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Nelson Mandela University

Postgraduate Diploma in Educational Psychology

The Postgraduate Diploma in Educational Psychology in Education is offered by Nelson Mandela University.

Program Length: 1 YEAR.

Postgraduate Diploma in Educational Psychology offered by the Nelson Mandela University at the Faculty of Education

Purpose of the Learning Programme
This qualification has been approved in terms of the new Higher Education Qualification Sub-Framework (HEQSF).

The PGD is intended to develop an innovative, competent and reflective instructional leader who within the field of Science Education has the capacity and agency to effect significant change in the South African education system, and that, the following instructional leadership characteristics will be addressed in the programme:

• Leading teaching and learning in Educational Psychology at school and district level;
• Developing strategic and responsive curriculum taking into account the socio-cultural backgrounds of learners;
• Developing professional learning communities within the school and region to share innovative teaching strategies;
• Developing appropriate, context-relevant intervention and support strategies in the Educational Psychology classroom; and
• Developing extra-curricula events that support Educational Psychology.

On completion of this programme the student will be able to:

• Construct critically reflective and reflexive understandings of contemporary theories in Education in general, and in the field of Educational Psychology, in particular.
• Employ specialised theoretical knowledge in the pedagogy of the field of language education.
• Establish the connections between conceptual, theoretical and experiential knowledge/s.
• Develop communities of practice in Educational Psychology as a reflexive leader and practitioner.
• Conduct action research to inform instructional practice in Educational Psychology.

Career fields

Educator (Foundation Phase)

Educator (Intermediate Phase)

Educator (Secondary Phase)

Duration:
The curriculum shall extend over a period of two academic years of part-time study.