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Ethics, Education and Professional Practice

PostgraduateTAS-EMT6022025

Course information for 2025 intake View information for 2024 course intake

Study method
100% online
Assessments
100% online
Enrol by
16 Feb 2025
Entry requirements
Part of a degree
Duration
14 weeks
Start dates
24 Feb 2025,
2 June 2025,
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Price from
$2,440
Upfront cost
$0
Loan available
HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available

Ethics, Education and Professional Practice

About this subject

  • Upon completion of this subject, the student should be able to:

    1. Reflect critically on the extent to which education's character and purpose give rise to ethical duties for teachers.
    2. Decide how best to apply ethical reasoning principles in relation to your teaching practice, taking into account compliance with professional codes of ethics and relevant legislative and regulatory imperatives.
    3. Critique the ethical dimension of a teacher's engagement with parents and carers, justifying the importance of sensitivity and confidentiality when negotiating strategies to foster their children's learning and well-being.
    4. Evaluate the impact of recent developments in education ethics and philosophy on teaching, and explain how these might inform the formation of your own professional practice.

Entry requirements

Part of a degree

To enrol in this subject you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:

Core

  • TAS-EDC-MAS-2025 - Master of Teaching (Primary)

Prior study

You must either have successfully completed the following subject(s) before starting this subject, or enrol in the following subject(s) to study at the same time or prior to this subject:

Additional requirements

  • Other requirements - Teaching arrangements: weekly online lecture for all enrolled students; weekly 2 hour tutorial for on-campus students; weekly online discussion for online students.

Study load

0.125 EFTSL
This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.

Equivalent full time study load (EFTSL) is one way to calculate your study load. One (1.0) EFTSL is equivalent to a full-time study load for one year.

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Related degrees

Once you’ve completed this subject it can be credited towards one of the following courses

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Master of Teaching (Primary)

PostgraduateTAS-EDC-MAS

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