EDUC9953 Doctoral Symposium C: Education and Policy

2016

4.5

2 x 3-hour workshops per semester
4 x 6-hour intensive workshops per semester

Admission into EDD-Doctor of Education

The Doctoral Symposium requires students to explore, analyse and critique issues related to education and their impact on education. Students are expected to actively investigate the connection between specified issues and their own profession or discipline, and to communicate their conclusions in a comprehensive and scholarly way to an academic audience. Students must successfully complete Doctoral Symposium A, Doctoral Symposium B and Doctoral Symposium C before commencing doctoral research studies. Attendance at the Symposium is compulsory.

This topic enables students to view their profession within a policy framework.

Guest speakers will challenge students with a range of perspectives on policy and policy issues, and students will have the opportunity to:

investigate, analyse and critique issues presented by these guest speakers
broaden their understanding of their own profession
communicate these understandings to diverse audiences

On completion of this topic students will be able to:

determine the appropriate scope for a project related to one or more issues explored in the symposium and their own sector
investigate and analyse specified issue(s) with a view to understanding the effect of policy issues on education, and determining the issue(s) impact on the student's discipline, field or profession

Key dates and timetable

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