Graduate Certificate in Early Childhood Research
Graduate Certificate in Early Childhood Research
Why study Early Childhood Research? Build your early childhood expertise: Uncover new ideas, understandings, and knowledge about how early childhood research contributes to addressing local and global issues. Delve into a topic you’re passionate about: Design and complete a research project with a focus on early childhood. Enjoy the flexibility…
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Why study Early Childhood Research?
Build your early childhood expertise: Uncover new ideas, understandings, and knowledge about how early childhood research contributes to addressing local and global issues.
Delve into a topic you’re passionate about: Design and complete a research project with a focus on early childhood.
Enjoy the flexibility of studying online with the support of a mentor and an engaged cohort: This 100% online course utilises the Collective Model to support students throughout the course.
The Graduate Certificate in Early Childhood Research is a coursework program which provides an introduction to research methodology. Students will build their knowledge and research skills through collaborative and thoughtful design that is contextual and relevant to local and global communities. The course utilises industry-based learning as research and enables participants to design and complete a self-study/action research project with a focus on early childhood.
Who is this course for?
The course is suitable for practicing early childhood educators and teachers, school teachers, policy makers, administrators/directors and university academics looking to upskill, build their capacity in undertaking early childhood research, create informed and responsive policy and decisions, and engage in continuous improvement practices in classrooms and beyond.
Learning outcomes: On completion of this course, students should be able to: Critically review early childhood research and identify relevant issues in the field. Understand the relationship between research questions, literature review, and methodology. Articulate multiple research methodologies in relationship to research questions and literature. Design and implement a self-study research project in early childhood education related to current issues and practices in the field. Further study: The University of Melbourne’s Faculty of Education is widely recognised as a leader in Australian and international education research. Graduates interested in further study in one of the Faculty of Education’s suite of graduate research degrees may have several options, depending on their prior qualifications, academic achievement, research experience and professional experience. Entry to graduate research degrees is competitive.
EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION
Established in 1853, the University of Melbourne enjoys an outstanding reputation with world rankings, consistently being placed as Australia’s leading comprehensive research-intensive university, and is one of the world’s top 50 (as per Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2015 – 2016 and Academic Ranking of World Universities 2015). There are over 80 different undergraduate study areas and over 270 graduate courses at Melbourne for students to choose from. The University has extensive global networks and has seven campus locations across Melbourne and rural Victoria.
