages, Knowledge Systems, Literature and Multicultural Education
• Syntax Innovation and Linguistic Pluralism in Zimbabwe

Normal Entry: To qualify for entry into programme applicants must normally:

• have obtained a Bachelor of Education degree or approved equivalent from any recognised university.
• have obtained a degree and a Postgraduate Diploma in Education or approved equivalent from a recognised university.

• classroom practitioners
• lecturers
• training officers
• heads of departments
• school managers
• education officers
• examination officers
• curriculum developers
• writers of literature
• editors
• consultants in language, literature, heritage and cultural matters