Duration
45h Th
Number of credits
Lecturer
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the first semester, review in January
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
Critical approach to a reform proposal for secondary education: creation of a core curriculum (excellence pact)
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
The training provided in this Sociology of Education course aims to develop the following skills in sociology students: 1) the ability to deconstruct common sense propositions which are presented in the form of evidence, preconceptions, beliefs etc.; 2) the ability to transform a social problem into a sociological issue; 3) the ability to identify in routine or habitual practices, objects, and the ways of spatially and temporally organising pedagogical relations, the foundations of these schemes and the societal issues to which they respond; 4) the ability to organise a piece of documentary and bibliographical research on a given theme; 5) the ability to read, analyse and extract from an article or a theoretical piece of work the elements which are useful for analysing observable events; 6) the ability to prepare a written analysis report from an educational problem that will contain a description of observed facts ; the deconstruction of evidences ; the formulation of a sociological problem ; highlighting the structural elements of the pedagogical relationship ; 7) the ability to confront his personal analysis to analyzes by students autrs to complete , refine or correct the work ; 8) the ability to discuss theoretical claims and diagnoses which are made.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
Good practise of the French language.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Learning is introduced by analyzing debates on the introduction of a core curriculum in secondary education and by presenting the theoretical framework of reference.
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)
Meeting and interviewing actors in the school environment and parents. Bibliographic search ; investigations ; analysis of collected data.
Compulsory participation in class sessions, given the nature of the work carried out (no more than 2 absences in total).
Recommended or required readings
Students are invited to carry out bibliographic research.
Assessment methods and criteria
An individual analysis of a problem presented during the first class on Sociology of Education.
This personal work involves a data collection approach ( observations questionnaires interviews) and drafting a written record of this. The individual report analyzing the collected data consist of a document not exceeding 20 pages, 1.5 line spacing , character 11).
The quality of sociological input will be assessed, taking into account the following criteria (in decreasing order of importance): 1) the accuracy and precision of sociological content (the concepts used have been correctly understood and defined); 2) the integration of different concepts used in the overall analysis (the assessment will be more favourable if the student has managed to combine different concepts, rather than provide a series of statements with no apparent link between them; 3) the perceptiveness and originality of the analysis presented.
Work placement(s)
No placements are planned.
Organizational remarks
Participation is required in the various work sessions.
Contacts
Teachers : J.-F. GUILLAUME, Tel. 04/366 35 03 - fax: 04/366 4751 Office 1.90 (Building B31, Sart Tilman) E-Mail : jean-francois.guillaume@uliege.be
Adaptation of teaching commitments following the COVID-19 pandemic for the May-June 2020 session
Teaching methods implemented : distance-learning
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Adaptation of teaching commitments following the COVID-19 pandemic for the Aug-Sept 2020 session
Assessment subjects
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