| Credit |
12 points |
| Availability |
Semester 1, offshore teaching period |
| Old unit code |
300.971 |
| Outcomes |
Students select a substantive topic or phenomenon of personal/professional interest within the broad area of education and develop a conceptual framework for addressing the topic. They are able to locate this topic or phenomenon within the relevant bodies of theoretically contextual and empirical literature in a logical manner, showing the interrelationships between the major components and sub-components. |
| Content |
This unit equips Doctor of Education students to develop a conceptual and contextual framework relevant to their research projects. Particular emphasis is placed on highlighting the main research issues in the field of study, identifying the discourses that shape the field of enquiry, and the ways in which questions have previously been addressed in the field. Students are required to locate their study in international, national and local contexts of history and policy formation and implementation. Finally, students use the first two frames to identify and to review critically empirical literature relevant to their fields of study. The approach in the unit is generic and the content can be applied to various levels of the education system, to different sectors and to various educational contexts. |
| Assessment |
In an 8000-word essay students select a substantive topic or phenomenon of personal/professional interest within the broad area of education, identify a central research question and develop a conceptual framework within which the question can be located. They use the conceptual framework to identify and to review critically relevant conceptual, contextual and empirical bodies of literature from which emerge a number of major sub-questions congruent with the central research question.
Supplementary assessment is not available in this unit. |
| Unit Co-ordinator(s) |
Professor Marnie O'Neill and Winthrop Professor Anne Chapman |
| Location |
UWA (Crawley), Singapore, Hong Kong |
| Mode |
on-campus |
| Unit Rules |
| Prerequisites: enrolment in the Doctor of Education or the Doctor of Educational Psychology |
| Advisable prior study: a master's degree, preferably in education, with evidence of research ability |
Contact hours—25 hrs (compressed unit)
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| Texts |
There are no prescribed texts. In the first and subsequent lecture sessions students are introduced to the sections of the Library dealing with the various aspects of the field of education studies. They become familiar with the location of relevant books, encyclopaedias, handbooks, other reference material and journals.
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Recommended
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Hart, C. Doing a Literature Review: Sage Publications 1998
Punch, K. F. Introduction to Social Research: Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches: Sage Publications 2005
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- The availability of units in Semester 1, 2, etc. was correct at the time of going to press but may be subject to change.
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