Disability and Inclusion Studies (2023)

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• Prescriptions for the PGCert(DInS)
• Prescriptions for the PGDip(DInS)
• Prescriptions for the MDInS
• 500 Level

• Prescriptions for the PGCert(DInS)

  To complete the PGCert(DInS), students must take 60 points at 500 level. The two required papers are DINST521 and DINST522.

• Prescriptions for the PGDip(DInS)

  To complete the PGDip(DInS), students must take 120 points at 500 level, including DINST521, DINST522, and at least a further 30 points from the Disability and Inclusion Studies subject. 30 points may be taken from another Postgraduate Diploma subject.

• Prescriptions for the MDInS

  To complete the MDInS, students must take 180 points at 500 level including DINST521, DINST522 and one of EDUCA500, EDUCA557 or MAOED500, and one of a Directed Study equivalent to 30 points, a Dissertation equivalent to 60 points, or a Thesis equivalent to 90 or 120 points.

  Students will normally be expected to focus their independent research on a topic related to Disability and Inclusion Studies.

  Optional papers will be selected from the papers listed in the Disability and Inclusion Studies subject, or 30 points may be selected from outside the field of the degree.

• 500 Level

  Code	Paper Title	Points	Occurrence / Location
  COUNS546	Conflict Resolution: Restorative Approaches	30.0	23B (Block)
  This paper develops the skills of facilitating conflict resolution using mediation, conferencing and other types of restorative and generative conversations in families, schools and other contexts. A narrative perspective on conflict resolution features strongly in the paper.
  DINST521	Critical Studies in Disability and Inclusion	30.0	23A (Online)
  This paper critically explores an intersectional understanding of disability and inclusion using Critical Disability Studies and Disability Studies in Education perspectives. It engages with ideas of equality and social inclusion and the social barriers and enablers to equal access in education, health and other social systems. The...
  DINST522	Inclusion Policy and Practice: A Disability Rights Approach	30.0	23B (Online)
  Framed by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with disabilities, this paper explores learning, living, working and playing from the perspectives of disabled people in Aotearoa and internationally. It looks at how disabled people have and continue to shape the way human rights of disabled people are understood, an...
  EDUCA500	Culturally Responsive Methodologies incorporating kaupapa Māori and Critical Theories	30.0	23X (Block - Tauranga)
  Culturally Responsive Methodologies utilise kaupapa Maori and critical theoretical frameworks to develop contexts within which the researched community can define the terms for engaging, relating and co-creating new knowledge.
  EDUCA557	Becoming a researcher: theory, ethics and methods	30.0	23A (Online), 23B (Online) & 23H (Block)
  This paper introduces students to the major educational research paradigms, methodologies appropriate to collecting data in schools (including interviews, observations, surveys, case studies), action research, literature reviews, critiquing research, and report writing. It includes consideration of ethical issues in research.
  EDUCA590	Directed Study	30.0	23I (Hamilton) & 23I (Online)
  Students have the opportunity to pursue a topic of their own interest under the guidance of academic staff.
  EDUCA592	Dissertation	60.0	23X (Hamilton), 23X (Online) & 23X (Tauranga)
  A report on the findings of a theoretical or empirical investigation.
  EDUCA593	Education Thesis	90.0	23X (Hamilton), 23X (Online) & 23X (Tauranga)
  An externally examined piece of written work that reports on the findings of supervised research.
  EDUCA594	Education Thesis	120.0	23X (Hamilton), 23X (Online) & 23X (Tauranga)
  An externally examined piece of written work that reports on the findings of supervised research.
  MAOED500	Rangahau Kaupapa Māori - Kaupapa Māori Research	30.0	23X (Hamilton)
  This paper seeks to explore Kaupapa Maori research theory and methodologies, developing more informed and culturally located and responsive research practice, with a particular focus on researching in Maori educational contexts.
  MAOED523	Māori Educational Policies: Their Development and Some Strategic Responses	30.0	23X (Block - Tauranga)
  This paper examines the historical and contemporary politics and practices that have contributed to the current education disparities that affect Maori people in particular, but also the wider fabric of New Zealand society. The paper then considers historical and contemporary policies developed to address these disparities and a nu...