Bachelor of Education (Secondary: Human Movement & Health Education)

The Bachelor of Education (Human Movement and Health Education) is a four-year full-time degree course preparing students to work in the Personal Development, Health and Physical Education key learning area, primarily within secondary school contexts although some training to teach at primary school level is also included. Whilst the focus is on teacher education, this degree also forms a basis for students who want to work in settings related to community health, recreation, sport, and fitness.

In the first year of your degree course, units in the sciences, social sciences and humanities are selected from a wide range offered by the faculties of Arts, Science, and Economics and Business. In your first year, you will choose two units from these as well as units in generalist education, which examine education as a social science and look at issues in policy and social theory. In the first year, you are also required to take one science sports mechanics units and four units of professional studies in human movement and health education.

In second year you will continue two units in generalist education and six units of professional studies in human movement and health education. Professional studies from year 2 will include teaching and learning curriculum development and school experience. In third year you will continue with two units of generalist education and six units of professional studies in human movement and health education. In year four you will undertake an honours or non-honours route, and all units of study will be taken from professional studies in human movement and health education.

School experience in year 1 is in primary schools and in years 2 and 3 in secondary schools. Year 4 incorporates an internship in a secondary school.

The Human Movement and Health Education Program prepares graduates who have:

• core knowledge essential to be educators in HME and HE years K to 12 and the community;
• technical background which includes ITC skills and information relevant to the subject areas of health education, movement science, physical education, anatomy and physiology, and fitness;
• knowledge of the historical/philosophical/socio-cultural impact on health status, behaviour, research, personal performance competencies, personal health, administration, role modelling, medical/safety/legal implications, marketing techniques, the selection of activities;
• interpersonal skills in the teaching of HME drawing from the areas of games, dance, aquatics, gymnastics, track and field, outdoor and leisure pursuits;
• interpersonal skills in the teaching of HE drawing from the areas of growth development, healthy lifestyles, drug education, nutrition, safe living;
• learned to utilise the applied science/social science theoretical background in the practice of HME/HE;
• accepted their position as a role model of health-enhancing behaviour;
• the intention of pursuing professional liaison through colloquia, seminars, and professional associations.

Education

• EDUF1018 Education, teachers and teaching
• EDUF1019 Human development and education

Other Faculty Junior/First Year Units of Study

• 2 six credit point Junior/First Year units of study chosen from the Faculty of Arts, (eg History, English, Anthropology, Religious Studies, French, Arabic, Japanese, Philosophy), Faculty of Economics and Business, and Faculty of Science

Professional Studies in HMHE

• Sports mechanics
• Professional Practice in PDHPE I
• Identifying Health Determinants
• Pedagogy for Physical Education I

Education

• EDUF2006 Educational psychology
• EDUF2007 Social perspectives on education

Professional Studies in HMHE

• Professional Practice in PDHPE II
• Health and Young People I
• Indigeonous Perspectives in PDHPE
• Applied anatomy & physiology
• Outdoor Education
• Pedagogy for Physical Education II

Education

• Positive Appraoches to Special Education
• Youth, Sport and Leisure

Professional Studies in HMHE

• Professional Practice in PHPDE III
• Health Theories and Models in Action
• Pedagogy for Physical Education III
• Pedagogy for Physical Education IV
• Health for Young People II
• Training for Performance

Education

• Reading and Designing Research
• Research Honours A or
• Research Honours B
• Professional Studies in HMHE
• Professional Practice in PDHPE IV
• Community Health Issues
• Pedagogy for Physical Education V
• Internship
• And either one HMHE elective (honours route)
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• one HMHE elective (non-honours route)
• one Education unit

The availability of these optional units of study is subject to student demand and teaching staff.

A description of the units offered in a particular year will be available from the HMHE Course Coordinator (Dr Kate Russell) at the beginning of each year.

(If you are taking Honours you will complete a Special Honours course in which you will submit a thesis. You will do this instead of completing the education elective)

By the end of Year 3 you are expected to have completed a WorkCover approved First Aid Certificate. This is a prerequisite for Sports medicine.

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