EDF5610 · Interacting with research in education contexts

Overview

This unit orientates you to the field of education and engages you with academic traditions and scholarly practices in the field of education at the postgraduate level. You will review academic texts and research papers which represent diverse standpoints in understanding education. You will examine how education researchers position themselves within the field in terms of different theories and understandings of education. You will develop capacities in critical reading, analysis and synthesis and use these to prepare your own well-crafted and well-supported academic arguments in written and oral forms. Through this unit, you will explore a topic or theme of interest to you, critically review the evidence related to it and practise building an academic argument related to this theme.

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

Learning outcomes

1. identify a range of standpoints that characterise some key ideas in the field of education
2. critically read academic texts related to education research and identify the main theories and concepts which underpin these texts
3. conduct a review of academic literature in response to a thematic issue or question
4. build a convincing argument using education research and present this argument in both spoken and written form
5. demonstrate familiarity with academic practices and conventions that support academic engagement in the field of education.

Workload

The minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 288 hours per teaching period comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. Usually, you can expect to engage with: • 18 hours of scheduled learning delivered on campus via weekly/regular directed learning activities, 18 hours of scheduled learning delivered online via a combination of synchronous and asynchronous directed learning activities, and the remaining hours to be allocated towards self-directed/independent study OR • 36 hours of scheduled learning delivered online via a combination of synchronous and asynchronous directed learning activities, and the remaining hours to be allocated towards self-directed/independent study^ ^ International students studying in Australia are not permitted to undertake this scheduled learning delivery mode Scheduled learning activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement.

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.