RSE4801 ASSIGNMENT 1 SEMESTER 1 2025 – 3 ESSAYS PROVIDED

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RSE4801 Assignment 1 Semester 1 | Due 15 May 2025. 3 ESSAYS PROVIDED. 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.