MED101 - ECTS

Problematization of the socio-historical process of producing a scientific perspective of the educational object, in order to allow students to understand the ambiguities of modern educational scientificity, the development of a complex and heterogeneous thought with implications in the ways in which are built the Educational problems and their legitimate solutions and the construction of intelligibility frameworks on processes, practices and problems that mark the field of education from the point of view of research and intervention.

DE209 - ECTS The curricular unit Education Policy Analysis (EPA) aims at providing students with
competences to analyse texts, discourses and political processes in education, by identifying their discursive matrices and the mandates addressed to the social systems by the actors involved in the policy process.. The Curricular Unit EPA intends to broaden the analysis of the nature of political discourses and practices and to identify their social and educational effects. Having in mind the profile of graduates aimed at, this latter dimension pretends to develop individual, social and professional reflexivity and, by doing so, to create the conditions for the exercise of the ‘sociological imagination’, i.e., the competence
to build and to propose alternatives.

Objectives:
- To identify the discursive matrixes of educational discourses -
- To know theories and methodologies in field of policy studies in education.
- To relate mandates addressed to education at a global, national and local levels.
- To analyse education policies in Portugal in the context of globalization and knowledge society.

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DE123 - ECTS The curricular subjet is structured around theoretical axes evaluation and educational supervision to articulate a comprehensive intention of questioning, and reflection, and on the socio-educational reality. It is intended, in particular, enable students to research and intervention in these areas, in school contexts, and in other contexts and socio-educational projects that are linked to the school. In this sense, networking and partnership, while mobilizing strategies of synergies between different actors and educational entities / as, are also theoretical reflection object and constitute methodological basis to think the process of intervention / investigation.
Are goals dest UC:
Deepen knowledge in the fields of educational evaluation and supervision;

Discuss theories, practices and processes of evaluation and educational supervision

Enable students to develop research projects / intervention in the evaluation of courses and educational supervision

Integrate multidisciplinary teams, in a logic of partnership and networking, to carry out activities related to these two areas of educational intervention

Design and develop research projects and intervention in the evaluation and supervision in school groups/clusters , and in other contexts and / or social and educational projects that are linked with the school.

Evaluate programs, projects and socio-educational actions

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MED200 - ECTS

Aims - Methods of Research in Education

- to contribute to enlarge ways of seeing and doing in the process of research in education;
- to provide knowledge both theoretical and applied on specific research methods and techniques;
- to contribute for helping students to make adequate choices necessary to the development of the rocess of doing research; 
- to stimulate a critical activity in the process of doing research.

OP124 - ECTS

WORKSHOP OF WRITING AND SCIENTIFIC COMMUNICATION

 

This course aims to strengthen the 1st year students of MCED who opt for it in their abilities to scientific communication, written or oral.

OP120 - ECTS

Policies for Inclusion and Community Intervention aims at to develop students´skills in order to understand and to analyse social policy and social policies in various fields and types of intervention. The place of inclusion/exclusion in social policies is another dimension under analysis both thinking on the related problems and on the adressed intervention practices. Portuguese reality and the supranational context  are reflected namely looking at the emergency, development and the current situation of policies and community intervention towards inclusion.

Sumarising the main goals of the course are:

i) to debate conceptions on social policy and social inclusion/exclusion

ii) to identify and analyse policies adressed to social inclusion

iii) to think on the role and influence of supranational agencies, their basic principles and proposals

iv) to analyse Portuguese reality, its trajectory and on-going situation within the field of social policies for inclusion

v) to define and debate the role of community intervention within social policies domain.

OP123 - ECTS This CU aims to provide students with an understanding of research in political psychology and political education, and with the skills to analyze political situations from a psychological perspective and to design educational interventions on this field.

MED201 - ECTS

Citizenship and Diversity aims to address citizenship as a concept and its relationship with the state, the community and with individuals.  Civil, political, and social rights as well as  the new generation rights - the cultural rights are debated as central to rethink society and social democratic relationships. The issues of inclusion and exclusion and socio-cultural diversity are equally approached.  

Aims

. to debate education as social right

. to debate concepts of citizenship, inclusion/exclusion and cultural diversity

. to acknowledge some relevant contributions produced around these concepts and issues

 

 

OP213 - ECTS

- Develop concepts on culture and gender and domestic violence, in diverse theoretical perspectives;


- Critical analysis on educational and cultural settings and power mechanisms in the social production of a culture that tolerates gender violence;

- Reflect upon the connection between power dinamics, social movements and social change in the socio-historic construction around gender violence, family violence, as well as violence against elderly and against children;

- Identify and critical analysis of models and social policies in intervention for cultural and educational change concerning gender violence;

- Elaboration of small educative intervention projects in the field of social and cultural change of gender violence in a multidisciplinary perspective.

OP211 - ECTS The curricular unit (CU) Education, Cooperation and Development is proposed, in the domain of Educatiom, Comunities and Social Change, by the finding, in Portugal and other countries, of social movements and other social and political actors who develop an intervention from the perspective of Education for Development, which sets off questions and challenges to the field of educational practice and reflection. On the other hand, this fact builts spaces and forms of professional intervention where the masters in Education may find their social relevance, both from the point of view of consulting, assessment, intervention and / or research.
The main goal of this CU is to present and discuss the ways in which is equationed the role of education in processes of development cooperation. This implies previously discuss what is meant by development cooperation and how this process has been transforming and has organized politically. This discussion is anchored in the discussion of the concept of development and the roles assigned to education in this, particularly in contexts of international cooperation.
This CU aims to integrate in the field of educational thought the discussion of political, social, cultural and economic dimensions of development processes, in an approach that essentially will highlight the educational dimension of political and social intervention.

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MED102 - ECTS

- Promote students' competences and knowledge in the field of educational intervention, - Promote students' kbnowledge. 

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MED302 - ECTS

This curricular unit aims to broaden the study of the modalities of intervention in the field of social work, specifically the social mediation and local action approaches as alternative modalities of political and cognitive definition of social problems.

This curricular unit aims to broaden the study of the modalities of intervention in the field of social work, specifically the social mediation and local action approaches as alternative modalities of political and cognitive definition of social problems.

 

MED301 - ECTS

The UC Assessment Methodology Project (MAP) is guided by the following objectives:

1. Deeper knowledge of theoretical and methodological models of AP

a) discuss specifics of various valuation models;

b) meet and discuss scientific criteria of evaluation;

. 2 Develop critical thinking about MAP;

a) reflect on features, functions and effects of various types of assessment, based on the principles underlying them

b) characterize roles of evaluators and evaluated in various evaluation models;

 

MED401 - ECTS

Through diversified modalities of teaching and learning, this curricular unit aims to give students conceptual and procedural tools, allowing them to develop pertinent, accurate, innovative and critical research in the field of education, responding to the objectives and competences previewed by the Master program.