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Not offered in 2019
Unit description
Provides students with the opportunity to enhance their professional praxis through collaborative and reflexive action learning. Designed for students who wish to focus upon change and/or improvement in relation to a particular aspect of their professional practice. Students can also implement an evaluation planned through CYS03347.
Unit content
- Understanding professional practice (theories in use, espoused theories, practical wisdom)
- Reflexive practice and the nature and process of collaborative and participatory action learning
- Identifying and articulating an aspects of practice for change and improvement
- Data collection for action learning or evaluation
- Disseminating learning to a community of professionals
Learning outcomes
Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.
Learning outcomes and graduate attributes
| On completion of this unit, students should be able to: | GA1 | GA2 | GA3 | GA4 | GA5 | GA6 | GA7 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | discuss the importance of evidence-based and data-driven practice | Intellectual rigour | Lifelong learning | |||||
| 2 | describe the key tenets and approaches to action learning | Creativity | Lifelong learning | |||||
| 3 | demonstrate what it means to be reflexive in professional practice | Creativity | Lifelong learning | |||||
| 4 | identify and clearly articulate an appropriately focused problem, issue or aspect of their practice as a focus for improvement in practice | Creativity | Lifelong learning | |||||
| 5 | plan and conduct an action learning or evaluation initiative, involving engagement of, and collaboration with, others within the workplace setting | Creativity | Lifelong learning | Communication and social skills | ||||
| 6 | collect data and evidence to appropriately document and evaluate an action learning or evaluation initiative | Intellectual rigour | Lifelong learning | |||||
| 7 | document learning from the initiative in a format appropriate for dissemination to other professionals. | Lifelong learning | Communication and social skills | |||||
Teaching and assessment
Fee information
Domestic
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Commencing 2019 Commonwealth Supported only. Student contribution band: 1
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