Graduate School of Education
Imagine, inspire and ignite a love of learning
The Graduate School of Education stands at the forefront of the industry and has over 100 years of experience with teaching and inspiring educators.
Here, you can ignite your passion to educate and be empowered to guide young people achieve their full potential.
Between our Crawley and Albany campuses, explore a range of undergraduate and postgraduate courses that combine in-depth theory with hands-on experience, taught by our innovative lecturers. You can study with us from your undergraduate degree right through to doctoral research.
✔ Graduate ready for the profession with extensive experience in the classroom, applying knowledge to real-world scenarios.
✔ Learn from award-winning education experts, who are passionate and focused on preparing you for success.
✔ Join a community of life-long learners and researchers, from your peers, the faculty and the schools and industry that we partner with.
✔ Choose a course that’s right for you, each unique and tailored to the educator you want to be.
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Make a real difference to children’s lives with this distinctive undergraduate teacher education degree.
100 years+ experience teaching educators
Courses range from undergraduate to doctoral research
Graduates in high demand locally and internationally
Our courses
Our award-winning educators and researchers
Seminar Series
- When people are overwhelmed teaching, learning and decision-making all suffer: Using lessons from cognitive load theory to live a successful life
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Seminar with Micheal J. Kennedy, The University of Virginia
Friday 6 September 2024
1.00pm – 2.00pm (AWST)The seminar will open with a presentation giving an overview of the nature and development of AI, its implications for education and assessment, and its societal challenges; it will be argued that it is vital for teachers and teacher educators to prioritise AI literacy. The presentation will be followed by a hands-on workshop demonstrating some AI tools that teachers and/or students could use, accompanied by discussions and activities focused on AI literacy; assessment redesign in an AI world; and redesigning curriculum in an AI world. Attendees need to bring a laptop to participate in the workshop component.
- AI Literacy for Teachers and Teachers Educators
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Seminar with Professor Mark Pegrum and Associate Professor Grace Oakley, University of Western Australia
Thursday 18 July 2024
10.00am - 12.00pm (AWST)The seminar will open with a presentation giving an overview of the nature and development of AI, its implications for education and assessment, and its societal challenges; it will be argued that it is vital for teachers and teacher educators to prioritise AI literacy. The presentation will be followed by a hands-on workshop demonstrating some AI tools that teachers and/or students could use, accompanied by discussions and activities focused on AI literacy; assessment redesign in an AI world; and redesigning curriculum in an AI world. Attendees need to bring a laptop to participate in the workshop component.
- The universities accord and equity: The right road to the wrong destination?
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Seminar with Professor Andrew Norton, Australian National University
Monday 25 March 2024
3.30pm – 4.30pm (AWST)Andrew Norton is Professor in the Practice of Higher Education Policy at the Australian National University's Centre for Social Research and Methods. His prior role was as the Higher Education Program Director at the Grattan Institute. Mr Norton is the author or co-author of many publications on higher education topics, including his most recent work 'Mapping Australian Higher Education 2023'. He was the co-author of a government-commissioned review of the demand driven student funding system in 2013-14, and was on the ministerial reference group for the University Accord.
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Commonwealth Teaching Scholarships
If you're planning to study teaching, whether you're a school leaver or career changer the Commonwealth Teaching Scholarship provided by the Department of Education is available to eligible new full-time students.
Not only does the scholarship help with study costs but it also provides opportunities to teach in government schools or government-run early learning settings once you graduate.
For information on eligibility and how to apply visit education.gov.au
Our research strengths
- Teaching and learning
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The future of the next generation is in our hands.
Our researchers are at the cutting edge of some of the most pressing issues impacting learners, teachers and educational leaders. We are future-focussed, improving the educational outcomes of learners in Australia and beyond through theory-led and practical research initiatives. Our key areas of expertise include:
- Digital technologies and pedagogies
- Diversity and inclusivity
- Early years
- Literacy education
- Science and STEM Education
- Teacher education
Teaching, learning and assessment experts:
Elaine Chapman, Vaille Dawson, Christine Howitt, Fiona Mayne, Peter Merrotsy, Gerardine Neylon, Grace Oakley, Mark Pegrum, Gemma Scarparolo, Jennifer Shand
- Educational policy, leadership and sociology
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Research in education must be able to make a difference.
Our researchers are dedicated to generating transformative new knowledge about policy, leadership and sociology that has both theoretical and practical impact. Our key areas of expertise include:
- Education politics and governance
- Educational improvement and system change
- Globalisation and comparative education
- History of education
- Leadership for learning
We seek to harness critical knowledge, skills and dispositions to generate evidence-informed debate and improvement across all sectors of education. We are a diverse and vibrant group of scholars who use interdisciplinary perspectives and methods to examine the big issues in Australian education and beyond.
Educational policy, leadership and sociology experts:
Simon Clarke, Tanya Fitzgerald, Tom O’Donoghue, Lesley Vidovich, Ren-Hao Xu, Wei Zhang
- Mental health and emotional wellbeing in education
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For young people to flourish in everyday real-world contexts, positive mental health is critical.
Childhood and adolescent mental health problems are a leading cause of morbidity, mortality and disability worldwide. Confronting the challenge of managing mental health and emotional wellbeing efficiently and effectively to ensure that young people can be shifted from pathological trajectories and reach their full potential is therefore a priority. Schools and other educational settings are uniquely positioned to meet this challenge and to address the key mental health and emotional wellbeing needs of children and adolescents.
Our research applies a range of quantitative and qualitative research approaches to understand mental health and to develop innovative best practice based mental health programs that educate, support and prevent adverse mental health in young people. Our key areas of expertise include:
- Interventions using 3-D animation techniques
- Loneliness and friendships
- Neurodevelopmental disorders in childhood and adolescence
- Promoting positive wellbeing in schools
- Worry and cognitive distortions in children and adolescents
- Youth suicide prevention
Mental health and wellbeing in education experts:
Ken Glasgow, Stephen Houghton, Simon Hunter
Key projects:
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Contact the Graduate School of Education
Students
- Student Office
(for course queries, enrolment and student queries) - +61 8 6488 3714 or askUWA
- Location
- Room G.24 Ground Floor, ALVA Building,
Corner of Hampden Road and Stirling Highway
General
- Phone
- +61 8 6488 2388
- [email protected]
- Location
- Level 2, Education Building,
Corner of Hampden Road and Stirling Highway
- Access
- Weekdays 8.30am to 4.30pm
Placement
- Placement Office
(for all your prac placement queries) - Phone
- +61 8 6488 3640
- [email protected]