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| PSYC1147-1 | Sociology Applied to Education (including Methodological Aspects)
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| Duration : | 45h Th |
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| Holder(s) : | Jean‑François Guillaume |
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| Language : | Langue française |
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| Course objective : | The training provided within the framework of the Sociology of Education course aims to develop the following skills in students studying education sciences:
1. the ability to observe educational interaction situations in schools and to write an objective report on the observed facts, i.e. devoid of value judgements and normative prescriptions;
2. the ability to deconstruct common sense propositions presented in the form of obvious facts, prenotions, convictions, etc.;
3. the ability to formulate a social problem in sociological terms;
4. the ability to detect in usual or routine practices, in objects, in methods of spatial and temporal organisation in the educational relationship, evidence of schemas or socially situated models, to identify the bases of these schemas and the societal stakes to which they respond;
5. the ability to compare your own analysis with other analyses made by other students to complete, refine or correct the work carried out;
6. the ability to argue in favour of the chosen theoretical orientations, observations or the diagnosis laid out |
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| Prerequisites : | Analytical skills: students will demonstrate the ability to appropriate the theoretical elements included in the syllabus.
Methodological skills: students will be able to write a report on semi-directive observations and meetings.
Technical skills: students will be able to use a word processing software program (Word) to write up their observations and meetings.
Communication skills: students will be capable of presenting their results and observations in a clear and concise way, of actively listening to their interlocutors (people interviewed, other students presenting their work, etc.) and identifying the places (bodies, institutions, etc.) where they can obtain the most relevant information |
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| Written notes : | 1. A syllabus (available at Point de Vue).
2. Video reports: "Roulez les mécaniques" and "Une vie de prof".
3. Individual exercises relating to the critical analysis of situations in schools.
4. Collective summary of the individual exercises. |
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| Assessment : | The work carried out by each student will be assessed out of a total of 120 points, which are divided as follows:
Out of 30 points: writing up the work required during the classes.
For this work, the contents will not be the subject of a sommative evaluation. The points will be awarded according to the work the student has carried out and handed in within the given deadlines, and according to the instructions provided.
Out of 60 points: an open book written exam. Based on short reports on situations in schools, the student is required to raise a group of coherent issues, propose hypotheses regarding the "problematical" areas in each of the situations presented and find areas for horizontal reflection on current stakes in school education.
The quality of the sociological contributions will be assessed by taking into account the following criteria (in decreasing order of importance):
- the accuracy and precision of the sociological contents (the notions used will be properly understood and defined);
- the integration of the different notions used in a global analysis (the assessment will be all the more favourable if the student has linked the various notions, rather than providing a succession of observations with no apparent link);
- the subtlety and originality of the analysis presented.
If the student does not achieve a sufficient or an unacceptable mark in the open book written exam (a mark under 30/60), the student's performance in the Sociology of Education exam (including the methodological aspects) will be penalised with the same mark.
In other words, the outcome of the Sociology of Education exam (including the methodological aspects) depends on the result of the written exam.
Out of 30 points: a personal piece of work on data collection (observations and interviews) based on a theme presented during the first session of the Sociology of Education course.
The mark out of 30 points will be established as follows:
- data collection (observations; interviews) and written reports: a mark out of 20 points (20 points if all the commitments made were respected; 0 points if one of the commitments made were not respected);
- participation in the group work session (10 points for participating; 0 points in case of absence). |
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| Contacts : | Jean-François Guillaume, Senior lecturer
04/366.35.03
Jean-Francois.Guillaume@ulg.ac.be
Bureau 1.90, Bâtiment B31 (Faculty of Law, Sart Tilman) |
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