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Unit of Study EDU03003 - Playing with Theory and Research Methodology in Education (2020)

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  • Enrolment information

    Attendance at the intensive workshops is compulsory for this unit. There are two × two-day on-site workshops (4 days in total) on the Gold Coast campus.

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.

Availabilities

Location Domestic International
Gold Coast
Session2
N/A
Online
Session3
Session3

Learning outcomes and graduate attributes

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: Intellectual rigour, GA2: Creativity, GA3: Ethical practice, GA4: Knowledge of a discipline, GA5: Lifelong learning, GA6: Communication and social skills, GA7: Cultural competence
Learning outcome count Learning outcome description GA1 GA2 GA3 GA4 GA5 GA6 GA7
1 critically identify the major tenets of educational theory
2 critically identify the major tenets of educational research methodologies
3 understand the nexus between epistemology, theory, methodology and methods in educational research
4 identify appropriate theory and research methodology to address educational problems or issues
5 design, plan and pilot a theory/methodology for an identified educational problem or issue

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

  1. critically identify the major tenets of educational theory
    • GA1:
    • GA4:
  2. critically identify the major tenets of educational research methodologies
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    • GA3:
    • GA4:
  3. understand the nexus between epistemology, theory, methodology and methods in educational research
    • GA1:
    • GA4:
  4. identify appropriate theory and research methodology to address educational problems or issues
    • GA1:
    • GA3:
    • GA4:
    • GA5:
    • GA7:
  5. design, plan and pilot a theory/methodology for an identified educational problem or issue
    • GA1:
    • GA2:
    • GA3:
    • GA4:
    • GA6:
    • GA7:

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