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Education
Includes
The Dewey range: 370-379.
This collection covers education; school organization & management; special education; elementary education; secondary education; adult education; curriculum; education of women; schools & religion; higher education; government regulation, control, support of education.
Purpose of the collection
The Library collects in the field of Education primarily to support the teaching and research needs of the Faculty of Arts and Education.
Resources in this area are also used to varying degrees by other Schools in the University, and by supporting Divisions in the University.
Users/course supported by the collection
The School of Education offers undergraduate courses in the following areas
- Bachelor of Education (Primary)
- Bachelor of Teaching (Secondary) /Bachelor of Arts
- Bachelor Teaching (Science) / Bachelor of Science
- Bachelor of Health and Physical Education
Postgraduate courses include the Graduate Certificate of Education / Master of Education which has the following specialisms:
- Applied learning and VET in Schools
- Arts Education
- Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment
- Educational Leadership and Administration
- Flexible, Online and Distance Education
- International Schooling
- Language and Literacy Education » Mathematics, Science and Information Technology
- Physical and Health Education
- Professional Development
- Special Educational/Needs
- Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)
- Teaching Languages Other Than English (TLOTE)
The School also offers a range of postgraduate course in Higher Education, Professional Education and Training, Special Educational Needs, Teaching;, TESOL, as well as a number of graduate entry courses.
Research:
Postgraduate research degrees with specialist supervision are available in:
- Arts and education based research
- Applied learning and professional education and training
- curriculum and administration
- Early childhood education
- Education studies major and pedagogy
- Education diversity
- Humanities, societies and environments
- Health and physical education
- Language and literacy education
- Mathematics education
- Science and environmental education
- TESOL/LOTE
Existing collection:
Major online databases such as ERIC, A+ Education, Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts, Professional Development Collection, Expanded Academic and Academic Search Complete provide access to a range of information on the topic.
Specialised collections of Australian Schools Textbooks are held at Geelong Waterfront and at Melbourne, in the Special Collection.
Extensive collections of curriculum materials are held in separate collections (Curriculum Resource Collections) within the campus libraries at Geelong at Waurn Ponds, Melbourne and Warrnambool.
Selection notes:
Aspects of this collection are relevant at Melbourne, Geelong or Warrnambool (primary education only). The exception is higher education, which may be located at Geelong Waterfront, for use by the University Executive, or, if multiple copies exist, at all campuses. Specific areas of interest are as follows:
Applied learning (G)
Children's literature (G, M, W)
Curriculum studies (G, M)
Educational leadership and administration (M)
Flexible, online and distance education (M)
Higher education (F)
Literacy (G, M, W)
LOTE (M)
Music in education (M)
Physical education (M, G, W)
Primary education (G, M, W)
Secondary teaching (M, G)
Special education (M)
TESOL (M)
Vocational education (G)
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