Module: Project 1

Module Specifications.

Current Academic Year 2024 - 2025

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Date posted: September 2024

Module Title	Project 1
Module Code	ES3240 (ITS) / EDU1072 (Banner)
Faculty	DCU Institute of Education	School	Policy & Professional Practice
Module Co-ordinator	Jane O'Kelly
Module Teachers	John Lalor, Justin Rami, Peter Tiernan, Trudy Corrigan
NFQ level	8	Credit Rating	5
Pre-requisite	Not Available
Co-requisite	Not Available
Compatibles	Not Available
Incompatibles	Not Available

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Description

This module aims to provide students with the theoretical knowledge and skills of understanding and conducting a comprehensive literature review. It enables students to critically reflect,evaluate and synthesise from a variety of sources in academic literature. This provides students with literature review skills that are academic, rigorous and valid in an education and/or training context. In addition students are required to research and present a detailed project proposal and a rationale for the proposed methodology.

Learning Outcomes

1. Conduct a comprehensive Literature Review within one or more of the following themes in education and/ or training - equality, access, inclusion, values, identity, intercultural learning, technology-enabled learning
2. Search, select and identify suitable sources of literature (policy documents/journals/books) within the research theme under investigation.
3. Analyse and evaluate relevant literature to student's area of professional development in the future.
4. Record, organise and classify literature resources
5. Critically reflect and synthesise material from a broad context of sources in the literature review.
6. Demonstrate the ability to write a literature review using a broad variety of literature and policy documents as part of a literature review chapter for a research project.
7. Consider the arguments and critique the debate within academic literature/theory and relate this to current practice in an education and or training context.

*Type*	*Hours*	*Description*
Workload	Full-time hours per semester
Lecture	24	No Description
Group work	12	No Description
Independent Study	24	No Description
Independent Study	50	No Description
Tutorial	12	No Description
Online activity	3	No Description
Total Workload: 125

All module information is indicative and subject to change. For further information,students are advised to refer to the University's Marks and Standards and Programme Specific Regulations at: http://www.dcu.ie/registry/examinations/index.shtml

Indicative Content and Learning Activities

Theme 1
Overview on how to conduct a Literature Review

Theme 2
Creating an Audit Trail of Literature Review sources

Theme 3
Comparing and Contrasting Literature Review sources

Theme 4
Identifying gaps in research/ literature

Theme 5
Critical Writing and critical review of literature sources

Theme 6
Connecting Literature Review to overall Research process

Theme 7
Develop a Project Proposal

Assessment Breakdown
Continuous Assessment	100%	Examination Weight	0%

Type	Description	% of total	Assessment Date
Course Work Breakdown
Assignment	Part 1: Section A: Present a short Research Proposal outlining the research that you will pursue in Semester 2, including the research question, the rationale for the research, the proposed research methodology that you will use and an outline of the research context. It would be useful also to include a section on how you think this research will benefit you as a researcher. (Word count: 1000 words) Section B: Outline the purposes and benefits of a Literature Review as part of an academic research project or dissertation. Please refer to the readings on Literature that you have received at the beginning of the module. (Word count: 1000 words).	40%	Week 9
Assignment	Part 2: Complete a Literature Review related to the specific research interest that you have identified in your Research Proposal. This should include a comprehensive review of the literature in this research field, a detailed account as to why you have chosen to focus on specific aspects of literature and how these will support and scaffold the actual research, a critique of the literature outlining your own views on the concepts expressed in the literature and a discussion as to how the literature has identified gaps in the research field that your work might address.(Word count: 3000 words ).	60%	Week 9

Reassessment Requirement Type
Resit arrangements are explained by the following categories: Resit category 1: A resit is available for both* components of the module. Resit category 2: No resit is available for a 100% continuous assessment module. Resit category 3: No resit is available for the continuous assessment component where there is a continuous assessment and examination element.
* ‘Both’ is used in the context of the module having a Continuous Assessment/Examination split; where the module is 100% continuous assessment, there will also be a resit of the assessment
This module is category 1

Indicative Reading List

Zina O'Leary,: 0, The Essential Guide to Doing Your Research Project, 978-1-84860-010-2
Judith Bell: 2010, Doing your research project, Open University Press / McGraw Hill, Maidenhead, 978-0335235827
Gina Wisker: 2009, The undergraduate research handbook, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 978-0230520974
Uwe Flick,: 0, An Introduction to Qualitative Research, 978-1-84787-323-1
Jennifer Mason: 0, Qualitative researching, 0 7619 7428 8
David Silverman: 0, Doing qualitative research, 1412901979
Chris Hart: 1998, Doing a literature review, SAGE, London, 0 7619 5974 2

Other Resources

11003, Youtube, Writing your research proposal, 0, www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyoU4BwTHmo,