1999 Education Handbook - Master of Education (Adult and Vocational Education and Training) (MEd[AVET])

Master of Education (Adult and Vocational Education and Training) (MEd[AVET])

General information
Target group
Objectives
Course structure

General information

Clayton and Peninsula campuses
Course code: 2386
Contact: Associate Professor Terri Seddon (Clayton - please telephone 9905 2819 or 9905 2784 for initial inquiries) or Ms Margrette Fairbanks (Peninsula - please telephone 9904 4291 for initial inquiries)

Target group

The Master of Education in adult and vocational education and training (AVET) is designed for teachers, instructors, managers and other professionals working in adult learning contexts and/or engaged in vocational education. This pathway offers opportunities for extending professional experience and higher education qualifications in specific aspects of adult and vocational education and training, and in relation to cross-sectoral issues in learning, teaching, management and governance.

Objectives

The major objectives of the adult, vocational education and training pathway are to provide knowledge, understanding and skills relevant to:

professional practice in relation to adult and work-related teaching and learning;
curriculum development and delivery;
administration and management;
policy analysis;
studies of language and literacy;
research in adult learning contexts.

Course structure

Core subjects

GED2852 Educating and learning in the workplace
GED2854 Adult education and training: policies and practices

Elective subjects: six subjects chosen from the following list or four plus a 24-point project

Language and literacy in adult and vocational contexts

GED2817 Language, society and cultural difference
GED3809 Literacy and technology
GED3823 Theory and practice of TESOL
GED3827 Teaching languages for specific purposes - theory, context and method
GED3832 Functional analysis of discourse
GED3837 Literacy in adult contexts: policies, practices, theories

Management and administration in adult, vocational education and training

GED2819 Ethics and educational management
GED2830 Management of the curriculum
GED2832 The management of staff in educational organisations
GED2858 Human resource development in the context of the learning organisation
GED3905 Improving the quality of education
GED3907 Lifelong learning
GED3908 Schools for tomorrow

Economics, policies and workplace relations

GED2803 Finance and economics of education and training
GED2804 Policy studies: education, economy and society
GED2834 Industrial relations in education
GED2850 Continuity and change in Australian education and training
GED2856 Globalisation and educational policy
GED2860 Teachers/trainers, work and workplace change
GED3806 History of public policy in Australian education and training
GED3841 A tale of three countries, 1850-1993; higher education in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States
GED3907 Lifelong learning
GED3908 Schools for tomorrow

Improving professional teaching practice

EDN8038 Improving professional practice
GED1805 Cognitive psychology, learning and teaching
GED2805 Gender and education
GED2847 Difference, equity and education: issues of gender, ethnicity and class
GED2861 Curricula for work-related learning
GED2862 Systematic approaches to work-related learning
GED3901 Philosophical issues in curriculum development
GED3905 Improving the quality of education
GED3907 Lifelong learning
GED3908 Schools for tomorrow
GED4830 Developing the reflective practitioner

Using technologies in adult contexts

GED4803 Technology in the curriculum
GED4816 Evaluation and development of educational software
GED4821 Planning and managing instructional materials and resources development
GED4826 Explorations in flexible learning and instructional design
GED4828 Technology, science and society
GED4834 Computer communications in education
GED4835 Issues in educational multimedia

Any of the research subjects in the Master of Education course information list may also be chosen.

Project

The project, of approximately 20,000 words, must focus on a topic relevant to adult and vocational education and training. Students intending to enrol in the project must complete an appropriate research methodology subject.