New postgraduate courses

Feed your thirst for knowledge and upskill your career with our new postgraduate courses.

Fee subsidy:
If you are an associate teacher or a social worker who has been supervising students from the EDSW Faculty, or will be in the coming semester, you may be eligible for fee subsidies of up to 100% for a 30 point Postgraduate course! If you’re interested in talking through this offer, please get in touch with our Postgraduate Taught Recruitment Specialist: pgt@auckland.ac.nz.
 

EDUC 759 – Inclusive Practices for Neurodiversity
In this paper, you’ll undertake critical analysis and application of educational approaches to neurodiversity centred on children and young people’s inclusion, belonging and learning across education settings.

This paper provides an opportunity to critically examine concepts and ideas relating to neurodiversity and their implications for and application to education policy, teaching practice, and approaches to learning support.

EDUC 747 - Leadership in Youth Development
Critically examine research dealing with issues which affect adolescents in a variety of contexts.

You’ll collaborate with and support a campus-based therapeutic youth mentoring programme (Campus Connections Aotearoa) to advance understanding of youth development leadership and practice skills. This course integrates community service with instruction and reflection to enhance the learning experience.

You’ll develop an applied multidisciplinary understanding of youth theory and research. This core knowledge will help students critically examine current issues facing New Zealand youth including social justice, inequality, and institutional bias. Through the CC-A community service component, students will also develop a range of practical skills including therapeutic communication, leadership and relationship building with young people.

The combination of in-depth knowledge and practical skills gained through this service-learning experience would benefit students interested in child and youth-related careers in health, law, government, education, NGOs, and community-based organisations.

EDPROFST 769 - Developing mentoring expertise
Mentoring is an essential yet complex ingredient for teacher professional learning and development for new and experienced teachers.

Underpinning educative models of mentoring is the development of adaptive expertise that builds knowledge through evidence-informed inquiry. Emphasis is placed on catering for the diversity of learning needs throughout professional careers.

This course is designed for teachers who are, or intend to be, mentors for
pre-service, beginning and/or experienced colleagues. The focus is on
developing knowledge and reflecting on mentoring approaches and practices that demonstrate/develop effective professional learning, productive mentor-mentee relationships, and adaptive expertise.

In the course you will critically reflect on your mentoring experiences and your own and others’ approaches to mentoring with a view to continue to extend and deepen your own practice as a mentor.

Research Methodologies Courses: enrolling in an approved research methods course is a prerequisite for students to enrol in postgraduate research (a dissertation or thesis). Students must enrol in EDUCSW 700 or/and EDUC 787. The research methods courses previously available to postgraduate students are all now replaced by EDUCSW 700 and EDUC 787.

EDUC 787 – Māori and Indigenous Research
This is an approved research methods course which is a prerequisite for students to enrol in postgraduate research (a dissertation or thesis). Students must enrol in EDUCSW 700 or/and EDUC 787 as prerequisites.

EDUC 787 was previously known as 'Researching Māori Education'. It has now been renamed to reflect its expanded focus on wider Indigenous research.

This course is an examination of how best to approach research with, by and for Māori, Pasifika and other Indigenous groups. The course has relevance for all researchers in education, community and social service sectors. Focuses on kaupapa Māori and other indigenous methodologies and the practicalities and ethics of this research.

EDUCSW 700 – Research Methodologies
This is an approved research methods course which is a prerequisite for students to enrol in postgraduate research (a dissertation or thesis). Students must enrol in EDUCSW 700 or/and EDUC 787 as prerequisites.

In this course, you will explore two content strands. The first strand focuses on philosophical and theoretical questions about how we use and produce knowledge. The course examines different research traditions including Māori, Pasifika and other Indigenous research. The second strand focuses on understanding how to collect, interpret and synthesise research information in education, community and social sectors.

The course gives you an introduction to a range of research methodologies and also provides opportunities for you to choose methodologies to look at in more depth.