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 and explores the processes involved in undertaking critical, systematic reflection into professional and creative practice. While acknowledging that practice in the Creative Industries incorporates a multitude of processes and approaches across a range of disciplines in diverse contexts, this unit seeks to develop a personal and serviceable model for reflection on practice. The unit forms the basis for subsequent research in the professional practice research projects which drive the course.

Aims

The aim of the unit is to provide you with the means to develop a deeper understanding of your professional/creative practice through:

· investigation of your current practice;
· discovering an expanded language with which to reflect upon and account for your practice;
· exploring the processes involved in reflection-on-action research cycles.

You will apply these fresh understandings in a structured approach to reflective practice. The unit prepares you to design, implement, and evaluate your participation in specific forms of creative professional or work-based practice at a doctoral level.

Objectives

On completion of this unit you should be able to demonstrate a critical awareness and understanding of:

1. new tools and frameworks for perceiving, explaining and defining key issues and best practice in your professional discipline;
2. the nature of evidence gathering and the tools for investigating creative and professional practice;
3. the ways in which evidence-based portfolio materials can be used to demonstrate expert performance in practice; and
4. the use of reflective practice in undertaking practice-led research.

Content

This unit will cover material in the following areas:

1. the changing nature and ambiguities of professional practice in an information, global and networked society;
2. the autobiography of current practice;
3. the practitioner in site and field;
4. emerging vocabularies around reflective practice cycles, action research cycles, and 'moments of crystallisation';
5. portfolio and evidence building and reporting on methodologies in reflective practice, in tandem with allied approaches.

Approaches to Teaching and Learning

Teaching and learning strategies for these units will combine lectures, seminars and roundtable discussions about professional practice in a series of executive master classes to be held across four intensive modules of 2 days during the first semester. Students will also undertake focussed fieldwork exercises that will form the basis for further reflection. The unit draws heavily on the principles of authentic learning for the autonomous learner.

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: Presentation (Oral or Group)
Description: This short presentation will introduce your professional practice, focussing on the relationship between you and your autobiography in the context of the site of you current professional practice.
Relates to objectives: 2,4
Weight: 20%
Internal or external: Internal
Group or individual: Individual
Due date: Mid to late semester

Assessment name: Essay
Description: What are the currents and trends which are shaping contemporary best practice in your discipline?
Relates to objectives: 1,2,3
Weight: 40%
Internal or external: Internal
Group or individual: Individual
Due date: Late semester

Assessment name: Presentation (Oral or Group)
Description: This oral presentation will be a group presentation to the Creative Industries faculty. The presentation 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.
Relates to objectives: 1,2,3,4
Weight: 40%
Internal or external: Internal
Group or individual: Group
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

A book of selected readings is provided for this unit. These are additional recommended readings:

Bolton, G. 2005. Reflective Practice: writing and professional development, Thousand Oaks. Calif. Sage.

Schon, Donald A. (1991) The Reflective Practitioner; How Professionals Think in Action. New York: Ashgate.

Moon, J. A. 2006. Learning Journals: A Handbook for Reflective Practice and Professional Development. Oxford: Routledge.

Thompson, S. 2008. The Critically Reflective Practitioner. Sydney: Palgrave Macmillan.

Johns, C. 2000. Being and Becoming a Reflective Practitioner. London: Blackwell, Science Ltd.

Johns, C. 2006. Engaging reflection in practice: a narrative approach. Malden, MA, Blackwell Pub.

Ghaye, T. 2010. Teaching and Learning through Reflective Practice: A Practical Guide for Positive Action. Hoboken: Taylor & Francis.

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: 13-Sep-2012