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Communication
Enrolment code: ESV201
Offered: Ltn, sem 1/sem 2/; Hbt, sem 1/sem 2/
Unit description: Covers two areas. First, the unit is designed to introduce the
student to the requirements of academic work, including the organisational
skills and research behind the process of academic writing. Second, there is a
group of topics which provides a solid foundation to inform the students’ areas
of teaching practice through: an exploration of the communication process,
questioning the importance of listening, non-verbal recognition and language
and literacy in communication.
Staff: Ms L Harrison
Unit weight: 12.5%
Assess: assignment
Required texts, etc:
Dwyer J, The Business Communication Handbook, 4th edn, 1997
Recommended reading:
Eunson B, Writing and Presenting Reports, Wiley, Brisbane, 1994
Courses: E3G
Managing Learning
Enrolment code: ESV202
Offered: Ltn, sem 1; Hbt, sem 1
Unit description: Facilitators of adult learning must be able to identify the
needs of learners, plan a learning program, successfully implement and
evaluate the performance of students to determine if learning has occurred as
intended. This unit encourages students to examine and implement
instructional and learning strategies which are appropriate for an range of adult
and vocational contexts and applications. Essential practical skills for beginning
adult learning facilitation will be developed.
Staff: Dr C Owen
Unit weight: 12.5%
Assess: assignment
Required texts, etc:
Burns R, The Adult Learner at Work, Business & Professional, Syd, 1995.
Courses: E3G
Foundations of Adult Learning
Enrolment code: ESV203
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Offered: Ltn, sem 2; Hbt, sem 2
Unit description: Provides a basis for understanding adult learning by
introducing the key disciplines informing adult and vocational education: adult
learning theory, sociological, psychological, economic, philosophical and
historical. These introductions are studied in the context of the current
international and national socio-political milieu. Such assumptions as
pedagogy, androgogy, self-directed learning and critical reflection and analysis
will also be explored in the context of lifelong learning. The unit concludes with
an exploration of the policy foundations which influences the contexts in which
adult learning in Australia is practised.
Staff: Dr I Falk, Ms L Harrison
Unit weight: 12.5%
Prereq: all year 1 subjects
Assess: assignment
Required texts, etc:
Burns R, The Adult Learner at Work: A Comprehensive Guide to the Context,
Psychology and Methods of Learning for the Workplace Business &
Professional, Syd, 1995.
Courses: E3G M3H
Teaching and Learning 1
Enrolment code: ESV204
Offered: Ltn, sem 1&2; Hbt, sem 1&2
Special note: access to teaching/training practical work is essential
Unit description: Blends a performance-based approach with reflection,
resulting in a focus on praxis: the integration of theory and practice. The unit
aims to encourage students to become more aware of their roles as educators, to
raise awareness of current teaching, training and facilitation practices, and to
develop skills of critical evaluation of their own practice methodology, and
those of other adult educators.
Staff: tba
Unit weight: 12.5%
Prereq: ESV202
Assess: assignment and practical work
Required texts, etc:
Brookfiled S, Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher, Jossey-Bass, San Francisco,
1995.
Courses: E3G
Communication Strategies
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Enrolment code: ESV205
Offered: Ltn, sem 1; Hbt, sem 1
Unit description: Continues the study of the informing disciplines of adult
and vocational education through an extension of the themes studied in
Communication ESV201. The unit examines the processes and contexts of
socio-linguistic and social activities associated with educational management,
group and public spheres of adult and vocational education. Spoken
applications are studied in the context of the learning environment, in
counselling and interviewing settings, as well as for meetings and
presentations. The written application is consolidated through effective
identification of text types, of critique, formal reports, submissions, technical
manuals and educational materials.
Staff: Ms L Harrison
Unit weight: 12.5%
Prereq: ESV201
Assess: assignment
Required texts, etc:
Dwyer J, The Business Communication Handbook, 4th edn, 1997
Recommended reading:
Eunson B, Writing and Presenting Reports, Wiley and Sons, Brisbane, 1989
Eunson B, Communicating for Team Building, Wiley and Sons, Brisbane, 1994.
Courses: E3G M3H
Curriculum Development
Enrolment code: ESV206
Offered: Ltn, sem 2; Hbt, sem 2
Unit description: Is designed to introduce students to the knowledge, process
and skills required to develop and implement inclusive curriculums in adult
and vocational education. Unit content includes the influences and processes
involved in curriculum design, how to identify and incorporate individual
student needs and the development of learning and teaching materials from
national standards (where appropriate and available) in a specific adult and/or
vocational area. Students are required to relate the three stages of ‘define,
design and implement’ to their own work-based curriculums.
Staff: tba
Unit weight: 12.5%
Prereq: ESV201, 202, 203
Assess: assignment
Required texts, etc:
Print M, Curriculum Development and Design , 2nd edn, Allen and Unwin, St
Leonards, NSW, 1993.
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E3G
Assessment and Evaluation
Enrolment code: ESV207
Offered: Ltn, sem 2; Hbt, sem 2
Unit description: Adopts a holistic approach to assessment and evaluation
where the overall assessment regime is related to the context and purpose for
individual assessment items. In this way, the various traditional and
contemporary approaches to assessment in adult and vocational education are
given practical application. As part of this approach, the unit considers
competency-based assessment and evaluation in the more traditional testing
knowledge-base, and some other, newer assessment and evaluation methods
and philosophies.
Staff: Dr S Kilpatrick
Unit weight: 12.5%
Assess: assignment
Required texts, etc:
Gonczi A, Developing a Competent Workforce, NCVER, Adelaide, 1993
Guthrie H, Getting to Grips with Evaluating Training, NCVER, Adelaide, 1995
Hager P, Athanasou J and Gonczi A, Assessment Technical Manual, AGPS,
Canberra, 1994
Rumsey D, Assessment Practical Guide, AGPS, Canberra, 1994.
Courses: E3G
Issues and Contexts in AVE
Enrolment code: ESV208
Offered: Ltn, sem 2; Hbt, sem 2
Unit description: This final unit for year two has a twofold purpose: first to
synthesise the many issues relevant to the field of adult and vocational
education through a critical analysis organised around the distinctive and
contemporary research questions asked in the field. One of these issues is the
way in which the informing disciplines are reflected in current policies and
areas of practice. The second purpose is to provide an introduction to the way
in which the founding discipline bases have resulted in five significant and
distinctive areas of policy and practice within the more general field of adult
and vocational education, namely: Workplace Learning and Training (HRD),
Community and Public Education, Instructional Design in AVE, and Language,
Literacy and Numeracy in AVE.
Staff: Dr I Falk
Unit weight: 12.5%
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Prereq: all other ESV2- units or equiv
Assess: assignment
Courses: E3G
Conversion (A&WPT)
Enrolment code: ESV209
Offered: Ltn, sem 1/sem 2/; Hbt, sem 1/sem 2/
Unit description: Extends the practical competencies gained by students in
completing Certificate IV in Assessment and Workplace Training with the
theoretical and critical aspects of the Bachelor of Adult and Vocational
Education (BAdVocEd). This unit comprises 3 modules, each of which deals
with a specific topic that is associated with Certificate IV in Assessment and
Workplace Training and the BAdVocEd.
Staff: Ms L Harrison
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching: no tutorials
Prereq: Certificate IV in A&WPT
Assess: assignment
Required texts, etc:
Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4 of Print M, Curriculum Development and Design, 2nd edn,
Allen & Unwin, Syd, 1993.
Recommended reading:
Gonczi A (ed), Developing a Competent Workforce. Adult Learning Strategies for
Vocational Educators and Trainers, NCVER, Adelaide, 1992
Hager P, Athanasou J and Gonczi A, Assessment Technical Manual, AGPS,
Canberra, 1994
Rumsev D, Assessment Practical Guide, AGPS, Canberra, 1994
Burns R, The Adult Learner at Work: A Comprehensive Guide to the Context,
Psychology and Methods of Learning for the Workplace, Business and
Professional Publ, Syd, 1995.
Courses: E3G
Teaching and Learning 2
Enrolment code: ESV301
Offered: Ltn, sem 1&2; Hbt, sem 1&2
Special note: access to teaching/training practical work is essential
Unit description: Extends the breadth and scope of ESV204 Teaching and
Learning 1 in its focus on blending a performance-based approach with
reflection, resulting in praxis, which is the integration of theory and practice.
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The unit aims to extend students’ awareness of their roles as educators, raising
their awareness of current teaching, training and facilitation practices, and to
develop skills of critical evaluation of their own practice methodology, and
those of other adult educators. These extensions occur in a specific elective
studies area of practice nominated by the students for study.
Staff: tba
Unit weight: 12.5%
Prereq: all ESV2- units or equiv
Assess: assignment and practical work
Required texts, etc:
Brookfield S, Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher, Jossey-Bass, San Francisco,
1995.
Courses: E3G
Research and Methods in AVE
Enrolment code: ESV302
Offered: Ltn, sem 1; Hbt, sem 1
Unit description: Provides an introduction to existing research in adult and
vocational education and to qualitative and quantitative research methods. The
merits and purposes of research contributing to adult and vocational education
knowledge will be evaluated in terms of the traditional and contemporary
issues and research questions for the field, identified in ESV208 Issues and
Contexts in AVE.
Staff: Dr S Kilpatrick
Unit weight: 12.5%
Prereq: all ESV2- units or equiv
Assess: assignment and research proposal
Required texts, etc:
Funnel R, A Handbook for Research in Adult and Vocational Education, 1996
Recommended reading:
Eunson B, Writing and Presenting Reports, Wiley and Sons, Brisbane, 1994
Courses: E3G
Workplace Learning and Training 1
Enrolment code: ESV305
Offered: Ltn, sem 1; Hbt, sem 1
Unit description: Workplace Learning and Training (HRD) is concerned with
the establishment of learning needs in organisational settings where HRD
practitioners operate. The basis for the unit is to begin by establishing how the
key informing disciplines introduced in ESV208 have resulted in the features
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identified in this area of practice. It is concerned with the planning and
implementation of organised learning programs directed at individual, group
and organisational performance improvement and/or personal growth. The
key areas for study include: planning and implementing training and
development programs; organisational change and organisational learning; and
the role of learning within quality management approaches. Upon completion
of this unit, participants will be able to: understand the existing and emerging
roles played by HRD practitioners and the competencies required within and
practitioners and related roles; and understand the changing nature of
workplace organisations and the implications for HRD practice.
Staff: Dr C Owen
Unit weight: 12.5%
Prereq: all ESV2- units or equiv
Assess: assignment
Required texts, etc:
Harris D and DeSimone R, Human Resource Development, 1994.
Courses: E3G
Workplace Learning and Training 2
Enrolment code: ESV306
Offered: Ltn, sem 2; Hbt, sem 2
Unit description: Introduces the key elements of the learning organisation
and details the ways in which HRD practitioners can participate in the
development of learning organisation practices. The unit argues that HRD
practitioners are best placed to provide consultancy services (internal and
external) that focus on these practices. Upon completion of the unit, participants
will be able to: situate the range of possible HRD roles within the changing
Australian and international context; demonstrate a capacity to identify the
learning needs of different organisations; understand the role of program
planning models and successfully implement at least one such model in the
planning of a learning program; and appraise the opportunities for, and value
of, HRD research/evaluation roles for external consultants. Key informing
disciplines are shown to affect the particular aspects of this area of practice.
Staff: Dr C Owen
Unit weight: 12.5%
Prereq: all ESV2- units or equiv, plus ESV305
Assess: assignment
Required texts, etc:
Harris D and DeSimone R, Human Resource Development, 1994.
Courses: E3G
Community and Public Education 1
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Enrolment code: ESV307
Offered: Ltn, sem 1; Hbt, sem 1
Unit description: Provides the relevant practical, theoretical and research
perspectives, acts as a foundational introduction to Community and Public
Education, and traces the emergence of the sector and its role in society. The
unit begins by establishing how the key informing disciplines introduced in
ESV208 have resulted in the features identified in this area of practice. The unit
will examine the scope of Community and Public Education and its
contribution to the educational, economic and social outcomes of the nation,
state and individual. There is particular attention paid to the need to establish a
strategic research base as one aspect of creating identity in the changing guise
of the training reform.
Staff: Ms L Harrison
Unit weight: 12.5%
Prereq: all ESV2- units or equiv
Assess: assignment
Required texts, etc:
Foley G, Understanding Adult Education and Training, 2nd edn, Allen and
Unwin, Syd, 2000.
Courses: E3G M3H
Community and Public Education 2
Enrolment code: ESV308
Offered: Ltn, sem 2; Hbt, sem 2
Unit description: Using recently acquired student experience and knowledge
of research processes and methods, the unit concentrates on skills that will
enhance constructive negotiation as advocate, change agent, or empowering
agent to stimulate social, physical, economic place and community action. It
then assists students to design and conduct applicable public promotional
campaigns and suitable approaches, to raise awareness, disseminate
information support and resources.
Staff: Ms L Harrison
Unit weight: 12.5%
Prereq: all ESV2- units or equiv, plus ESV307
Assess: assignment
Required texts, etc:
Foley G, Understanding Adult Education and Training, 2nd edn, Allen and
Unwin, Syd, 2000.
Courses: E3G M3H
Instructional Design in AVE 1
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Enrolment code: ESV309
Offered: Ltn, sem 1; Hbt, sem 1
Unit description: Begins by establishing how the key informing disciplines
introduced in ESV208 have resulted in the features identified in this area of
practice. The unit investigates the nature of instructional design, the history of
the instructional design movement and the place of instructional design in the
context of adult and vocational education. Stages in the ID process are explored
before considering three further key issues which are impacting on current ID
practice: the implications of new technologies on the development and delivery
of instruction; the question of quality, with focus on evaluating the ID process;
and the re-assessment of ID theory and practice in the light of current
understandings about learners and the learning process.
Staff: tba
Unit weight: 12.5%
Prereq: all ESV2- units or equiv
Assess: assignment
Required texts, etc:
Rowntree D, Teaching Through Self-instruction, Kogan Page, Lond, 1990.
Courses: E3G
Instructional Design in AVE 2
Enrolment code: ESV310
Offered: Ltn, sem 2; Hbt, sem 2
Unit description: Looks at the elements of communication and project
management that are important in the work of an instructional designer. These
are not the traditional ‘skills’ of materials-based ID, but the essential
interpersonal and organisational abilities which facilitate effective outcomes.
Staff: tba
Unit weight: 12.5%
Prereq: all ESV2- units or equiv, plus ESV309
Assess: assignment
Required texts, etc:
Rowntree D, Teaching Through Self-instruction, Kogan Page, Lond, 1990.
Courses: E3G
Language, Literacy and Numeracy in AVE 1
Enrolment code: ESV311
Offered: Ltn, sem 1; Hbt, sem 1
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Unit description: Provides the practical, theoretical and research perspectives
which allow an understanding of the many social, educational and workplace
contexts of use in which adult language, literacy and numeracy education
occurs. Using the primary discipline base of socio-linguistics, the overall
direction develops the idea that language and literacy is part of and results
from the activities of the particular context, whether these are related to
vocational, functional or personal contexts of language and literacy use. The
basis for the unit is to establish how the key informing disciplines introduced in
ESV208 have resulted in the features identified in this area of practice.
Staff: Dr I Falk
Unit weight: 12.5%
Prereq: all ESV2- units or equiv
Assess: assignment
Required texts, etc:
Falk I and Penson M (eds), Literacy, Adults and Diversity, 1996.
Courses: E3G
Language, Literacy and Numeracy in AVE 2
Enrolment code: ESV312
Offered: Ltn, sem 2; Hbt, sem 2
Unit description: Builds on the groundwork laid in ESV311. The links are
made between the contexts in which educational practices occur in adult
language, literacy and numeracy education and the practical application of
those skills. The key discipline base of socio-linguistics is explored in greater
depth. The underlying theme is that effective adult language, literacy and
numeracy education depends on an ethical and equitable blend of both generic
and context-specific practices, whether these are related to vocational,
functional or personal contexts of use.
Staff: Dr I Falk
Unit weight: 12.5%
Prereq: all ESV2- units or equiv, plus ESV311
Assess: assignment
Required texts, etc:
Falk I and Penson M (eds), Literacy, Adults and Diversity, 1996.
Courses: E3G
On-line Learning and Teaching in AVE
Enrolment code: ESV313
Special note: As the majority of this unit is computer-interactive study,
students require computer skills and access to the internet
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Unit description: Using the world wide web-based educational environment,
this unit provides hands-on experience alongside pedagogical content of
on-line learning. The student has the opportunity to examine the relevance of a
personalised learning environment, collaborative learning, multi-media
presentation of content, reinforcing content, experiential learning and new
approaches to assessment. As a learner, the student is introduced to interactive
communication tools of discussion boards, chat room, whiteboard and email.
As teachers/trainers in Adult and Vocational Education, students have the
opportunity to use these technologies as a teacher and designer of on-line
teaching using the course tool, WebCT.
Staff: Ms L Harrison
Unit weight: 12.5%
Prereq: all ESV2- units or equiv
Assess: assignment and participation
Courses: E3G
Managing AVE
Enrolment code: ESV314
Offered: Ltn, sem 1&2; Hbt, sem 1&2
Unit description: Considers the various organisational structures which exist
in various AVE contexts and issues of the management of physical and human
resources, in particular the interpersonal skills required in managing AVE.
These include consulting, negotiating, working in teams and leadership.
Staff: Dr S Kilpatrick
Unit weight: 12.5%
Prereq: all ESV2- units or equiv
Assess: assignment
Courses: E3G
Research Practice in AVE
Enrolment code: ESV315
Offered: Ltn, sem 2; Hbt, sem 2
Unit description: Builds on ESV302, to provide students with the opportunity
to demonstrate a synthesis of the skills and knowledge from the whole degree,
through undertaking a literature research project.
Staff: Dr S Kilpatrick
Unit weight: 12.5%
Prereq: all ESV2- units or equiv, plus ESV302 or equiv
Assess: literature research project
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About Research in AVE
Enrolment code: ESV401
Offered: Ltn, sem 1/sem 2/
Special note: See also the related unit ESV402
Unit description: Provides an overview of the meaning, place and relevance
of research in adult and vocational education, allied to a study of current
research in the field. The question of ethics is also considered. An in-depth
review of the research frameworks is made and the strategic plans of groups
such as ANTA, NCVER and AVETRA are discussed in reference to various
research disciplines which contribute to the overall picture. In carrying out this
review, students identify gaps and needs for research, as wells as a particular
area for their own research work. Students also research the relevant literature.
Staff: Dr I Falk
Unit weight: 25%
Assess: assignment
Required texts, etc:
Burns RB, Introduction to Research Methods, Longman Cheshire, Melb, 1997.
Courses: E4G
Doing Research in AVE
Enrolment code: ESV402
Offered: Ltn, sem 1/sem 2/
Unit description: Encompasses the conduct of research projects. The unit
begins with the framing and focusing of research questions, moves to explore
the link between problem and methodology, encompasses research design and
some basic qualitative, scientific and discursive methods, outlines the kinds of
in-the-field issues which need to be addressed in the conduct of research
projects, and concludes with data analysis techniques and proposal and report
writing. The research dissertation proposal is the major outcome of this unit.
Staff: Dr S Kilpatrick
Unit weight: 25%
Assess: assignment
Required texts, etc:
Burns RB, Introduction to Research Methods, Longman Cheshire, Melb, 1997.
Courses: E4G
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Dissertation
Enrolment code: ESV403
Offered: Ltn, sem 2
Unit description: For details, contact the Faculty
Unit weight: 50%
Courses: E4G
Dissertation (Part A)
Enrolment code: ESV404
Offered: Ltn, sem 1/sem 2/
Unit description: For details, contact the Faculty
Unit weight: 25%
Courses: E4G
Dissertation (Part B)
Enrolment code: ESV405
Offered: Ltn, sem 1/sem 2/
Unit description: For details, contact the Faculty
Unit weight: 25%
Courses: E4G
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