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EDF4610

Faculty of Education

18 September 2017 20 April 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

12 points, SCA Band 1, 0.250 EFTSL

Postgraduate - Unit

Refer to the specific census and withdrawal dates for the semester(s) in which this unit is offered.

Faculty

Education

Coordinator(s)

Dr Marianne Turner (First semester); Dr Katrina Tour (Second semester); Dr Wing Chan (Term 1)

Offered

Clayton

  • First semester 2016 (Flexible)
  • Second semester 2016 (Flexible)

Singapore

  • Term 1 2016 (Online)
  • Term 3 2016 (Online)

Synopsis

This unit orientates students to the field of education and engages them with academic traditions and scholarly practices in the field of education at the postgraduate level. Students review academic texts and research papers which represent diverse standpoints in understanding education. Students examine how education researchers position themselves within the field in terms of different theories and understandings of education. Students develop capacities in critical reading, analysis and synthesis and use these to prepare their own well-crafted and well-supported academic arguments in written and oral forms. Through this unit, students explore a topic or theme of interest to them, critically review the evidence related to it and practise building an academic argument related to this theme.

Outcomes

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

  1. identify a range of standpoints that characterise some key ideas in the field of education
  2. critically read academic texts related to education research and identify the main theories and concepts which underpin these texts
  3. conduct a review of academic literature in response to a thematic issue or question
  4. build a convincing argument using education research and present this argument in both spoken and written form
  5. demonstrate familiarity with academic practices and conventions that support academic engagement in the field of education.

Assessment

Annotated bibliography (2000 words, 20%)
Oral presentation (1500 word equivalent, 20%) leading to a critical essay (3000 words, 50%)
Online learning activities (1500 word equivalent, 10%)

Workload requirements

Flexible mode offers a stand-alone online offering that allows students to learn and engage in content and assessment in a supported way. It also provides a face-to-face component over the semester to engage students with the online learning content, which students can attend if they are able and interested.

Minimum total expected workload equals 288 hours per semester comprising:

(a.) Contact hours for flexible students:

  • 18 contact hours and 18 hours equivalent of online activities over the semester or
  • 36 hours equivalent of online activities over the semester

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

  • one intensive block (usually from Thursday to Sunday)
  • at least 14 hours of online study per term

(c.) Additional requirements (all students):

  • independent study to meet the minimum required hours per semester

See also Unit timetable information

Chief examiner(s)

Dr Marianne Turner

This unit applies to the following area(s) of study

Adult learning
Digital learning
Early childhood education
Educational leadership and policy
Expert teaching practice
General education studies
Inclusive and special education
Leadership
TESOL