Availabilities:
| Location | Domestic | International |
|---|---|---|
| Gold Coast | N/A |
Unit description
Moves students through the major tenets of educational theory and research methodology. Students will engage with cutting-edge, conventional and historic theories and methodologies in education and the social sciences. They will examine qualitative, post-qualitative and quantitative methodologies, and how they may be put to work with/through theory. The unit incorporates direct research experience enabling students to work and play with theory and methodology in creative and innovative ways.
Unit content
- What comes before theory: Playing with the ‘ologies’;
- Playing and working with theorists and theory in education and learning; and
- Paying and working with methodology: Qualitative, post-qualitative and quantitative methodologies.
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.
| On completion of this unit, students should be able to: | GA1 | GA2 | GA3 | GA4 | GA5 | GA6 | GA7 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | critically identify the major tenets of educational theory | Intellectual rigour | Knowledge of a discipline | |||||
| 2 | critically identify the major tenets of educational research methodologies | Intellectual rigour | Ethical practice | Knowledge of a discipline | ||||
| 3 | understand the nexus between epistemology, theory, methodology and methods in educational research | Intellectual rigour | Knowledge of a discipline | |||||
| 4 | identify appropriate theory and research methodology to address educational problems or issues | Intellectual rigour | Ethical practice | Knowledge of a discipline | Lifelong learning | Cultural competence | ||
| 5 | design, plan and pilot a theory/methodology for an identified educational problem or issue | Intellectual rigour | Creativity | Ethical practice | Knowledge of a discipline | Communication and social skills | Cultural competence | |
On completion of this unit, students should be able to:
- critically identify the major tenets of educational theory
- GA1: Intellectual rigour
- GA4: Knowledge of a discipline
- critically identify the major tenets of educational research methodologies
- GA1: Intellectual rigour
- GA3: Ethical practice
- GA4: Knowledge of a discipline
- understand the nexus between epistemology, theory, methodology and methods in educational research
- GA1: Intellectual rigour
- GA4: Knowledge of a discipline
- identify appropriate theory and research methodology to address educational problems or issues
- GA1: Intellectual rigour
- GA3: Ethical practice
- GA4: Knowledge of a discipline
- GA5: Lifelong learning
- GA7: Cultural competence
- design, plan and pilot a theory/methodology for an identified educational problem or issue
- GA1: Intellectual rigour
- GA2: Creativity
- GA3: Ethical practice
- GA4: Knowledge of a discipline
- GA6: Communication and social skills
- GA7: Cultural competence
Prescribed texts
- Leavy, P. , 2017, Research Design: Quantitative, Qualitative, Mixed Methods, Arts-Based, and Community-Based Participatory Research Approaches, 1st, The Guilford Press, New York. ISBN: 9781462514380.
Teaching and assessment
Fee information
Domestic
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