The one-year Master of Education degree is designed for qualified teachers and other educational professionals who wish to study education at an advanced level. This is a specialist stream in visual arts offered in the Master of Education program. It focuses on developing art, design and media arts educators' advanced understanding of the field of Visual Arts education. The stream provides depth and flexibility for students to address theoretical frameworks, critical issues, and practice in visual arts education; and to study in studio disciplines and/or critical, historical and theoretical studies of the visual arts, media and design. A research methods course and a research project provide a framework for investigating visual arts education in an area of professional and classroom practice. Further education elective options enable students to extend on their understandings of contemporary educational contexts. Learning Outcomes Demonstrate an advanced capacity to recognise and negotiate the complex and often contested values and ethical practices that underlie education Demonstrate an in-depth understanding of research-based learning and the ability to plan, analyse, present implement and evaluate complex activities that contribute to advanced professional practice and/or intellectual scholarship in education. Demonstrate advanced critical thinking and problem solving skills Communicate effectively to a range of audiences, and be capable of independent and collaborative enquiry and team-based leadership Demonstrate an understanding of international perspectives relevant to the educational field Demonstrate an advanced understanding of visual arts education as it relates to your specialist area of study, and the ability to synthesize and apply disciplinary principles and practices to new or complex environments.