E4D Bachelor of Education with Professional Honours

Overview 2023

Entry Requirements: See entry requirements

Duration: Minimum 1 Year, up to a maximum of 3 Years

Duration

Duration refers to the minimum and maximum amounts of time in which this course can be completed. It will be affected by whether you choose to study full or part time, noting that some programs are only available part time.

Location

This course may not be available to international students. Please see the list of distance courses (i.e. online and taken outside Australia) that are offered to international students

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“I’m not someone who can sit and do the same thing. I’ve got to continue to grow. I don’t think I could’ve done that if I hadn’t undertaken my post-graduate studies”.

Michelle Cooper

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This course is no longer available. Please refer to the equivalent 1 year postgraduate award:
E6J Graduate Diploma of Education

The Bachelor of Education with Professional Honours is designed to meet the needs of experienced educators seeking professional learning, personal enquiry and intellectual engagement within a specialist area or across a range of specialisations.

Course objectives

Upon completion of the Bachelor of Education with Professional Honours graduates will be able to:

Demonstrate advanced theoretical and practical knowledge in the provision of quality education;
Critically analyse, evaluate and transform research findings as well as professional and personal experience to improve educational practice in a range of contexts;
Analyse, generate, communicate, and critically reflect on responses to complex problems;
Communicate effectively with diverse professional and scholarly communities across a range of platforms.

Learning Outcomes

1 Knowledge - Graduates will know and understand: The theoretical foundations and practice of education (including various specialisations), and how these can facilitate enhanced pedagogical approaches, curriculum, policy, and student engagement from a global perspective; The relationship between reflective practice and professional standards in local and/or global education contexts, and how each can define, validate and enhance learning and teaching; The key research principles and methods applicable to extending knowledge in their specialised area of interest.

2 Skills - Graduates will: Critically reflect on practice and/or research findings to develop new understandings that can inform sound professional judgment, planning and decision making; Apply education theory to specific content and/or pedagogical knowledge to inform and advance learner outcomes and/or systemic developments within their own contexts; Initiate constructive responses to changing educational contexts and learner needs.

3 Application of Knowledge and Skills - Graduates will: Utilise educational theory and professional knowledge to design and evaluate programs in different learning and teaching contexts. Independently utilise professional standards and contemporary scholarly literature to reflect on practice and facilitate positive educational change. Plan and conduct independent inquiry to inform professional practice.

4 Communication, Collaboration and Leadership - Graduates will: Communicate professionally and effectively across diverse settings and audiences; Apply their knowledge and skills in collaborative practice and/or leadership roles.

5 Professional Learning - Graduates will: Utilise contemporary literature and professional standards to improve practice and promote constructive and collegial learning in educational contexts; Employ appropriate technologies to investigate and share practice with peers engaged in professional communities; Be responsible and accountable for their own learning.

6 Ethical Professional Practice - Graduates will: Conduct their practice and engage with stakeholders in an ethical, collaborative, professional and accountable manner; Understand that, globally, educational professionalism requires ethical standards as well as evidence-based and exploratory approaches to teaching and learning.

Course structure

Core units

Postgraduate Specialisation units

Choose 87.5 credit points from the following list of postgraduate specialisation units

Mathematics Specialisation

Choose from the following

ESM722

Location	Study period	Attendance options		Available to
Hobart	Semester 1
Online	Semester 1
Online	Summer school

Bachelor of Education with Professional Honours (E4D)

Overview 2023

Entry Requirements

Duration

Duration

Location

This course is no longer available. Please refer to the equivalent 1 year postgraduate award: E6J Graduate Diploma of Education

Course structure

Resilience in Educational Contexts

Inclusive Practices in Education Settings

Re-engaging disengaged students

Inclusive Educational Technology

Literacy, Mathematics and Science in Early Childhood

Dissertation Part B

Dissertation

Language, Culture and Diversity

Literature, Literacies and Language Learning

Global Citizenship and Education

Issues in Global Education

Leading and Managing People

Leading Teaching and Learning

Epochs and Empires: Western Literature for Children and Young Adults

Science Education: Principles, Practice and Possibilities

Entry requirements

Fees & scholarships

Domestic students

International students

Scholarships

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This course is no longer available. Please refer to the equivalent 1 year postgraduate award:
E6J Graduate Diploma of Education