Overview
A specialist special education stream in the Master of Education designed to address the increasing demands for knowledge and skills in teaching children and adults with special needs.The stream covers a wide range of topics, e.g. autism spectrum disorders, emotional and behavioural disabilities, communication disorders, intellectual disabilities, learning assistance, assistive … For more content click the Read More button below.
Learning Outcomes
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Demonstrate advanced critical thinking and problem solving skills
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Communicate effectively to a range of audiences, and be capable of independent and collaborative enquiry and team-based leadership
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Demonstrate an understanding of international perspectives relevant to the educational field
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Demonstrate an advanced capacity to recognise and negotiate the complex and often contested values and ethical practices that underlie education
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Demonstrate an advanced understanding of special education as it relates to your specialist area of study, and the ability to synthesise and apply disciplinary principles and practices to new or complex environments
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Demonstrate an in-depth understanding of research-based learning and the ability to plan, analyse, present implement and evaluate complex activities that contribute to advanced professional practice and/or intellectual scholarship in education
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Specialisation Structure
Students must complete 48 UOC.
Core Courses
Research Methodology Course6 Units of Credit:
Project
Education Electives
Enrolment Disclaimer
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You are responsible for ensuring that you enrol in courses according to your program requirements and by following the advice of your Program Authority. myUNSW enrolment checks that you have met enrolment requirements such as pre-requisites for individual courses but not that you are enrolling in courses that will count towards your program requirements.
Additional Information
Teachers who are not accredited to teach in NSW but who wish to be qualified as a specialist teacher in Special Education in Australia should contact NESA to ensure that they are eligible to teach in NSW before choosing whether or not to do this stream for accreditation.
Pre-2019 Handbook Editions
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