ACTION INQUIRY IN COMMUNITY LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT

ACTION INQUIRY IN COMMUNITY LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT
Course Code
ED 3540
Credit Points
30
Course Coordinator
Mrs A Ackland

Pre-requisites

None

Overview

Understanding of research/inquiry and the link to professional practice;
The use of research, role of researcher and stakeholder/ethical issues;
Designing and planning research, participative research approaches, consultation, collaborative inquiry, evaluation;
Data collection methods - paradigms and qualitative theory/methods;
Participatory methods and collaborative inquiry methods;
Data analysis and interpretation - narrative analysis, discourse analysis, grounded theory.
Communicating research to others.

Structure

2 six-hour group workshop; three-hour tutorial time. In addition, the facilitation, by the tutor, of ongoing participation in an online learning environment will also have a teaching function.

Assessment

1st Attempt: Report of a small scale investigation 3,000 words.

Resit: Resubmission of report.