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ED52023: Contemporary issues in education research 2: competent producers

[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)
Period:
Semester 2
Assessment Summary: CWES 100%
Assessment Detail:
  • Essay (CWES 100% - Qualifying Mark: 50)
Supplementary Assessment:
Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations)
Requisites:
Learning Outcomes: Completion of this unit, and associated coursework, should enable you to:
* understand the planning and decision-making process in designing educational research;
* understand ethical considerations, and be able to make appropriate and reasoned responses;
* have knowledge of official guidelines on ethical issues;
* gain experience in working on a research project;
* understand the continuum of participatory and collaborative approaches within research and be able to identify their own stand point;
* have gained the knowledge to be able to select and use from a range of methods of data collection;
* have experience of generating educational research.


Synopsis: Explore the complexities of identifying research questions, and designing and undertaking educational research. You'll learn about working within a research community, and study topics like: - the continuum of participatory research - communicating and discussing research - different educational research strategies like development workshops, action research,ethnography and evaluation research - innovative methods of data collection, including those with children and issues of validity

Content: Through seminars and working groups the following aspects will be explored:
* Starting places as producers of research and generators of educational knowledge: problems, questions, purposes
* Linking problems to theory and design
* Ethical practices in educational research
* The continuum of participatory research
* Researching with Children
* Researching sensitive issues
* Research and marginalized groups
* Interview and observation in educational settings
* Web-based research including multi-media accounts
* Researching powerful people.
* The politics of representation (newer, less traditional ways of reporting / performing research).

Course availability:

ED52023 is a Must Pass Unit on the following courses:

Department of Education

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