Subjects narratives and the construction of research objects

Code:

DE334

Acronym:

NSCOI

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
CNAEF	Educational Sciences

Instance: 2019/2020 - 2S (since 10-02-2020 to 29-05-2020)

Active?	Yes
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	20	Official Curricular Structure	1	-	12	98	324

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

As a nuclear unit in the field of 'Education, Communities and Social Change ', it seeks to mobilize the subject's experience, aiming to deepen the ways in which experiential narrative can support the construction of research objects, i.e., how the person who tells constructs in narration the relevance of objects of study.

Objectives of the curricular unit seek to:

1-Provide a narrative explanation susceptible to found the construction of research objects;

2 – Identify the construction of research objects in their relations with the themes of the domain and, in particular, with the educational sciences.

Learning outcomes and competences

At the end of the course students will have developed skills of:

1.  construction of research object and the structuring of a research/action plan;
2. identification of the relevance of a research object in the broad field of education.

Working method

À distância

Pre-requirements (prior knowledge) and co-requirements (common knowledge)

Not applicable

Program

I - Methodological Provisions

1 - Experience and practice

2 - The narrative

3 - The interview of explanation

II - Thematic Classes (identify by teachers)

III – Construction of an object and of a research problem

IV - Preparation of the thesis project

Mandatory literature

Benjamin Walter; Sobre arte, técnica, linguagem e política. ISBN: 972-708-177-0
Pardy, John; Vaz, Henrique; Experience and practice in the knowledge on offer in adult education , Not edited, 2013
Vermersch Pierre; L.entretien d.explicitation. ISBN: 2-7101-1074-1

Complementary Bibliography

Cavaco Carmen; Aprender fora da escola. ISBN: 972-8036-46-9
Denzin Norman K.; Interpretive interactionism. ISBN: 0-8039-3003-8
Demazière Didier; Analyser les entretiens biographiques. ISBN: 2-09-190434-1
Ferrarotti Franco; Histoire et histoires de vie. ISBN: 2-86563-057-9
Lahire Bernard 1963-; Retratos sociológicos. ISBN: 85-363-0212-7
Merrill, Barbara; West, Linden; Biographical methods in social research, SAGE, 209

Teaching methods and learning activities

The course aims, ultimately, that students define a research project, and that do it through the first-person speech. Therefore, participatory methodologies will be explored, although guided by a set of conceptual as methodological tools. To this end, the training sessions include, in particular:

-Some features of methodological nature, which seek, through the narrative, the explanation of those same questions;

-A set of thematic sessions, to be identified by the teachers;

-A set of workshops aimed at defining the objects and research problems.

Evaluation Type

Evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

designation	Weight (%)
Trabalho escrito	100,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

designation	Time (hours)
Apresentação/discussão de um trabalho científico	22,00
Elaboração de projeto	64,00
Estudo autónomo	162,00
Frequência das aulas	76,00
Total:	324,00

Eligibility for exams

In accordance with the rules of assessment, students obtain frequency when participating in 3/4 of the sessions actually carried out. Exception is made to those students who, by law, are exempted from attendance in class.

Calculation formula of final grade

The assessment will concern the presentation  of a proposal for an internship, a research project or a dissertation  and the final written elaboration of this same proposal (100%). All jobs are classified on a scale of 0 to 20.

Examinations or Special Assignments

Not applicable

Internship work/project

Not applicable

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

Students who by law are exempted from attendance in class should draw up the internship/dissertation/project essay and discuss it the UC teachers. Students who are in this situation must contact the teachers of the course during the first 3 weeks of the semester in order to define the forms of support and monitoring required.

Classification improvement

Improving the rating assumes the reformulation of final essay of internship/research/project, ranked on a scale of 0 to 20 values.

Observations

Not applicable