013952 Research Perspectives

6cp
Postgraduate
Subject coordinator: Clive Chappell

This subject introduces research in education through engagement with a broad selection of research texts drawn from different traditions of inquiry. It develops a researcher's perspective on participants' own context of practice and an appreciation of the diversity of contemporary approaches to research and the values and theories implicit in them.

This subject explores research texts in how they are constructed by the researchers' assumptions about knowledge, values and the nature of reality. The subject engages with five research perspectives: empirical/analytic, interpretive, critical theorist, feminist, and postmodern/poststructural.

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2007 contribution for post-2004 Commonwealth-supported students: $499.75
2007 amount for undergraduate domestic fee-paying students: $1,860.00
Subject EFTSL: 0.125
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