Graduate Certificate in Inclusive Education

What is this course about?

The purpose of the Graduate Certificate in Inclusive Education course is to graduate highly skilled educators capable of working in a collaborative capacity in a range of inclusive settings.

The specific goal of the program is to provide the cohort of educators with the core knowledge and skills required to teach, consult, collaborate, advocate and evaluate in an inclusive service delivery model.  The course has been designed to cover international and Australian theory as well as best practice in the field of inclusion. The course aims to link explicitly to the theoretical underpinnings of complexity and self-organisational theory. The key principles involved are those of collective intelligence, nested similarity, dispersed control, and self-organisation. These are embedded in all aspects of the course structure including subject design, assessment and the nature of the interaction among participants. The goal of the course is to build capacity to act in a self-organising and emergent manner as inclusive educators.

All CSU qualifications in the area of special education bear nomenclature related to inclusion. This reflects contemporary practice in the field and positions graduates at the forefront of current thinking while retaining a broad-based focus on the traditional scope of preparation in special education.