Overview
Development of professional skills as a teacher and engagement in critical reflection on professional practice by documenting goals, growth, achievement, and professional attributes developed throughout the course of study. Requires students to identify a need in their profession.
Students will critically reflect on their professional practice and identify an area of professional learning to pursue. They will then work with a supervisor to design, conduct, analyse, and write up a professional inquiry project.
About this paper
| Paper title | Professional Inquiry |
|---|---|
| Subject | Education |
| EFTS | 0.3333 |
| Points | 40 points |
| Teaching period | 1st Non standard period (28 February 2025 - 20 February 2026) (Distance learning) |
| Domestic Tuition Fees ( NZD ) | $3,142.02 |
| International Tuition Fees | Tuition Fees for international students are elsewhere on this website. |
- Pre or Corequisite
- EDUC 411 or EDUC 412
- Limited to
- MEdLn
- Notes
- (i)Students outside of the approved programmes, with 54 300-level EDUC points, may be admitted with approval from the Dean of the College of Education. (ii)The duration of this paper is 12 months (50 weeks)
- Contact
postgrad.education@otago.ac.nz
Paper coordinator: Professor Alex Gunn
- Teaching staff
Various teaching staff are involved depending on the topics being studied by students.
- Teaching Arrangements
This Distance Learning paper is taught remotely.
- Textbooks
Students will be expected to access required readings via the library and the Internet and to source their own relevant readings.
- Graduate Attributes Emphasised
- Global perspective, Interdisciplinary perspective, Lifelong learning, Scholarship, Communication, Critical thinking, Cultural understanding, Ethics, Environmental literacy, Information literacy, Research, Self-motivation, Teamwork.
View more information about Otago's graduate attributes. - Learning Outcomes
By the end of this paper, students will be able to:
- Identify evidence and arguments for and against practices which they already use, practices they could adopt, and consider implications for their teaching
- Reflect critically upon their approaches to teaching within the context of contemporary research literature and practice
- Use the outcomes of reflection and research to improve their own practices as teachers
- Articulate the personal theories, beliefs and thinking that guide their teaching practices
- Show evidence that they have a willingness and ability to learn and engage in ongoing learning and to appreciate that learning to teach is a lifelong endeavour