Course content

The course focuses on linking arts and vocational education practices with academic research and dissemination traditions. It aims to provide a solid introduction to academic writing, research, and dissemination within the respective fields of study. It prepares students for writing their master's thesis by allowing them to reflect on their theoretical and methodological choices, critically engaging with current research within their field, and integrating it into their own writing and research dissemination. Additionally, the students must gain thorough knowledge about key learning traditions in arts and vocational disciplines. The course introduces relevant theoretical traditions and methodological perspectives within arts and vocational education, laying the ground for further studies at the course "Academic Research and dissemination 2."

This course particularly emphasizes diverse theoretical traditions and turns, enabling the students to select and apply perspectives, methodologies, and methods relevant to their own master's projects. It covers various approaches to academic reading, writing, research, and dissemination, emphasizing current arts and vocational education perspectives. The goal is to enhance students' academic and communication skills, fostering their academic dissemination in written, oral, multimodal, digital, and practical forms.

Learning outcome

Knowledge

The candidate

• has thorough knowledge about research and academic dissemination within the subject field or the profession
• has thorough knowledge of academic writing as a genre
• has thorough knowledge of various academic genres,

structures, and expressions within their field of study

• has thorough understanding of language use in different academic writing and communication forms
• has thorough knowledge of critical and purposeful reading of current theory and relevant research

Skills

The candidate

• can position themself academically through various textual, multimodal, digital, and creative expressions
• can read, understand, and critically reflect on current theory and relevant research, as well as forming opinions on the content of research
• can select, justify, and apply relevant theoretical and methodological perspectives

• can master relevant academic genres, structures, and subject and professiona-specific expressions in one's own and peers’ texts
• can handle digital tools in teaching and dissemination contexts
• can conduct literature searches, using texts in their own work, and correctly reference sources

General Competence

The candidate

• can evaluate their own role as a researcher in their field of study
• has proficiency in conveying current vocational or educational issues and participating in academic discussions
• has the capacity to assess, have opinions on, and use current theory and relevant research literature critically, for instance, for practical research and development projects
• can make well-founded academic considerations in activities and assignments within the course, as well as in preparations for their own master's thesis

Learning methods and activities

Lectures, text-based work (reading and writing), student activities, various types of research dissemination (practical, verbal, digital, multimodal, written), peer feedback, and individual and group work.

Compulsory activities

Preparations that take place during the seminars for the compulsory assignments. Individual and collective student activities in and outside of the scheduled seminars. The creation of a portfolio which included 3 different assignments within academic writing, research and dissemination.

Compulsory assignments

The creation of a portfolio which includes 3 different assignments within academic writing, research and dissemination.

Compulsory assignments

• Creation of a portfolio

Course materials

The course will provide a reading list at the beginning of the semester.

Credit reductions