Research Methodologies in Education

Code: PED11169M

6 ECTS

Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours

Scientific Area: Education Sciences

Teaching languages: Portuguese

Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese, English, Spanish

Regime de Frequência: Presencial

Sustainable Development Goals

Educação de qualidade - Assegurar a educação inclusiva, e equitativa e de qualidade, e promover oportunidades de aprendizagem ao longo da vida para todos.

Igualdade de género - Alcançar a igualdade de gênero e empoderar todas as mulheres e meninas.

Reduzir as desigualdades - Reduzir as desigualdades dentro dos países e entre eles.

Cidades e comunidades sustentáveis - Tornar as cidades e os assentamentos humanos inclusivos, seguros, resilientes e sustentáveis.

Paz, justiça e instituições eficazes - Paz, justiça e instituições eficazes promover sociedades pacíficas e inclusivas par ao desenvolvimento sustentável, proporcionar o acesso à justiça para todos e construir instituições eficazes, responsáveis
e inclusivas em todos os níveis.

Learning Goals

To know the epistemological assumptions that differentiate the major ways of approaching the educational reality.
To develop research skills in education, identifying its specificities. To apply fundamental concepts of research in education, in the analysis and research design. To know methods and techniques for collecting research data in education. Know techniques for processing and analyzing data resulting from research in education. To build methodologically grounded research projects appropriate to the problems under study. To analyze and prepare critical investigation reports; To be able to use the research dimension, mobilizing previously knowledge, associated with intervention projects in the field of education.

Epistemological foundations of research in education.
The ethics of research.
Research strategies and research designs: the interrelation between paradigm(s), problem(s), objectives and research methods.
Methods, techniques and instruments for collecting and analyzing data.
The research project and the educational action. Action research as a strategy for consolidating teaching practice.
The writing of scientific reports: the specific case of the Supervised Teaching Practice report.

Teaching Methods

According to the objectives of the curricular unit, methodologies will be developed that favor the participation of students in classes, through debate, reasoned criticism and reflective intervention, as well as the experimentation of research instruments, contributing, simultaneously, to the consolidation of their knowledge and for the respective mobilization. Still according to the objectives, models centered on students and their personal and professional development will be developed.

Assessment

To be approved in the course, any student who has met the minimum attendance criteria must complete two individual assignments: one consisting of the critical analysis of a research article (50%) and the other consisting of a research project in the specific area of your course (50%). The assignments requested from students are appropriate to the areas related to the specificity of each course.