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Access requirements:

• first degree in Educational Science or in an area of the Social and Human Sciences with the minimum final average grade of 14 values (Portuguese evaluating scale: from 0 to 20)
• To have a suitable curriculum vitæ
• To be approved to fill a vacancy in a Master course
• The Scientific Board of our Faculty can, in exceptional cases, accept the application of a student that achieved less than 14 values in his first degree (Licenciado). However, in these cases, the students must prove to have acquired sufficient scientific knowledge and to show a suitable curriculum vitæ.

The Master courses last 4 semesters:

• 1st and 2nd semester - academic course
• 2nd and 3rd semester - writing the dissertation

Teaching goals:

- General:

• To acquire deepened scientific knowledge in the field of Educational Sciences;
• To acquire knowledge about the theoretical and methodological necessary devices to the development of research projects;
• To develop intervention competences in the different fields of human and social development.

- Specifics:

• To promote the understanding of social discrimination dimensions in Europe;
• To develop views and strategies to enable an “European social community”;
• To promote deepened training in the field of human rights and social justice.

Academic and Scientific Competences:

- General:

• To develop deepened research in the field of Educational Sciences autonomously;
• To integrate, participate and promote research and intervention team work;
• To conceive, develop and plan graduate and specialized training programmes and projects.

- Specifics:

• To be able to represent a key role in the promotion of inclusive citizenship;
• To be able to investigate social exclusion/inclusion, particularly in western societies;
• To be able to intervene upon social exclusion/inclusion, focussing three target groups: migrants, persons under custody, poor people.

Professional Contexts:

• Teaching and research in Higher Education;
• Superior Educational Technicians working in European, national and local institutions;
• Trainer of Trainers; social animators and managers in the field of social politics;
• Coordination and orientation of intervention teams against social exclusion;
• Research on social policies.

Information

For information, please contact:

Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences - Porto University
Rua Alfredo Allen, 4200-135 PORTO
Telef.: 351 22 607 97 00
Fax: 351 22 607 97 25

> Post-Graduation Office
Telef.: 351 22 607 97 00
gpg@fpce.up.pt

> Mobility Office
Telef.: 351 22 606 18 81 - 351 22 607 97 00
gprojectos@fpce.up.pt

> Academic Department
Telef.: 351 22 606 58 87 - 351 22 607 97 00
dacademica@fpce.up.pt

General information

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Previous Courses/Cycles of Study