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| SOCI0023-2 | Sociology of Education
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| Duration : | 30h Th |
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| Holder(s) : | Jean‑François Guillaume |
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| Language : | Langue française |
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| Course objective : | The classes taught within the framework of the Sociology of Education course aim to develop the following skills in students:
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 a sociological problem;
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 organise documentary and bibliographical research work on a chosen theme;
6. the ability to support the information obtained (especially information from websites);
7. the ability to read, synthesise and extract useful elements from an article or theoretical work in order to analyse observed facts;
8. the ability to write a written analysis report on an educational problem, composed of the above-mentioned elements (observed facts; deconstruction of obvious facts; formulation of a sociological problem; highlighting structural elements in the educational relationship);
9. the ability to compare your own analysis with other analyses made by other students to complete, refine or correct the work carried out;
10. 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 identify the bases of the major sociological paradigms and to appropriate the most precise theoretical grids.
Methodological skills: students will use what they have learnt in the methodology classes included in the programme of the bachelor's in sociology and anthropology, the bachelor's in human and social sciences, or the bachelor's for the preparatory year of the Master's degree in sociology.
Technical skills: students will be capable of carrying out documentary or bibliographical research in the library, on the internet. They will also be capable of using a word processing software program (Word) to write their analysis report.
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 150 points, which are divided as follows:
Out of 20 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 80 points: an open book written test. 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 given situations 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 mark in the exam (score equal to or less than 7/20), the student's work overall will be penalised by this mark.
In other words, the outcome of the Sociology of Education exam depends on the result of the written test.
Out of 80 points: a personal piece of work analysing an educational problem on a theme presented during the first session of the Sociology of Education course.
The mark out of 80 points will be calculated as follows:
- data collection (observations; interviews) and written reports: a mark out of 10 points (10 points if all the commitments made were respected; 0 points if one of the commitments made was not respected);
- writing a report on the exchanges during the group work session (a document of no more than 5 pages, spacing 1.5, character size 11) (10 points if the document is handed in on time; 0 points if the document is not handed in on time);
- participation in the group work session for students of the master's in sociology (10 points for participation; 0 points in case of absence);
- writing a final individual report (a document of no more than 20 pages, spacing 1.5, character size 11) (a mark out of 40 points, defined on the basis of criteria similar to those defined for the open book written exam);
- quality of the argumentation during the final individual interview (a mark out of 10 points, defined on |
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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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