Practitioner Inquiry 2

Course aim

To support students to design, conduct and evaluate an inquiry into practices in their professional context.

Course content

Models and accounts of practitioner inquiry; current issues and debates in the ethics of workplace inquiry; constraints and challenges posed by inquiry in the workplace; data analysis and interpretation; forms of public dissemination and application of knowledge produced in practitioner inquiry.

Textbook(s)

Sachs, J & Mockler, N 2011, Rethinking Educational Practice Through Reflexive Inquiry: Essays in Honour of Susan Groundwater-Smith, 1st edition, Springer, Netherlands

Prerequisite(s)

Nil

Corequisite(s)

Nil

Teaching method

Component	Duration
EXTERNAL, MAGILL, DISTANCE EDUCATION
External	130 hours x over 13 weeks
External (On-campus workshop)	6 hours per day x 2 days

Note: These components may or may not be scheduled in every study period. Please refer to the timetable for further details.

Assessment

Draft Design Report, Report on Inquiry

Fees

EFTSL*: 0.125
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