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Collaborative Fieldwork (INDG90004)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 25On Campus (Parkville)
Overview
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This subject allows Fellows in the Atlantic Fellows for Social Equity (AFSE) program to develop their knowledge, skills and attitudes in collaborative research and practice in a way that deepens their ability to work within Indigenous ethical and methodological frameworks. The subject will provide significant time for collaboration with and amongst Fellows and enable deeper knowledge of methods and strategies for collaborative work. Fellows will be afforded the opportunity to explore ‘place’ as a critical tool for collaborating with Indigenous people and places. Fellows will experience working together to understand the intersection of Indigenous knowledges and social change leadership. Participants will have the opportunity to reflect on and clarify their own collaborative processes, and ethical approaches to evaluating the effectiveness of projects designed to achieve Indigenous-led social change.
Intended learning outcomes
On completion of this Fellows, students should be able to:
- Understand Place and Country as critical tools for collaboration and changemaking
- Demonstrate an understanding of key concepts in undertaking collaborative practice with Indigenous communities
- Demonstrate an enhanced knowledge of the scholarship of collaborative research practice relevant to their own projects
- Demonstrate familiarity with research strategies, methods and ethics in social change research design and evaluation
- Apply knowledge and skills to the processes of collaborative research, including designing a research proposal, conducting fieldwork and assessing social impact
- Critically reflect on learning and identify implications of the subject content to individual and collaborative social change making projects
- Reflect on and apply Indigenous scholarship on ethics.
Generic skills
In this subject, Fellows will develop the following set of key transferable skills:
- Critical thinking and reasoning
- Creative thinking and innovation
- Problem solving
- Leadership
- Teamwork and professional networking and collaboration
- Self-reflection, career awareness and lifelong learning
- Enhanced writing and communication skills.
Last updated: 21 August 2024