RSE4801 Assignment 1 2025 – Due 15 May 2025

RSE4801
ASSIGNMENT 1 2025

Learning Unit 1: Becoming an educational researcher Introduction 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.