Duration
10h Th
Number of credits
Lecturer
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the second semester
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
The objective of the Elements of Sociology of Education course is to provide future teachers with the skills required for the educational resolution of conflict situations or incidents that occur with students in class or at school.
This objective requires the future teacher to be able to take a critical look at the functioning of the school system, to take a step back and detach himself from his initial convictions and representations of the profession.
The approach will be based on a syllabus built around the use of accounts of observations, incidents or conflict situations experienced in the school environment by in-service teachers and/or AESS trainees. Each story is preceded and/or followed by questions and theoretical elements that allow for analytical distance.
The analysis will be based on sociological concepts and fundamental principles of law.
The intention is not to transmit pedagogical recipes, "tricks" or "tricks of the trade" that would make it possible to "manage" the class group or to face delicate situations. On the other hand, each student must be able to identify what, in the situations presented, poses a problem, to formulate this problem and to envisage adequate methods of resolution (i.e., in conformity with the legal requirements and the mission of civic education which the compulsory school has been invested with since 1997 in the Walloon-Brussels Federation).
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
At the end of the various class sessions, the personal work required (formative evaluations), and the feedback and corrections given after these personal assignments, each student must be able to analyze the report of an incident that occurred in the school, between a teacher and a student or between a trainee and a student or between two or more students, to answer a precise question succinctly and to justify this answer in a synthetic manner.
This implies being able to extract facts from a report written by an in-service teacher or an AESS trainee; to identify what is problematic in the course of the facts; to identify what is problematic in the resolution of the conflict or incident; to suggest a resolution of the conflict or incident that is consistent with legal requirements and the mission of civic education; and therefore, to mobilize the notions and/or theoretical principles identified during the work sessions, personal work and feedback from this work.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
English version not available.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
First, students will be invited to read and appropriate a part of the syllabus that is made available to them via eCampus. Then, problems from the syllabus will be solved during face-to-face sessions. In a third step, students will be asked to complete a formative evaluation and to communicate it to the trainer (Jean-Francois.Guillaume@uliege.be) within a certain time frame. The individual responses will be the subject of a global commentary, which will be transmitted via Ultra eCampus.
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
Blended learning
Additional information:
Face-to-face teaching, supported by the provision via eCampus of course material (syllabus), formative interim assessments and feedback from these assessments.
Recommended or required readings
English version not available.
Exam(s) in session
Any session
- In-person
written exam ( open-ended questions )
Continuous assessment
Additional information:
Each student's performance will be evaluated on the basis of a score of 200 pts distributed as follows
Out of 40 pts: having written the assignments requested during the course sessions. The points will be acquired for the student who will have handed in the work within the announced deadline.
The assignments to be completed individually: the first personal work submitted via eCampus and the account of an incident in the classroom (10 pts); the six formative evaluations listed in the course material (6x5pts).
Out of 160 pts: a written exam, open book: analysis of four unpublished problem situations based on the theoretical elements identified during the course (work sessions; formative evaluations; feedback from these evaluations; syntheses).
An optional exam will be organized at the end of the Elements of Sociology of Education course (date to be determined). Students will be asked to analyze three unseen situations. Students with a grade of 60/120 or higher will be exempted from part of the written exam: their exam will consist of only one question, instead of four questions for students who are not exempted.
For students who have passed the exemption test, the final grade on the written exam will be composed of the score on the exemption test (out of 120 pts) and the score on the written exam (out of 40 pts), for a total grade out of 80 pts translated into a grade calculated out of 160 pts.
For students who did not pass the exemption test (score below 60/120), the score of the written exam will be calculated on the basis of the written exam only, that is to say a score of 160 pts.
Work placement(s)
Organisational remarks and main changes to the course
Students are encouraged to check Ultra eCampus regularly to access the documents that will be made available to them.
Contacts
Jean-François GUILLAUME 04/366.35.03 Jean-Francois.Guillaume@uliege.be Bureau 1.90, Bâtiment B31 (Faculty of law, Sart Tilman)