Structures and Dynamics in Research Work

Code:

PDCE10

Acronym:

EDTI

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Educational Sciences

Instance: 2024/2025 - A

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Education Sciences
Course/CS Responsible:	Doctoral Program in Educational Sciences

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
PDCE	21	Plano Oficial do ano letivo 2023	1	-	20	180	540

Teaching language

Suitable for English-speaking students

Objectives

The course Structure and Dynamics of Research (EDTI) aims to promote advanced knowledge and critical analytical capacities over educational research methods, with a special attention to the process through which decisions regarding research methodologies were taken.

More specifically, the course has the following learning goals:

. foster an advanced knowledge in the field of educational research methodologies;

. produce interdisciplinary knowledge adequate for the systematic analysis and discussion of research projects in education;

. stimulate the production of original knowledge;

. create opportunities to contact relevant research projects and researchers. 

Learning outcomes and competences

The course aims to foster the following learning results and competencies:

. capacity to systematically understand research projects in Education Sciences;

. capacity to critical analyze innovative methodological frameworks that are adequate to understand complex educational and social situations;

. capacity to derive creative solutions for the design of innovative projects that are adequate for understanding the complexity of educational and social situations.

Working method

Presencial

Pre-requirements (prior knowledge) and co-requirements (common knowledge)

• conditions for access to doctoral programm

Program

The programme contents are structured in three main blocks:

1st block: Theoretical and epistemological conditions of research in education

1. socio-institutional, socio-political and epistemological conditions for the production of research in the educational sciences;
2. the relationship between theory and empirics in educational research;
3. validation, interpretation and theorisation

2nd block: Praxeologies of educational research

1. typologies of research, research designs and models of analysis
2. relational conditions of research work in education
3. narrativity, communication and language in educational research
4. ethics in educational research;

3rd block: Empirical work and research devices

1. ways of organising the empirical field (e.g. case studies, comparative studies, ...)
2. methodological workshops (biographical methods, ethnography, construction and analysis of questionnaires, interviews, focused discussion groups, content analysis, discourse analysis; digital methods).

    

Mandatory literature

Bruyne Paul de; Dinâmica da pesquisa em ciências sociais
Cohen Louis; Research methods in education. ISBN: 0-415-19541-1
Correia José Alberto; A^construção científica do político em educação
Creswell John W.; Research design. ISBN: 0-7619-2442-6
Denzin Norman K.; O^planejamento da pesquisa qualitativa. ISBN: 85-363-0663-7
Flick Uwe 340; A companion to qualitative research. ISBN: 978-0-7619-7375-1
Guba Egon G.; Fourth generation evaluation. ISBN: 0-8039-3235-9
Keeves John ed. lit.; Educational research, methodology, and measurement. ISBN: ISBN 0-08-042710-3
Saukko Paula; Doing research in cultural studies. ISBN: ISBN 0-7619-6505-X
Seale Clive 340; Researching society and culture. ISBN: 0-7619-5277-2
Amélia Lopes; Libertar o desejo, resgatar a inovação
Silva, Sofia Marques, & Webster, Joan Parker ; Positionality and standpoint: Situated ethnographers acting in on- and offline contexts. , 2018
Marques da Silva, Sofia; Etnografia digital multissituada: experiências de mobilidade de jovens a crescer em regiões de fronteira. , 2021
Hoveid, Marit Honerød, Ciolan, Lucian, Paseka, Angelika, & Silva, Sofia Marques (Eds.). ; Doing educational research: Overcoming challenges in practice, 2019
Menezes, I., Pais, S. C., Malafaia, C. & Ferreira, P. D.; .Métodos mistos: da problematização ao que-fazer na investigação em ciências sociais e da educação. , 2022
Pais, S., Rodrigues, M. & Menezes, I. ; Community as locus for health formal and non-formal education: the significance of ecological and collaborative research for promoting health literacy, 2014
Neves, Tiago; Entre Educativo e Penitenciário: etnografia de um centro de internamento de menores delinquentes, Afrontamento, 2008
Vaz, Henrique ; Types of schoolwork at performing arts schools. , 2014
Macedo , Eunice; Vozes jovens entre experiência e desejo: Cidadania educacional e outras construções, 2018
Macedo, Eunice; Cidadania em confronto: educação de jovens elites em tempo de globalização. , 2009
Lopes, Amélia, & Pereira, Fátima; Escritos de trabalho e construção social da acção educativa institucional: (E)feitos de um processo de investigação-acção. , 2004
Pereira, Fátima; Infância, Educação Escolar e Profissionalidade docente. Um mapeamento social dos discursos em formação inicial de professores., 2010

Teaching methods and learning activities

Teaching methods involve exposition, debate, supervised field work, group work, students’ presentations and tutorial work.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

designation	Weight (%)
Defesa pública de dissertação, de relatório de projeto ou estágio, ou de tese	100,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

designation	Time (hours)
Elaboração de relatório/dissertação/tese	90,00
Frequência das aulas	60,00
Trabalho de campo	6,00
Total:	156,00

Eligibility for exams

To be successful, the student must attend 75% of the classes.

Calculation formula of final grade

Follows to the regulation of the Doctoral Program.

Examinations or Special Assignments

Assessment is based on the research project (30-50 pages) presented by the doctoral student that involves the identification and operationalization of the research questions and a first draft of the methodological “how-to-do”. The Project will be discussed by a jury of three (or four) professors/researchers, including the supervisor (and co-supervisor), at the end of the second semester.

Internship work/project

NA

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

Students who are legally exempt from attending classes must take a test to demonstrate that they have the knowledge and skills required and defined in the Curricular Unit form. Students who find themselves in this situation should contact the course leader within the first 3 weeks of the course to inform him/her of the situation, define how the test will be carried out and its timetable.

Classification improvement

Follows to the regulation of the Doctoral Program.