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| Location | Domestic | International |
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| Online | Session 2 | N/A |
Unit Summary
Unit type
PG Coursework Unit
Credit points
12
AQF level
Level of learning
Advanced
Former School/College
Pre-requisites
Three postgraduate units
Unit aim
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 – Becoming a Critically Reflective Academic
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
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: | 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:
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reflect and critique their own formal and informal professional learning
- GA1:
- GA5:
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identify emerging issues and priorities to foster their own continuing professional learning
- GA2:
- GA5:
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pursue professional inquiry on a significant issue within the organisational context
- GA1:
- GA2:
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review and critically appraise scholarly literature relevant to their inquiry
- GA1:
- GA5:
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disseminate the results of inquiry to a wider audience.
- GA1:
- GA6:
Prescribed texts
- No prescribed texts.