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EDS 808: Self-Directed Study
Convenor: MA Director
Word length: Approx 5000
The Self Directed Study is a chance to investigate in depth a topic of your choice with guidance from an experienced researcher from the Department. Recent topics for Self Directed Studies are listed below but we have supervised topics in most areas of Education.
Your SDS will either be "library based" or empirical. A library based study might involve reviewing the literature on an issue of relevance in order to draw together existing knowledge (for example on approaches to developing numeracy, improving standards of behaviour in schools or dealing with disaffected or high-attaining pupils). Alternatively it might consist of a critical analysis of some established practice or view of education. Empirical studies involve gathering evidence "from the field". There is an enormous range of possibilities here. The taught module 'EDS801: Introduction to Educational Research and Evaluation' is designed to provide you with some of the tools you will need to carry out empirical studies and will also alert you to the range of approaches possible.
Recent titles of Self-Directed Studies:
- A comparative study of gender stereotyped views and play behaviour in preschool children
- An examination of the theoretical basis of Waldorf Education
- An exploration of the contribution of single-sex lessons within a co-educational school on pupils achievement and engagement with learning.
- A review of how neglect affects the four domains of child development and the implications for the delivery of physical education
- A study of Chinese postgraduate students' group work experiences in the UK
- Explaining a rise and fall in teaching efficacy in the transition from pre-service to novice teacher;
- Multicultural Education: The working framework
- Reconceptualising vocabulary: implications for UK Lower Primary classroom practice
- Teaching with Sanuk: teacher perceptions in an International School in Northern Thailand
- The conceptualisation of 'transition to higher education' in K-16 research
- The Impact of the New Secondary Curriculum on Religious Education and the implications for Initial Teacher Training
- The Social Interactions between pre-school children within the classroom environment
- Towards a more effective targeting strategy? The implementation of
new Aimhigher targeting strategies in Cumbria.
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