Graduate Certificate in Education (Early Childhood Studies)

Admission requirements

Applicants must normally hold an approved degree or equivalent qualification. However, the Dean (Education) may, under certain circumstances and subject to specific conditions, admit others who can show evidence of fitness for candidature.

Course aims

The Early Childhood Studies specialisation aims to:

Enable students to critically interrogate the research literature in order to design new learning environments that are meaningful and support new understandings in the 21st century.

Learning outcomes

It is expected that graduates from this specialisation will be able to:

Increase their knowledge base about how children learn in contemporary times
Develop new understandings about what ‘new learning’ might look like in 21st century education
Design new learning contexts that promote deep learning and capable students who are engaged with knowledge production in the 21st century.

Program of study

To qualify for the Graduate Certificate in Education (Early Childhood Studies), a student must complete 18 units with a grade of P or NGP or better in each topic, according to the program of study below.

Not all topics necessarily are available in a given year.

Option - Year 1 topics

18 units selected from:

EDUC8836 Partnerships, Parents and Participation GE (4.5 units)
EDUC9315 STEM Growing a Generation of New Learners (4.5 units)
EDUC9314 Multimodal Childhoods in the 21st Century (4.5 units)
EDUC9120 Introduction to Teaching and Research in the Education Profession (4.5 units)
EDUC9222 Researching Play and Pedagogies (4.5 units)
EDUC9303 Critical Pedagogies for a Changing World (4.5 units)

Every effort has been made to ensure the information published on the Course Rule pages is accurate at the time of publication. Flinders University reserves the right to amend its curriculum without prior notice, and will update the Course Rules to reflect any amendments at the earliest opportunity.