The socio-educational reality of the social educator is complex, diverse and difficult to analyse, describe and interpret. For this reason, it is necessary that throughout their academic training, they acquire a series of competences that will enable them to develop their subsequent professional activity.
For this reason, the learning and application of different research methodologies, which are developed in this subject, will allow the social educator in the future to select the most appropriate one to solve the problems that he/she will encounter in his/her next working environment, without forgetting that this agent, within his/her working environment, will have to research in order to be able to find possible solutions to improve the context in which he/she carries out his/her working activity.
The diversity of epistemological conceptions applicable to different social situations will be a source of information for the social researcher, allowing him/her to determine which is the most appropriate for solving the problem he/she is facing. It is not intended to establish a priority or order of importance between the various modes of research, but rather it is the research problem that will determine the choice of one methodology or another, making it the most valid for this type of problem. All this is meaningless if we do not ask and answer the question: What do we want to achieve?
There are many instruments that we can use to obtain data and, therefore, it is necessary to be aware of the wide range of possibilities. A good professional will be the one who knows how to choose, in each circumstance, the techniques and instruments that best suit the situation. It is necessary to deepen our knowledge and mastery of the different tools at our disposal. Thus, this subject will analyse the main techniques and instruments that can be applied to the socio-educational field, indicating their fundamental characteristics, the advantages and disadvantages they present and the most appropriate circumstances or moments to put them into practice.
Contingency plan
Contingency plan (adapted from addendum Covid19):
1. Modifications to content: no changes will be made 2.
2. Teaching methodologies to be maintained: -Master classes - ICT practices - Case studies - Problem solving - Analysis of documentary sources - Collaborative learning - Mixed testing - Personalised attention. Methodologies in this contingency plan no changes will be made.
3. Mechanisms for personalised attention to students:
E-mail: For use to make specific queries that do not require synchronous tutoring to be resolved.
- Virtual Campus: Used to give students access to the material, provide them with relevant information and to request synchronous tutorials to resolve doubts and follow up on tutored work.
In addition to synchronous and asynchronous tutorials, students have a consultation forum in which both teachers and students themselves can create new threads associated with the modules or specific activities, to make queries whose answers are useful to the student body as a whole.
- Teams:
A) weekly session in a large interactive group (as in the interactive classes) for the advancement of the contents and the knowledge sheets and tests in the time slot assigned to the subject in the class calendar approved by the Faculty Board.
B) From 1 to 2 sessions per week (or more depending on student demand) in small groups (at least 6 people) for monitoring and support in the completion of the guided worksheets.
This dynamic allows for a standardised and adjusted follow-up of the students' learning needs in order to develop the subject.
4. Modifications in the evaluation: no changes will be made.
Observations:
a) The presence of the students will only be controlled in the interactive classes of the subject through the knowledge tests that will be taken at the end of each session, being essential that the students take and hand them in while they are present in the classroom.
Students will be considered to be in attendance as long as they attend the interactive classes; they can only be absent three times (without justification), but never more than twice in each of the parts of the subject (technical part and analysis part). Students may present excuses for missing class, provided they are medical, work, hospitalisation, etc., but they must be approved (they cannot be, for example, a request for a doctor's appointment, etc.). The main resource to be used for the control of student attendance will be the Virtual Campus, where the knowledge tests will take place, as well as some other virtual means of recording attendance (e.g. Forms).
b) Non-attendance students can follow the course through the Virtual Campus, although they will not be able to participate in the knowledge tests nor will they be called by TEAMS for the interactive classes. Students who, given a new situation of confinement, have chosen this option (in the first week of class) or who have already exceeded three absences in total (or two in any of the parts of the subject) will be considered non-attendance students; in this last option the students will automatically pass to this modality. The assessment of these students will be maintained as stated in the Teaching Guide, in the specific section "observations".
c) The assessment will be entirely through the Virtual Campus, with the differences presented in the teaching guide between face-to-face and non-face-to-face students.
d) The expository classes will continue under the non face-to-face modality. A Power Point with the recorded voice of the explanation or through a video stream (the link will appear on the Virtual Campus) will be presented to the students one week in advance on the Virtual Campus (the lectures will be on Mondays from 9:00 to 10:00 a.m.).
e) The interactive classes will move to the non-classroom mode, maintaining the format of working groups that had been specified in the hybrid mode. The working groups will be created by TEAMS, which will be the means through which the worksheets and the knowledge test will be monitored by the teachers (these classes will always take place during the timetable approved by the Xunta de Facultad).
f) The assessment of the subject will be, in all possible modalities, virtual (due to health circumstances) and the same weighting of the grades will be maintained, regardless of the teaching modality. It will be as follows: the mixed test will be conducted by Virtual Campus (on the date and time approved by the Xunta de Facultad for the exam of the January or July call); the knowledge tests will be within each interactive class (in this case, at the end of the interactive class by TEAMS). The tests will not be enabled until the interactive classes start each interactive group (each interactive group will have a different knowledge test); the cards that are made will be presented in two documents and will be posted on the Virtual Campus on the date established by the teachers on the first day of the class. It should be remembered that the on-site student must take each of the forms of evaluation to pass the subject, i.e., he/she must take the mixed test and the knowledge tests (the qualification of these tests is always conditioned to the delivery of the documents of the practices in the Virtual Campus). Non-attendance students will only have to take the mixed test (see the evaluation section of the teaching guide).
g) The tutorials of the subject will be individual (except in the case of tutorials on the work dossiers) and virtual. Students must request an appointment with the teacher via the Virtual Campus, in the link provided for this purpose. VERY IMPORTANT, THE TUTORIALS WILL ALWAYS BE WITHIN THE SCHEDULE PRESENTED BY THE TEACHERS THAT TEACH THE SUBJECT.
h) Modifications to the bibliography or webgraphy: no changes will be made. All the work materials are already available digitally on the Virtual Campus.
(*)The teaching guide is the document in which the URV publishes the information about all its courses. It is a public document and cannot be modified. Only in exceptional cases can it be revised by the competent agent or duly revised so that it is in line with current legislation.
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