Seminar on Mediation and Training: Project I: Project Design

Code:

E505

Acronym:

SIMF

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Social Pedagogy

Instance: 2009/2010 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Education Sciences
Course/CS Responsible:	First degree in Educational Sciences

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
LCED	54	Official Curricular Structure	3	-	6	-

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

-- To acquire knowledge on projects in terms of concepts, theories and models;
-- To understand the importance of projects which adequately integrate their various elements (objectives, issues, situations, actions, strategies, resources, modes of evaluation, schedule,...);
-- To position themselves regarding instituted educational and training projects;
-- To mobilize knowledge on the conception of projects in project designing;
-- To analyse projects relating to diverse training and socio-educational contexts;
-- To design projects adequate to a variety of situations and socio-educational and training contexts.

Program

-- Reasons and meanings of projects
-- Projects and fundamenting action: types and features of projects
-- Configuring elements of a project
-- The project as an organizer of actions/interventions
-- Models and processes for conceiving projects
-- Phases in designing a project
-- Choosing the theme/issue/... as the starting point for the project
-- Analysing project designs
-- Managing and overseeing projects
-- Which place for a socio-educational and training mediator?
-- Project assessment
* Theoretical and epistemological issues around project assessment
* Presenting dimensions and phases of assessment from the point of view of different authors
* Analysing projects following data collected in field visits to institutions

Mandatory literature

ROEGIERS, Xavier ; Analyser une action d’Education ou de Formation, Bruxelas: De Boeck Université, (1997)
BOUTINET, Jean Pierre. ; Antropologia do Projecto, Ed. Piaget, (1996)
LEITE, Carlinda, GOMES, Lúcia, FERNANDES, Preciosa; Projectos curriculares de escola e de turma,, Edições ASA., (2001)
BARBIER, Jean-Marie; Elaboração de Projectos de Acção e Planificação,, Porto Editora, (1993)
HERNÁNDEZ, Fernando e VENTURA, Montserrat; A organização do currículo por projectos de trabalho, , Porto Alegre: Artmed, (1998)

Teaching methods and learning activities

Lecturing
Debate
Group Work
Guided fieldwork
Presentation of assignments
Role-Playing of activities
Tutorials

keywords

Social sciences > Educational sciences

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Eligibility for exams

To obtain attendance, students need a minimum classification of 8 (out of 20) - as stated by the Regulation (cf article 9) - in each evaluation moment.
If a student did not obtain attendance, he/she can (as long as these had been previously negotiated with the lecturer):
- do the due assignments and tests, to be evaluated with the afore-mentioned weights and adaptations being made regarding the ways of presenting them.
- write a final exam (100% of final classification).

Calculation formula of final grade

-- Group work done during classes (SIMF -S) - 30%
-- analysis of texts, their presentation to the class, and a written synthesis (SIMF -TP) - 30%
-- project plan properly founded (final exam) - 40%

Examinations or Special Assignments

In particular cases, if properly verified and agreed by the Coordination of the Year, written tests may be replaced by oral ones.

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

Students who are, by law, not obliged to attend class, should complete the previously stated evaluation components:
- analysis of texts and written synthesis (SIMF -TP) - 30%
- project plan properly founded (final exam) - 70%

Classification improvement

It is possible to improve final grade by writing a new exam for that purpose.