Reflective Project Capstone

Note: This subject replaces EDU590 from Semester 1 2024 onwards.

Awards offering Reflective Project Capstone

This unit is offered as a part of the following awards:

• Master of Education*
• Master of Education (Leadership)*

Unit Content

Curriculum Objective

A capstone subject enables students to reflect on, and apply, the transformation they have undertaken throughout their course of study. This subject requires students to critically evaluate and reflect on their post-graduate experience, synthesising, and applying their learning gained throughout the course to design a scholarly project.

The project may be situated within the student’s school / educational context. Examples may include a new teacher induction process, an approach to school-wide professional learning, a new curriculum / pedagogy initiative, and a process to encourage school association membership. The outworking of this project will involve creative and cohesive communication to a wider audience.

(N.B. The scholarly project will be designed within the study timeframe but may not be fully executed.)

Outcomes

• LO1. Demonstrate advanced knowledge of the key biblically-informed insights and philosophical understandings that have emerged from the post-graduate experience.
• LO2. Critically analyse and evaluate the transformational impact of the postgraduate experience.
• LO3. Clearly and coherently communicate learning and ideas to a wider audience.
• LO4. Synthesise and apply learning to a scholarly project in an educational context.
• LO5. Critically reflect on personal and professional identity in light of the biblical story.

Subject Content

• Tutorial 1: Capstone definition
• Tutorial 2: Reflection on postgraduate learning process
• Tutorial 3: Reflection on compliance, teaching standards, and teacher accreditation
• Tutorial 4: Reflection on transformation
• Tutorial 5: Identifying an area needing action
• Tutorials 6 & 7: Designing a scholarly project
• Tutorial 8: Subject and course conclusion

This course may be offered in the following formats

• Face to face (on site)
• Intensive
• E-learning (online)

Please consult your course prospectus or enquire about how and when this course will be offered next at Alphacrucis University College.

Assessment Methods

• Critical reflective pieces (20%)
• Photo elicitation exercise (30%)
• Scholarly project (50%)

Prescribed Text

Primary readings provided.