Reflecting on Professional Knowledge, Policy and Practice (163X3)

30 credits, Level 7 (Masters)

All year

This module focuses on the exploration, enrichment and critical understanding of your knowledge, policy context and associated pedagogies. You engage in critical reflection on established practice in professional settings:

• developing and auditing your professional knowledge
• reflecting critically on how this has emerged from academic study, educational experiences and investigations, their work with other professional practitioners and critical readings of relevant research and scholarship.

Central to this process is the ability to organise and verbally articulate engagement with, understanding of, and reflections on your unique professional context. It also includes understanding how scholarship and research have informed professional development and growth, as well as on-going targets for the future. The module critically reflects on:

• the intersection between theoretical positions, practice, reflection and observations
• the guidance offered by fellow professionals across a range of communities of practice.

You engage and audit up to 80 hours of professional practice, and participate in action learning and self reflection.

Contact hours and workload

This module is approximately 300 hours of work. This breaks down into about 112 hours of contact time and about 188 hours of independent study. The University may make minor variations to the contact hours for operational reasons, including timetabling requirements.

We regularly review our modules to incorporate student feedback, staff expertise, as well as the latest research and teaching methodology. We’re planning to run these modules in the academic year 2025/26. However, there may be changes to these modules in response to feedback, staff availability, student demand or updates to our curriculum.

We’ll make sure to let you know of any material changes to modules at the earliest opportunity.