EDEM693-10S1 (C) Semester One 2010

Introduction to Methodologies and Ethics in Educational Research

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 22 February 2010
End Date: Sunday, 27 June 2010
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 7 March 2010
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 23 May 2010

Description

The course is an introduction frameworks for thinking about research, ethical considerations required for planning research and the ethical clearance process. The course provides students with opportunities to identify appropriate research issues and to formulate research questions. This course supports students' critical reading of research and decisions made in planning research. A range of methodologies and methods of educational research are introduced.

MEd contact Vicki Badis at the College of Education Postgraduate Office 3642987 ext 4877 postgraduate@education.canterbury.ac.nz

Learning Outcomes

  • On the successful completion of this course participants will be able to:
  • Explain the purposes of research
  • Identify the main features of a typical research study
  • Critically evaluate selected research articles using a reflective framework
  • List the decisions researchers make in the design of research
  • Define a research problem and formulate a suitable research question
  • Design a tool for data collection to support a research question
  • Critically evaluate research studies from an ethical stance
  • Apply ethical principles to a range of research scenarios
  • Prepare an ethics application for a research exercise

Prerequisites

Subject to the approval of Head of School

Restrictions

EDUC459, EDUC659, EDTL801

Course Coordinator / Lecturer

Jane McChesney

Lecturer

Jane Abbiss

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
EDEM693 Critical Analysis 12 Apr 2010 40%
EDEM693 Research Plan 24 May 2010 60%

Textbooks / Resources

Recommended Reading

Bell, Judith; Doing your research project : a guide for first-time researchers in education and social science ; 3rd ed; Open University Press, 1999.

Bogdan, Robert. , Biklen, Sari Knopp; Qualitative research for education : an introduction to theory and methods ; 4th ed; A&B, 2003.

Cohen, Louis , Manion, Lawrence., Morrison, Keith; Research methods in education ; 6th ed; Routledge, 2007.

Davidson, Carl. , Tolich, Martin., Pearson Education New Zealand; Social science research in New Zealand : many paths to understanding / Carl Davidson and Martin Tolich (editors) ; Longman, 1999.

Denzin, Norman K. , Lincoln, Yvonna S; Strategies of qualitative inquiry ; 2nd ed; Sage, 2003.

Mutch, Carol. , New Zealand Council for Educational Research; Doing educational research : a practitioner's guide to getting started ; NZCER Press, 2005.

Smith, Linda Tuhiwai; Decolonizing methodologies : research and indigenous peoples ; Zed Books ;, 1999.

Tolich, Martin; Research ethics in Aotearoa New Zealand : concepts, practice, critique ; Longman, 2001.

Yin, Robert K; Case study research : design and methods ; 4th ed; Sage Publications, 2009.

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $684.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see School of Educational Studies and Leadership .

All EDEM693 Occurrences

  • EDEM693-10S1 (C) Semester One 2010
  • EDEM693-10S1 (D) Semester One 2010 (Distance)
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