Design and Project Management

Code:

E416

Acronym:

CGP

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Social Pedagogy

Instance: 2020/2021 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Web Page:	https://sigarra.up.pt/fpceup/pt/ucurr_geral.ficha_uc_view?pv_ocorrencia_id=406219
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	35	Official Curricular Structure	2	-	6	57	162

Teaching language

Suitable for English-speaking students

Objectives

The curricular unit focuses on the design and management of projects as means for social change. Assuming that the projects have a political dimension derived from the social changes they intend to promote, they are also contexts of production of meaning for the actors involved (at different levels of enactment). The UC develops these issues, identifying the scope of social and educational policies in which the projects are developed, the role they play in the social change aimed at and the different approaches, procedures and actors involved. The UC aims at students to build knowledge about the development of projects as a means of implementing social and educational policies, as well as to promote practical skills in the field of project management. These competences involve relational dimensions, communication and personal and social development, and, in these terms, create the conditions for the promotion of capacity to configure and propose alternatives in the area of ​​design and project management.

Learning outcomes and competences

Learning outcomes

• Critical positioning in relation to projects as means for social change.


• Critical identification of project objectives in education and training.


• Knowledge of institutions and programs for financing social and educational projects.


• Critical identification of the theoretical and methodological foundations of the design and development of the projects.


• Identification of the context and issues that lead to the design of a project.


• Knowledge and application of diagnostic tools and project design.


• Knowledge and development of tasks and methods necessary to achieve a project.


• Critical identification the dynamics and effects of project management.


• Critical identification of the different roles of the actors involved in project management and development.


• Identification of relevant instruments and procedures for project management and development.


• Knowledge and capacity to mobilize processes and instruments for monitoring and evaluating projects.


• Producing a critical reflection on the development and effects of a project.

Competences

• Be able to identify and confront the inherent complexity of the objectives of projects in education and training.


• Be able to collect, select, analyze information that allows the design projects in education / training.


• Be able to diagnose and intervene in problem solving in the area of education / training.


• Be able to communicate information, ideas and problems in the area of education / training.


• Be available to continuously learn and apply the knowledge aquired.

Working method

À distância

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

n.a.

Program

I Conceptualization of Projects: projects as means for social change

1. Projects in education and their development


2. Projects, social and educational policies and social change.


3. Institutions and project financing

II The design of projects

1. Theoretical and methodological foundations of projects design and their development.


2. From diagnosis to design


3. The context of research / intervention


4. Identification of the object of the investigation / intervention


5. Identification of projects framework and their temporal development


6. Identification of actions to be developed

III Project management: monitoring and evaluation

1. Role of the actors involved and the management of the actions developed


2. Project management: institutional contexts, resources and actions


3. Monitoring and evaluation: effects of social and educational change.

Mandatory literature

Barbier, J. M. ; Elaboração de projectos de acção e planificação, Porto, 1993
Boutinet, J. P. ; Antropologia do Projecto, Instituto Piaget, 1996
Cicmil, S., Lindgren, M. and Packendorff, J.; The project (management) discourse and its consequences: on vulnerability and unsustainability in project- based work , New Technology, Work and Employment 31:1., 2016
Mendonça, M.; Ensinar e aprender por projectos, Edições Asa, 2002
Stoer, S. R. e Magalhães, A. M.; A Diferença somos nós – a gestão da mudança social e as políticas educativas e sociais., Afrontamento, 2005

Comments from the literature

n.a.

Teaching methods and learning activities

• presentations by the teacher


• Reading and analysis of texts


• Group debate


• Group work


• Presentation of group work by students


• Group preparation of a Report


• Tutorial guidance

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

designation	Weight (%)
Participação presencial	20,00
Trabalho escrito	40,00
Trabalho prático ou de projeto	40,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	48,00
Frequência das aulas	50,00
Trabalho de campo	31,00
Trabalho escrito	33,00
Total:	162,00

Eligibility for exams

75% of attendance of the classes are required to be eligible for evaluation.

Calculation formula of final grade

The final mark will take into account the students' involvement in the tasks distributed in the sessions. The classification of this involvement will be calculated from a maximum weighting of 20% on an entire scale from 0 to 20. The Report assessed from the specified characteristics will have a 40% weighting on an entire scale of 0-20. The individual work will have a 40% weighting on an entire scale from 0 to 20. The final mark will result from the simple average of the three components.

Examinations or Special Assignments

n.a.

Internship work/project

n.a.

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

Students who are legally allowed not to attend the session must deliver a report on one of the themes of the programme and produce an iidividual work answering 4 specific questions.

Classification improvement

Students who want to improve their mark will have to produce an individual work answering 4 specific questions.

Observations

Sessions have been held online until the 16th April 2021.