Arts and Design Education MA, Teaching Diploma for Secondary Schools
The MA in Art and Design Education / Teaching Diploma Secondary II is offered in collaboration with the FHNW School of Education. At the Institute of Arts and Design Education. The MA FHNW course in Art and Design Education (MA) is conducted in cooperation with the FHNW School of Education. You complete the entire MA course at the FHNW Academy of Art and Design. The course is divided into three study areas, according to your career goal. The aim of the course is to convey research-oriented competence. Based on a holistic approach, subject-specific discourse, theoretical reflection and practical experience are interwoven with self-devised projects in art, design and cultural education. This is a key aspect of the training, providing the basis for a reflected and far-sighted career as an educator after attaining your degree. The MA degree qualifies you to teach at Secondary Schools II (Matura) and work in the education and outreach departments of a wide range of art and cultural institutions.
Thank you for your interest. The application deadline for the Master's degree programme beginning in the fall semester 2022/23 is April 30, 2022. The next application window for the fall semester 2023/24 opens on November 1, 2022.
Applicants with a BA degree teaching in Art and Design are admitted to the MA Teaching in Art and Design. Further requirements are a baccalaureate, a primary education diploma, or another completed BA degree.
If you have a BA in arts, design, education, museum, art, media or cultural studies, please contact the Institute Art and Design Education (IADE) at aW5mby5pYWRlLmhna0BmaG53LmNo, to find out about the possibilities of the complementary studies programme to enter the MA.
To apply for a place at the HGK, the required documents must be submitted by 15.03.2023. You will find the details here shortly.
Dates
01.11.2022 Announcement of detailed dates
15.03.2023 Registration deadline Deadline for the submission of portfolio and personal statement via the online registration platform
24.04. – 27.04.2023 Part 2 - Admission interview at the FHNW Academy of Art and Design with portfolio Discussion
Requirements for the portfolio presentation on the admission day Portfolio: Number of projects: at least 12 (larger three-dimensional object as photographs). Compile the portfolio in regards to studying art and design education. We are interested in a wide range of materials, techniques, ideas, projects, and educational work.
Label the portfolio with your name, first name and address in a clearly visible and legible manner.
In the portfolio presentation (about 10 minutes), show a wide selection of your work. Only go into depth with the explanations for a few selected works.
Information on programme contents
Having completed your MA course you have the ability to sensitise and motivate learners and the competence to perceive, reflect and act with regard to visual culture as well as in respect to your students and teaching. Based on your own creative work and ongoing engagement with professional theory and practice in the given social context, you are in a position to provide innovative teaching and learning opportunities. You provide guidance in the processes of visual perception, aesthetic analysis and judgement and thus enhance the learners’ visual literacy.
In your studies at the FHNW Academy of Art and Design you enhance and enlarge upon your scientific, artistic and design-related skills and inquire into art and design education as well as artistic research.
In your studies at the FHNW School of Education you learn how to prepare and present artistic and design-related contents on a sound scholarly basis. The skills and knowledge acquired so far flow into self-devised art, design and cultural education projects. In addition you get the chance to expand and elaborate on your acquired skills and knowledge in colloquia and seminars and investigate further aspects of art education and outreach in the context of international block courses and term papers.
Semester 1 and 2 In the first two semesters you enhance and enlarge upon your knowledge and skills in educational science, the methodology of teaching and the teaching practice.
Semesters 3 and 4 In view of your future work in outreach and education, which requires both reflection and far-sightedness, you interweave your knowledge of theory with your practical skills. The focus is on the upcoming Master Thesis.
The Master Thesis You decide on the topic of your Master Thesis yourself; it involves a project in either art, design, theory or visual education. The research method depends on the subject you choose for your project; however, the emphasis should be on research in art and art education. The thesis provides space to develop and enhance your mode of thought and action in your specific fields of study. In your MA thesis you tie in your position in the specialist discourse and with regard to art and design education to your specific interests in the theory and practice of art and design.
Network module Art Education
Every semester we organize a week-long network event in cooperation with four Swiss German art universities. The objective is to review and discuss the ongoing practice, research and theoretical developments in the field of art education.
Graduates of the MA programme are qualified to work as teachers in a wide range of schools or as educators in cultural institutions or other extracurricular institutions. They are also qualified to take up advanced research-oriented work at a university or a similar educational institution.
With its studios and central Campus.Workshops, HGK offers ideal conditions for combining craft curiosity, the acquisition of technical skills, and the necessary digital know-how. In addition, all students have their own 24/7 workspace in one of the spacious studios. At the Institute’s Learning Lab Arts and Design students test, document, and explore creative processes and the design of knowledge and experience spaces digitally and analogue in workshops, studios, and seminars. The facilities are open to students 365 days a year.
Organizational matters
Here you will find everything you need to know about the enrolment process at the FHNW Academy of Art and Design.
Institute Art and Design Education (IADE)
In our age of systematically designed communication, art and design education has a key role to play.
FHNW Academy of Art and Design Institute Art and Design Education (IADE) Freilager-Platz 1 Postfach CH-4002 Basel
Institute Art and Design Education (IADE)
FHNW University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern SwitzerlandAcademy of Art and Design,
Institute Art and Design Education (IADE)
Building: A 1.18Oslo-Strasse 3CH - 4142 Münchenstein near Basel
