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Master of Arts (Religious Education)

with nested Graduate Diploma and Graduate Certificate

Teach Christianly with confidence

  • Integrate your faith with your profession and your career
  • Develop values-based teaching, leadership and ethical decision making skills
  • Network with influential educational leaders, mentors and employers
  • Online delivery with program flexibility
  • Sound Biblical perspectives in every course unit

About the Course

The Master of Arts (Religious Education) is a signature degree for accomplished teachers, and for existing and emerging educational leaders of schools and school systems. You may be:

  • a leader, or aspiring leader of a department, school or school system where education from a Christian perspective is central and essential
  • a teacher seeking to integrate your faith with and within your subject area
  • a teacher of Religious, Biblical, or Christian Studies and/or related subjects
  • a school chaplain, counsellor or pastoral care worker with significant curriculum or co-curriculum teaching responsibilities.
The course is designed to equip you with understandings, skills and values that will enable you to grow and develop as a grounded, resilient and influential education professional. Through the Master of Arts (Religious Education) you will develop wide-ranging abilities to:
  • teach and lead enthusiastically and effectively
  • understand, appreciate and adapt to change
  • make informed ethical and professional judgements
  • develop coherent links between values, beliefs and behaviours
  • build and maintain positive cultures, values and behaviours in schools
  • enhance the positive social impact of schools
  • display personal resilience, satisfaction and sustainability in demanding, yet fulfilling, roles
  • apply Biblical and theological understandings that provide a critical foundation for education and educational leadership.
FEE-HELP is available.

Continuing Professional Development


The Master of Arts (Religious Education) is an accredited postgraduate course that may satisfy the structured CPD requirements to maintain teaching accreditation at Professional Competence, as long as it relates to your relevant area of teaching, or future area of teaching (if re-training).*

For more information, and to apply for the Master of Arts (Religious Education) to be considered towards meeting your CPD requirements by the NSW Institute of Teachers, click here.

*To maintain accreditation at Professional Competence, teachers are required to complete 100 hours of CPD over a five-year period in one or more of the following categories:
  • Undergraduate studies that support the Professional Teaching Standards
  • Postgraduate studies that support the Professional Teaching Standards
  • 50 hours of NSW Institute of Teachers Registered PD activities and 50 hours of Teacher Identified PD
Undergraduate and postgraduate studies have to be in accredited courses that are relevant to the individual teacher’s profile. The teacher has to apply to the NSW Institute of Teachers showing how the study is relevant, which standards it supports and why. 

Further Course Information

  • Click here to read about the course structure, entry requirements, flexibility and faculty.
  • View a overview of course units here.
  • Download an Application Form.

 

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"The Wesley Institute Master of Arts (Religious Education) is a unique program that equips graduates with a combination of practical classroom and visionary teaching skills. The program integrates vital leadership fundamentals with strong Biblical and ethical foundations, so that graduates can teach confidently and exercise outstanding educational leadership, particularly in schools where religious education is a core activity."
Dr Martin Dowson, Academic Director