Course Description
This course will help prepare you to be a scholar-practitioner by developing the research skills you need for your program. You will learn how worldview and epistemology inform research methods. You will learn an overview of the four traditional approaches to epistemology and research methods. You will primarily be trained in Action Research, a research methodology used by scholar practitioners to bring about social change (and is the primary methodology used throughout the doctoral program). You will learn ethical use of AI-based research, how to work in communities of practice with peers, and how to write an academic literature review. A key theme is learning to move between the world of academics and the world of practitioners. Each project builds on the last.
Course Objectives:
After completing this course, you will be able to:
- Develop an action research strategy that takes into the account the worldviews of stakeholders and their approaches to discerning truth.
- Create an action research plan based on brainstorming tools, careful framing of questions, rapid and literature reviews using both traditional and ethical AI-based methods.
- Design a plan for working with peers and developing communities of practice to share knowledge and support research.
- Develop a systematic academic literature review in a specific domain to prepare you for the comprehensive literature review for your doctoral project.
Note: Because of the approach to research in this program, this program requires that students subscribe to Google Gemini Pro for AI-assisted research projects.
Syllabus
Course Materials & Tuition
| Stringer, E. T., & Aragón, A. O. (2021). Action Research. SAGE Publications, Inc. | $42.00 |
| Galvan, J. L., & Galvan, M. C. (2024). Writing literature reviews: A guide for students of the social and behavioral sciences (8th ed). Routledge. Print ISBN: 9781032328621 | $36.00 |
| Weston, A., & Bloch-Schulman, S. (2020). Thinking Through Questions: A Concise Invitation to Critical, Expansive, and Philosophical Inquiry. Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. | $8.00 |
| Google Gemini Pro AI Subscription | $20/mo. = $40 |
| Tuition | $800.00 |
| Total Cost of Course: | $926.00 |