Units

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Sample subject outline - Semester 1 2013

Note: Subject outlines often change before the semester begins. Below is a sample outline.

Rationale

This unit introduces you to the processes involved in undertaking critical, systematic reflection into your professional and creative practice. While acknowledging that practice in the Creative Industries incorporates a multitude of practices across a range of disciplines in diverse contexts, this unit introduces ideas with which you can develop a personal and functional model for reflection-on-practice. This model will form the basis for your research methodology in subsequent professional/creative practice projects in the suite of Reflective Practice units.

Aims

This unit aims to provide you with a means of developing a fuller understanding of your professional/creative practice through:
- an investigation of your current practice and the relevance of your autobiography
- discovering an expanded language with which to reflect upon and account for your practice
- exploring the processes involved in reflection-on-action research cycles

Objectives

On completion of this unit you should be able to demonstrate a critical awareness and understanding of:
1. shifts in perceiving your professional/creative practice
2. expanded frameworks for explaining your professional/creative practice
3. key issues defining professional practice in your particular discipline
4. a functional, contextualised structure of reflection-on-action

Content

This unit addresses content such as:
- The ambiguities of Professional/Creative Practice. The changing nature of professional/creative practice in an informational, global and networked society
- The autobiography of current practice
- Reconceptualising current practice
- Emerging vocabularies: the structures of reflection-on-action research cycles - planning, implementation, reflection, evaluation, re-planning..etc, and the recognition of 'moments of crystallisation'.

Approaches to Teaching and Learning

Teaching and learning strategies for this unit will combine lectures, seminars and discussions about professional/creative practice. Students will also undertake focused fieldwork exercises that will form the basis for further reflection and discussion.

Assessment

LATE ASSIGNMENTS
An assignment submitted after the due date without an approved extension will not be marked. If you are unable to complete your assignment on time, you should submit on time whatever work you have done.

Faculty Assessment Information
To access the Creative Industries Faculty Assessment Information see the Blackboard site for this unit.Students have the opportunity for both face to face and email reflective discussions with peers and lecturers.

Assessment name: Oral Presentation
Description: This short presentation will introduce your professional/creative practice. It will be focused on the changing relationships between you and your autobiography within the context of the site of your current professional/creative practice.
Length: 15 minutes (maximum)
Relates to objectives: 1, 2, and 3
Weight: 30%
Internal or external: Internal
Group or individual: Individual
Due date: Mid semester

Assessment name: Written Assignment
Description: Research Paper "How have practitioners in your field used Reflective Practice to deepen their understanding of their practice?" Length: 2000 words. (3500 words for DCI Students - Weighting 70% for DCI Students)
Relates to objectives: 1 - 4
Weight: 40%
Internal or external: Internal
Group or individual: Individual
Due date: Mid-late semester

Assessment name: Written Report
Description: (Honours and Post-graduate coursework only) Formulate and justify a Reflection-on-Action research cycle plan within the context of your current professional/creative practice site. Length: 1000 words.
Relates to objectives: 1, 2 and 4
Weight: 30%
Internal or external: Internal
Group or individual: Individual
Due date: End of semester

Academic Honesty

QUT is committed to maintaining high academic standards to protect the value of its qualifications. To assist you in assuring the academic integrity of your assessment you are encouraged to make use of the support materials and services available to help you consider and check your assessment items. Important information about the university's approach to academic integrity of assessment is on your unit Blackboard site.

A breach of academic integrity is regarded as Student Misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties.

Resource materials

Required Text

Set Readings
The DCI Reader - Forensic Reflection: A Cookbook for Reflective Practice (Course book)

Hartley, John (editor) (2005) Creative Industries, Blackwell: Oxford

Schon, Donald A. (1983) The Reflective Practitioner; How Professionals Think in Action. New York: Basic Books

Allen, D (editor) (1998) Assessing Student Learning: From Grading to Understanding. New York:Teachers College Press.

Ericsson, K. Anders. (1996) The Road to Excellence: The Acquisition of Expert Performance in the Arts and Sciences, Sports and Games. New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Project Zero. (2001) THE Evidence Process. Cambridge Mass: Harvard University School of Graduate Education.

Ross E. Wayne (1994) Reflective Practice in Social Science. Washington DC: National Council for the Social Studies.

Schon, Donald A. (1987) Educating The Reflective Practitioner. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass

DCI Students:

Book of readings - Forensic Reflection: a cookbook of reflective practice (provided at start of semester)

Risk assessment statement

There are no out-of-the-ordinary risks for this unit.

Disclaimer - Offer of some units is subject to viability, and information in these Unit Outlines is subject to change prior to commencement of semester.

Last modified: 18-Sep-2012