This course introduces students to methods of professional enquiry to evaluate classroom practice and pupil learning.

To be completed

One assignment of 4000 words

- To enable students to evaluate teaching and learning through engagement with and engagement in research
- To understand the potential of practitioner enquiry/action research for the development of professional practice
- To equip students to enter the teaching profession with the capacity to explore educational issues and their societal, cultural, historical and political contexts

- Self evaluate and apply learning to the enhancement of practice
- Design practitioner enquiries and small scale research projects in educational contexts in order to extend an understanding of pedagogy
- Develop awareness of ethical issues and codes of professional practice
- Gather information and evaluate its validity and usefulness for particular enquiries
- Improve professional practice through observation, reflection, evaluation and enquiry
- Critically review and debate the relationship between policy, practice, theory and research and the implications for professional development and pedagogy
- Problem solve in the immediate and longer term

Satisfactory completion of course assessment (one essay comprising 100% of course assessment).