| Code | Faculty |
|---|---|
| 09250203 | Faculty of Education |
| Credits | Duration |
|---|---|
| Minimum duration of study: 2 years | Total credits: 240 |
The closing date for applications for the programme is 31 July and selection takes place in August. The programme includes practical work per week that enables students to comply with the requirements for registration as an Educational Psychologist with the Health Professions Council of South Africa, after completion of an internship in Educational Psychology at an institution approved by the abovementioned Council for this purpose. The University is under no obligation to provide students with or assist them in finding internships.
Students are provisionally selected during the formal selection that takes place in August. Finalisation of selection takes place in the following June of every year. The Department of Educational Psychology therefore reserves the right to reconsider a student’s admission to the programme during the first six months of study, based on both demonstrated training and career-orientated ability.
A compulsory selection form has to be completed together with the UP application form.
A candidate can be admitted if he/she complies with the following requirements:
Senate may:
Additional admission requirements
All applications are subject to selection.
Selection is based on:
All master’s students must submit a dissertation or a mini-dissertation and must pass Research Proposal (NMQ 800). For the MEd research degree programmes, a dissertation on a topic approved by the Dean on the recommendation of the Head of department must be submitted, following the approval of a complete research proposal. A literature study is not acceptable.
The MEd degree with coursework is conferred with distinction on a student who obtains 75% in the mini-dissertation and an average of 75% in the remaining modules.
All the Core modules, NMQ 800 (Research proposal) and one of the mini-dissertations (BOP, ODK, OPG or OUB 895) should be selected in the 1st year. When the "Research proposal" has been passed in the 1st year, only the "mini-dissertation" should be selected again in the final year. Students will be granted two opportunities to pass NMQ 800.
Module content:
Development of a research proposal. Research methodology. Overview and principles of quantitative and qualitative research methodology. Data collection methods, data analysis methods, paradigm analysis and theoretical frameworks for educational studies. Global theoretical perspectives in education.
Module content:
The career management process: Theory and application; stages of career development; contemporary issues in career management; career management in work organisations; postmodern approach to career management.
The practice of guidance and counselling: Interviewing, implementation and interpretation of media, diagnosing, referring and report writing.
Module content:
Fundamental approach(es) concerning barriers to learning, with reference to the South African context; theoretical framework(s) for diagnostic assessment in respect of academic achievement difficulties within the South African context; practice in the independent integration and synthesis of relevant subject-specific literature in preparation for own research: neuropsychological functioning, language (L1 and L2), reading, writing, spelling, numeracy and mathematical skills, study skills, educational and environmental disadvantage; professional skills and values of accountable diagnostic assessment practice and reporting of findings in respect of learners’ academic achievement difficulties within the South African context.
Module content:
Learning support in South Africa: contextualisation; the learner and learning support; inclusive education; learning support: micro-level; group work.
Module content:
The educational psychologist as consultant and facilitator within a multi-cultural framework; underlying theory and approach to educational psychological assessment and intervention; forensic dimension; the foundation of child psychotherapy; the educational psychologist as a person; different assessment and therapeutic approaches and the well-founded use thereof regarding children with emotional and behavioural problems; repertoire of assessment and therapeutic techniques when working with children; principles for planning and implementation of assessment and intervention with children and andragogical intervention with parents.
Module content:
Practical module: assessment and support of children with emotional, behavioural, learning and career-related needs; analysis of families; community work; group work; implementation and interpretation of psychological media; diagnosis; referrals; report writing; feedback sessions with parents; multi-disciplinary liaison; parent education/guidance; interviewing skills within the educational psychological helping model; listening and communication skills; ethical issues and the rights of the client. The practice of the educational psychologist.
Module content:
Diversity in families; family cycle development; parameters of family functioning; family resilience models for the analysis of family functioning; family therapy models; analysis of families with special concerns, with family-oriented intervention with regard to all these aspects as the central theme.
Module content:
Dissertation of limited scope conducted under supervision of a supervisor in the area of Career Orientation Pedagogics.
Module content:
Orthodidactics. An essay is conducted under supervision of a supervisor in the area of Orthodidactics.
Module content:
Orthopedagogics
A dissertation of limited scope is conducted under supervision of a supervisor in the area of Emotional and Behavioural Problems.
Module content:
Dissertation of limited scope conducted under supervision of a supervisor in the area of family-orientated intervention.
All the Core modules, NMQ 800 (Research proposal) and one of the mini-dissertations (BOP, ODK, OPG or OUB 895) should be selected in the 1st year. When the "Research proposal" has been passed in the 1st year, only the "mini-dissertation" should be selected again in the final year. Students will be granted two opportunities to pass NMQ 800.
Module content:
Development of a research proposal. Research methodology. Overview and principles of quantitative and qualitative research methodology. Data collection methods, data analysis methods, paradigm analysis and theoretical frameworks for educational studies. Global theoretical perspectives in education.
Module content:
The career management process: Theory and application; stages of career development; contemporary issues in career management; career management in work organisations; postmodern approach to career management.
The practice of guidance and counselling: Interviewing, implementation and interpretation of media, diagnosing, referring and report writing.
Module content:
Fundamental approach(es) concerning barriers to learning, with reference to the South African context; theoretical framework(s) for diagnostic assessment in respect of academic achievement difficulties within the South African context; practice in the independent integration and synthesis of relevant subject-specific literature in preparation for own research: neuropsychological functioning, language (L1 and L2), reading, writing, spelling, numeracy and mathematical skills, study skills, educational and environmental disadvantage; professional skills and values of accountable diagnostic assessment practice and reporting of findings in respect of learners’ academic achievement difficulties within the South African context.
Module content:
Learning support in South Africa: contextualisation; the learner and learning support; inclusive education; learning support: micro-level; group work.
Module content:
The educational psychologist as consultant and facilitator within a multi-cultural framework; underlying theory and approach to educational psychological assessment and intervention; forensic dimension; the foundation of child psychotherapy; the educational psychologist as a person; different assessment and therapeutic approaches and the well-founded use thereof regarding children with emotional and behavioural problems; repertoire of assessment and therapeutic techniques when working with children; principles for planning and implementation of assessment and intervention with children and andragogical intervention with parents.
Module content:
Practical module: assessment and support of children with emotional, behavioural, learning and career-related needs; analysis of families; community work; group work; implementation and interpretation of psychological media; diagnosis; referrals; report writing; feedback sessions with parents; multi-disciplinary liaison; parent education/guidance; interviewing skills within the educational psychological helping model; listening and communication skills; ethical issues and the rights of the client. The practice of the educational psychologist.
Module content:
Diversity in families; family cycle development; parameters of family functioning; family resilience models for the analysis of family functioning; family therapy models; analysis of families with special concerns, with family-oriented intervention with regard to all these aspects as the central theme.
Module content:
Dissertation of limited scope conducted under supervision of a supervisor in the area of Career Orientation Pedagogics.
Module content:
Orthodidactics. An essay is conducted under supervision of a supervisor in the area of Orthodidactics.
Module content:
Orthopedagogics
A dissertation of limited scope is conducted under supervision of a supervisor in the area of Emotional and Behavioural Problems.
Module content:
Dissertation of limited scope conducted under supervision of a supervisor in the area of family-orientated intervention.
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