The programme follows a challenging concept of teaching-for-learning within higher education based on the theoretical framework of Activity Theory, the socio-cultural and socio-historical paradigm of learning and development as well as the socio-cognitive study of learning and teaching in interaction. In this way, it provides excellent grounds for extending existing theoretical frameworks, professional skills and mediational tools for the study of multilingual and multicultural contexts on behalf of the MA candidate’s individual profile and development throughout the innovative MA course.
The MA programme takes a learners-as-researchers approach combining case studies with a transdisciplinary exploration of the following four domains of interest:
- the individual development through activities and social interactions within evolving cultural contexts;
- the development of language(s), plurilingualism and literacy;
- the role of media (e.g., Information and Communication Technology) and mediation in processes of learning and development;
- the interplay of identity, discourse and the politics of language and education.