REGULATIONS FOR THE MASTER OF EDUCATION DEGREE IN INDIGENOUS, MULTICULTURAL LANGUAGES AND LITERATURE (EDU23)

Duration: 11/2 years

Actual Credit Load: 324

Minimum Credit Load: 270

Maximum Credit Load: 330

Total MBKS Credit Load: 234

ZNQF Level: 9

1.0 PURPOSE OF THE PROGRAMME

To prepare highly specialised personnel for higher education, government departments and Non-Governmental organisations who have research and innovation skills.

2.0 ENTRY REQUIREMENTS

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

2.1 have obtained a Bachelor of Education degree or approved equivalent from any

recognised university.

2.2 have obtained a degree and a Postgraduate Diploma in Education or approved

equivalent from a recognised university.

3.0 PROGRAMME CHARACTERISTICS

Areas of Study: Indigenous African languages, knowledge systems, literature, heritage and culture.

Specialist Focus: Indigenous African languages, knowledge systems, literature, heritage and culture.

Orientation:  Research, industrialisation and innovation.

4.0 CAREER OPPORTUNITIES AND FURTHER EDUCATION

Employability: Graduates can be employed 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.

Further Studies: Doctoral studies in African languages, knowledge systems, literature, heritage and culture.

Level 1 Semester 1

Code	Module Description	Credits
MICT732	Advanced Information Communication Technology in Education	18
MED731	Advanced Research Methods and Statistics	18
MEIL701	Theories of Literature, Multiculturalism, and Critical Literary Studies	18
MEIL702	Tourism, Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development	18
MEIL702	Practice in Africa Tourism, Sustainable Development and Language Cultural Heritage Studies and Management	18
MEIL703	Curriculum and Pedagogical Issues in Indigenous Languages, Knowledge Systems, Literature and Multicultural Education	18

Level 1 Semester 2

Code	Module Description	Credits
MED743	Advanced Gender Studies in Education	18
FMED132	Advanced Financial Management in Educational Institutions	18
MEIL704	Social History and Indigenous Knowledge Systems in African Literature	18
MEIL707	African Oral Literature and Indigenous Knowledge	18
MEIL703	Curriculum and Pedagogical Issues in Indigenous Languages, Literature and Indigenous Knowledge Systems Education	18
MEIL706	Measurement and Evaluation in Indigenous Languages, Knowledge Systems, Literature and Multicultural Education	18
MEIL705	Syntax, Innovation and Linguistic Pluralism in Zimbabwe	18
MED743	Gender Discourse in Education	18
MEIL708	Advanced Studies in Language Policy and Planning in Linguistic, Diverse and Multicultural African societies	18

Level 2 Semester 1

Code	Module Description	Credits
MED744	Dissertation	90
FMED132	Advanced Financial Management in Educational Institutions	18
MEIL708	Advanced Studies in Language Policy and Planning	18
MEIL	African Oral Literature and Indigenous Knowledge Systems	18

 

MODULE SYNOPSES

MED743 Advanced Gender Studies in Education

The module explores fundamental perspectives in Gender Studies to address historical gender inequalities in society and Education in particular. It inculcates a critical analysis of the concept of gender, its historical development and ideologies that perpetuate gender differences. The module explores implications for sustainable development goals on gender, education and development. It also explores gender inequalities in STEM as one of the pillars of development.

 

MICT732 Advanced Information Communication Technology in Education

This module helps students to acquire advanced specialist theoretical and practical knowledge of ICTs in educational environments. The topics covered include Models of ICT curriculum integration, educational ICT policy development, current and emerging issues in digital learning, contemporary learning design theories and frameworks, and framing assessment within 21st century contexts, ICT in educational research, among others.

 

FMED132 Advanced Financial Management in Educational Institutions

The module introduces financial management practices followed in schools and other educational institutions across Faculty disciplines. It considers basic accounting concepts and conventions, including the double entry system of recording business transactions, preparation of general-purpose financial statements, bank reconciliation statements, and skills of budgeting and budgetary control as well as accounting requirements of Treasury Instructions.

 

MED731 Advanced Research Methods and Statistics

The module seeks to develop postgraduate students’ knowledge in the following areas of educational research: the different philosophical orientations in research; research paradigms; theoretical and conceptual frameworks; research designs; data collection methodologies; advanced quantitative and qualitative data analysis techniques; as well as discussion of findings and making conclusions. The module also introduces students to significant educational research problems whose resolution has the potential to contribute to knowledge in educational areas such as pedagogy and assessment, as well as in sustainable development issues such as health, poverty eradication, environmental awareness, etc.

 

MED734 Dissertation

The Dissertation is a research study carried out over two semesters by each postgraduate student under the guidance of a supervisor. Students are expected to apply their knowledge and skills in conducting research on contemporary educational and social issues in their area of specialisation. Students are encouraged to conduct research which has the potential to contribute to knowledge and policies in education, and in social issues such as poverty, disaster and risk management, environmental conservation, etc. Students are expected to produce and submit a dissertation that meets the standards of research work at Masters Level. 

 

MEIL701 Theories of Literature, Multiculturalism, and Critical Literary Practice in Africa    

This module shall empower students with skills and competencies in critical literary practice. It shall achieve that through promoting a rigorous exegesis of literary theories that were developed in the diverse global cultures at different historical times on the basis of their applicability to the study and understanding of African people’s literature, culture and worldview.

 

MEIL702 Tourism, Sustainable Development and Language Cultural Heritage Studies and Management     

The module equips postgraduate students at Master’s level with an in-depth understanding, of approaches to managing tourists and tourism and some other cultural industries for sustainable development.  Ultimately, the module shall equip students with skills and competencies in the management and upkeep of world heritage sites that are found in Zimbabwe for the betterment of Zimbabwe’s tourism.

 

MEIL704 Social History, Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Multiculturalism in African Literature

This module prescribes for study, of poetic and short-story anthologies, plays and novels that emerge from the different societies and cultures of the African continent. The ultimate goal of the module is to help students appreciate fiction as a rich reservoir of African people’s history, knowledge systems and values of culture and as a worthy point of reference for innovation industrialisation and revolutionary action.  

 

MEIL705 Syntax Innovation and Linguistic Pluralism in Zimbabwe

This module surveys theories of morphology and syntax and then discusses how they apply to the study of indigenous Zimbabwean languages. Through its promotion of the study of the morpo-syntactic structures of the different Zimbabwe indigenous languages, the module shall aid learners  in appreciating the richness of Zimbabwe’s linguistic diversity and multiculturalism.   

 

MEIL703 Curriculum and Pedagogical Issues in Indigenous Languages,

This module surveys current approaches to the teaching of indigenous African languages literature and Indigenous Knowledge Systems and suggests how the approaches can be innovatively adopted for use in a classroom in Zimbabwe. In the process, the module grapples with how best listening, reading, writing and speaking skills can be employed in the teaching and learning of ‘things indigenous.

 

MEIL706 Measurement and Evaluation in Indigenous Languages, Knowledge Systems, Literature and Multicultural Education

This module focuses on how both assessment and evaluation can be made integral to the teaching and learning of indigenous languages, knowledge systems, literature and cultures. The module shall help students assess different skills and how they might be integrated into the teaching and learning of indigenous languages, literature, cultures, heritage matters and knowledge systems in general.

 

MEIL708 Advanced Studies in Language Policy and Planning in Linguistic Diverse and Multicultural African Societies

This module focuses on language planning activities done in and language policies of different African states with special emphasis on the field of education. In the process, the module shall equip students with know-how and know-what, skills and potentials in language policy crafting and implementation as they are practised in diverse linguistic and multicultural contexts.

 

MEIL707 African Oral Literature and Indigenous Knowledge Systems

This module critically analyses the interconnectedness of orality, multiculturalism, indigenous knowledge systems and Zimbabwean people’s philosophy of life in an ever-changing global terrain. Furthermore, the module shall rigorously scrutinise the centrality of the various genres of oral literature in promoting hunhu/ubuntu, invention, innovation and industrialisation in Zimbabwe.