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Unit of Study TCH03196 - The Scholarship of Academic Practice (2014)

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Unit Snapshot

  • Unit type

    PG Coursework Unit

  • Credit points

    12

  • AQF level

    8

  • Level of learning

    Advanced

  • Former School/College

    Former School of Education

  • Pre-requisites

    Three postgraduate units

  • Enrolment information

    It is strongly recommended that you have completed Scholarly activity from three pre-requisite postgraduate units prior to enrolling in this unit.

Unit description

Draws together the scholarly activity of three pre-requisite units in order to advance a scholarship of academic practice. Participants identify emerging issues and priorities for their own professional practice and to pursue a focus of enquiry as relevant to their professional context. Professional enquiry is transformed into a scholarly work for wider dissemination.

Unit content

Prior completion of a research project

It is assumed that during at least one of the prerequisite units of present postgraduate study, participants will have undertaken a scholarly project and/or data collection of some kind.

Overview

Topic 1 - Reflective practice, self-analysis, critique and planning for professional learning
Topic 2 - The framework of Boyer's four scholarships and its relevance to professional inquiry
Topic 3 - Challenges and opportunities in the current context of academic practice in higher education
Topic 4 - The processes and practices of professional scholarly inquiry

Availabilities

Location Domestic International
Online Session 2 N/A

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 reflect and critique their own formal and informal professional learning
2 identify emerging issues and priorities to foster their own continuing professional learning
3 pursue professional inquiry on a significant issue within the organisational context
4 review and critically appraise scholarly literature relevant to their inquiry
5 disseminate the results of inquiry to a wider audience.

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

  1. reflect and critique their own formal and informal professional learning
    • GA1:
    • GA5:
  2. identify emerging issues and priorities to foster their own continuing professional learning
    • GA2:
    • GA5:
  3. pursue professional inquiry on a significant issue within the organisational context
    • GA1:
    • GA2:
  4. review and critically appraise scholarly literature relevant to their inquiry
    • GA1:
    • GA5:
  5. disseminate the results of inquiry to a wider audience.
    • GA1:
    • GA6:

Prescribed learning resources

Prescribed Texts
  • No prescribed texts.

Prescribed Learning Resources may change in future Teaching Periods.