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EDF5541Personnel and career development counselling

UnitLevel 5|6 credit points|Education

This unit introduces you to the major theories of career development and the foundations of career counselling. You will learn about career-related challenges that people might face and how to deal with these. You will also gain knowledge...

Semester 1Malaysia

EDF2076Perspectives for health and health promotion

UnitLevel 2|6 credit points|Education

This unit is the second of four health discipline units, following the first year unit (EDF1076). This second unit is designed to develop and enhance your health-related knowledge, skills and capabilities as a health worker, and/or partner...

Semester 2Peninsula

EDF5683Philosophical foundations of behaviour analysis

UnitLevel 5|6 credit points|Education

Behaviour analysis is a science devoted to understanding and improving human behaviour. To be skilled in designing and delivering behaviour-analytic interventions, one must first develop a strong understanding of the philosophy that...

Semester 1Clayton

EDF4098Physical activity and sport in society

UnitLevel 4|6 credit points|Education

This unit will critically examine contemporary sport and physical activity participation trends and consider the notion of lifelong and life-wide participation in physical activity and movement. You will evaluate shifting patterns in...

Semester 2Peninsula

EDF5172Physical Education in the secondary years B

UnitLevel 5|6 credit points|Education

This unit prepares you to teach senior secondary physical education and builds upon 7-10 specific curriculum and discipline knowledge and skills. You will have the opportunity to critically engage with, reflect on and evaluate both...

Semester 2Clayton

EDF2088Planning and assessing for teaching and learning

UnitLevel 2|6 credit points|Education

This unit is designed to enhance your teaching practice. The unit focuses on the art of planning effectively, learner teaching and learning experiences, formal and informal assessments and data utilization, drawing on both theoretical...

Semester 1Summer BClaytonPeninsula

EDF3069Planning and teaching science

UnitLevel 3|6 credit points|Education

The unit has a strong focus on planning and assessment in science teaching and is designed to build on the experiences of the Foundation Science unit through the development of comprehensive science teaching sequences built around big...

Semester 1Peninsula

EDF2063Planning for teaching and learning

UnitLevel 2|6 credit points|Education

This unit is designed to develop and enhance your teaching practice. With its focus on the art of planning effective, learner centred teaching and learning experiences, the unit makes connections to key elements of curriculum documents and...

EDF2075Planning, teaching and learning in health and physical education

UnitLevel 2|6 credit points|Education

This unit develops and enhances your Health and Physical Education (HPE) teaching practice. With its focus on the art of planning effective, learner centred teaching and learning experiences that are goal oriented, developmentally...

EDF5821Play and childhoods

UnitLevel 5|6 credit points|Education

This unit will examine play as a pedagogical construct. You will investigate both historical and contemporary approaches to defining and theorising play. Developing an understanding that play is culturally and socially defined, you will...

Semester 2Clayton

EDF2058Play-based learning theories and pedagogy

UnitLevel 2|6 credit points|Education

In this unit you will explore, research and evaluate a variety of play-based learning theories. You will examine the concept of ‘play’ to consider the influence of linguistic, cultural and socio-economic diversity on understandings of play...

Semester 1Peninsula

EDF4090Policy and politics in early childhood

UnitLevel 4|6 credit points|Education

This unit focuses on the world of policy making in early childhood within local, regional, national and international contexts. Specific attention is given to current broader education policy trends and discourses. You will examine and...

Semester 2Peninsula

EDF5669Policy, politics and power

UnitLevel 5|12 credit points|Education

In this unit, you will examine the ways politics and power shape education policy. You will investigate different types of education policy, including ‘official’ policy and unofficial policy in the form of discourses and texts. You will...

Semester 1Clayton

EDF5839Positive learning relationships and environments

UnitLevel 5|6 credit points|Education

This unit focuses on the relational aspects of teaching and learning. You will explore a range of curriculum documents that support building personal and social capabilities that contribute to positive classroom environments and...

Semester 1Clayton

EDF5656Practising inclusion

UnitLevel 5|12 credit points|Education

This unit builds on students’ foundational understanding of inclusive education by focusing on how inclusion is enacted through planning, teaching and assessment in real school contexts. You will begin by examining how curriculum,...

Semester 1Clayton

EDF1002Preparing for the profession

UnitLevel 1|Education

In this unit, you will be introduced to the Literacy and Numeracy Test for Initial Teacher Education (LANTITE), including its role in your Initial Teacher Education (ITE) course and preparation for the teaching profession. You will learn...

Semester 1ClaytonPeninsula

EDF5856Primary arts

UnitLevel 5|6 credit points|Education

In this unit, you will re-engage with your own creative capacities to participate in, explore and lead artful learning experiences. This philosophical and pedagogical approach aims to build confidence and competence in understanding and...

Semester 2ClaytonPeninsula

EDF2069Primary creative arts

UnitLevel 2|6 credit points|Education

This unit explores and develops a range of pedagogical practices across the creative arts methods of The Arts curriculum: Dance, Drama, Music, Media Arts and Visual Arts. You will be supported to develop confidence and competence to teach...

Semester 1ClaytonPeninsula

EDF4093Primary creative arts

UnitLevel 4|6 credit points|Education

This unit explores and develops a range of pedagogical practices across the creative arts methods utilising evidenced-based practice and reflective analysis of both teaching and philosophical ideas which underpin learning within the Arts...

Semester 1Clayton

EDF5817Primary English 1

UnitLevel 5|6 credit points|Education

The focus of this unit is on teaching English to young students as they learn to communicate in a diverse social, cultural, and technological world. You will examine the teaching of English from a number of current theoretical perspectives...

Semester 1Clayton