Units

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Sample subject outline - Semester 2 2013

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

Rationale

The units Introduction to Reflective Practice and Reflective Practice in Action introduced you to the processes involved in undertaking critical, systematic reflection into professional and creative practice. This unit follows your experiences in DCI professional research project 1 where you had the opportunity to undertake a reflection-in-action cycle of research in your workplace. In this unit you will analyse that experience from the point of view of the reflective practitioner and use the findings to identify strengths, weaknesses, future directions and priorities for DCI professional research project 2.

Aims

This unit will provide you with the means and opportunity to engage in a thorough analysis of the reflective practitioner process as it applies to you and your colleagues. In a small group setting, patterns of engagement and response in the workplace will be analysed. This period of re-theorising and conceptual review will also identify key issues to be addressed for the smooth execution of your next and final DCI professional research project.

In this unit the conceptual reference points for analysing practice will be extended. Until now the informing conceptual framework has clustered around notions of reflective practice. In this unit you will have the opportunity to investigate theoretical frameworks from other disciplines and fields which may assist in a more complete understanding of your creative and professional work practices.

Objectives

On completion of this unit you will be able to demonstrate a critical awareness and understanding of:
1. your professional practice in DCI professional research project 1
2. the serviceability of preferred frameworks for explaining professional practice
3. related frameworks from other fields and disciplines which inform an understanding of your practice
4. knowledge and skill sets to address in order to effectively undertake the second and final DCI professional research project.
Generic Attributes:
On completion of this unit you will be able to demonstrate:
- Critical and analytical thinking capabilities
- Communication skills for critical and analytical thinking - both written and oral
- Advanced information literacy
- Interdisciplinary teamwork capabilities
- Professional networking capabilities

Content

The unit addresses three areas of content:

1. Review of DCI professional research project 1
- the action of the DCI professional research project 1 - exchanging narratives, the site specificity of reflection-in-action;
- examining the experience and patterns of engagement;
- testing and refining emerging vocabularies of practice in the workplace;
- examining the 'unsayable' in professional practice;
- reviewing the examination portfolio - its limits and flexibilities;
- making reflections public - shifting from the personal and private to the shared and public;

2.Future directions in professional practice
issues of leadership and management,
issues of design and evaluation
issues of representation in the examination portfolio

3. Exchanging designs for DCI professional research project II.

Approaches to Teaching and Learning

Teaching and learning strategies for this unit will combine lectures, discussions and papers about professional practice in a series of executive master classes to be held during the semester. On line and email discussions will take pace across disciplines and professional environments.

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.FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT
You will receive formative feedback on your progress in this unit during tutorials and discussions throughout the semester. Weight: 0%

Assessment name: Oral Report
Description: An oral review of the outcomes of DCI Professional Project I, 15 mins.
Relates to objectives: 1-3
Weight: 30%
Internal or external: Internal
Group or individual: Individual
Due date: Early Semester

Assessment name: Research Paper
Description: Reviewing professional practice - understandings from the field. 4,000 - 5,000 words
Relates to objectives: 1-4
Weight: 70%
Internal or external: Internal
Group or individual: Individual
Due date: Late 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
There is no set text for this unit

Bourner, Tom (2003) ¿Assessing Reflecting Learning¿, Education and Training, vol.45 no. 5, pp.267-272

Chiu, L. F. (2006). "Critical reflection". Action research (London, England) , 4 (2), p. 183.

Daley, Barbara J (2002) "Context: Implications for Learning in Professional Practice", New
Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, no 96, Winter 2022. Pp 79-88.

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

Reynolds, M. (2011) ¿Reflective Practice: origins and interpretations¿. Action Learning, Research and Practice. Vol 8, No. 1, pp 5-13.

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

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: 30-May-2012