PRACTICED BASED RESEARCH Overview 25 th November 2013

Sessions Today SessionContent Monday 10:00 – 12:15. Overview of Assessment Formative: ethics application draft. Summative: Presentation and 2000 report How this module relates to practice based and 4 th year work. Introduction to designing research, including examples of research proposals. Monday 1:30 – 4:00 Literature Review and Secondary data and Survey,

Learning Outcomes L1. Contextualise practitioner research within the wider context of social and educational issues and methods, including validity and reliability, ethics and the application of ideas from literature to participative workplace-based enquiry. L2. Critically review and analyse the research strengths and limitations associated with particular research methodologies and frameworks as they relate to the interpretation and analysis of participative community-based practice. L3. Identify researchable issues within the community and/or workplace setting and potential methods of enquiry that would enable the collection, analysis and interpretation of data and lead to the improvement of their own and others’ participative learning and performance. L4. Use the skills of critical analysis, evaluation and communication to present the potential impact of practitioner research on service users, taking full account of the complexity of real professional situations and the potential impact on future policy and practice. L5. Outline the main ethical issues in accordance with current professional and/or ethical codes of practices, and the means of upholding these within practitioner research projects.

Assessment Part one of the summative assessment will require students to make a presentation to their peers and academic staff during an additional on-campus day. The presentation will: Outline a proposed research-led intervention or study in the workplace. The research methodology that would underpin the research will be explained, as well as the anticipated outcomes and benefits’ The presentation will take fifteen minutes to deliver. A PowerPoint presentation will be included and submitted via Mahara no later than the date of the Summative Assessment on-campus date outlined in the module timetable. (50%) 6 th December Part two: A 2000-word summary of the proposed research intervention. This will include background to research, context, literature review, aims, design, method, ethics and intended outcomes. (50%) 11 th December

The difference between research and evaluation. Critical Research Value- Neutral Research Critically Reflective (social contrutivist) Evaluation Social Administrative/ Technical Evaluation How If Quantitative, Qualitative, Critical?

Participatory Practitioner Research Collaborative Action Research Professional Inquiry “The process emphasises recurring cycles of planning, acting, observing, reflecting and revising” (Oja and Smulyan 1988: 17).

Module Linkages Professional Inquiry 1&2 Practice Based Learning 3 Practice Based Research

Cyclical Negotiation of Inquiry 3.Report on Changed Practice (By end of term 2 Year 10) 2.Implement plan based on initial findings. (By end of term 1 Year With collaborators agree research/inquiry needed upon which to base changes and carry out initial research/ inquiry. (By end of Year 9)

Process Approach Ethnography (participant-observer) Structured Activities Reflective Interviews Consultative Representation Interpretive-Interactionalism Collaborative Action/ Participatory Discourse /NarrativeAnalysis