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ED6002: IDENTIFYING AND ARTICULATING ISSUES IN PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE (2023-2024)

Last modified: 23 Jul 2024 10:44


Course Overview

This course aims to assist students in beginning the EdD journey through a series of critical reflections on the links between their professional biographies and their practice. Through engaging in this process, students will identify at least one significant issue in their professional practice and articulate this against a wider background.

Course Details

Study Type Postgraduate Level 6
Term First Term Credit Points 45 credits (22.5 ECTS credits)
Campus Aberdeen Sustained Study No
Co-ordinators
  • Dr John Mynott
  • Dr Donald S. Gray

What courses & programmes must have been taken before this course?

  • Any Postgraduate Programme

What other courses must be taken with this course?

None.

What courses cannot be taken with this course?

None.

Are there a limited number of places available?

No

Course Description

During this course students will:

  • Reflect on how biographic lives are reflexively situated in social worlds, and particularly in relations of social difference and power
  • Examine a range of methodological tools for identifying a significant issue in your professional biography; for example, Critical Incident Analysis and autoethnography;
  • Trace how, biographically, your life has moved into and across particular fields of professional practice
  • Articulate a significant issue in your professional practice - in the dual sense of making connections and voicing this.
  • Engage with a number of approaches to theorising the significant issue/s in your practice Consider how your biographic trajectory might influence your turn toward research of professional fields
  • Reframe your particular issue(s) in the form of a potentially researchable question.

Contact Teaching Time

Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.

Teaching Breakdown

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Details, including assessments, may be subject to change until 30 August 2024 for 1st term courses and 20 December 2024 for 2nd term courses.

Summative Assessments

Essay

Assessment Type Summative Weighting 100
Assessment Weeks Feedback Weeks

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Feedback

Drawing on their professional biographies as practitioners, students will be asked to articulate a professional issue and locate this within scholarship of professional practice, drawing on approaches to theorising practice, such as, for example, sociological (for example, Bourdieu, Giddens), sociocultural (for example, Cultural Historical Activity Theory), social (for example, Schatzki) and discourse-based (for example, Foucauldian) theories of practice. Based on this analysis, students will be able to reframe their particular issue(s) in the form of a potentially researchable question.

Feedback will provided in written format.

Word Count 8000
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
ConceptualAnalyseCritically analyse this issue(s) in relation to a wider set of problematics in the professional field that are recognised in the professional literature
ConceptualCreateReframe the issue(s) from the perspective of an appropriate theorisation of professional practice in the form of a researchable question(s)
ReflectionAnalyseEngage in sophisticated and probing critical reflection in order to explore and share professional biographies and identify any key issues at an intra- and inter-individual level

Formative Assessment

Oral Presentation: Individual

Assessment Type Formative Weighting
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Feedback

15-minute presentation

Drawing on their professional biographies as practitioners, students will be asked to articulate a professional issue and locate this within scholarship of professional practice.

Verbal feedback will be given.

Learning Outcomes
Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
ConceptualAnalyseCritically analyse this issue(s) in relation to a wider set of problematics in the professional field that are recognised in the professional literature
ConceptualCreateReframe the issue(s) from the perspective of an appropriate theorisation of professional practice in the form of a researchable question(s)
ReflectionAnalyseEngage in sophisticated and probing critical reflection in order to explore and share professional biographies and identify any key issues at an intra- and inter-individual level

Resit Assessments

Essay

Assessment Type Summative Weighting 100
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Feedback

Drawing on their professional biographies as practitioners, students will be asked to articulate a professional issue and locate this within scholarship of professional practice, drawing on approaches to theorising practice, such as, for example, sociological (for example, Bourdieu, Giddens), sociocultural (for example, Cultural Historical Activity Theory), social (for example, Schatzki) and discourse-based (for example, Foucauldian) theories of practice. Based on this analysis, students will be able to reframe their particular issue(s) in the form of a potentially researchable question.

Feedback will provided in written format.

Word Count 8000
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
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Course Learning Outcomes

Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
ReflectionAnalyseEngage in sophisticated and probing critical reflection in order to explore and share professional biographies and identify any key issues at an intra- and inter-individual level
ConceptualAnalyseCritically analyse this issue(s) in relation to a wider set of problematics in the professional field that are recognised in the professional literature
ConceptualCreateReframe the issue(s) from the perspective of an appropriate theorisation of professional practice in the form of a researchable question(s)

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