Education
Coordinator:
Dr Helen Verran (HPS)
Committee:
Dr Ruth Beilin (MSLE)
Dr
John Quay (Education)
Dr Kath Williams (MSLE)
Dr Roderick Fawns (Education)
Assoc Prof Ray Misson (Education)
The Education stream of the Master of Environment focuses on improving the efficacy of educational programs, materials and strategies for ecological justice and social change. Utilizing emerging, critical, place-based educational theories combined with the power of thinking and working across traditional discipline boundaries, the Education stream seeks to increase the knowledge and skills necessary for students to become agents of change within their organizations, communities and institutions. This requires understanding how to create multidisciplinary learning environments in which stakeholders have the maximum potential for motivating change. Students in the Environment stream develop critical understandings of historical, philosophical, socio-cultural, and psychological influences on environmental decision making, models of social transformation, community organizing, project management, conflict resolution, working collaboratively and effective communication. Emphasis is placed on integrating the use of multidimensional and multifaceted tools used in environmental practices such as environmental science, public health, environmental planning and environmental engineering. These tools include, among others, qualitative and quantitative risk analysis, impact assessment, monitoring, biostatistics, and epidemiological analysis. Stream graduates find employment in a wide variety of positions related to education, such as environmental training officers in corporations and government agencies, in consulting companies, and development agencies.
Education stream details
Please consult the Handbook for further information and timetables.
Students are required to complete the subjects:
950-601 Sustainability, Policy and Management
950-600 Trans-disciplinary Thinking and Learning
136-527 Ecology and Environmentalism
485-854 Environmental Education
and select electives to make up the balance of the award. The recommended list of electives includes:
121-508 Project Management and Design
121-509 Field Methods in Development
121-525 Political Ecology in International Development
121-529 Social Impact Assessment and Evaluation
121-532 Environmental Impact Assessment
121-537 Heritage and Cultural Environments
136-506 Pacific History, Environment and Science
166-455 Managing Communications and the Media
166-530 Environmental Policy
207-506/207-414 Social Research Methods
325-663 Human Resource Management
325-667 Advertising
421-681 Management for the Environment
485-829 Teaching with Information Technology
485-833 Multi-media and the Web for Education
485-837 ICT and Curriculum
505-500 Health Ethics and Society
505-969 Epidemiology and Analytical Methods 1
512-545 Environmental Psychology
620-610 Statistics for Research Workers
625-634 Climate Affairs
705-641 Managing Change
730-683 Environmental Law
950-603/ 600-604 Environmental Risk Assessment
These subjects are available in the 2008 academic year, unless otherwise stated. Students may take other electives subject to the approval of the stream coordinator.
Students may apply to undertake a research project as part of a course of study. This requires good academic performance and the approval of the stream coordinator.