Engelska Studiehandboken kurser

Dept. of Education and Teaching Methods

PÄP622 Education C 30.0 ECTS credits

DENNA SIDA FINNS OCKSÅ PÅ SVENSKA

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TIMEPERIOD: Q1, Q2


LANGUAGE: Swedish

EXAMINER
Gunilla Johansson Univ lekt


PREREQUISITES
Education B.

COURSE AIM
Item 1. Educational Research The aim of the item is that the student should acquire in-depth knowledge and skills in how to create scientific knowledge about the study object of the education. The course item is directed towards several problem areas. The student should get in-depth knowledge about the beginning, development and conditions of the educational science as well as take part of the contemporary debate, based on theory of science, within the subject. The aim of the course is further to broaden and specialize knowledge and skills in research methodology. Item 2. Paper Work The aim of the item is the student should practice his ability to systematic describe, explain and understand educational practitioner. The student should choose the subject of the paper work together with the teacher who grades.

CONTENTS
The issue of the education as a scientific discipline is traditional to systematical describe, explain and understand the educational practice - rearing, education and teaching - that exists and has existed in the society. The educational problem area deals with questions about how, why and which values, knowledge and skills that arise, are preserved and change within and between cultures, generations, groups and individuals. The subject of education today also comprises in a wider sense an orientation towards learning that thereby widen practitioner and study objects for the subject.

TEACHING
The form of the teaching is lectures, seminars, group pracices as well as supervision.The form of the teaching at the item of the written paper is undergraduate research and supervision. Several students can co-operate about the same paper work.

EXAMINATION
The examination is written and oral, individual and in group. The item of the written paper will be examined at a seminar where the examiner/doctoral canditate model is applied.
COURSE GRADE SCALE: Fail, Pass, Distinction.

ITEMS/CREDITS

Paper Work                                                  	15.0ECTS
Research Process/examination                                	7.5ECTS
Educational research                                        	7.5ECTS


COURSE LITTERATURE
Alvesson, M & Sköldberg, K (1994). Tolkning och reflexion. Vetenskapsfilosofi och kvalitativ metod. Studentlitteratur. Eklund, H (1995). Pedagogisk forskning under en femårsperiod. En studie av innehåll och forskningsmönster i svenska doktorsavhandlingar under åren 1988-1992. Linköpings universitet. Institutionen för pedagogik och psykologi. Henriksson, W (1992). Statistik. Icke-parametriska metoder. Umeå: Umeå universitet. Pedagogiska institutionen. Lindberg, L & Berge, B-M (red.) (1988). Pedagogik som vetenskap - Vetenskap som pedagogik. Lund: Studentlitteratur. Utöver ovanstående tillkommer artiklar ca 200 sidor samt avhandlingar som belyser olika forskningsdesigner enligt lärares anvisningar.

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