Critical and Contemplative Inquiry
| Subject code | NTI800 |
| Lecturer | Dr Camille Rouliere |
| Delivery mode | Online, self-directed |
| Duration | 10 weeks |
| Next start date | Visit timetable |
Subject Overview
Rooted in NTI’s contemplative pedagogy, this subject is designed to prepare students to succeed in their postgraduate studies by focusing on three interconnected areas:
– Reflexivity: students will consolidate existing academic abilities and literacies while developing reflective and relational practices that support learning within and beyond the classroom.
– Discernment: students will strengthen critical thinking, research and communication skills through engagement with contemporary topics, including interaction with emerging technologies as both tool and object of critique.
– Engagement: students will be supported in developing an academic voice that is both rigorous and self-aware, enabling them to situate their contributions within broader scholarly and societal contexts.
Learning Outcomes
- Demonstrate critical and reflective capacities informed by contemplative pedagogy to examine how your perspectives and positionalities shape engagement with scholarly material at a postgraduate level.
- Hold and critically synthesise multiple perspectives to respond thoughtfully to paradox and uncertainty with defensible lines of argument.
- Develop an academic voice that integrates contemplative learning with scholarly rigour to locate and communicate complex ideas with clarity, depth and relational awareness across written and oral modes for specified audiences.
- Mindfully experiment with and evaluate emerging technologies, reflecting on effects on self, others and context, and justifying ethically responsible use.
- Research, process, create and share knowledge with compassion and integrity as evidenced by active engagement in collaborative learning activities and the ethical presentation of research and ideas.
Assessments
- Assessment 1: Dialogic assessment (15%, due week 2)
- Assessment 2, Part A: Reflection (15%, due week 4)
- Assessment 2, Part B: Critical evaluation and peer review (30%, due weeks 6 and 7)
- Assessment 2: Reflective essay (40%, due week 10)