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2020/21 KIU Guild Parliament Convenes for the First time since 2020 Elections
February 24, 2021, 3:55 pm
COURSE JUSTIFICATION
Research
in education is relevant to all educational contexts and to all teachers. This
course is designed to support students to explore and critique their chosen
area of research by locating it in the context of key issues and approaches in
education and viewing it from a diversity of qualitative and quantitative
perspectives.
COURSE DESCRIPTION
The
course provides an introduction to the different epistemological and
methodological approaches in qualitative and quantitative educational research
and will also encourage students to build collaboration with others in the
course using self and peer review.
COURSE AIM
This
course aims to clarify key concepts in educational research including:
purpose(s) of doing research, key philosophical issues, researcher/practitioner
positionality/role, and the place of research in teachers’ work and in
education more broadly.
EXPECTED LEARNING OUTCOMES
By the end of the course students
will be able to:
Kampala International University,
Box 20000, Ggaba Road, Kansanga, Kampala
+(256) 392 001 816
+(256) 752 800 802