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Unit Summary

Unit type

PG Coursework Unit

Credit points

24

AQF level

9

Level of learning

Intermediate

Former School/College

Former School of Education

Unit aim

Provides students with the opportunity to enhance their professional praxis through collaborative and reflexive action learning. Designed for students who wish to focus upon change and/or improvement in relation to a particular aspect of their professional practice. Students can also implement an evaluation planned through CYS03347.

Unit content

  1. Understanding professional practice (theories in use, espoused theories, practical wisdom)
  2. Reflexive practice and the nature and process of collaborative and participatory action learning
  3. Identifying and articulating an aspects of practice for change and improvement
  4. Data collection for action learning or evaluation
  5. Disseminating learning to a community of professionals

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.

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On completion of this unit, students should be able to: GA1 GA2 GA3 GA4 GA5 GA6 GA7
1 discuss the importance of evidence-based and data-driven practice
2 describe the key tenets and approaches to action learning
3 demonstrate what it means to be reflexive in professional practice
4 identify and clearly articulate an appropriately focused problem, issue or aspect of their practice as a focus for improvement in practice
5 plan and conduct an action learning or evaluation initiative, involving engagement of, and collaboration with, others within the workplace setting
6 collect data and evidence to appropriately document and evaluate an action learning or evaluation initiative
7 document learning from the initiative in a format appropriate for dissemination to other professionals.

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

  1. discuss the importance of evidence-based and data-driven practice
    • GA1:
    • GA5:
  2. describe the key tenets and approaches to action learning
    • GA2:
    • GA5:
  3. demonstrate what it means to be reflexive in professional practice
    • GA2:
    • GA5:
  4. identify and clearly articulate an appropriately focused problem, issue or aspect of their practice as a focus for improvement in practice
    • GA2:
    • GA5:
  5. plan and conduct an action learning or evaluation initiative, involving engagement of, and collaboration with, others within the workplace setting
    • GA2:
    • GA5:
    • GA6:
  6. collect data and evidence to appropriately document and evaluate an action learning or evaluation initiative
    • GA1:
    • GA5:
  7. document learning from the initiative in a format appropriate for dissemination to other professionals.
    • GA5:
    • GA6: