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EDPRAC 751 - Practitioner Inquiry

  • Course description

    30 points

    Students will explore what it means to take an 'inquiry stance' as a framework for posing, investigating and addressing practice issues. They will investigate a range of practitioner research approaches, develop an understanding of practitioner research methods and design a well justified research question and proposal for an ethical investigation of a professional practice setting.


    Course director
    Mary Hill


  • Course overview

    Teaching as inquiry and inquiry spirals are commonly used terms in education. This popular research methods course is for those intending to research anything in a practice setting, particularly those who intend to conduct research into the organisation where they work.

    Completing this course will prepare you to carry out research in your professional practice setting. You will build your knowledge and understanding to carry out inquiry and research in a practice setting, investigate a range of practitioner research approaches and develop your understanding of practitioner research methods. Most critically, on completion of this course you will have designed a well-justified research question and proposal for an ethical research investigation in your own practice setting.

  • Learning outcomes

    At completion of this course, students will be able to:
    • Describe, discuss and critique a range of approaches to practitioner inquiry.
    • Drawing from an appropriate practitioner inquiry approach, frame a substantive research question and discuss appropriate analytical frameworks and suitable research methods for investigating the question.
    • Identify ethical issues inherent in research and draw on understanding of ethical principles and actions to develop and explain an ethically defensible resolution to these issues.

  • Delivery modes

    Block Intensive (intensive on campus days)
    Weekly Lecture

  • Currently scheduled classes

    2018 Epsom (Summer School): Block sessions on Thursday 4th January, Friday 5th January, Saturday 6th January, Monday 8th January, Tuesday 9th January, Wednesday 10th January and Saturday 20th January from 9:00am to 3:00pm

    2018 Epsom (Semester 2): Weekly sessions on Wednesdays from 5pm to 7pm with online teaching from 4pm to 5pm every week.

  • Take this course

    This course can be taken as a taught course in the following programmes:

  • Ministry of Education course subsidies

    Primary and Intermediate teachers may be eligible for a Ministry of Education fees subsidy for this course. Click here for more information.

  • School

    Learning, Development and Professional Practice



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