Programme

Media Arts

Level of Qualification|Semesters|ECTS

Doctorate | Semestral | 7,5

Year | Type of course unit | Language

1 |Mandatory |Português

Total of Working Hours | Duration of Contact (hours)

187,8 | 45

Code

ULP1962-15356

Recommended complementary curricular units

n/a

Mode of study

Face-to-face

Precedences

Não

Professional Internship

Não

Syllabus

1º Introduction to the research process.
2º Stages of a research project.
-Research Design
-Methodological Conception
-Empirical Conception
3° Methods and research techniques
-Interview
-Focus groups
-Direct observation and participant
4º Analytical techniques
-Content Analysis and analysis of Speech (verbal and visual)
-Document analysis
5º Research Ethics and ethics of action
-Researchers and communities
-Particularities of longitudinal studies
6º Action research in time
-Chicago School (John Dewey, Robert e. Park)
-Action Research (Kurt Lewin)
-Participatory Action Research (Paulo Freire)
-Ethnographic studies
7º Styles, standards and scientific databases
-Research, writing and scientific dissemination

Objectives

It is intended that the student is able:
To understand and have knowledge of different participatory methodologies that can be applied in different social contexts and using multiple tools for working with populations.
Identification of historical references, concepts and authors who have contributed to the evolution of the field of research, promoting in contemporary world its greater visibility and applicability
Consider science is a process of take into account a critical thinking on the deployment processes and discuss the ethical issues that can came out when the investigation mixes with social spectrum, getting involved directly with children, young people and adults
In current society is still of vital importance to link participatory methodologies and new technologies, the new journalistic expressions and lifelong learning in different learning spaces and citizenship.

Knowledge, abilities and skills to be acquired

Student should be able to understand and have knowledge of different participatory methodologies that can be applied in different social contexts and using multiple tools for working with populations
Identification of historical references, concepts and authors who have contributed to the evolution of the field of research, promoting in contemporary world its greater visibility and applicability

Teaching methodologies and assessment

Theoretical framework
Critical reading of fundamental texts, in which students will have to think on the basis of the PhD project or other project they know or have done
Seminars with experts who have projects already implemented or to be implemented and which could serve as an example of to how to foster new ideas for project (communities, journalism, organizations, tertiary sector)
Rating:
Critical Participation in class (10%)
Final essay (as article) with empirical study (90%)
The final essay deadline: 2 months after the last class.

References

Cammarota, J. & Fine, M (Eds) (2008). Revolutionizing education: Youth participatory action research in motion. Nova Iorque: Routledge.
Freire, P. (1967). A educação como prática da liberdade. Rio de Janeiro: Paz e Terra.
Kindon, S., Pain, R. & Kesby, M. (Eds) (2007). Participatory action research, approaches and methods. Connecting people, participation and place. Londres e Nova Iorque: Routledge.
Lewin, K. (1946). Action research and minority problems. Journal of Social Issues, 2, 34¿46.
Mathieu, D. & Brites, M.J. (2015). Expanding the Reach of the Interview in Audience and Reception Research: The Performative and Participatory Models of Interview. In F. Zeller, C. Ponte & B. O¿Neill (Eds.), Revitalising Audience Research: Innovations in European Audience Research (pp. 44-61). Routledge book séries: Nova Iorque e Oxon.
Reason, P. & Bradbury-Huan, H. (Eds) (2008). The SAGE Handbook of Action Research¿ Participative Inquiry and Practice. Londres, Thousand Oaks, Nova Deli e Singa.