Unit name | Writing as Inquiry |
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Unit code | EDUCD0097 |
Credit points | 20 |
Level of study | D/8 |
Teaching block(s) |
Academic Year (weeks 1 - 52) |
Unit director | Dr. Reed |
Open unit status | Not open |
Pre-requisites |
Narrative Inquiry |
Co-requisites |
Understanding Educational Research, Preparation for Dissertation |
School/department | School of Education |
Faculty | Faculty of Social Sciences and Law |
This unit is designed to give participants a critical awareness of writing as a research method. The unit will explore, review and practice creative, evocative, poetic, experimental and engaging writing strategies as legitimate re-search sites. Fictionalised and creative research accounts, layered accounts, and poetic narratives will be included as examples within a range of written re-presentation methods. There will be opportunities to participate in critical reading groups and writers workshops and improve writing strategies and critical capacities.
It is anticipated that upon completion of this unit participants will have:
Teaching and learning opportunities will include presentations, seminars, critical reading groups and creative writing workshops.
A written or multimodal assignment equivalent to 4000 words will be required.
1. Cixous, H (2004) The Writing Notebooks of Helene Cixous, London: Continuum
2. Clough, P (2002) Narratives and Fictions in Educational Research. Buckingham: Open University Press
3. Etherington, K (2002) Narrative ideas and stories in disability, in K.Etherington (Ed) Rehabilitation counselling in physical and mental health, London: Jessica Kingsley
4. Richardson, L &St Pierre, E (2005 3rd ed) Writing: A method of inquiry, in: NK Denzin &YS Lincoln (Eds) Sage Handbook of Qualitative Research, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage
5. Speedy, J (2008) Crossing the borders between fiction and researching: Narrative Inquiry and Psychotherapy, Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan
6. Sparkes, A. (2002) Telling Tales in Sport &Physical Activity: A Qualitative Journey. Champaign, Ill: Human Kinetics Press