The aims of the module help course participants reflect on their personal education practitioner values, theories, beliefs and philosophies, and how these tenets and axioms significantly influence practitioners’ decision-making process. This module prepares the course participants to carry out a practice-based research approach, and work towards viable solutions to maintain high quality of learning. The approach promotes practitioners’ independence in the problem-solving process. Moreover, the ultimate goal of this module is to tread a path to continuing professional development.
A Demonstrate understanding of key concepts in practice-based inquiry carried out by education practitioners for education practitioners and their stakeholders, in application to an educational context. B Demonstrate understanding of key concepts in reflection in application to the education practitioner. C Examine the challenges in the professional context and evaluate the possible solutions on the basis of data obtained through peer-and self-observation, and reflection. D Conduct and disseminate an action research project to other education practitioners.
The module is comprised of lectures, tutorials, and the fieldwork for (exploratory) action research. A two-hour lecture will be delivered weekly on campus. A minimum of 24-hour of fieldwork will be required for students to conduct a fast & dirty (exploratory) action research project. Two 30-minute tutorials for this module will be conducted online for each student with the course leader.