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Module C: Researching and Reflecting on Post-Compulsory Educational Practice
On successful completion of this module course members will demonstrate that they are working towards the ability to:
- write at doctoral standard within appropriate timescales
- discuss critically alternative perspectives on post-compulsory educational practices, including accounts of knowledgeability, skills, and the development of meaning in further and higher education colleges and universities
- identify the implications for research design, data collection and analysis strategies of the problematic and contested character of educational practices in post-compulsory education
- consider a range of possible research methodologies and methods for studying one aspect of educational practice in further and higher education
- make an appropriate selection from among them and defend that choice
- demonstrate the ability to apply the chosen research approach in the field
- competently apply appropriate data analysis techniques, including both quantitative and qualitative and those associated with the analysis of documentary data
- critically consider the ontological and epistemological status of data collected in the selected manner and defend the choice from criticism on epistemological and ontological grounds
- predict and prepare a response to potential viva voce questions in the area of educational research and post-compulsory educational practice
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