460-425 Project Design

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460-425 Project Design
Credit Points	6.25
Coordinator	Christine Ure
Prerequisites	300 points of study
Semester	1 (view timetable)
Contact	18 hours
Subject Description	Recent research literature will be examined to assess current issues and problems in early childhood practice. Qualitative and quantitative methods will be introduced to examine approaches to research design and the range of tools and instrumentation suitable for small-scale projects. Students will identify a problem for investigation, conduct an initial literature review and develop a project brief that outlines the instrumentation and data collection procedures for a small-scale project with support from a supervising lecturer.
Assessment	A literature review of 2500 words.
Prescribed Texts	C Aubrey et al, Early Childhood Educational Research. Routledge Falmer Press, London, 2000. G MacNaughton, S Rolfe and I Siraj-Blatchford, Doing Early Childhood Research. Allen and Unwin, 2001.

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