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Stand Alone Module
Researching and Developing Practice
30 Credits
- Duration:
- 15 weeks
- Start Dates:
- February
- Venue:
- High Wycombe Campus
- Cost:
- available on request
- Key Contact:
- Dr Roger Dalrymple
- Tel:
- 01494 522 141
- Email:
- roger.dalrymple@bucks.ac.uk
Is this course suitable for me?
This 30 credit module will be of interest to work-based professionals in all spheres of community health, education and social care.
Overview
This Level 6 module is designed to equip work-based students with a range of theoretical frameworks for practice development. The module enhances research literacy by affording students an opportunity to apply a variety of reflective and analytical tools to their practice setting. The module content supports and challenges students to develop conceptual frameworks for understanding their professional identity and organisational role. It will also provide students with an action research methodology for identifying areas for intervention and enhancement of practice.
The module is also designed to develop abilities in discursive and reflective writing in which students can identify key issues from your practice and situate these in a range of relevant contexts. Opportunities will be provided for you to reflect upon your professional identity from a range of theoretical perspectives and to explore how they might develop your professional identity to its fullest potential.
Content
The subject matter of this module will include:
Models for theorising and conceptualising organisations and organisational roles including: Schon’s notion of the reflective practitioner; Wenger’s notion of the community of practice; Senge’s notion of the learning organisation; Berne’s notion of transactional analysis; the Myers-Briggs personality-type inventory; Lewin’s model of action research and its derivatives.
You will explore issues of self development and the development of others; practice supervision and continuous professional development; attitudes, values and ethical research; the principles and practice of teamwork, change management and inter-professional working.
What will I learn?
On successful completion of the module, you will be able to:
- Communicate a developed conception of the professional practitioner and the organisation in which they work
- Critically debate the theory and principles of professionalism and contrast the values held by a range of other professionals.
- Communicate complex narratives of critical incidents from practice with reference to conceptual and theoretical frameworks.
- Integrate the relationship between an enhanced sense of self awareness and competence and demonstrate how an enhanced sense of self can enhance practice.
- Show an understanding of the need for evidence/research based practice.
Teaching and learning
The teaching, learning and assessment strategies for this module will maximise opportunities for inter-professional learning and collaboration. Workshops and action learning sets will facilitate the production of the patchwork text assignments and will actively foster a working culture of critical reflection on practice. The action learning sets will also enable students to extrapolate generic principles from specific practice settings and to gain a broadened sense of the different practice settings that impinge upon their own work. Other teaching and learning methods will range from lectures, discussions, videos, joint project working and seminar presentations by students. Visiting speakers may be invited to contribute according to need and expertise and there will also be dialogue via the virtual learning environment, email, video conferencing and telephone as mutually agreed.
Entry requirements
Applicants should normally hold 120 Level 5 credits (a Diploma of Higher Education, Foundation Degree or equivalent).
How to make an application
We hope to have a fully on-line application system shortly, but in the meantime, to apply for a course, please download and print these forms, completing them fully and posting back to the address below.
- Course_Enquiry_Letter (70.4 KB)
- Application_form (58.1 KB)
- Notes_for_Guidance (51.6 KB)
- Fee_Authoristaion_Form (61.1 KB)
- Academic_Reference_Form (50.6 KB)
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Alternatively, if you call us on 01494 603 171 or email ask@bucks.ac.uk we can post you a hard copy application pack.
Students funded by the NHS or other employer
If the cost of your course is being funded by your employer, please contact your education lead or manager for guidance as to how they would prefer you to make an application.