Undergraduate - UnitEDF3808 - Research perspectives in adult and workplace education

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6 points, SCA Band 1, 0.125 EFTSL

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Level	Undergraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Education
Offered	Clayton First semester 2012 (Day)
Coordinator(s)	Mr Damon Anderson

Synopsis

This unit builds on EDF 2803 Learning and Researching in Work-related contexts, to introduce students to the notion of different perspectives or paradigms in adult and workplace learning research. Students will read and analyse materials that draw on different traditions, including positivist, interpretive and poststructuralist forms of research. The unit extends students' appreciation of knowledge as having different forms and purposes, and being constructed through different theoretical frameworks.

Outcomes

Develop students' appreciation of knowledge as a social construct
Identify their own positions in regard to knowledge as constructed through different forms of research practice
Encourage an appreciation of research as fundamental to effective practice.

Assessment

Reading review (40%); and Essay on a negotiated topic of interest (60%)

Chief examiner(s)

Mr Damon Anderson

Contact hours

18 contact hours and 6 hours of online activity per semester plus an average of 10 hours per week in self-directed study