EEB707 Understanding Professional Practice (16)
CSU Discipline Area: Early Childhood Studies (ECHIL)
Duration: One session
Abstract:
This subject is designed to engage students in critical analysis of their own and others' professional practice from two perspectives:
1. how 'professional practice', 'the professions',
'professionalism' and 'practice' are constructed in the
'codified knowledge' of relevant theoretical and research
literature, and
2. how their own and others' practice is constructed in
the 'vernacular knowledge' of their own experience and
expertise.
The aim of the subject is to bring these two orders of knowledge into critical conversation with one another, both at the level of understanding practice, and at the level of researching practice.
+ Subject Availability Modes and Locations
| Session 1 | |
|---|---|
| Distance | Wagga Wagga |
Continuing students should consult the SAL for current offering details: EEB707
Where differences exist between the Handbook and the SAL, the SAL should be taken as containing the correct subject offering details.
Enrolment restrictions:
Doctor of Education
Objectives:
Upon successful completion of this subject, students should:
- Demonstrate an understanding of the nature of professional
practice as seen from the perspectives of relevant theory,
research and their own lived experience;
- Demonstrate an ability to critically analyze and investigate
their own professional practice in context; and
- Produce publishable material which communicates these
understandings and abilities in a critical essay on practice in
their own field and context.
Syllabus:
The subject will cover the following topics:
- Different views about, and contests over, the nature of *the 'professions' *professionalism' *professional practice' (that is, practising a profession) *practice' itself. - Different views about the construction of practice' as an object of theory (through the lenses of different theoretical perspectives) and research (through the lenses of different research methods and traditions).
The information contained in the 2013 CSU Handbook was accurate at the date of publication: 24 April 2013. The University reserves the right to vary the information at any time without notice.