Mediation in School Contexts

Code:

E509

Acronym:

MCE

Instance: 2011/2012 - 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	27	Official Curricular Structure	3	-	3	-

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

Learning objectives:
-deepening knowledge in the field of mediation and tailor them to the specific socio-educational contexts;
- to know different conceptual paradigms in the field of mediation in schools;
-identify and analyze critically scholar issues ;
- to know mediation methodologies in the field of education.

Skills to form:
- Read and interpret scholar reality in a multidimensional and multi-perspective way, mobilizing the scientific spirit, critically and in a reflective mode;
- Examine the institutions and practices of education;
- Participate in the implementation of measures of educational innovation and problem solving, mobilizing mediation methodologies;
- Mediating processes of evaluation and development and promotion of socio-educational projects in the school context.

Program

Presentation:
The unit aims to provide acquiring knowledge and skills, and reflection and analysis of cases in school mediation, contributing to the profile setting licensed to train in this cycle of training, particularly with regard to the observation and analysis of school contexts and projects in this field and to monitor and participate in the implementation and execution of projects of intervention, training and research in schools. Is a multi-referential training from the contributions from, especially sociology and social psychology, establishing interfaces with the problems of cognition, communication and human relations and organizational policies.

Syllabus
Epistemology of the practice of mediation - a brief overview
a) Multiple references.
b) Epistemology of listening.
c) Social constructionism.

I - Decline of the educational institution and issues of school mediation
1. The decline of the institutional program and the new modern school social functions of school: effects on socialization and school subjectification.
2. The emergence of new devices and figures of domination and control.

II - Mediation and justice in school
1. Tensions and conflicts in schools.
2. Educational and political figures of mediation.

III-Prospects of mediation in the field of school education
1. Mediation and ethics in school education
2. Mediation and communication.
3. Cognitive mediation.
4. Mediation and educational relationship.
5. Mediation in educational priority intervention Territories (TEIP).

IV - Methods of mediation: the specificity of school contexts
1. The transformational approach in the practice of mediation.
2. Dialectical mediation.
3. Research and reflection in the practice of mediation.
4. The peer mediation

Mandatory literature

Charlot Bernard; Da relação com o saber. ISBN: ISBN 85-7307-631-3
Moore Christopher W.; O^processo de mediação. ISBN: 85-7307-474-4
Gimeno Sacristán José; Compreender e transformar o ensino. ISBN: 85-7307-374-8
Políticas sociales en Europa. La mediación en el ámbito escolar, Edición en castellano de la Revista International Les Politiques Sociales, nº19 Febrero 2006, 2006
Torrego Juan Carlos coord.; Mediação de conflitos em instituições educativas. ISBN: ISBN 972-41-3405-9
Brandoni F.; Mediación escolar
Cardinet Annie; École et médiations
Schnitman Dora Fried 570; Novos paradigmas em mediação. ISBN: 85-7307-478-7
Dubet François; Le^déclin de l.institution. ISBN: 2-02-055163-2
Boqué Torremorell M. Carme; Guía de mediación escolar. ISBN: 84-8063-555-X
Almeida José Luís Vieira de; Mediação dialética na educação escolar. ISBN: 978-85-15-03440-6
Correia José Alberto; Da mediação local ao local da mediação
Bush Robert A. Baruch; The^promise of mediation. ISBN: 0-7879-7483-8
Derouet Jean-Louis; École et justice. ISBN: ISBN 2-86424-130-7
Boqué Torremorell Maria Carme; Cultura de mediação e mudança social. ISBN: 978-972-0-34174-7
Pereira Fátima; Infância, educação escolar e profissionalidade docente. ISBN: 978-972-31-1313-6
Correia José Alberto 570; Mediação. ISBN: 978-972-36-1083-3

Complementary Bibliography

Joseph Folger and Tricia Jones, eds; New directions in Mediation: communication research and perspectives, SAGE, 1994
Ribeiro Agostinho 070; Projecto cria-se
Pereira Maria de Fátima; Transformação educativa e formação contínua de professores. ISBN: 972-783-043-9
Imbert Francis; La^question de l.éthique dans le champ éducatif. ISBN: 2-905-642-06-8
Pereira Fátima; Infância, educação escolar e profissionalidade docente. ISBN: 978-972-31-1313-6
Habermas Jurgen; Théorie de l.agir communicationnel. ISBN: 2-213-01893-6 (vol.1)

Teaching methods and learning activities

Methods of teaching and learning in the contact hours:
Exposure, discussion, group work (case studies), presentation of papers by students (presentation of group analysis), tutorials and assessment of learning.

Modes of learning in autonomous work hours:
Reading and text analysis, theoretical research work, development work in various media, research cases.

Software

não se adequa a esta uc

keywords

Social sciences

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Description	Type	Time (hours)	Weight (%)	End date
Attendance (estimated)	Participação presencial	28,00
	Teste	4,00
	Trabalho escrito	6,00
	Exame	13,00
	Defesa pública de dissertação, de relatório de projeto ou estágio, ou de tese	10,00
	Total:	-	0,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Description	Type	Time (hours)	End date
	Estudo autónomo	20
	Total:	20,00

Eligibility for exams

The evaluation model adopted assumes completion of attendance according to law for other college courses and without prejudice to paragraph 4º of Article 9º of the Regulation of evaluation. Compulsory attendance is 3 / 4 the number of classes.

Calculation formula of final grade

The ratings of all evaluation components are expressed on a scale of 0 to 20.
The components are:
Group work - analysis and presentation of the ideas of a text dealing with research and analysis of a case - 40% (held in contact hours and independent work).
Individual work - written reflections about case-study in small groups, engaging content of the course (maximum 6 pages) - 60% (held during the hours of autonomous work).
The final exam consists of the individual work to deliver on the date to be set for examination.

Examinations or Special Assignments

Not applicable.

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

Students who are exempted by law from UC contact hours will be asked to perform a special test of character-face to assess mastery of skills and course contents of the PA. This race will be held in the form of a critical overview on the contents of the course, to deliver the last week of classes will be graded on a scale of 0 to 20 and will have a weighting of 100% of the final grade. To this end, students in these conditions, should contact the teacher in the first week of classes in order to agree a training plan that will allow the race mentioned.

Classification improvement

In line with the order No. GR.02105/2010 / students can make the improvement of classification examination held once in two seasons of the final examination immediately following that in which they obtain approval. The improvement is realized by the reformulation of individual work.