Graduate Certificate of Specialist Inclusive Education
2025 Deakin University Handbook
| Year | 2025 course information |
|---|---|
| Award granted | Graduate Certificate of Specialist Inclusive Education |
| Deakin course code | E544 |
| Faculty | Faculty of Arts and Education |
| Campus | This course is only offered Online For students who commenced prior to 2025 only |
| Duration | 1 year part-time |
The final intake to this course version was in Trimester 2, 2024. From 2025, the Graduate Certificate of Specialist Inclusive Education is offered as E568 Graduate Certificate of Education (Specialist Inclusive Education). Students should contact a Student Adviser in Student Central for course and enrolment information. Further course structure information can be found in the handbook archive. | |
Course sub-headings
- Course overview
- Career opportunities
- Course Learning Outcomes
- Course rules
- Course structure
- Fees and charges
Course overview
If you’re passionate about creating a more inclusive tomorrow, the Graduate Certificate of Specialist Inclusive Education is perfect for you. This specialist course will introduce you to the tools teachers use to make learning accessible to students of all backgrounds and abilities, while bringing you up to speed on current industry challenges. Gain the knowledge and skills required to secure support roles in inclusive education, where you will help effect important and much-needed progress to make education across the sectors inclusive for all.
Change starts in the classroom. Are you ready to lead the charge?
This course responds to a growing demand for a more inclusive education system by providing those who work in education with the skills to foster more supportive and accessible environments. It focuses on building your capacities to support teaching and encourages you to reflect on each student’s unique strengths.
Key study areas include:
- engaging with and understanding what diversity and intersectionality means
- analysing the goals, purpose and challenges of a heterogenous classroom
- creating positive learning environments aligned with strong social justice principles.
You will also choose from a range of electives designed to complement your specialist knowledge and skills, such as in supporting gifted individuals, arts-based practices, or in education governance and policy.
Deakin maintains close links with the education sector – including the Victorian Department of Education and Training (DET) and Victorian Institute of Teaching (VIT) – to ensure our courses are developed and reviewed with industry and professional input. You’ll be taught by staff with experience in the sector who are recognised as leaders and innovators in their fields, so you can be confident that the skills and expertise you learn at Deakin reflect the cutting edge of industry practice and will be highly valued by employers.
In addition, the course is delivered entirely via Deakin’s premium online learning platform, meaning you can further your knowledge while you work, and simultaneously put your learning into practice by exploring a digitally accessible environment.
Career opportunities
Graduate with the skills to help foster inclusivity across a range of educational settings, including in roles such as a:
- disability inclusion facilitator
- educational assistant (integration aid)
- Koorie engagement support officer
- diverse learner hub coach
For more information go to DeakinTALENT.
Course Learning Outcomes
| Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes | Course Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|
| Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities | Review, analyse, consolidate and synthesise inclusive education theoretical foundations and practices, and create and apply specialist pedagogies, curriculum and assessments across a range of educational contexts. |
| Communication | Review, analyse, consolidate and synthesise inclusive education theoretical foundations and practices, and create and apply specialist pedagogies, curriculum and assessments across a range of educational contexts. |
| Digital literacy | Initiate, plan, implement and evaluate high quality, credible, adaptive digital resources to support equitable access, participation and engagement in learning for all students. |
| Critical thinking | Understand the interrelationship between philosophies, theories and practices of inclusive education to inform strategies that advance equitable access and positive learning outcomes for students and complex learning partnerships. |
| Problem solving | Identify and apply professional and ethical judgement to realise creative, positive and inclusive solutions to complex teaching and learning problems across a range of learning partnerships. |
| Self-management | Demonstrate critically reflective practice and ongoing professional learning to support the development of inclusive communities of practice, cross-disciplinary dialogue and scholarship. |
| Teamwork | Collaborate and contribute to learning partnerships and multidisciplinary teams across a range of diverse contexts to advance the inclusive learning and development of all learners. |
| Global citizenship | Review national and international practice and theory of inclusive education in relation to legal, ethical and policy frameworks to address issues of equity and social justice across diverse communities in a global context. |
Approved at Faculty Board July 2017
Course rules
To complete the Graduate Certificate of Specialist Inclusive Education students must pass 4 credit points and meet the following course rules to be eligible to graduate.
- DAI001 Academic Integrity and Respect at Deakin (0-credit-point compulsory unit) in their first study period
- 3 credit points of core units
- 1 credit point course elective
Students are required to meet the University's academic progress and conduct requirements. See the enrolment codes and terminology to help make sense of the University’s vocabulary.
Course structure
Core units
| EXE732 | Social Justice and Difference |
| EIE702 | Teaching and Learning in the Inclusive Classroom |
| EEI715 | Effective Classroom Management: Positive Learning Environments |
Course Electives
| ECP711 | Creativity and the Arts |
| ESP701 | Education and Development of Exceptional Learners |
| ECP703 | Child Protection |
| EDX701 | Research Design Development and Method |
| EIE704 | Supporting Communication in Inclusive Classrooms |
| ECM720 | Educational Context, Policy and Leadership in Challenging Times |
EEL702 New and Traditional Literacies and Diverse Student Needs [No longer available for enrolment]
ESP707 Psychology in Education [No longer available for enrolment]
ESM701 Teaching Mathematics Successfully [No longer available for enrolment]
ECM711 Education Governance and Policy [No longer available for enrolment]
ECM712 Education Leadership in Changing Times [No longer available for enrolment]
Course duration
Course duration may be affected by delays in completing course requirements, such as failing of units or accessing or completing placements.
Further information
Student Central can help you with course planning, choosing the right units and explaining course rules and requirements.
- Contact Student Central
Fees and charges
Fees and charges vary depending on the type of fee place you hold, your course, your commencement year, the units you choose to study, and their study discipline or your study load.
Tuition fees increase at the beginning of each calendar year and all fees quoted are in Australian dollars ($AUD). Tuition fees do not include textbooks, computer equipment or software, other equipment or costs such as mandatory checks, travel and stationery.
For further information regarding tuition fees, other fees and charges, invoice due dates, withdrawal dates, payment methods visit our Current students website.