Faculty of Education

The Faculty offers a wide range of programs catering for the professional development needs of people involved in education.

Course outline

This course is suited to professionals in areas other than education (e.g. police, nurses, managers) as well as tertiary and adult educators and workplace trainers. It provides students with the theoretical foundations of the study of education, and exposes them to theory and to national and international educational practices so that they can link diverse practices with their own experiences, broaden their knowledge and improve their practices.

The course consists of units to a total value of 48 points comprising:

• EDUC8631 Approaches to Research
• EDUC8620 / EDUC8621 Master's Major Paper (12 points)

and five of the following units:

• EDUC8608 E-learning
• EDUC8610 Human Resource Development in Education
• EDUC8612 Educational Leadership
• EDUC8616 International and Comparative Education
• EDUC8633 Quantitative Inquiry
• EDUC8634 Qualitative Inquiry
• EDUC8636 Assessment and Measurement
• EDUC8637 Measurement and Evaluation
• EDUC8638 Introduction to Rasch Measurement of Modern Test Theory
• EDUC8639 Developmental Aspects of Exceptionality
• EDUC8644 Global English
• EDUC8658 Education Policy Trends: Global to Local
• EDUC8662 Action Research and Curriculum Innovation
• EDUC8678 Curriculum Context, Development and Innovation

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Admission requirements

Domestic students

Applicants must meet the admission requirements, or equivalent as recognized by the Faculty:

A. A four-year Bachelor of Education; and
B. (i) two years professional experience in Education, or
    (ii) demonstrated research capacity acceptable to the Faculty.
OR
1. a degree requiring at least four years of full-time study; and
2. two years professional experience in Education, and
3. demonstrated research capacity acceptable to the Faculty;
OR
Completion of an articulated graduate diploma of this Faculty.

All UWA coursework programs: English Language Competence

International students

Requirements are the same as for domestic students above.

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