RSE4801
Assignment 1 (100%
COMPLETE ANSWERS)
2025
DUE 15 May 2025
, ACTIVITIES
In this unit, you learnt about what it means to become a researcher in education. Part of this learning
entailed developing understanding of the nature and purposes of research. Assignment question
Given this, you are required to complete a reflective essay of about 1800 – 2000 words in which you
reflect on what you think (1) makes and/or constitutes an exceptional educational researcher in a
context like South (Africa), and (2) what do you think will inform and shape your own becoming of an
educational researcher. In answering these questions, you asking expected to draw from the
following ideas and texts: - Decolonising Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples (1999) by
Linda Tuhiwai Smith. - Ideas of intervention, curiosity, courage, justice (be it epistemic, ontological or
social), and critique.
Assignment 1 (100%
COMPLETE ANSWERS)
2025
DUE 15 May 2025
, ACTIVITIES
In this unit, you learnt about what it means to become a researcher in education. Part of this learning
entailed developing understanding of the nature and purposes of research. Assignment question
Given this, you are required to complete a reflective essay of about 1800 – 2000 words in which you
reflect on what you think (1) makes and/or constitutes an exceptional educational researcher in a
context like South (Africa), and (2) what do you think will inform and shape your own becoming of an
educational researcher. In answering these questions, you asking expected to draw from the
following ideas and texts: - Decolonising Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples (1999) by
Linda Tuhiwai Smith. - Ideas of intervention, curiosity, courage, justice (be it epistemic, ontological or
social), and critique.
