ED3991:04
Educational Inquiry
Townsville, Cairns
HECS Band 1
39 hours workshops. Semester 2.
Required for BEd(Hons).
Staff: Professor B Davies (Townsville campus); Dr J Taylor (Cairns campus).
The subject is an introduction to the nature, purposes and practice of educational research. Topics include the nature of educational reseach and its relationship with educational policy and practice; a review of major approaches to educational research and their application to educational problems; basic research methods for educational inquiry; classroom research; research ethics; writing research proposals.
Learning Objectives:
- a critical understanding of the nature and purposes of major approaches to educational research;
- an understanding of the potential applications of these approaches to education problems;
- a familiarity with basic research methods and ethics in educational inquiry;
- the ability to plan a research project.
Assessment by essay (40%); research proposal or project (60%).