Unit of Study EDUC7016 On the Shoulders of Giants: Critically Examining the Literature in Education Part 1 (2025)

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Unit type

PG Coursework Unit
Credit points

12
Faculty & College

Faculty of Education
Placement

No

Enrolment information

This is a continuing unit. One intensive on-site workshop (2 days in total) is held on the Gold Coast campus. Attendance at the workshop is compulsory.

Unit description

Equips students to critically examine the literature in their agreed area for identification of research opportunities. Students are supported in their development of skills in critical reading, thinking and analysis; perspective and impact; context, purpose and the function of texts. The unit will also enable students to manage the demands of locating, synthesising/analysing and using various texts to develop competence in academic writing, in order to prepare for their thesis-based literature review. This is a continuing unit. Students will extend on their knowledge as they work towards completion of the final grade awarded in On the Shoulders of Giants: Critically Examining the Literature in Education Part 2.

Unit content

• The nature and purpose of a critical literature review;

• Foundational literature search and analysis skills— accessing information sources, literature search strategies, managing the literature review process etc.;

• Write a critical literature review, including synthesising key points and propositions and structuring a critical argument; and

• Examine the structure and organisation of academic texts; opinion, fact, evidence, argument processing text for example, summarising, synthesising, comparing, evaluating; developing cohesion and coherence; drafting, editing and redrafting.

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Not currently available in 2025

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, organise and summarise information relevant to an agreed research area

analyse, critique and synthesise information relevant to an agreed research area

formulate and write a critical literature review

demonstrate excellent text based organisational referencing and citation skills

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