Youth Research Centre

MASTERS PROGRAMS

The Youth Research Centre contributes to the Melbourne Graduate School of Education's world-renowned Master of Teaching program and the new Master of Education, which includes nine specialisation options.

• Master of Teaching

  Discover the unique and innovative Master of Teaching curriculum, which combines theory and practice to offer powerful insights into children and young people, and how they learn.

• Master of Education

  Delve into contemporary education issues, connect with the latest developments in the field, and garner the expertise to move beyond the classroom with a Master of Education.

UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES

The Centre contributes to a range of undergraduate studies, including a suite of breadth subjects on youth, citizenship & identity. Available breadth subjects include:

• Concepts of Childhood

  This subject examines the questions raised by this continuing body of research and relates them to current understandings of childhood and to recent changes in policies regarding children in diverse local and international contexts.

• Youth Leading Change

  This subject explores young people as change-makers and problem-solvers against a backdrop of social transformation in Australia and globally. It provides students with thinking tools for addressing local and global problems in everyday life and skills for leadership.

• Ethics, Gender and the Family

  The family continues to be regarded as a private institution that should be immune to public scrutiny, despite the increasing intervention in the family by public institutions - notably, the law, education, medicine and social services.

• Learning and the Digital Generations

  Students are introduced to the complex and emerging relationships between learning and digital communications. Drawing on the idea of digital generations, it enables students to gain an understanding of the ways in which digital communication is integrated into the lives of new generations.

• Youth and Popular Culture

  Explore how children and young people construct and reconstruct their sense of selves against the backdrop of pervasive contemporary popular cultures.

• Annual reports

  Please find the latest Annual Reports available for download in PDF format

• Research Reports

  View a full list of Research Publications that the Youth Research Centre has been involved in.

• Connect Magazine

  Connect is a newsletter that has appeared six times a year since late 1979. It documents, resources and supports student participation approaches in primary and secondary schools

• Diversity Dolls

  Learning to see and work with young children’s prejudices and biases is critical in working for equity in the 21st century. Here you can explore how Diversity Dolls can be used as a starting point for equity education with young children

• International Journal of Equity and Innovation in Early Childhood

  The IJEIEC aimed to explore and advance early childhood education and thinking about childhood by publishing work that illustrated, extended, inspired and provoked innovative approaches to early childhood education.

• Podcasts

  Listen to some podcasts that the Youth Research Centre has been involved in.

• Youth Participation Model

  The Youth Participation Model framework is designed to assist those planning for child and youth participation