Research Methods: Laboratory of Qualitative Research Methods

Code:

E309

Acronym:

MILMQ

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Educational Sciences

Instance: 2023/2024 - 1S

Active?	Yes
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	53	Official Curricular Structure	2	-	6	57	162

Teaching language

Portuguese
Obs.: Português

Objectives

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. 

Learning outcomes and competences

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.

Working method

Presencial

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

it is not aplicable

Program

I - What is research? Epistemological Debates

1.1 The debate between the dominant paradigm and the emerging paradigm; the explanatory and comprehensive proposals

1.2 Historical and epistemological analysis models of science



II - What is research? The planning of a research project: theoretical, methodological and practical considerations. 2.1.

2.1 The various stages of a research process. The validation of research.

2.2 The construction of the object of study and the problem. Identifying a problem and defining a question.

2.3 Methods and tools for collecting and processing information. Qualitative research methods and techniques: Ethnography; Interviews; Biographical methods; Focus groups; Content analysis.

2.4.A topological model of scientific research: the 4 fields of research practice (social search, axiological, doxological and epistemic).

2.5.A quadripolar model of the dynamics of research and its translation into education: the methods (phenomenology, symbolic interactionism and grounded theory), the frames of reference (understanding), research modes (case studies, interpretive studies and comparative studies) and analysis frameworks (ideal-types and typologies).



III - What is research?

The socio-historical construction of scientifity in education: perspectives under debate

Research in education and contemporary challenges

The relevance of research in the context of social and educational intervention

Mandatory literature

Quivy Raymond; Manual de investigação em ciências sociais. ISBN: 978-972-662-275-8
Correia José Alberto; Para uma teoria crítica em educação. ISBN: 972-0-34127-0
Popper Karl R.; La^logique de la découverte scientifique. ISBN: 2-228-88010-8
Kuhn Thomas S.; A^estrutura das revoluções científicas. ISBN: 85-273-0111-3
Harding Sandra; Whose science? Whose knowledge?. ISBN: 0-8014-9746-9
Becker Howard S.; Tricks of the trade. ISBN: 0-226-04123-9
Santos Boaventura de Sousa; Una^epistemología del sur. ISBN: 978-607-03-0056-1
Bourdieu Pierre; Para uma sociologia da ciência. ISBN: 978-972-44-1398-3
Aron Raymond; As^etapas do pensamento sociológico. ISBN: 972-20-0922-2
Hadji Charles 570; Investigação e educação. ISBN: 972-0-34159-9
Bogdan Robert C.; Investigação qualitativa em educação. ISBN: 972-0-34112-2
Atkinson Paul 340; Handbook of ethnography. ISBN: 0-7619-5824-X
Morgan David L.; The^focus group guidebook. ISBN: 0-7619-0818-8
Silverman David; Interpreting qualitative data. ISBN: 0-8039-8758-7
Plummer Ken; Documents of life. ISBN: 0-04-321030-9
Wengraf Tom; Qualitative research interviewing. ISBN: 0-8039-7501-5
Ferreira Maria Manuela Martinho; A^gente gosta é de brincar com os outros meninos!. ISBN: 972-36-0740-9

Complementary Bibliography

Neves Tiago Guedes Barbosa do Nascimento; Entre educativo e penitenciário
Silva Sofia Marques da; Da casa da juventude aos confins do mundo. ISBN: 978-972-36-1217-2

Teaching methods and learning activities

Project-based learning
Lectures, discussion, group work and field work

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

designation	Weight (%)
Exame	50,00
Trabalho de campo	10,00
Trabalho escrito	30,00
Trabalho laboratorial	10,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	35,00
Trabalho de campo	15,00
Trabalho de investigação	40,00
Trabalho laboratorial	12,00
Frequência das aulas	39,00
Total:	141,00

Eligibility for exams

To obtain attendance, students must participate in 75% of the scheduled classes.


Failure at any point of the distributed assessment implies failure in the UC.
The detection of plagiarism, or other fraud, in any of the moments of assessment has as immediate consequence the cancellation of the test (work or exam) and may lead to the opening of disciplinary proceedings.
According to Article 14 - Fraud - of the Student Assessment Regulations:
Fraud committed in the performance of a test implies its cancellation and communication to the statutorily competent body for possible disciplinary proceedings.
At FPCEUP, fraud is understood as the copying, plagiarism or any other practice resulting in an illicit benefit for the student's classification.
The Pedagogic Council assumes itself at the FPCEUP, until alteration of the statutes in force, as the competent body to conduct the disciplinary process that eventually follows fraudulent practices, which may result in the student's failure in the discipline, suspension or expulsion, besides the annulment of the test.

Calculation formula of final grade

The students obtain frequency with a grade equal to or higher than 10 points in the evaluation moments:
a) Final exam without consulting about the subjects taught and the empirical work done during the course. Time allowed: 2 hours. Weighting: 50%.
b) final written work resulting from the research done as a class group during the semester. Weighting: 50%, being 30% related to the global work (class project) and 20% related to the contribution of each student to the global work (inlcudimng fieldwork, writing and class work)
100%= 50% (30%+20%) + 50%.
The lack at any time of assessment implies failure in the course. In case of failure in any of the components, either by absence, or by obtaining a mark inferior to 10, the student can take the exam in the appeal period. This examination will have a weighting of 100%.

Examinations or Special Assignments

Does not exist

Internship work/project

Does not exist

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

Students who, by law, are exempt from the verification of attendance conditions, will be assessed by final written and face-to-face examination with a weighting of 60% and the completion of an individual research work with fieldwork with a written report with a weighting of 40%. If students wish to attend classes and take the same modality of assessment as students without a statute, they should inform the teacher in charge during the first week of classes.

Classification improvement

The grade might be impoved through an exame (100%)

Observations

Does not exist