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MPP502 - Evidence-Based Policy Development in Northern and Indigenous Contexts

2023

Sector

Higher Education

Discipline

Public Policy

Unit Description

This unit analyses the ways evidence based policy is developed and operated in northern contexts, with a particular focus on the intersection of Indigenous and non-Indigenous knowledge systems. The unit provides an overview of the ways Indigenous knowledge systems assess value, Indigenous people and communities experiences of external research and evaluation to date, and how they think it should be experienced in the future. The unit examines the approaches for evaluating policy in a range of Indigenous contexts.

Unit Learning Outcomes

1.	Describe the ways policy development and evaluation operates in Indigenous contexts.
2.	Analyse a range of issues that impact on Indigenous policy evaluation.
3.	Describe a range of effective approaches for evaluating policy in a range of Indigenous contexts and the underpinning issues.
4.	Develop an ethics statement to support ethical and effective evaluation of policy in Indigenous contexts.
5.	Develop an effective approach to evaluate policy in Indigenous contexts.

Assessment Overview

	Assessment Task	Value (of total mark)	Related Learning Outcome/s
1.	Tutorial Discussion Questions (1,000 -1,500 words).	15%	1,2,3,4,5
2.	Essay (2,000 words).	25%	1,2
3.	Report (4,000 words).	60%	3,4,5

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