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Unit of Study EDUC7003 - Playing with Theory and Research Methodology in Education (2021)

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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
Online
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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:

critically identify the major tenets of educational theory

critically identify the major tenets of educational research methodologies

understand the nexus between epistemology, theory, methodology and methods in educational research

identify appropriate theory and research methodology to address educational problems or issues

design, plan and pilot a theory/methodology for an identified educational problem or issue

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