Unit of Study EDUC6018 Teachers as Researchers I (2025)

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Unit Snapshot

Unit type

PG Coursework Unit
Credit points

12
Faculty & College

Faculty of Education
Placement

No

Anti-requisites

EDUC6006 - Research in Education: Through the Looking Glass

Enrolment information

Students MUST enrol in EDUC6018 - Teachers as Researchers I and EDUC6019 - Teachers as Researchers II in the same academic year.

Unit description

Explores a range of research questions, literature, approaches, designs, and methods that are useful for practicing teachers and relevant to a contemporary research problem in education. Students develop conceptual and theoretical frameworks, and learn key research skills through the analysis, synthesis and evaluation of literature and present their findings in a format suitable for a professional audience.

Unit content

Module 1 Research Topics, Questions and Concepts for Teachers

Module 2 Finding Literature on Practice

Module 3 Critiquing Literature on Practice

Module 4 Understanding and Communicating Paradigms and Theories for Practice

Module 5 Identifying Gaps for Improving Practice

Module 6 Introducing Research Approaches and Methods for Practice

Availabilities

Location	Domestic	International
Gold Coast	Term3	Term3
Online	Summer Term Term3	Summer Term Term3

Learning outcomes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

locate and critique literature in education

identify and relate problems, theories and paradigms in education

formulate and write a review of literature and a research approach for a problem in educational practice

demonstrate organisational referencing and citation skills appropriate to support the depth and breadth of research writing required for the unit

Teaching and assessment

Teaching method

Workshop 1 hour (weekly)

Tutorial 2 hours (weekly)

Assessment
Portfolio	40%
Project	60%

Teaching method

Workshop 1 hour (weekly)

Tutorial 2 hours (weekly)

Assessment
Portfolio	40%
Project	60%

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