Unit name | Published Work (Single Unit) |
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Unit code | EDUCD0077 |
Credit points | 20 |
Level of study | D/8 |
Teaching block(s) |
Academic Year (weeks 1 - 52) |
Unit director | Professor. Baird |
Open unit status | Not open |
Pre-requisites |
Understanding Educational Research |
Co-requisites |
Candidates are not normally permitted to gain more than 40 credits towards their award from any combination of published work or special individual study. |
School/department | School of Education |
Faculty | Faculty of Social Sciences and Law |
This unit provides participants with the opportunity to present published work for assessment alongside scholarly reflections on issues involved in writing the published work as an opportunity for reflective evaluation. The self-assessment might be informed by making presentations on the work in any appropriate setting(s). The assessed piece of work will consist of the publication and a commentary. The selected publication must be one that has been published in the preceding five years. A proposal will have to be submitted to judge if the published work meets the specified criteria and sufficiently meets significant aspects of the aims of the programme.
Aims:
The unit aims to provide students with the opportunity to:
The learning outcomes achieved by a successful candidate will be:
Tutorials, individual and group seminars, student presentation to departmental research seminars and doctoral conference.
A written assessment composed of a published paper (of at least 2,000 words) and a commentary of 2,000 words. Work presented for this unit must be substantially different from that presented for any other unit. For example, a publication based on an earlier assignment may not be presented for a second time in order to gain further credit. Guidelines on the submission of a multiply authored paper will be used, to ensure that the amount of credit given is based upon verifiable contribution by the candidate.
Dependent upon the area of focus.