Faculty of Education and Social Work
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EDPROFST 700 - Literacy Education: Research and Practice
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Course description
30 points
Understandings of research tools adequate for empirical study and an application of theory to literacy practices, critical analysis of how research questions are constructed and ability to situate and view educational issues and questions within major theoretical frameworks in literacy education will be developed.
Course director
Aaron Wilson
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Course overview
Want to be able to read educational research in a systematic and critical way, or conduct research and inquiry in the field of literacy education? This course helps you develop a sound basis to locate, interpret and critique current research that will inform your work. The course will also teach you how to conduct your own research using a range of strategies including quantitative and qualitative data analysis and how to apply findings to your own work, with a particular focus on supporting low-progress readers and writers.
To complete this course students must enrol in EDPROFST 700 A and B. -
Learning outcomes
At completion of this course, students will be able to:- Discuss and evaluate the relevance of research to the literacy educator.
- Critique published research and other relevant literature in a manner that enables literacy issues to be fully debated.
- Outline important theoretical frameworks that underpin research and practice in literacy education.
- Select from the various research paradigms, methodologies and methods those which will be useful in answering research questions and problems in the literacy field.
- Design and conduct well-planned, rigorous and ethical research projects in the literacy field.
- Prepare an ethics application to provide the rationale and procedures for ethical conduct of planned research.
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Delivery modes
Blended (online and campus days)
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Currently scheduled classes
2018 Online/Blended (Semester 1): Online teaching with on campus sessions on Wed 17 Jan from 12:30-4pm and Thu 18 and Fri 19 Jan from 9am to 4pm
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This course can be taken as a taught course in the following programmes:
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Recommended courses to take with this one
Course code Course name Semester/Campus EDPROFST 700 Literacy Education: Research and Practice 2018 Online/Blended (Semester 1) EDPROFST 701 Issues in Literacy Education 2018 Online/Blended (Semester 2) EDPROFST 702 Challenges of Literacy Difficulties 2018 Online/Blended (Semester 2) EDPROFST 705 Issues in Literacy Teaching and Learning 2018 Epsom (Semester 1) -
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