EDF5695 Self-study as professional inquiry

This unit positions you as a professional inquirer into your practice and presents self-study as an approach through which you may inquire into your practice in rigorous ways. Self-study involves systematic examination of your own professional practice in order to gain greater understanding, and to make changes that enhance practice. The unit introduces self-study as a research approach for professional/practitioner inquiry. Its features are distinguished, including its qualitative nature and its philosophical standpoints on what counts as 'knowledge' for research purposes. You will identify the forms of data collection and analysis that may be suitable for inquiring into your own practice. These are applied as you plan to conduct your own small-scale self-study project through which you deepen your learning around your personal and professional identity, your ethical responsibilities and collaborative engagement. The self-study project plan focuses on approaches to interpretation, and how to systematically improve practice within a particular professional context.