Code: | E500 | Acronym: | APSE |
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Classification | Keyword |
OFICIAL | Sociology of Education |
Active? | Yes |
Web Page: | https://sigarra.up.pt/fpceup/pt/ucurr_geral.ficha_uc_view?pv_ocorrencia_id=406221 |
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 | 48 | Official Curricular Structure | 3 | - | 6 | 57 | 162 |
The Curricular Unit Social and Education Policies Analysis aims at providing an approach to policies focused on their analysis and de-construction and at a deeper understanding of the “policy cycle”, from agenda setting to implementation levels. These stages (ideology, agenda, decision-making, policy formation and implementation) are simultaneously references for the development of the curricular unit.
Objectives:
- To introduce and discuss the theoretical perspectives on the elaboration and implementation of social and education policies;
- To identify methodologies used for the analysis of social and education policies;
- To identify and start to develop a sociological approach to social and education policies.
– To conceptualize social and education policies while projects of social change;
- To introduce and develop procedures of sociological analysis of social and education policies allowing a critical reflexion about the concepts and management of social change that they purport.
Competences:
- to understand the processes and contexts of elaboration and implementation of education and social policies;
- to identify the different actors in the process of elaboration and implementation of education and social policies
- analyze and deconstruct social and education policy documents.
Learning outcomes:
- To relate formation and implementaion of social and education policies to particular processes of socio-economic development and social change.
- To identify (on the basis od models/methods of analysis) the diverse actors and agents in the policy making process and the potencial influence they might have in the elaboration, developement and evaluation of projects in educational contexts.
1. The framework of education and social policy analysis
1.1. State, welfare State and social policy: conceptions, goals, objectives, instruments and critical views
1.2. Key dimensions of education policy
1.3. The global context and education and social policy
2. Sociological dimensions of policy analysis
2.1. The processes of decision, development and implementation of policies
2.2. The production of ideology, the agenda setting and the decision-making
3. The analysis of education and social policies
3.1. "The policy cycle approach" of Bowe, Ball and Gold
3.2. “The construction and deconstruction of educational policy documents”, according John Codd
3.3. The policies of education, training, social protection and social development in Portugal
- Face to face activities: presentations; debate, team work, tutorial meetings, presentation of team work and assessment.
- Autonomous work: text analysis, bibliographic research, writing texts.
designation | Weight (%) |
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Participação presencial | 40,00 |
Teste | 60,00 |
Total: | 100,00 |
designation | Time (hours) |
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Estudo autónomo | 105,00 |
Frequência das aulas | 57,00 |
Total: | 162,00 |
The students must attend at least 75% of the sessions.
- Analysis of a social or education policy, selected within a set of documents proposed by the teacher and relevant for the professionalizing areas of educational sciences. This task is done in small group and presented and debated in the class. The analysis and presentation will have a ponderation of 40% of the final mark;
- written review and analysis of an education and/or social policy. This essay will be done in the evaluatin period. This task will have a ponderation of 60% of the final mark.
These two procedures will be assessed in a 0-20 scale. 8 will be the minimum mark to succeed in each task, and the final grade must be 10 to be well succeed in the Curricular Unit.
In case of not be succeed, the students must do a written final exam.
The students legally authorised to not attending the sessions will deliver two reports on the bibliography about theme 1 and another on about theme 2, besides the review and analysis refered to above.
Students wishing to improve their final mark and those who did not succeed in the process of continuous evaluation can do a written exam on the contents of the curricular unit referred above in the period fixed by the institution. The exam to improve the final mark replaces the marks obtained in the two evaluation components.