Dissertation Supervision

Code:

EFA20

Acronym:

SDISS

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Adult Education and Training / Professional Guidance

Instance: 2025/2026 - A

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Education Sciences
Course/CS Responsible:	Master in Adult Education and Training

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MEFA	8	Official Curricular Structure	2	-	14	95	378

Teaching language

Suitable for English-speaking students
Obs.: Português

Objectives

The UC dissertation / internship / project supervision aims to create conditions that allow students to:

- to design and develop a research / intervention work in the field of adult education and training, theoretically and methodologically sustained and grounded;

- prepare a master's dissertation, internship report or project report;

- present and publicly discuss the work done.

Learning outcomes and competences

In close articulation with the development of the Dissertation / Internship / Project, this UC intends to contribute to the students to construct an in depth reflection theoretically and methodologically that plays a regulating role of their action of research and intervention.

In this sense it is expected that in the context of this uc the students:
- mobilize procedures for research, critical analysis and systematization of relevant information on theoretical and methodological frameworks in the area of ​​adult education and training;
- carry out processes of reflection on action, action and action that allow the development of an investigation and / or intervention sensitive to the specifics of the contexts and potentiator of its transformation, promoting a professionally ethically anchored and inducing innovation at the level of practices in the field of adult education and training;
- develop capacities for systematization and critical analysis of research and intervention processes, allowing a return in a structured, coherent, clear and well articulated way to their return to the host entities
the stage or recipients of the project and the dissemination of the praxeological contributions of the work done and the knowledge produced.

Working method

Presencial

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

N/A

Program

Clarification and systematization of the research project / stage / project to be developed
Research, identification and analysis of relevant bibliography for the research project / internship / project
Identification of the methodological framework appropriate to the research project / internship / project
Development of research project / stage / design and operation of appropriate procedures for collecting and analyzing empirical data
Elaboration of dissertation / internship report / project report

Mandatory literature

Isabel Menezes; Intervenção comunitária. ISBN: 978-972-8082-90-1
Joaquim Luís Coimbra; Formação ao longo da vida e gestão da carreira. ISBN: 972-8312-47-4
José Alberto Correia; Para uma teoria crítica em educação. ISBN: 972-0-34127-0
Licínio C. Lima; Perspectives on adult education in Portugal. ISBN: 972-9050-23-6
Rui Canário; Educação e formação de adultos. ISBN: 972-8036-80-9

Teaching methods and learning activities

The work to be carried out in Supervision takes into account the specificity of ongoing processes (research, intervention, project design) as well as the social contexts they involve. In this sense, the pedagogical work to be developed is essentially based on a process of Tutorial Orientation, implying that students in advance research and systematize bibliography, data, field notes, provisional texts and any other elements that allow the development of a qualified dialogue with the Advisor.

Software

NVIVO
SPSS
EndNote

keywords

Social sciences > Psychological sciences > Psychology > Counselling psychology
Social sciences > Educational sciences > Education > Adult education
Social sciences > Ethics in social sciences

Evaluation Type

Evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

designation	Weight (%)
Participação presencial	100,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

designation	Time (hours)
Apresentação/discussão de um trabalho científico	9,00
Elaboração de relatório/dissertação/tese	27,00
Estudo autónomo	153,00
Trabalho de campo	54,00
Trabalho de investigação	108,00
Trabalho escrito	27,00
Total:	378,00

Eligibility for exams

N/A

Calculation formula of final grade

N/A

Examinations or Special Assignments

N/A

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

N/A

Classification improvement

N/A

Observations

N/A