ED5914 - Individual Researched Action Project
| Credit points: | 03 |
| Year: | 2018 |
| Student Contribution Band: | Band 1 |
| Administered by: | College of Arts, Society & Education |
This subject is available to all students who possess a relevant undergraduate degree or diploma. All tasks must be negotiated with the subject coordinator/lecturer or nominated academic staff member.
In this subject you undertake an individual project that encourages an informed, action-oriented, leadership approach to building social and/or ecological capacity in your chosen setting. You will work with university staff to develop a research informed, action project and identify the resources and support needed to achieve the project's aim. Your project must (a) be sustainability and/or resilience focused; (b) concern an aspect of education, co-operative learning and/or communication; (c) be conceived within a researched perspective of social and/or social - ecological and/or ecological sustainable practice, and (d) involve creative leadership. You will develop knowledge and skills for innovating and managing a unique small-scale action project while gaining insight to effective strategies for fostering sustainability in a professional or community setting. ED5914 is an AQF level 9 subject. You will consolidate your knowledge of socio-ecological systems and processes as you undertake 130 hours of education, co-operative learning and/or communication project work.
Learning Outcomes
- demonstrate leadership in implementing a sustainability initiative;
- source and demonstrate knowledge of contemporary literature, published resources, networks and programs for taking action for sustainability in a designated setting such as a workplace or community site;
- implement effective strategies for fostering at least one aspect of sustainability in a designated setting based on principles of sustainability in practice established in the contemporary research literature relevant to a chosen area of practice;
- implement a small scale program and/or develop materials and/or undertake a sequence of actions that encourage problem-based, action-oriented education, co-operative learning and/or communication for a particular aspect of social sustainability, social-ecological sustainability and/or ecological sustainability;
- be able to communicate the researched action in various forms and forums.
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| External, Study Period 2 | |
| Census Date 23-Aug-2018 | |
| Coordinator: | Assoc. Professor Hilary Whitehouse |
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| Method of Delivery: | WWW - LearnJCU |
| Assessment: | tutorial attendance and participation (10%); assignments (10%); interim project report (20%); final project report (60%). |
| JCU Singapore, Limited, Study Period 53 | |
| Census Date 29-Nov-2018 | |
| Face to face teaching (to be advised) | |
| Coordinator: | Assoc. Professor Hilary Whitehouse |
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| Assessment: | tutorial attendance and participation (10%); assignments (10%); interim project report (20%); final project report (60%). |
| JCU Singapore, Limited, Study Period 52 | |
| Census Date 02-Aug-2018 | |
| Face to face teaching (to be advised) | |
| Coordinator: | Assoc. Professor Hilary Whitehouse |
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| Assessment: | tutorial attendance and participation (10%); assignments (10%); interim project report (20%); final project report (60%). |
| JCU Singapore, Limited, Study Period 51 | |
| Census Date 05-Apr-2018 | |
| Face to face teaching (to be advised) | |
| Coordinator: | Assoc. Professor Hilary Whitehouse |
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| Assessment: | tutorial attendance and participation (10%); assignments (10%); interim project report (20%); final project report (60%). |
Note: Minor variations might occur due to the continuous Subject quality improvement process, and in case of minor variation(s) in assessment details, the Subject Outline represents the latest official information.