Study Programmes 2015-2016
PEDA4022-1  
Learning devices intended to fight against droupout and exclusion in teaching and training systems
Duration :
25h Th, 30h Pr
Number of credits :
Master in education (120 ECTS)4
Lecturer :
Ariane Baye
Substitute(s) :
Aurore Michel
Language(s) of instruction :
French language
Organisation and examination :
Teaching in the first semester, review in January
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite :
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Course contents :
Dropout may designate the fact of not being interested any more in the school work,  the fact of giving up school, or to leave the education system with a low level of qualification. Dropout is the outcome of a long cumulative process of disengagement which results from an interaction between school and socio-family factors. This process can take root in the very first contacts with the school.
During the lessons, factors occurring in the process of early school leaving at various stages of the schooling will be identified and put in connection with educational practices which can be exploited with the aim of reducing the early school leaving.
Practical class will allow the students to observe or to experiment education practices reducing the early school leaving. The students will have the opportunity to study deeper the dropout in higher education.
Learning outcomes of the course :
Students will work one of the two following skills:
1. Describe, analyze, decode educational / training situations in context by referring to the conceptual frameworks from the field of science education.


  • Describe the elements of these situations, describe their context and explain their interactions at various levels of the system
  • Distinguish levels of analysis (individual, groupal, institutional ...).
  • Distinguish descriptive, interpretive and prescriptive discourses.
  •  Question these situations with reference to frameworks.
  • Incorporate in its analyzes various contexts with formative and educational issues as well as the age range affected by these issues.
2. Develop, support, evaluate and properly implement education / training situations, responding to an issue by mobilizing scientific knowledge relevant with regard to the context and the involved people.


  • Argue a position with regard to an education / training issue referring adequately to an educational point of view.
  • Analyze the context and characteristics of audiences to define needs and priorities.
  • Design, plan and control individual or collective education/training plans and interventions tailored to the needs and characteristics of public and feasibility in context.
The skills needed to work as a team will be taught during the practical lessons.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills :
It is highly recommended to have passed, or to take at the same time the course  PEDA4021-1 An Introduction to Education and Training Sciences - Ariane Baye
Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
The theoretical course will be based on oral presentations supported by power points. Documentary resources will be put at the disposal of the students. Practical class will allow the students to experiment and criticize educational practices.
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
Face-to-face
Recommended or required readings :
Documentary resources and power pointswill be put at the disposal of the students on e-campus.
Assessment methods and criteria :
The final assessment will be focused on the ability to describe, analyze, criticize, and propose improvement suggestions. These skills will be assessed both for the experiments to reduce dropout ("theoretical" part of the course) and for team-working part of the course. The assessment will also focus on the ability to find general(ie for the entire education and training system) principles to reduce dropout and exclusion. These general principles to reduce dropout will be deduced from the different parts of the courses (every lecture, and associated scientific literature, are aimed at describing various actions taken to reduce or prevent dropout, and the practical sessions will also be an occasion to discover deeply dropout prevention at one level of education). The final evaluation requires the student to complete three different works (it is mandatory to make these three works to be credited for the course):
  • A work-group report (40% of the final note)
  • An individual oral presentation (40% of the final note)
  • An individual report (20% of the final note)
Work placement(s) :
Organizational remarks :
The theoretical courses will take place on Wednesday, from 5:00 pm till 8:00 pm.
1st course: 16/09
Place: Portalis (B31, Law).
Detailled schedule of theoritiacal and practical courses will be given during the first course and will also be available on e-campus.
Contacts :
Pr. Ariane Baye
ariane.baye@ulg.ac.be
Aurore Michel, pr. assistant
aurore.michel@ulg.ac.be