2025
Theory and Practice of Mediation
Name: Theory and Practice of Mediation
Code: PED02489L
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
Learning Goals
To reflect upon the psychosocial reality and the cultural determinatives, starting from the human component in treating conflicts
- Give students a full-scale picture of the means used by Justice and those that are ancillary to it (RAL).
- To know the most important proceedings developed by the Harvard Negotiating School so that students have the necessary tools in Mediation, thus being able to create the basis for future Mediation processes
- Provide students with an alternative view of Mediation, one that relies on conflict resolution among people, thus highlighting its advantages and main characteristics
- Underscore the role of the mediator, clarifying his/her role, and his/her function, highlighting his/her different stages in the mediation process
- Elucidate all the mediation services available in Small Claim Court, as well as the ethical and deontological norms that are the backbone of all mediation processes.
- Give students a full-scale picture of the means used by Justice and those that are ancillary to it (RAL).
- To know the most important proceedings developed by the Harvard Negotiating School so that students have the necessary tools in Mediation, thus being able to create the basis for future Mediation processes
- Provide students with an alternative view of Mediation, one that relies on conflict resolution among people, thus highlighting its advantages and main characteristics
- Underscore the role of the mediator, clarifying his/her role, and his/her function, highlighting his/her different stages in the mediation process
- Elucidate all the mediation services available in Small Claim Court, as well as the ethical and deontological norms that are the backbone of all mediation processes.
Contents
Sociological aspects of conflict. Psychological aspects of all those involved in conflicts.
- The Conflict: elements, ways of approaching it, and basic ways of solving it.
- Alternative ways of solving a conflict.
- Communication/Negotiation
- Mediation: concept and objectives
- The process of Mediation.
- The mediator: being and knowing
- How to apply mediation
- Mediation in Small Claims Court.
- Ethics and Deontology in Mediation.
- The Conflict: elements, ways of approaching it, and basic ways of solving it.
- Alternative ways of solving a conflict.
- Communication/Negotiation
- Mediation: concept and objectives
- The process of Mediation.
- The mediator: being and knowing
- How to apply mediation
- Mediation in Small Claims Court.
- Ethics and Deontology in Mediation.
Teaching Methods
The coursework will consist of two in-person group sessions, each lasting two hours, tutorial sessions (the timing of which will be determined in consultation with the students), and lectures by guest experts, each worth six ECTS. The group sessions will be diversified to accommodate different work styles: interactive presentations, group discussions, case studies, role-plays and simulations, analysis and presentation of comments on texts and papers, etc.
Assessment
Attendance
Students must attend 75% of in-person teaching sessions. Failure to comply with this clause will prevent them from completing the course.
Working students must contact the course instructor within 15 days of obtaining their status to adapt the assessment system to their academic and professional circumstances. The Continuous Assessment System involves a Written Exam (40%), a paper and its presentation (poster and point) (40%), and attendance/participation (20%).
The content of the paper to be completed throughout the semester, under the guidance of the instructor, as well as its presentation, will be subject to prior negotiation and agreement with the students. The papers will be submitted by email (presentations).
EXAM - Written Exam - 100% (to be held on a date to be agreed with the students). The content of the Test to be carried out throughout the semester, under the guidance of teachers, as well as its presentation will be subject to negotiation and understanding with the students in advance.
Students must attend 75% of in-person teaching sessions. Failure to comply with this clause will prevent them from completing the course.
Working students must contact the course instructor within 15 days of obtaining their status to adapt the assessment system to their academic and professional circumstances. The Continuous Assessment System involves a Written Exam (40%), a paper and its presentation (poster and point) (40%), and attendance/participation (20%).
The content of the paper to be completed throughout the semester, under the guidance of the instructor, as well as its presentation, will be subject to prior negotiation and agreement with the students. The papers will be submitted by email (presentations).
EXAM - Written Exam - 100% (to be held on a date to be agreed with the students). The content of the Test to be carried out throughout the semester, under the guidance of teachers, as well as its presentation will be subject to negotiation and understanding with the students in advance.
Teaching Staff
- Marília Evangelina Sota Favinha [responsible]
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