Do you want to disentangle and understand the complex interaction of development, education, and learning? Are you curious about how processes in educational contexts relate to the cognitive and social development of children, youth, and adults? The Master’s programme in Educational Sciences: Learning in Interaction invites you to tackle these topics and more.
Explore the complexity of cognitive and social learning processes
Educational Sciences: Learning in Interaction is a small-scale two-year programme, designed to prepare you for a career in research (for example as a PhD candidate), or for work in education policy and consultancy. Our programme emphasises Learning in Interaction by recognising that we never learn alone. We always learn by interacting with someone or something, including the people around us, such as teachers and peers, but also the artefacts in our environments, such as technology and books. Throughout the programme, you will learn about research through doing research, within a small community of peers and teachers.
If you’re interested in learning about and carrying out high-quality research into interactions in learning, you can make a real difference in learning, teaching, and instruction.
Multidisciplinary
This multidisciplinary Master's programme allows you to synthesise insights from education, psychology, neuroscience, and linguistics. Our lecturers represent different disciplinary backgrounds, such as developmental psychology, educational sciences, experimental psychology, human movement science, linguistics, pedagogy, natural sciences, and sociology. This broad range of perspectives will help you develop a comprehensive outlook on education.
Programme objective
As a graduate of this Master's programme, you’ll be a well-qualified practitioner in educational and learning sciences. You’ll have thorough knowledge of current developmental, learning, and teaching theories as well as the neurobiological basis of education and learning. In addition, you’ll have the tools and expertise to understand and conduct high-quality research in education. Your (soft) skills will include collaboration, presentation and project management. The programme prepares you equally well for a career as a PhD candidate or as an applied researcher outside academia.
Research-focused
Educational Sciences: Learning in Interaction is a research-focused programme offered by Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ’s Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences. The programme is embedded in local, national and international research networks.
Why this programme in Utrecht?
- Internationally oriented: collaborate with students from multiple countries, meet researchers and scholars from abroad, participate in international research seminars and/or complete an internship abroad.
- The possibility to follow a clinical track in order to obtain the Dutch clinical starting qualification ‘NVO orthopedagoog’ (see Read more).
- The possibility to specialise in community engaged research by completing the .
- Extensive training in advanced measurement technology (e.g. eye-tracking) and statistical modelling, as well as qualitative research approaches.
There are more and more opportunities to use multimedia in the classroom, but is it always effective? It is crucial that the source of learning connects with the way our memory operates. Only then can children find their way through the material.
Key facts
- Degree:
- Educational Sciences: Learning in Interaction (Research) (MSc)
- Language of instruction:
- English
- Mode of study:
- Full-time
- Study duration:
- 2 years
- Deadline:
- Tuition fees:
- Dutch and other EU/EEA students (statutory fee, full-time) 2025-2026: € 2.601
Non-EU/EEA students (institutional fee) 2025-2026: € 20.605
More information about fees - Croho code:
- 60749
- Accreditation:
- Accredited by the NVAO
- Faculty:
- Social and Behavioural Sciences
- Graduate school:
- School of Social and Behavioural Sciences