Master of Education

MEd

Master of Education

MEd

By coursework

The Master of Education degree provides a coursework program for professionals who are associated with the practice of education. This includes educators in such fields as:

• primary education

• religious education

• police education

• nurse education

• speech therapy

• counselling/guidance

• secondary education

• consultancy/advisory services

• early childhood services

• youth work

• vocational education

• continuing professional education

• educational administration

• rural education

The degree program is designed to encourage and permit critical appraisal of theory and practice in the education professions; and improve the educator’s professional competence and enlarge the capacity for self development.

As well as offering a general program the Master of Education offers a variety of specialisations.

Enrolment through

Wagga Wagga Campus

Study mode

On campus or distance education

Normal course duration

Full-time 1 year (2 sessions)
Part-time 2 years (4 sessions)

Admission criteria

An applicant for admission to candidature for the degree of Master of Education must have at least the following minimum qualifications:

• hold the degree of Bachelor of Education from CSU or another tertiary institution;
or

be a graduate from a degree course or approved diploma course of CSU and hold the Graduate Diploma of Education (or its equivalent) from CSU or another tertiary institution;
or

possess other qualifications deemed to be equivalent by the Faculty;*

and

• have been engaged in appropriate professional experience in education (e.g. one year as a teacher, nurse educator, etc.);

and

• have completed any additional qualifying subjects or courses prescribed by the Faculty.

* When interpreting these entry requirements, the Faculty normally accepts alternative four-year tertiary qualifications such as a first degree plus Teachers Certificate: or a Diploma of Teaching and a postgraduate Diploma of Educational Studies.

Graduation requirements

To graduate, students must satisfactorily complete 64 points (the equivalent of eight subjects)

Course structure

The course consists of:

a) a CORE comprising three subjects, as follows:

EER500 Understanding and Critiquing Educational Research

and two (2) from the following Core list:

EEB501 Preparing a Literature Review

EED501 Early Concept Development

EEE504 Issues in Assessment & Evaluation

EEL505 Thinking & Problem Solving across the Curriculum

EEP502 Global Education

EEP504 Education: Gendered Contexts

EER501 Qualitative Research Methods

EER502 Quantitative Research Methods

EMM501 Mathematics Education: Research Implications

EMM502 Mathematics Education: Issues & Trends

EMS500 Secondary Science Education

EPT502 Issues in Professional Development

EPT503 Professional Portfolios

ERP501 MEd Minor Project (16 points) *

ESA507 Managing Curriculum Change

ESR501 Issues in Rural Education

* ERP501 is equivalent to two subjects in point value, so if it is chosen, no other subject is required from this category.

b) EITHER

i) a SPECIALISATION of four subjects (or the equivalent in point value**) in one of the following areas:
Children’s Literature
Distance/Rural Education
Early Childhood

Educational Administration
Educational Psychology
Gifted Education
Information Technology in Education
Literacy
Mathematics Education
Organisational Learning and Development
Professional Development
Research Methodology
Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages
Workplace Training and Staff Development

ii) a GENERAL PROGRAM of four subjects (or the equivalent in point value **) selected from the Core List or from those listed under the different specialisations.

** The equivalent point value of four subjects could be achieved by studying ERP501 MEd Minor Project (16 points) plus two other 8 point subjects. If the MEd Minor Project is included in a specialisation, it must be based on a topic related to the specialisation.

c) one RESTRICTED ELECTIVE, chosen from anywhere in the course (subject to pre-requisites being met). This elective may be selected from the subjects in the student’s chosen specialisation if he/she wishes to complete a specialisation of five subjects (or the equivalent in point value) rather than four.

Note: A maximum of two Level 4 subjects may be included in a student’s program, with permission from the Course Coordinator.

Specialisations

Note: In specialisations where choices are not specified, students must select four subjects (or the equivalent in point value – see note ** in b) above) from the subjects listed.

Children’s Literature

Alternative 1

ERP501* MEd Minor Project (16 points)

and two from:

ELS501 Literary Theory and Children’s Literature

ELS505 Genre in Children’s Literature

EEB501 Preparing a Literature Review *

Alternative 2

ELS501 Literary Theory and Children’s Literature

ELS505 Genre in Children’s Literature

EEB501 Preparing a Literature Review*

and one from:

ELS503 Reading Processes

ELS504 Understanding Writing

* EEB501 and ERP501 deal with an aspect of Children’s Literature.

Students completing this specialisation graduate with the award Master of Education (Children’s Literature) MEd(ChildLit).

Distance/Rural Education

ESR501 Issues in Rural Education

ESR502 Pedagogy of Distance Teaching

ESR503 Organisation of Distance Teaching

EEB501 Preparing a Literature Review

ERP501 MEd Minor Project (16 points)

Students completing this specialisation graduate with the award Master of Education (Distance/Rural Education) MEd(Distance/RuralEd).

Early Childhood

EED501 Early Concept Development

EED500 Socio-emotional Development: Issues for Practitioners

EEB500 Critical Perspectives in Early Childhood Education

EEB501 Preparing a Literature Review

ERP501 MEd Minor Project (16 points)

Students completing this specialisation graduate with the award Master of Education (Early Childhood) MEd(EarlyChild).

Educational Administration

ESA501 Leadership in Education 1

ESA502 Leadership in Education 2

ESA503 Management of Educational Change

ESA504 Educational Policy Analysis

EEB501 Preparing a Literature Review

ERP501 MEd Minor Project (16 points)

Students completing this specialisation graduate with the award Master of Education (Educational Administration) MEd(EdAdmin).

Educational Psychology

This specialisation is restricted to those students holding Counselling/School Counselling qualifications.

ESS501 Models of Learning in Inclusive Education

PSY316 Psychotraumatology

PSY412 Health Psychology

PSY413 Psychology and Substance Abuse

and one from:

ESS504 Working With Families in Special Education

ESS511 Inclusive Studies

ESS512 Individualising Curriculum

EEB501 Preparing a Literature Review

Note: For those students granted the four subject transfer credit package, as approved by Academic Senate in May 1998, the remaining four subjects must be taken from the listed ESS and PSY subjects above with the same set of restrictions applying. Additionally, those students not eligible for a four subject transfer credit package, could include in their study program ERP501 MEd Minor Project subject to the approval of the Course Coordinator.

Students completing this specialisation graduate with the award Master of Education (Educational Psychology) MEd (EdPsych).

Gifted Education

ESG502 Gifted Education Models

ESG504 Gifted Child in the Mainstream Class

ESG505 The Creatively Gifted Child

EEB501 Preparing a Literature Review

ERP501 MEd Minor Project (16 points)

Students completing this specialisation graduate with the award Master of Education (Gifted Education) MEd(GiftedEd).

Information Technology in Education

Alternative 1:

ESC510 Learning & Information Technology

ESC511 Individual Differences & Information Technology

ESC512 Information Technology & the Curriculum

ESC513 Educational Software Evaluation & Design

EEB501 Preparing a Literature Review

ERP501 MEd Minor Project (16 points)

Alternative 2:

ESC401 Introduction to Educational Computing

ESC402 Computer Applications in Education

[ ] two subjects (or the equivalent in point value) from Alternative 1

Students completing this specialisation graduate with the award Master of Education (Information Technology in Education) MEd (InfoTech).

Literacy

EML501 Issues in the Teaching of English K-12

EML502 Introduction to Functional Grammar

ELS503 Reading Processes

ELS504 Understanding Writing

EEB501 Preparing a Literature Review

ERP501 MEd Minor Project (16 points)

Students completing this specialisation graduate with the award Master of Education (Literacy) MEd(Literacy).

Mathematics Education

ERP501 MEd Minor Project (16 points)

and two from:

EMM501 Mathematics Education: Research Implications

EMM502 Mathematics Education: Issues & Trends

EEB501 Preparing a Literature Review

Students completing this specialisation graduate with the award Master of Education (Mathematics Education) MEd (MathEd).

Organisational Learning and Development

EEL406 Mentors and Mentoring

MGT540 Management of Change

EEL510 Organisational Learning

EEL511 The Role of Consultancy in Organisational Development

EEB501 Preparing a Literature Review

ERP501 MEd Minor Project (16 points)

Students completing this specialisation graduate with the award Master of Education (Organisational Learning and Development) MEd (OrgLearn&Dev).

Professional Development

ERP501 MEd Minor Project (16 points)

and two from:

EPT502 Issues in Professional Development

EPT503 Professional Portfolios

EEB501 Preparing a Literature Review

Students completing this specialisation graduate with the award Master of Education (Professional Development) MEd(ProfDev).

Research Methodology

ERP501 MEd Minor Project (16 points)

and two from:

EER501 Qualitative Research Methods

EER502 Quantitative Research Methods

EEB501 Preparing a Literature Review

Students completing this specialisation graduate with the award Master of Education (Research Methodology) MEd (ResMeth).

Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages

The equivalent of 32 points from:

EML406 Introduction to TESOL

EML426 TESOL in Practice

EML503 English as an International Language: Cultural and Political Issues

EML504 Language and Language Development

EML505 Professional Writing in Language Contexts

EEB501 Preparing a Literature Review

ERP501 MEd Minor Project (16 points)

Students completing this specialisation graduate with the award Master of Education (TESOL) MEd(TESOL).

Workplace Training and Staff Development

EMC500 Workplace Training: Context

EPT507 Workplace Training: Practice

HRM525 Theoretical Foundations & Practices

EEB501 Preparing a Literature Review

ERP501 MEd Minor Project (16 points)

Note: The completion of EMC500, EPT507, and HRM525 currently entitles students to full credit into the Certificate IV Assessment and Workplace Training (VET) offered by the PIVET organisation (joint CSU-Western Institute of TAFE). This will qualify a student as a Workplace Trainer and Assessor Level 2, to meet the new Workplace Trainer and Assessor competency standards.

Students completing this specialisation graduate with the award Master of Education (Workplace Training and Staff Development) MEd(WkplaceTrain&StaffDev).

Enrolment pattern

EER500 Understanding & Critiquing Educational Research is offered in both sessions but does not need to be studied in a student’s first session. All subjects can be studied in the session chosen by the student, this choice being dependent on subjects being available in a particular session and the meeting of any prerequisites, corequisites and/or enrolment restrictions a subject may have.

Requirements for further study

Students wishing to meet the requirements to proceed at a later stage to a Master of Education (Honours), Doctor of Education or Doctor of Philosophy program should normally complete and achieve at a very high level the three subjects in educational research methodology and the project, viz:

EER500 Understanding & Critiquing Educational Research

EER501 Qualitative Research Methods

EER502 Quantitative Research Methods;

ERP501 MEd Minor Project (16 points) or its equivalent.

Transfer between postgraduate programs

With the permission of the Faculty and subject to certain stipulations, students may transfer candidature from the Master of Education or the Master of Education (Special Education) degree to the Master of Education (Honours) degree or vice versa with portability of credits gained if appropriate. Appropriately qualified candidates who are enrolled in the Master of Education (Honours) course and who are performing at a satisfactory level may be permitted to transfer candidature to the Doctor of Philosophy or the Doctor of Education program with portability of credits gained if appropriate.

Inquiries

Course Coordinator

Dr Brian Hemmings
School of Education
Telephone: (02) 6933 2498
Facsimile: (02) 6933 2888
Email: bhemmings@csu.edu.au