Education Subject regulations

DLRNG100 Digital Fluency and Inquiry: Foundations for Academic Practice

This paper offers a foundation for students learning to navigate and communicate effectively through digital learning environments. It incorporates...

HMDEV100 Lifespan Development

HMDEV100 focuses on understanding and enhancing human development through an exploration of biological, psychological, social and cultural factors...

LLTED101 An Introduction to Children's Literature

In this paper we examine children's literature from picturebook to novel; from author to illustrator; from history to modern times. The link between...

MAOED100 Huarahi Matauranga Māori: Historical and Contemporary Approaches to Māori Education

This paper examines historical and contemporary approaches in Māori education provision in Aotearoa New Zealand. It explores policies, practices and...

MTHED100 Conceptual Understanding in Mathematics

This paper provides an introduction to key conceptual understandings in mathematics and connects mathematics with everyday life.

WRITE100 Writing for Academic Success

The paper gives opportunities for undergraduate students to develop their academic literacy skills. It begins with general academic communication and...

DLRNG200 Digital Learning: Critical Perspectives and Lifelong Possibilities

This paper examines educational uses of digital technologies, with an emphasis on learning through electronic networks, including social media. The...

EDART203 Music in Educational Contexts

This paper explores music education enabling students to further develop their musical skills and knowledge in the context of school and community...

EDUCA200 Te Hononga Tangata

This paper prepares students to recognise and understand local and global cultural diversity, and to work competently and confidently in culturally...

EDUCA290 Directed Study

This paper is available for those students involved in a specified project or study.

LLTED201 New Zealand Children's Literature

This paper explores children's literature, establishing familiarity with key and emerging New Zealand writers and illustrators. Skills in visual and...

EDSOC303 Education and Sexuality

A study of the ways childhood and adult sexuality is constructed, monitored and regulated in society and in educational settings. The major emphasis...

EDUCA390 Directed Study

This paper is available for those students involved in a specified project or study.

HMDEV320 Disability, Diversity and Inclusion: Intersecting Identities and Experiences

This paper looks at the emergence of disability as a social and political identity. Using a rights perspective, it critiques inclusion in the spaces...

COUNS540 Working with Groups

This paper explores dialogic group processes with selected kinds of groups. Students will be given the opportunity to develop group membership and...

COUNS546 Conflict Resolution: Restorative Approaches

This paper develops the skills of facilitating conflict resolution using mediation, conferencing and other types of restorative and generative...

COUNS549 Counselling and Contexts

This paper provides an overview of counselling practice and its contexts, including optional modules on school counselling, or addictions. It teaches...

DINST511 Responsive and Inclusive Practice for Child and Youth Neurodiversity

This paper supports teachers, social workers, counsellors, healthcare workers and other professionals to work responsively and inclusively with...

DINST512 Trauma-informed Practice with Children and Young People

This paper supports teachers, social workers, counsellors, healthcare workers and other professionals to understand and enact trauma-informed...

DINST521 Critical Studies in Disability and Inclusion

This paper critically explores an intersectional understanding of disability and inclusion using Critical Disability Studies and Disability Studies...

DLRNG500 Debates in Digital Learning and Educational Technology

This paper provides an opportunity for leaders and practitioners in a range of fields to explore contemporary theories, debates, practice, policy and...

EDLED501 Educational Leadership: Concepts, Theory and Practice

Leading in educational contexts can be a challenging and complex undertaking. This paper introduces students to foundational theoretical and...

EDUCA500 Culturally Responsive Methodologies incorporating kaupapa Māori and Critical Theories

Culturally Responsive Methodologies utilise kaupapa Māori and critical theoretical frameworks to develop contexts within which the researched...

EDUCA504 Critical Reflections on Decolonising Education Spaces

Students critically reflect on extensive literature, their responses and their learning journal completed through Poutama Pounamu blended learning...

EDUCA506 Educational Assessment

This paper provides an opportunity to develop in-depth knowledge and critical awareness of the theoretical issues and practical implications...

EDUCA510 Special Topic

This paper is available for students who require an individually supervised project to complete their qualification in a subject offered by Te Kura...

EDUCA515 Special Topic

This paper is available for students who require an individually supervised project to complete their qualification in a subject offered by Te Kura...

EDUCA530 Special Topic

The content of this paper is determined case-by-case as it will be used when the content is determined by the academic associated with an individual...

EDUCA557 Becoming a researcher in education and the social sciences: Paradigms, methodologies, and methods

This paper introduces students to a range of paradigms, methodologies, methods, and ethical considerations relevant to empirical and literature-based...

EDUCA560 Contemporary Educational Policies, Thought and Issues

This paper allows participants to explore contemporary issues in education as it relates to their practice, focusing on policies, contexts and...

EDUCA561 Educational Contexts

This paper focuses on learners and learning across educational contexts, including geographical, historical, and cultural settings. In this paper we...

EDUCA562 Curriculum, Pedagogies and Multiliteracies

This paper equips students with skills and knowledge to identify, understand and critically analyse curriculum intention and design, enacted...

EDUCA563 Literacy Teaching as Critical Practice: Transformative Pedagogies

This paper explores contrasting theories, research, and practices of literacy learning and instruction across educational contexts. Course learning...

EDUCA573 Summer Research Scholarship Project

This paper has been developed specifically for students who will be undertaking a project as a part of the University of Waikato Summer Research...

EDUCA590 Directed Study

Students have the opportunity to pursue a topic of their own interest under the guidance of academic staff.

EDUCA591 Research-based Inquiry: Informing Practice

A supported project enabling students to identify and investigate a research question of interest, develop a report that includes implications for...

EDUCA592 Dissertation

A report on the findings of a theoretical or empirical investigation.

EDUCA593 Education Thesis

An externally examined piece of written work that reports on the findings of supervised research.

EDUCA594 Education Thesis

An externally examined piece of written work that reports on the findings of supervised research.

GLOBE500 Global Trends in Education: Narratives, Agendas and Voices

This paper considers the narratives, agendas, discourses and voices that have shaped global education trends, and considers their impact on creating...

HMDEV500 Contemporary Issues in Lifespan Development

This paper focuses on contemporary issues in development across the lifespan with an emphasis on diversity, culture and social justice, and considers...

LLTED523 The Joy and Disruption of Children's Literature

In this paper we engage with the depth and traditions of current scholarship in the field of children’s literature using texts from a wide range of...

MAOED500 Rangahau Kaupapa Māori - Kaupapa Māori Research

This paper seeks to explore Kaupapa Māori research theory and methodologies, developing more informed and culturally located and responsive research...

MAOED501 Matauranga Reo Māori

Ka arohaehaehia ngā ariaa ako, whakaako raanei i te reo Māori hei reo tuatahi, tuarua ranei, nga momo aromatawai i te reo me te uu o te whakawhitinga...

MAOED502 Tirohanga Whakahaere

Ka tūhurahia te pānga o ngā taha whakahoahoa, ahurea me te tōrangapū ki te taha arahitanga ā motu, o te ao ki roto i ngā horopaki kaupapa Māori. Ka...

MAOED503 Te Whakaora Reo: Matauranga Rumaki

This paper examines indigenous theory and practice, indigenous language revival and indigenous language revitalisation. It also looks at Māori...

MAOED523 Māori Educational Policies: Their Development and Some Strategic Responses

This paper examines the historical and contemporary politics and practices that have contributed to the current education disparities that affect...

MTHED500 Mathematics and Statistics Education: Enhancing Practice

This paper considers effective pedagogical approaches in Aotearoa, New Zealand, that enhance learning and practices in mathematics. It includes...

POPST502 Indigenous Data Sovereignty and Governance: Theory, Principles and Frameworks

This paper explores key concepts and supports students to develop an in-depth understanding of the key theoretical foundations, guiding principles...

POPST503 Methodological Approaches to Analysing Indigenous Data

This paper examines the fundamentals of indigenous data analysis based on indigenous data sovereignty principles. The paper will support students to...

RPLCR505 Te Whai Toi Tangata 1

This paper offers participants the opportunity to apply for recognition of prior learning gained through active participation in one of our workshop...

RPLCR506 Aspiring Principals' Programme

This paper offers participants the opportunity to apply for recognition of prior learning gained through active participation in the national...

EDUCA980 Advanced Education Inquiry: Research Paradigms and Theories

In this paper, EdD students critically engage with paradigms, methodologies, and theories used in foundational and contemporary education research...

EDUCA981 Advanced Education Inquiry: Pedagogies and Practices for Social Justice

Students will co-construct understandings of practices and critical pedagogies, to interrogate and inform educational outcomes which are socially...

EDUCA983 Advanced Education Inquiry: Policy, Context, Discourse

This paper will provide students with conceptual tools to analyse the various dimensions of educational and professional policies, contexts and...

EDUCA990 Advanced Education Inquiry: Research Design

This paper enables students to prepare a full research proposal for an empirical study, to prepare and submit an ethics application to undertake this...

EDUCA994 EdD Thesis

This is a 2 year (full-time) or 4 year (part-time) piece of independent research on a topic of the student's interest, supported by supervisors