ED52022: Contemporary issues in education research 1: critical users
[Page last updated: 15 August 2024]
| Academic Year: | 2024/25 |
| Owning Department/School: | Department of Education |
| Credits: | 5 [equivalent to 10 CATS credits] |
| Notional Study Hours: | 100 |
| Level: | Masters UG & PG (FHEQ level 7) |
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| Assessment Summary: | CWES 100% |
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By the end of the unit, the students should be able to:
* understand the relationship between different kinds of knowledge and forms of explanation in educational research; the drivers of research and the relationships between policy, practice theory and research; * be familiar with the values and assumptions underpinning different approaches to educational research and understand how they influence research design and issues of bias; * recognize the tensions as well as the advantages of using mixed methodologies in educational research; * make considered responses to ethical and quality issues in educational research; * have an understanding of issues of contextualisation, generalisation; * contribute to seminar discussion through the identification of questions and issues. |
| Synopsis: | Study the relationship between research, policy theory and practice in education at classroom, institution and government levels.
You'll:
- deepen your knowledge and awareness ofvalue positions in educational research
- identify contested areas and understand the political nature of research activity
- explore "knowledge claim" and "evidence" and the use of interrogating questions
- consider ethical issues in educational research
- learn to communicate, interrogate and discuss research |
| Content: | * The Politics of research (research in the context of the particular conjunctural moment, why do it, for what purpose, axiology and morality as integral / central to design) * The governance of research (political influence, science based evidence etc) * What constitutes evidence? What constitutes educational theory? * Relationship of research to policy theory and practice: at classroom, institutional, national levels * Priorities and values of different commissioners of research * Understanding value positions in educational research * Relationship between methodologies, values and criteria used to make judgements about research * Ethical Issues in educational research and their relationship to issues of epistemology and ontology * Tensions in the use of mixed methodology * Research and professional development * Critical engagement - asking questions * Research representation, presentation and audience * The politics of representation (newer, less traditional ways of reporting / performing research). |
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ED52022 is a Must Pass Unit on the following courses:Department of Education
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