Research Methodologies in Education

Code:

MED200

Acronym:

MIE

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
CNAEF	Research and Intervention Methodologies in Education / Educational Sciences

Instance: 2014/2015 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Web Page:	https://sigarra.up.pt/fpceup/FICHA_DISCIPLINA.EDITAR?p_cad_codigo=MED200&p_periodo=2S&p_ano_lectivo=2009/2010
Responsible unit:	Education Sciences
Course/CS Responsible:	Master Degree in Educational Sciences

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MCED	70	Official Curricular Structure	1	-	6	49	162

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

Aims - Methods of Research in Education

- to contribute to enlarge ways of seeing and doing in the process of research in education;
- to provide knowledge both theoretical and applied on specific research methods and techniques 

Learning outcomes and competences

In this curricular unit, it is expected that students will be able to attain the following learning outcomes:

• awareness of research paradigms and scientific rationality;
• appropriate choice of research methods and techniques given  specific research problems;
• understanding of the research design;
• writing a methodological reasoning of a research.

Working method

Presencial

Program

I – Research Dynamics in Education - epistemological and methodological issues

• Émile Durkheim and the Rules of the Sociological Method;
• Pierre Bourdieu and research as social relationship and symbolic violence;
• Michel Foucault and the Archaeology of Knowledge;
• Boaventura de Sousa Santos, the double epistemological rupture and the paradigmatic transition;
• Sandra Harding and ‘strong objectivity’.

II. Scientific Rationality and Research Design

• Debate quantitative-qualitative;
• Assumptions of the qualitative paradigm;
• The elaboration of a research object;
• Methodological procedures in different stages of the research.

III. Methods and methodologies of data collection

• Quantitative methods;
• Interview;
• Focus Group Discussion;
• Ethnography;
• Life History;
• Content Analysis.

Mandatory literature

Wallerstein, Emmanuel (1996). Para abrir as ciências sociais. Lisboa: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian.
Seale Clive 340; Researching society and culture. ISBN: 0-7619-5277-2
Saukko Paula; Doing research in cultural studies. ISBN: 0-7619-6505-X
Silva Augusto Santos 570; Metodologia das ciências sociais
Silverman David; Interpreting qualitative data. ISBN: 0-7619-6865-2
Burgess Robert G.; A^pesquisa de terreno. ISBN: 972-8027-43-5
Santos Boaventura de Sousa; Um discurso sobre as ciências
Plummer Ken; Documents of life 2. ISBN: ISBN 0-7619-6132-1
Alvesson Mats; Reflexive methodology. ISBN: ISBN 0-8039-7707-7
Ramazanoglu Caroline; Feminist methodology. ISBN: ISBN 0-7619-5123-7
Lessard-Hérbert Michelle; Investigação qualitativa. ISBN: 972-9295-75-1
Silva Augusto Santos; Entre a razão e o sentido
Pais José Machado; Sociologia da vida quotidiana. ISBN: ISBN 972-671-092-8

Complementary Bibliography

Berger, Guy (1992). A investigação em educação: modelos sócio-epistemológicos e inserção institucional. Revista de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, 3-4, 23-36.
Quivy Raimond; Manual de investigaçao em ciencias sociais. ISBN: 972-662-275-1
Bruyne Paul de; Dinâmica da Pesquisa em Ciências Sociais
Willis Paul; The Ethnographic Imagination, Polity Press, 2000. ISBN: 0-7456-0174-X (pbk.)

Teaching methods and learning activities

Contact activities – Lecturing. Debates. Tutorials. Writing a research journal.

Autonomous work – Literature review. Fieldwork. Writing a research journal. Writing a methodological reasoning.

Assessment: Continuous evaluation without final exam.

Assessment will be focused on the research or intervention problem (including the writing of a research journal supporting the methodological reflection). In this individual work students should mobilise theoretical and methodological knowledge. This written piece should be organised as follows: introduction; problem at stake; conceptual framework; methodological options and their justification.

Students are expected to link up topics from this unit with the research or intervention project (for example, topics like the concept of science; proposals to think the scientific field, from Durkheim to Harding; justified options on methods and techniques, etc).

keywords

Social sciences

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

designation	Weight (%)
Participação presencial	10,00
Trabalho escrito	90,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

designation	Time (hours)
Elaboração de projeto	30,00
Estudo autónomo	49,00
Frequência das aulas	49,00
Trabalho de campo	11,00
Trabalho de investigação	30,00
Total:	169,00

Eligibility for exams

Obtaining frequency requires that the student is not absent more than 25% of the classes provided.

Calculation formula of final grade

The final mark of this unit is expressed in a 0-20 scale.

Assessment will be focused on the research or intervention exploratory project that students are going to present in the infal part of the first year of the master. In this written work students should mobilise theoretical and methodological knowledge. This work should be organised as such: introduciton; problem at stake; conceptual framework; methodogical options and their justification. If possible, students should explore partially a method or a tecnhique indicdually or in teamgroup.

Students are expected to bring knowledge from this unit for this research or intervention project.

 

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

Students who cannot attend the course regularly due to motives foreseen in university/faculty regulations need to contact the lecturer. since the beginining of the semester. They need to write the essay or the research project, being tutored by the lecturer, and will present it to colleagues during the course. Moreover, they will elaborate a second essay or other written work negotiated with the lecturer.

Classification improvement

Students can attempt to get a better mark, presenting themselves to an oral exam.

Observations

Bibliografia Principal

Alvesson Mats;Reflexive methodology. ISBN: ISBN 0-8039-7707-7

Bourdieu, Pierre (2001) A Miséria do Mundo, Petrópolis: Vozes, 1993

Correia José Alberto;Para uma teoria crítica em educação. Porto: Porto Editora

Creswell, John W. (2002) Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative, .. London: Sage.

Clough, Peter & Nutbrown, Cathy (2012) A Student’s Guide to Methodology, London: Sage

Dowling, Paul & Brown (2010) Doing research/Reading Research – re-interrogating education, London: Routledge

Durkheim, Émile (2001) As Regras do Método Sociológico, Porto:Rès Ed., 1895

Foucault, Michel (1978) Vigiar e Punir, Petrópolis: Vozes, 1975

Hadji, Charles & Baillé, Jacques (2001) Investigação e Educação – para uma ‘nova aliança’, Porto: Porto Editora

Harding, Sandra (1986) Whose Science? Whose Knowledge? NY:Cornell Univ Press

Pais, José Machado (2007) Sociologia da vida quotidiana, Lisboa: ICS

Pinto, José Madureira (2007) Indagação Científica, Aprendizagens Escolares, Porto: Afrontamento

Plummer, Ken (2001) Documents of life 2, London: Sage

Ramazanoglu, Caroline;Feminist methodology. ISBN: ISBN 0-7619-5123-7

Santos, Boaventura de Sousa (2000) A Critica da Razão Indolente, Porto: Afrontamento

Saukko, Paula (2003) Doing Research in Cultural Studies, London: Sage.

Seale, Clive (2004 ) Researching Society and Culture, London: Sage

Silverman David;Interpreting qualitative data. ISBN: 0-7619-6865-2 
Silva, Augusto Santos  (1994) Entre a razão e o sentido, Porto: Afrontamento

Thomas, Gary (2011) How to do your Case Study, London: Sage

Wallerstein, Emmanuel (1996). Para abrir as ciências sociais. Lisboa: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian. 


 
Bibliografia Complementar 



Berger, Guy (1992). A investigação em educação: modelos sócio-epistemológicos e inserção institucional. Revista de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, 3-4, 23-36.

Bruyne Paul de;Dinâmica da Pesquisa em Ciências Sociais

 Burgess Robert G.;A pesquisa de terreno. ISBN: 972-8027-43-5

Lessard-Hérbert Michelle;Investigação qualitativa. ISBN: 972-9295-75-1

Quivy Raimond;Manual de investigaçao em ciencias sociais. ISBN: 972-662-275-1