Projeto

Code:

MED305

Acronym:

PROJ

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Educational Sciences

Instance: 2022/2023 - A

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	1	Official Curricular Structure	2	-	52	81

Teaching language

Suitable for English-speaking students
Obs.: Português - Suitable for English-speaking students

Objectives

The project as a way to materialize a master degree in Educational Sciences has the purpose to allow the student to develop an intervention program in his professional field, grounded in the Social and Human Sciences facing the specificities of the contexts where that intervention is taking place.

The proposal of a quaternary structure for the project does not limit its diversity but highlights the essential dimensions of its execution. As a phase of the education and formation process it is not supposed that the implementation of the project should be done during it, although it should enhance the ability to articulate the aims and the guidelines of the project already described in order to be capable of ensure its implementation.

Learning outcomes and competences

• Theoretical and experience knowledge mobilized to the intervention;


• Skills to develop a work space that legitimizes the intervention in the human and social sciences field;


• Capacity to design all the phases of an intervention project, such as diagnosis, elaboration and implementation.

Working method

Presencial

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

Not aplicable

Program

As Boutinet (1993) proposed the guidelines of the project are drew by the development of quaternary structure according to the following four levels of approach:

• Procedural programming, aiming the success of a technical realization
• Organizational, reconciling the technical and the participatory requirements
• Identity, comforting the individual and collective nature

Personal, oriented in a existential sense or in a technical realization sense

Mandatory literature

Arendt Hannah; Condition de l.homme moderne. ISBN: 2-266-04387-0
Boutinet Jean-Pierre; Psychologie des conduites à projet. ISBN: 2-13-045644-8
Boutinet Jean-Pierre; Antropologia do projecto. ISBN: 972-8329-35-0
Kalantzis, Mary; Cope, Bill; New Learning. elements of a Science of Education, Cambridge University Press, 2008
Kilpatrick, William; The Project Method: the use of purposeful act in the educative process., Teachers College Record, 1918
Schütz, Alfred; La construccion significativa del mundo social, Paidós, 2000
Vassileff Jean; La^pédagogie du projet en formation Jeunes et adultes. ISBN: 2-85008-091-8
Vassileff Jean; Histoires de vie et pédagogie du projet. ISBN: 2-85008-236-8
Vaz Henrique; Projecto ZERO. ISBN: 978-972-31-1343-3

Teaching methods and learning activities

The elaboration of the project sets the:

-Dimensions of the field of work, that allows framework the project in certain context;

- Research dimensions to identify the resources needed;

- Conceptual dimensions that demonstrate its sustainability.

 

The project is developed individually, although under supervision of a university teacher. The supervisor teachers must guarantee that the different phases of the project are accomplished; promoting its discussion in the student group that had chosen this CU.

At the end of this CU the student presents a written proposal of the project that is going to be presented in front of a jury. The evaluation is therefore made as a writing proposal, similar to a final exam. In the jury presentation the supervisor teacher shall decide about the development process of the project.

The teaching methodologies favor the autonomous work of the students although supervised and its discussion and reflection in classroom or in small group, according to project’s dimensions. This methodological choice encourages the abilities of developing an intervention project taking into account the contexts and the conceptual framework.

Evaluation Type

Evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

designation	Weight (%)
Defesa pública de dissertação, de relatório de projeto ou estágio, ou de tese	50,00
Participação presencial	25,00
Trabalho escrito	25,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

designation	Time (hours)
Elaboração de projeto	340,00
Total:	340,00

Eligibility for exams

Continued presence in orientation sessions, and, when applying, in the context (s) on which it is intended to further implement the project.

Calculation formula of final grade

The academic degree of master is assigned a final mark expressed in the 10-20 range, as well as the Europe-wide equivalent of ratings, on a scale from A to E (according to the articles 18 to 229 of Decreto-Lei 42/2005 from 22 of February,  with the algorithm approved by the DGES and applied  in UPorto). The final version of the project report is assigned in the public act of Defense. The final ranking is calculated using the weighted average of the ratings obtained in the curricular units that constitute the curriculum and the public act of Defense of the project report, being the weighting coefficients as follows: 50% for the first part and 50% to the project, its report and public defense. A master's degree qualitative information will also be assigned, according to the following four classes, as stated in
Decreto-Lei  42/2005 of 2 February : a) 10 to 13 — Enough; b) 14 and 15 – Good; c) 16 and 17-Very good; d) 18 to 20-Excellent.

Examinations or Special Assignments

Not applicable

Internship work/project

The full time of occupation is dedicated to the several steps developed to build the project. The public defense discusses the project itself, which must include a critical approach towards its implementation.

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

Not applicable

Classification improvement

Not applicable