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EDF4327

Faculty of Education

18 September 2017 23 July 2024

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This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2016 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.

Monash University

6 points, SCA Band 1, 0.125 EFTSL

Undergraduate - Unit

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Faculty

Education

Coordinator(s)

Geraldine Burke (Singapore), Dr Jane Bone (Peninsula)

Offered

Peninsula

  • First semester 2016 (Day)

Singapore

  • Term 2 2016 (Online)

Synopsis

In this unit students work collaboratively with other students and/or staff on projects where practice informs research. Through critical analysis of previous and concurrent units, students plan, conduct and evaluate a form of teacher research. This research takes place in an educational context and findings are reported back to participants or other professionals interested in the ways that practice informs research.

Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. gain an understanding of how practice can inform research
  2. critically analyse personal research practices in relation to global educational contexts (i.e., context unit)
  3. develop leadership and mentoring skills for the field of education around the co-construction of practice informing research and research informing practice.

Assessment

Research plan (2000 words or equivalent, 50%)
Teacher research in an educational setting (2000 words or equivalent, 50%)

Workload requirements

Minimum total expected workload equals 144 hours per semester/term comprising:

(a.) Contact hours for on-campus students:

  • 24 contact hours over the semester/term

(b.) Requirements for offshore Kaplan-based students:

  • one intensive block (usually from Thursday to Sunday)
  • at least 4 hours of online study per term

(c.) Additional requirements (all students):

  • independent study to make up the minimum required hours per week

See also Unit timetable information

Chief examiner(s)

Dr Jane Bone