Master of Education (Adult and Vocational Education and Training) (MEd(AVET))
Course code: 2040
Contact: Associate Professor Terri Seddon/Dr Dell Dennis (Clayton) or Dr Brian
Sharpley (Peninsula)
There is an increasing move towards the provision of education and
training in settings which have not previously been recognised as traditional
educational institutions. Thus the traditional role of teacher in the well
recognised learning institutions of the school or tertiary sectors is no longer
the only model for the educator in contemporary society. Hence this course is
designed to include the needs of teachers/trainers engaged in educational work
in many diverse, and still emerging, learning environments.
The major objectives of the adult, vocational education and training
pathway are to provide students with 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.
- GED2852 Adult learning and curriculum in the workplace (12 points)
- GED2854 Vocational education and training: policies and practices (12
points)
- GED2817 Language, society and cultural difference
- GED3809 Literacy and technology
- GED3818 Communicative language teaching
- 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
- GED2819 Ethics and educational management
- GED2827 Leaders and followers
- GED2830 Management of the curriculum
- GED2832D The management of staff in educational organisations
- GED2858 Human resource development: enterprise case study
- GED3905 Improving the quality of education
- GED3907 Lifelong learning
- GED3908 Schools for tomorrow
- EDN8033 Community, adult and further education
- 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
- GED3841D 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
- 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/GED2861D Curricula for work-related learning
- GED2862/GED2862D 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
- GED4803 Technology in the curriculum
- GED4816 Evaluation and development of educational software
- GED4821 Instructional materials and resources development
- GED4826 Open learning, instructional design and information technology
- 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.
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.