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Visual Arts Education - EDSTWS8910

Stream Summary

Faculty: ARTSC - Faculty of Arts&Social Science

School: School of Education

Contact: education@unsw.edu.au

Program: 8910 - Education

Award(s):

Master of Education (Specialisation)

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Stream Outline

This is a specialist stream in visual arts offered in the Master of Education program. It focuses on developing art, design and media arts educators’ advanced understanding of the field of Visual Arts education. The stream provides depth and flexibility for students to address theoretical frameworks, critical issues, and practice in visual arts education; and to study in studio disciplines and/or critical, historical and theoretical studies of the visual arts, media and design. A research methods course and a research project provide a framework for investigating visual arts education in an area of professional and classroom practice. Further education elective options enable students to extend on their understandings of contemporary educational contexts.

Stream Learning Outcomes

At the end of the stream, students should be able to:

Demonstrate an advanced understanding of the field of education as it relates to their specialist area of study, and the ability to synthesize and apply disciplinary principles and practices to new or complex environments.
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.
Demonstrate advanced critical thinking and problem solving skills
Communicate effectively to a range of audiences, and be capable of independent and collaborative enquiry and team-based leadership
Demonstrate an understanding of international perspectives relevant to the educational field
Demonstrate an advanced capacity to recognise and negotiate the complex and often contested values and ethical practices that underlie education

Stream Structure

The stream consists of the following eight courses (48 units of credit):

Four compulsory courses from the School of Education:

EDST5114 Curriculum and Assessment (6 UOC)
EDST5140 Visual Arts Education Issues (6 UOC)
EDST5144 Theoretical Domains VisArtEd (6 UOC)
EDST5806 Creativity & Giftedness (6 UOC)

AND

One research methodology course from the following list:

EDST5032 Ethnographic Methodology (6 UOC)
EDST5101 Experimental Research Design (6 UOC)
EDST5103 Survey Research (6 UOC)
EDST5120 Qualitative Research (6 UOC)
EDST5448 Classroom-based Research (6 UOC)
EDST5463 Engaging Ed Research Lit (6 UOC)

AND

EDST5888 Project (6 UOC)

AND

Two other elective courses offered by the School of Education.

These may be any two courses offered in the School of Education, including research methodology courses noted above (i.e., students may take more than one research methodology course).

One or both of the two elective courses may be education courses outside of the field of Visual Arts Education (e.g., educational leadership, gifted education, TESOL etc.)

OR

Up to two of the following courses from Art & Design