Psychosociology of Adult Education

Code:

E302

Acronym:

PFA

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Adult Education

Instance: 2008/2009 - 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
LCE	2	Plano de transição	3	-	4,5	49	122
LCED	54	Official Curricular Structure	2	-	4,5	49	122

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

The Psycho-sociology of Adult Education course intends to situate education - transforming action - as a privileged space for psycho-sociological intervention. The objectives of this course include the developing of abilities to combine the analysis of training - as an intervention process at the personal, group and institutional levels - with its social impact, with the analysis of training contexts; and of the ways of designing and facilitating adult training projects.
Situated within the construction of theoretical-practical frameworks for understanding inter-institutional and intra-institutional relations, this course contributes to developing the competencies of students - who will be future socio-educational and training mediators - in terms of problematizing the socio-political connections between training, intervention and change, competencies which are essential to the conception and development of training processes.

Program

1. From Social Psychology to Psycho-sociology - theoretical-practical mediations, conceptual frameworks/intervention contexts: Ways of Psycho-sociology; Conceptions of intervention and change: clinical perspective of intervention.
2. Adult education: a privileged context for psycho-sociological intervention: The dynamics of change. Individual and social trajectories of training: methodological and practical aspects; Training needs: analysis, clarification and negotiation; Analysis of limits and resources; Construction/reconstruction of training objectives.
3. Training as a work process: The group in training: internal dynamics and training contexts; Individuation of training trajectories; Models for analysing training practices; The place of research in training; Construction of pedagogical devices in training; Training assessment.

Mandatory literature

Pacheco, Natércia; Relatório da Disciplina de Psicossociologia da Formação de Agentes Educativos , FPCE, 2000
Dicionário de Psicossociologia, Climepsi, editores, 2005
Correia, José Alberto; Para uma teoria crítica em educação, Porto Editora, 1998
Berger, Guy; A investigação em educação: modelos sócio-epistemológicos e inserção institucional, FPCE, 1992
Lobrot, M.; A Pedagogia Institucional, Iniciativas Editoriais, 1986
Lesne, Marcel; Trabalho Pedagógico e formação de adultos, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 1984
Perrenoud, P. (co-aut.); Formando professores profissionais, Artmed Editográfica, 2001
Lourau, R.; Sociólogo a tempo inteiro - análise institucional e pedagogia, Editorial Estampa, 1979

Teaching methods and learning activities

Contact activities
Lecturing
Debate
Group work
Presentations by students
Tutorials
Learning assessment

Autonomous work
Reading and analysing texts
Group work
Research work
Reference searches
Doing the assignments (reports, reviews, journals, portfolios, narratives, cd-rom,...)
Organizing work presentation

keywords

Social sciences > Educational sciences

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Description	Type	Time (hours)	Weight (%)	End date
Subject Classes	Participação presencial	42,00
	Exame	3,00
	Trabalho escrito	15,00
	Trabalho escrito	10,00
	Trabalho escrito	5,00
	Trabalho escrito	8,00
	Total:	-	0,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Description	Type	Time (hours)	End date
	Estudo autónomo	20
	Estudo autónomo	15
	Total:	35,00

Eligibility for exams

As a general principle, evaluation in this course - being a theoretical-practical course - follows the regulations considering that "a student obtains attendance in a course if, being registered, he/she did not exceed the limit of 25% of expected classes in classes missed”.

Calculation formula of final grade

Classification in this course is based on the evaluation of the following work components:
Group assignment - facilitating a 'training action' - to be performed during classes - and writing a final critical reflection on it. The grade attributed will have a weight of 40% in the course's final classification.
Test - writing of a critical synthesis to be performed, in presence, at the end of the semester (during the term of exams) with a duration of 2h30. In this synthesis students should show the ability to critically reflect, and to argue in a substantiated manner; as well as synthesizing skills. The grade earned will have a weight of 60% in the course's final classification
Students who have a grade below 8 (out of 20) in any of the distributed evaluation moments can write a final exam. The exam will have a theoretical part and a practical part. Students may have to write only one of the parts depending on the grades they earned in both the Group assignment or the Test.

Evaluation events will always be graded on a scale ranging between 0 and 20.

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

Students who do not have the required number of presences to obtain attendance - as stated in the evaluation regulations - and who, by virtue of their status, are not obliged to obtain it, will be able to write the final exam, consisting of a theoretical part and a practical part.

Classification improvement

Students wanting to improve their classification can write the final exam.