Recommended Study Sequence

This unit aims to provide post-graduate adult educators with the skills and knowledge needed to recognise and respond to language, literacy and numeracy demands in educational and workplace settings.

This unit provides post-graduate students with the opportunity to develop and critique a range of contemporary practices and technologies for facilitating adult learning in a range of adult education and training contexts.

This unit seeks to critically examine the theoretical and practical components that need to be considered in the assessment of vocational and professional competence. It critically investigates a number of these components in-depth to provide learners with the necessary conceptual framework to undertake valid and reliable assessment. The unit focuses on critically analysing existing practices, and the development of skills in undertaking valid, fair, flexible and reliable assessments.

This unit is designed to introduce post-graduate students to contemporary approaches to adult learning and teaching. It aims to develop students’ expertise and knowledge in the field of adult teaching and learning, as learners and as practitioners.

This unit aims to provide post-graduate students with a critical awareness and knowledge of current issues and trends in adult education. Issues such as vocationalisation of adult education, lifelong learning, social justice, information technology, recognition of prior learning, flexible delivery amongst others are explored in terms of their current and historical contexts of development.

This unit provides an opportunity to critically explore changes in vocational education and training and the implications for students, educators and society. Post-graduate students engage in a critical analysis of recent policy initiatives in vocational educational and training, and have an opportunity to research an issue of particular interest.

This unit introduces post-graduate students to questions and issues in relation to the interpretation and implementation of texts designed to ensure access and equity in different workplace settings. Students have the opportunity to explore texts in different workplace and educational settings. This unit focuses on understanding texts in diverse and different workplace settings.

This self-directed learning project enables post-graduate students to choose a specific topic or area of study and pursue it in considerable depth. The unit offers students an opportunity to pursue areas of interest not directly offered by course work in other units and/or which may relate to their professional work.

This unit focuses on strategic management issues facing adult educators and trainers and explores ways of thinking about management strategy in government, business, and not-for-profit organisations. This is achieved by critically evaluating these ways of thinking, and their utility for management programs, through students' critical reflections on the literature and their own observations and/or experience. Having explored the strategic management issues, the unit focuses on key changes in the Australian educational context and challenges post-graduate students to identify the impact of these changes for managers.

This unit will introduce post-graduate students to educational debates about adult learning and to fundamental concepts concerning adult education and training. The contribution of significant theorists will be examined and students will be asked to consider these ideas as a basis for critically articulating their own educational ‘stances’.

This unit invites postgraduate students to explore various approaches to program development within different contexts. It assists students to identify and practice strategies for planning, designing and evaluating programs relevant to learners and learning contexts. It also critically explores the current context of training reform in Australia.

This unit introduces adult education and training issues relating to organisation analysis, management and the changing nature of work in a variety of contexts (e.g. private enterprise, community organisations, government organisations, education and training organisations). Postgraduate students explore ways of understanding organisations as a basis for developing the art of organisational analysis, and critical reflection on their own workplace and other organisations and industries. The unit focuses on operational management issues, providing postgraduate students with opportunities to gain skills, knowledge and expertise in dealing with a specific operational or logistical issue in the company; the TAFE college; the private provider; the community-based organisation; or the work of the consultant.

The unit focuses on cultural differences and ways of working with cultural differences. Postgraduate students critically examine concepts of culture and difference. Drawing on theories of culture, difference and discourse postgraduate students critically analyse the application of these theories in different contexts, and in relation to different social and educational issues.

Changes in work practices as a result of organisational restructuring and globalisation have brought into focus the key role of the adult educator in the process of workplace learning. Learning has become a key issue for organisational management. This unit explores and critiques different approaches to learning in organisations and the contribution that these ideas can make. Integral to this exploration is the identification of the role of the adult educator in the establishment of these approaches. Postgraduate students are encouraged to critically reflect on changes likely to emerge as organisations integrate different learning strategies, and the implications of these changes for workplace educators.

This unit provides postgraduate students with the opportunity to participate in a workbased project which reflects the professional contexts within which students conduct their work.