Research Methods: Laboratory of Qualitative Research Methods

Code:

E309

Acronym:

MILMQ

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Research Methodologies

Instance: 2012/2013 - 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	68	Official Curricular Structure	2	-	6	57	162
		Official Curricular Structure	2	-	6	57	162

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

This curricular unit aims at providing students with the necessary knowledge to research social and educational phenomena, integrating theoretical, methodological and analytical concerns.It is intended to debate the nature of the scientific knowledge and the truth in its joint with the process of scientific inquiry. These debates and traditions will be articulated with the analysis of the socio-historical construction of the cientificity of education, aiming at the development of a critical sense in research.
This unit also provides a space for exercising theoretical and methodological knowledge. Ethical and technical research issues will be discussed based on the students' own experience.
At the end of the curricular unit, students should know how to:

- To identify different distinct paradigms that accuse démarches of inquiry that have underlying them different considerações on the citizens, the objects and the problem;
- To argue on the concept of scientific knowledge and truth from the contact with several authors;
- characterize different theoretical and methodological research devices;
- analyze different devices for collecting and treating data, connecting them with wider theoretical concerns;
- recognise the production of different types of knowledge about one phenomenon;
- demonstrate critical analytical and reading skills.
At the end of the curricular unit, students should have acquired the following competencies:
- the ability to identify and analyse problems, situations and behaviours;
- the ability to adapt to different situations and contexts;
- the ability to develop a research project in different contexts, with the aim of social-educational interventions.

Program

1. What doing research means? Epistemologcal debates on scientific investigation:
1.1. The debate between the dominant paradigm and the emergent (post-modern) paradigm; explanation and comprehensive approaches.
1.2. Models of analysis of science
1.3. A socio-historical construction of the cientificity in education.
1.4. A topological model of the scientific investigation: the fields of the research according to De Bruyne et all.

2. What doing research means? Planning a research project: theoretical, methodological and practical issues.
2.1.The various stages of a research process. Validating research.
2.2. The construction of the study object and the problematics
2.3 Gathering and treating data: methods and instruments. Qualitative research: ethnography; interviews; biographical methods; focus groups; content analysis.
2. 4. The research dynamics and the four-poles model: methods (phenomenology, symbolic interactionism and grounded theory); frameworks (verstehen); types of research (case studies, interpretive studies and comparative studies); analytical frameworks (ideal-types and typologies).

Mandatory literature

Quivy Raymond; Manual de investigação em ciências sociais. ISBN: 978-972-662-275-8
Correia José Alberto; Para uma teoria crítica em educação. ISBN: 972-0-34127-0
Popper Karl R.; La^logique de la découverte scientifique. ISBN: 2-228-88010-8
Kuhn Thomas S.; A^estrutura das revoluções científicas. ISBN: 85-273-0111-3
Harding Sandra; Whose science? Whose knowledge?. ISBN: 0-8014-9746-9
Becker Howard S.; Tricks of the trade. ISBN: 0-226-04123-9
Santos Boaventura de Sousa; Una^epistemología del sur. ISBN: 978-607-03-0056-1
Bourdieu Pierre; Para uma sociologia da ciência. ISBN: 978-972-44-1398-3
Aron Raymond; As^etapas do pensamento sociológico. ISBN: 972-20-0922-2
Hadji Charles 570; Investigação e educação. ISBN: 972-0-34159-9
Bogdan Robert C.; Investigação qualitativa em educação. ISBN: 972-0-34112-2
Atkinson Paul 340; Handbook of ethnography. ISBN: 0-7619-5824-X
Morgan David L.; The^focus group guidebook. ISBN: 0-7619-0818-8
Silverman David; Interpreting qualitative data. ISBN: 0-8039-8758-7
Plummer Ken; Documents of life. ISBN: 0-04-321030-9
Wengraf Tom; Qualitative research interviewing. ISBN: 0-8039-7501-5
Ferreira Maria Manuela Martinho; A^gente gosta é de brincar com os outros meninos!. ISBN: 972-36-0740-9

Complementary Bibliography

Neves Tiago Guedes Barbosa do Nascimento; Entre educativo e penitenciário
Silva Sofia Marques da; Da casa da juventude aos confins do mundo. ISBN: 978-972-36-1217-2

Teaching methods and learning activities

Lecture, debates, group work, field work.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Description	Type	Time (hours)	Weight (%)	End date
Attendance (estimated)	Participação presencial	42,00
Group Work	Trabalho escrito	30,00		2013-01-04
Fieldwork	Trabalho laboratorial	15,00		2012-12-01
Report Presentation	Trabalho escrito	3,00		2012-12-10
Tutorials	Trabalho escrito	8,00		2013-01-01
Exame	Exame	2,00		2013-03-01
	Total:	-	0,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Description	Type	Time (hours)	End date
Reading and interpreting texts	Estudo autónomo	50	2013-01-01
	Total:	50,00

Eligibility for exams

Students need to attend 75% of classes and obtain grade 10 in the following evaluation moments:
a) written test (worth 40% of the mark);
b) group field work/written report (worth 60% of the mark) 20% of this 60% is from presentation of group work in class.
Not attending any of the above mentioned evaluation moment automatically involves failing the course.

Calculation formula of final grade

40% - exame
60% 40% (report)+20% (report presentation)
________
100%

Examinations or Special Assignments

Does not exists

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

Students which by law are not obliged to attend classes will have to do individual group research and report, report presentation and the exame

Classification improvement

The report can be improuved through oral exame
The exame grade can be imporuved in the second exame