M.Ed. Textile Design

Dr Patricia Mühr

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The Institute is a member of the trade associations:

...textile. Science-Research-Education

Network Fashion Textile

and publishes regularly in the trade journals.

Insights into the BA Material Culture programme: Textiles

Slow Fashion learning box in cooperation with the project "One World at School"

Publication on the school internship in the M.Ed. programme

Money cat laundry: Historical foundations of teaching in Oldenburg

Further information can be found in our brochures:

M.Ed. Textile Design

Teaching "Textile design"

The "Textile Design" teacher training programme qualifies students to teach at primary, secondary and intermediate schools. The Master of Education "Textile Design" is a degree programme with a cultural studies focus, as is the associated Bachelor's degree programme "Material Culture: Textiles".

The two-year Master's degree programme is structured according to the Lower Saxony GHR 300 programme for primary, secondary and intermediate schools. It builds consecutively on the two-subject Bachelor's degree programme. It is also possible to study the four-semester Master of Education in Special Needs Education(→ to Master's degree).

"Textile Design" is a multi-perspective school subject that combines cultural, socio-political and scientific issues with practical elements.
With its reference to real materials, textile teaching has a unique selling point in the age of digitalisation.

We describe the skills taught in the subject as "material literacy". It enables people to organise their everyday lives and deal with things competently (Becker 2005). The aim is to develop skills and realise social participation.

The photo shows an insight into the Institute's sewing room. There are large work tables, sewing machines, dressmaking dummies and all kinds of materials available.

Focus of the study programme

The centrepiece of the Master of Education in Textile Design is an 18-week school internship, which is accompanied, prepared and followed up at the university.

We have chosen the following specialisations for the Master of Education in Textile Design in Oldenburg:

Theory and history of material culture
Contemporary strategies and problems of communicating material culture
Aesthetics: clothing, body, fashions
Textiles and sustainability

Practical seminars take place both in the workshops and in the Institute's collections.

Teaching at the Institute of Material Culture is structured by research-based learning. The methods used include ethnographic field research and artistic-aesthetic research. Teaching is directly linked to research through the Material Literacy workshop series and the publication series Communicating Studies in Material Culture.

Prerequisites

Admission requirements for the Master of Education "Textile Design" are the completion of a two-subject Bachelor's degree with a first or second subject "Material Culture: Textiles" or a comparable teaching-orientated Bachelor's degree in "Textile Science" or "Textile Design". Students should also have the following interests and skills:

A desire to engage with textiles and clothing in the field of tension in society with a focus on the interests of pupils
A willingness to experiment and flexibility

Interest in sustainability issues and questions of sustainable consumption
Attention to aesthetic and cultural developments
Experience in working and thinking in cultural studies
Enjoy developing your own questions and self-organised, project-based teamwork
Fun and curiosity about working with students
Good knowledge of English (reading specialised literature)

The illustration shows a caricature or sketch of a scenario from the school internship. Three pupils are taking off their street shoes on a bench and a teacher is watching them.

"About the slipper in school" - An ethnographic study on material culture in primary schools was created to accompany the school internship.

This illustration shows a scene from a school internship. Pupils have built a cave with blankets and school desks in which they are playing.

"Because it's sooo cosy" - study accompanying the internship on the potential of textile learning landscapes in primary schools.

Programme structure

The four-semester Master of Education programme has a fixed structure that is geared towards an 18-week school internship. The programme is divided into preparatory, accompanying and follow-up seminars for this internship. The practical phases and the accompanying project volume "School or Teaching Research" cannot be flexibilised.

First semester at the university:
Central theory course on concepts of textile didactics and preparatory course for the practical placement as well as the start of the three-semester project "School or teaching research", which accompanies the practical placement.

Second semester at school and university:
The lecturers at the university, a seconded teacher in the practical phase and a teacher at the school accompany the students during an 18-week practical phase. There are accompanying and follow-up events in which the students present and reflect on the findings and experiences from the practical phase.

Third semester at the university:
Evaluation of the internship experiences and reflection on school and teaching research. The project ends and the Master's final colloquium begins.

Fourth semester at the university:
Master's thesis accompanied by the final Master's colloquium.

Equipment

During the practical phase in the third semester, students can use both the theory and practice rooms as well as the Institute's mobile teaching and learning materials.