Code: | E309 | Acronym: | MILMQ |
Keywords | |
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Classification | Keyword |
OFICIAL | Research Methodologies |
Active? | Yes |
Responsible unit: | Education Sciences |
Course/CS Responsible: | First degree in Educational Sciences |
Acronym | No. of Students | Study Plan | Curricular Years | Credits UCN | Credits ECTS | Contact hours | Total Time |
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LCED | 56 | Official Curricular Structure | 2 | - | 6 | 57 | 162 |
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.
To identify different paradigms
To analyse different technics to coletc data
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).
Lecture, debates, group work, field work.
designation | Weight (%) |
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Exame | 30,00 |
Trabalho escrito | 70,00 |
Total: | 100,00 |
designation | Time (hours) |
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Estudo autónomo | 50,00 |
Trabalho de campo | 20,00 |
Trabalho de investigação | 30,00 |
Total: | 100,00 |
Students need to attend 75% of classes and obtain grade 10 in the following evaluation moments:
a) written test (worth 30% of the mark);
b) group field work/written report (worth 70% of the mark)
Not attending any of the above mentioned evaluation moment automatically involves failing the course.
30% - exame
70(report)
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100%
Does not exist
Students which by law are not obliged to attend classes will have to do individual group research and report, report presentation and the exame
The report can't be improuved.
The exame grade can be improuved in the second exame