Methods and Techniques of Educational Situations Observation

Recommended Prerequisites

Not required.

Teaching Methods

Contact hours - Seminar with the following configuration:

 - Lectures and implementation of individual and/or small group tasks;

 - Bibliographic Research and/or empirical;

 - Demonstration of procedures, presentation techniques and instruments.

Independent work of students (for consolidation and deepening)

- Preparation and/or continuation of the seminars

Tutorial guidance (for diverse learning support)

- Individual study support, preparation and development of tasks.

Learning Outcomes

1) To know and understand key aspects of pedagogical observation

- Explain the origin, relevance and specificity of scientific observation

- Recognize the meaning and place of pedagogical observation as scientific observation 

2) To implement with correction processes of pedagogical observation

- Plan these processes

- Develop these processes

- Systematize information collected in these processes

- Evaluate these processes

(3) To use information collected in the process of pedagogical observation

- Interpret this information in a clarified way

- Suggest possibilities for pedagogical intervention.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Introduction

1. Fundamental aspects of scientific observation

1.1. Assumptions of scientific observation

1.2. Invention and evolution of scientific observation

1.3. Strategies and instruments of observation in science

2. Pedagogical observation as scientific observation

2.1. Continuities and particularities of pedagogical observation

2.2. Psychosocial effects involved in the processes of inference

2.3. Context and framework of pedagogical observation

3. Structuring processes of pedagogical observation

3.1. Conceptualization of the processes of observation

3.2. Planning the observation process

3.3. Implementing the processes of observation and analysis of collected data

3.4. Use of available information

3.5. Assessment of observation procedures

4. Analysis and/or organization of the pedagogical observation processes

4.1. Observation of educators and teachers

4.2. Observation of students

4.3. Observation of educational resources

4.4.Observation of pedagogical circumstances

Synthesis.

Head Lecturer(s)

Maria Helena Lopes Damião Silva

Assessment Methods

Continuous evaluation
Frequency: 50.0%
Synthesis work: 50.0%

Final evaluation
Exam: 100.0%

Bibliography

Altet, M., & Britten, J. D. (1983). Micro-enseignement et formation des enseignants. Paris: PUF.

Anguerra, M.T. (1983). Manual de prácticas de observación. Mejico: Trillas.

De Ketele, J. M. (1984). Observar para educar. Madrid: Aprendizaje -Visor.

Bronowski, J. (1973). The ascent of man. Boston: Litle, Brow and Company.

Damião, M. H. (2006). Observação pedagógica. Caderno. Coimbra: UC.

Denzin, N. K., & Lincoln, Y. S. (2005). Handbook of qualitative research. Thousand Oaks: Sage.

Estrela, A. (1994). Teoria e prática da observação de classes. Porto: Porto editora.

Fróis, C. (Org.) (2009). A sociedade vigilante: Ensaios sobre identificação, vigilância e privacidade. Lisboa: ICS.

Hammersley, M. (Ed.). (2007). Educational research and evidence-based practice. The Open University Press/Sage.

Peña Acuña, B. (2011). Métodos científicos de observación en Educación. Madrid: Vison Libros.

Postic, M. (1979). Observação e formação de professores. Coimbra: Almedina.