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| PEDA1162-1 | Theories and Methods of Applying Research in Practice
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| Duration : | 30h Th |
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| Lecturer : | Bernadette Mouvet |
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Language(s) of instruction :
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| French language |
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Course contents :
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| The course is meant for ULg students as well as for members of the profession (planning to be) involved in action-researchs, who take part in the context of a partnership between the "Service de Méthodologie des Innovations scolaires" and the "Université populaire" of the Liège province.
It aims to support all participants, by exploiting their multiple origins and communities of belonging as well as their diverse training and experience, in their attempt to construct a better theoretical and concrete knowledge and understanding of the objectives, endeavours, results and difficulties of action-research.
The course will be structured according to the following chronological sequence:
- the first part will be devoted to a general introduction to the themes and activities of the course;
- then the participants will form smaller groups including both students and members of the profession. Each of these groups will identify a key question asked by the action- research and will seek ways of answering it. Each of the groups will avail itself of the specific resources deemed necessary and of the more general resources provided by the course;
- finally, the various groups will share their conclusions with a view to elaborating a synthesis and gesturing towards further theorization of the material under discussion. |
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Learning outcomes of the course :
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| Identify and articulate the objectives, endeavours, difficulties and results of action-research. |
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Prerequisites and co-requisites/ Recommended optional programme components :
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| No one |
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
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| Small groups' works, lectures, discussions, seminars, personal reading. |
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Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
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| Weekly course of 4 periods |
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Recommended or required readings :
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| Liu, M. (1997). Fondements et pratiques de la recherche-action. Paris: L'Harmattan. |
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Assessment methods and criteria :
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| 1. The students will be requested to pen a document indicating their conception of the objectives, endeavours, difficulties and results of the action-research, and acknowledging what this owes to the course.
2. They must then choose one of the two modes of assessment listed below:
- oral examination: the student will be expected to present his document to B. Mouvet and discuss it with her;
- written examination: the student must hand in his document, for the purpose of assessment, to B. Mouvet, who will decide whether to summon the student for an interview, prior to committing herself to a definitive mark. |
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Organizational remarks :
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| The participation at the course is important to the success of examination.
Students wishing to enlist may be kept on a waiting list until the following year if the course is not compulsory on their programme. |
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Contacts :
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| B. Mouvet |
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