Science Education and Communication

 Do you have solid knowledge when it comes to one of the sciences? Do you enjoy sharing your knowledge and would you like to deepen your insight into education and communication processes? Then the Master’s in Science Education and Communication may be for you. 

This Master’s programme offers two tracks: 
- Research and Development in Science Education and Communication; 
- Teacher Degree (in Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics or Computer Science).

Research and Development
In this programme, you will gain theoretical insights and practical skills in both formal and informal educational practices. Your science discipline will be put in a broader societal perspective, and you will develop your own views on how your discipline should be relevant to secondary education and to the public at large. The internships and the research project in Science Education and Communication will support you in developing as a skilful practitioner as well as an innovator. 

This two-year programme can be your gateway to careers in fields such as:
- educational design 
- science writing or editing
- museum education
- science education research 

Teacher Degree 
This programme effectively combines a Master’s programme in a subject and a Master’s programme to prepare you for a profession. 

This two-year Master's programme (120 EC) will train you to become a first-degree teacher in secondary education. This means that you can work in all classes of secondary education (vmbo/havo/vwo), senior secondary vocational education and adult education. This offers a broad perspective, since teaching the first year of vmbo requires different knowledge and skills than teaching the final year of vwo. 

At the same time, you will deepen your knowledge of your science discipline. During the subject didactics lectures, you will learn how to transfer that knowledge to your students. In addition, a large part of your training will consist of practice-based learning in the form of internships. You can also take the in-service variant of the programme.

Find out more about the programme on our website.