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Introduction to Action Research (ARTS90003)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 6.25On Campus (Parkville)
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Semester 2
Email: akihiro.ogawa@unimelb.edu.au
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Action Research (AR) combines the new scholarship of engagement with social research methods to generate collaborative inquiries and action. This interdisciplinary graduate course focuses on the ways in which researchers and community members collaborate to conduct research on actual problems, with the aim to solve them to improve one’s life. The major goal is to provide doctoral students with an understanding of useful theories, strategies of AR, an appreciation of advantages and limitations of this strategy, and skills necessary for conducting AR projects. Towards the end of the course, students will be expected to design an AR project on a topic relevant to them. The primary course format will reflect the participatory commitment to co-teaching and co-learning.
Intended learning outcomes
On successful completion of this subject, students should have:
- enhanced knowledge of the topic or area of scholarship taught in the module;
- an ability to reflect upon their own research work in relation to the content of the module; and
- enhanced engagement with leading-edge research in particular areas of the Humanities and Social Sciences today.
Generic skills
The subjects will contribute, through teaching and discussion with academic staff and peers, to developing skills and capacities including those identified in the University-defined Graduate Attributes for the PhD, in particular:
- the capacity to contextualise research within an international corpus of specialist knowledge;
- an advanced ability to engage in critical reflection, synthesis and evaluation of research-based and scholarly literature; and
- an advanced understanding of key disciplinary and multi-disciplinary norms and perspectives relevant to the field.
Last updated: 3 November 2022