Units

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Sample subject outline - Semester 1 2012

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

Rationale

This unit extends your ability to undertake critical, systematic reflection into professional and creative practice. While acknowledging that the Creative Industries incorporates a multitude of practices across a range of disciplines in diverse contexts this unit investigates the way a personal and serviceable model for reflection on practice can be designed and implemented. This model will form the basis for subsequent research in the professional practice projects which drive the course.

Aims

This unit will provide you with a means of developing a fuller understanding of your professional or creative practice. This involves an investigation of current practice, discovering new languages for reflecting upon and accounting for practice and then applying these fresh understandings in a structured approach to reflection-in-action. In this unit, you will design, implement and evaluate your participation in specific forms of artistic, professional or work based practice at the doctoral level.

Objectives

On completion of this unit you should be able to demonstrate a critical awareness and understanding of:
1. the nature of reflection-in-action and reflection-on-action
2. tools for investigating professional / creative practice
3. the use of practice-led research in undertaking reflective practice
4. the nature of evidence gathering in creative and professional practice
5. the ways evidence based portfolio materials can be used to demonstrate expert performance in practice.

Content

This unit addresses content such as:
1. Emerging vocabularies: The structures of reflection-in-action and reflection-on-action with site and field
2. The autobiography of current practice
3.Contextualising: site and field
4. Portfolio and evidence building
5. Developing the reflective practice project

Approaches to Teaching and Learning

Teaching and learning strategies for this unit will combine lectures, seminars and discussions about professional practice in a series of executive master classes to be held during the semester. Students will also undertake two focussed fieldwork exercises that will be key sites for data collection and analysis. The outcomes of these projects will be reported at a group Faculty seminar presentation. On line and email discussions will take place throughout the semester.

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.

Assessment name: DCI Project Brief
Description: :(Formative and Summative) Designing a reflective practice project (2,000 words).(2,500 words)
For this assignment you are required to prepare a trial project brief which reflects on the type of project work you seek to undertake. The project brief must conform to the guidelines set down (in a separate document).
Criteria for Assessment:
* clarity of project purpose;
* appropriateness and rigour of the forensic reflective methods used;
* level of detail connecting the project with its field of practice;
* suitability and clarity of the stated doctoral outputs.
Relates to objectives: 1 - 4
Weight: 40%
Internal or external: Internal
Group or individual: Individual
Due date: Mid Semester

Assessment name: Presentation (Oral or Group)
Description: Summative) Implementing and evaluating a reflective practice project or equivalent non-textual output
This seminar will be a 45 minute group oral presentation to the Creative Industries Faculty, which will provide a detailed analysis of forensic reflective practice in action and will demonstrate how the model applies to the different practices which make up this cohort of DCI students. In addition each student will submit a written and referenced precis of their contribution to the seminar (2000 words).

Criteria for Assessment:
* quality of the oral presentation;
* coherence of the presentation as a whole;
* quality and clarity of the individual components of the presentation.
Relates to objectives: 1 - 5
Weight: 60%
Internal or external: Internal
Group or individual: Group with Individual Component
Due date: End Semester

Academic Honesty

Academic honesty means that you are expected to exhibit honesty and act responsibly when undertaking assessment. Any action or practice on your part which would defeat the purposes of assessment is regarded as academic dishonesty. The penalties for academic dishonesty are provided in the Student Rules. For more information you should consult the QUT Library resources for avoiding plagiarism.

Resource materials

Required Text
Callero, P.L. (2010) The Sociology of the Self. In O'Donnell, M (ed.) Structure and Agency,Vol. 1, 193-212, Sage Publications
Choo, S. S. (2009). Explorations of contextual criticism in postmodern applications of reflective practice. Teaching and Learning, 24:35.

Recommended References
Dalrymple R, & Smith P. (2008) The patchwork text: Enabling discursive writing and reflective practice on a foundation module in work-based learning. Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 45:47-54.

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.

Schirato, T. & Webb, J. (2003) Bourdieu's Concept of Reflexivity as Metaliteracy, Cultural Studies. Vol. 17, Routlege, pp 539-553.,

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

Schon, Donal A. (1983) The Reflective Practitioner; How Professionals Think in Action. New York: Basic Books.
Wong , E. S. (2008). Explication of tacit knowledge in higher education institutional research through the criteria of professional practice action research approach: A focus group case study at an Australian university(case study). International Journal of Doctoral Studies, 3:43

Other Resource Materials

Students attending the residency will be required to pay for the costs of travel, accommodation and food. Students will also need to arrange internet and email access. Please note tuition fees do not cover the costs associated with the residency or communications

Risk assessment statement

There are no out of the ordinary risks associated with 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: 14-Oct-2011