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Academic project designs and methods: From professional development to critical and creative practice

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submitted on 2023-09-14, 06:24 and posted on 2023-09-20, 05:59 authored by Darlene E. Clover, Kathy Sanford, Willow Samara Allen, Dorothea Harris, Cortney Baldwin, Adrian Herlaar, Bruno De Oliveira Jayme, Debbie Pushor, Momina Khan, Daniel Chang, Qinghua Chen, Brady Doland, Micki Voelkel, Shelli Henehan, Ayla De Grandpré, Jon Corbett, Maeve Lydon, Logan Cochrane, Mary Butterfield, Nandita Bhatt, Lesley Marian Neilson, Claudia Mitchell, S. M. Hani Sadati, Tracey Murphy, Shahrzad Mojab, Sarah Williamson, Suriani Dzulkifli, Nabila Kazmi, Kay Gallivan, Kate Brooks-Heinemann, Caitlin Burritt, Kimberly Croswell, Nancy Taber, Stefanie L. Mckoy, Lorien S. Jordan, Thiago Hinkel, Tanya Manning-Lewis, Lisa R. Merriweather, Latoya T. Reid, Kaela Jubas, Kim Ashbourne, Catherine McGregor, Teresa Anne Fowler, Chelsea Thomas, Judith Karanja, Satinder Virdi, Evan Fryer, Corina Fitznar, Michelle Cunningham, Ash Moosavi

Academic project designs and methods: From professional development to critical and creative practice is the first textbook of its kind to address an important element or shift in fields such as education, arts, social sciences, and humanities. For many years, university professional and non-professional programmes have been moving away from an exclusive focus on traditional academic manuscript-based graduate theses towards practical, creative, and/or critically self-reflective, academic non-traditional non-thesis projects. Using the term project throughout this book is important as it recognizes and legitimizes the difference yet equal value of these alternative academic practices. The benefits of academic projects to students are many. They can be useful for students’ existing or future careers (e.g., workshop design, website creation, student leadership training curriculum); allow greater flexibility for highly imaginative and arts-based skill sets or work (e.g., zines, community mapping, visual learning materials, exhibitions or installations); or provide textual and visual analysis which is responsive to contemporary or working contexts (e.g., social media analysis, museum content explorations, policy analysis). While academic projects employ different structures to traditional or normative theses —and therefore offer different uses and values to graduate students—they are equally legitimate and important forms of scholarship.

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Editors: Darlene E. Clover, Kathy Sanford and Willow Samara Allen
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ca/
See book on publisher's website: Academic project designs and methods: From professional development to critical and creative practice (uvic.ca)

History

Language

  • English

Publisher

University of Victoria

Publication Year

  • 2022

License statement

This Item's license is described as Attribution 2.5 Canada

Institution affiliated with

  • Hamad Bin Khalifa University
  • College of Public Policy - HBKU