Sociology of Education

6 ECTS credits
180 u studietijd

Aanbieding 1 met studiegidsnummer 1023287BNR voor alle studenten in het 2e semester met een verdiepend bachelor niveau.

Semester

2e semester

Inschrijving onder examencontract

Niet mogelijk

Beoordelingsvoet

Beoordeling (0 tot 20)

2e zittijd mogelijk

Inschrijvingsvereisten

Students who want to enroll for this course, must have passed 'Introduction to Sociology’ and must have obtained at least 30 ECTS-credits on bachelor level. There are no requisites for students from the Dutch bachelor of Political and Social Sciences.

Onderwijstaal

Engels

Onder samenwerkingsakkoord

Onder interuniversitair akkoord mbt. opleiding

Faculteit

Faculteit Sociale Wetensch & SolvayBusinessSchool

Verantwoordelijke vakgroep

Sociologie

Externe partnerinstelling(en)

Universiteit Gent

Onderwijsteam

Jannick Demanet (titularis)
Salvatore Ioverno

Onderdelen en contacturen

0 contacturen Exam
30 contacturen Lecture
150 contacturen Self study

Inhoud

Education is one of the most central institutions in society. It serves the function of socializing new generations, but also of selecting and allocating students to take their place in the labour market. By many, education is seen as the key institution which ensures social mobility in society, but in many countries, conversely, education has been reproducing inequality, rather than diminishing it.

This course is focused on providing students with a thorough and detailed introduction to the sociology of education. In the first part, we discuss the most important classical and contemporary theoretical frameworks in the sociology of education. In the second part, classes are organized around specific topics within the sociology of education, including inequality of opportunity related to social class, gender, and ethnicity, schools as open systems organizations, teacher-student interactions and classroom management, and the emergence of adolescent subcultures in schools.

Studiemateriaal

Digitaal cursusmateriaal (Vereist) : Digital reader, specific content to be communicated at the start of classes

Bijkomende info

Not applicable.

Leerresultaten

General competences

Upon completion of this course, students will have learned the following competencies

To have insight in classical and contemporary sociological thinking about education
To be able to process sociological explanations about education independently
To be able to critically assess the strengths and weaknesses of classic and contemporary sociological accounts of education
To be able to apply sociological explanations about education to concrete real-world case studies
To be able to develop an original sociological account of schools and education in writing

More specifically, the course addresses the following program-specific learning outcomes:

LO1: knows and can elaborate on the most important theories, currents and concepts prevailing in the domain of the social sciences.
LO2: knows the historical developments that have occurred in the fields of sociology, political sciences and communication sciences over time.
LO3: knows the cross-sections, the intersections and the cross-fertilisations that exist amongst the different social sciences.
LO4: knows the historical, political, juridical and socio-economic structures that shape the activities and define the agency of political institutions, private and public social organisations and media-organisations in Europe.
LO5: knows and can explain the multilayered and complex character of social, political and media-related facts and phenomena.
LO8: can interpret and analyse contemporary social phenomena and problems and can take position, relying on contemporary theories in the domain of the social sciences, in debates on them.
LO10: can critically position their research against the theories that prevail in the international social sciences literature, including recent developments and innovations in these literatures.
LO11: can, independently, identify, gather and critically process relevant sources and literature on a specific social sciences research topic.
LO12: can, with limited supervision, apply social theories and concepts to a well-delineated, socially and scientifically relevant research topic in the domain of the social sciences.
LO16: can report, independently, on their research in both oral and written form.
LO18: can reflect on and evaluate their learning process and research and can deal with criticism in a constructive manner.

Beoordelingsinformatie

De beoordeling bestaat uit volgende opdrachtcategorieën:
Examen Schriftelijk bepaalt 100% van het eindcijfer

Binnen de categorie Examen Schriftelijk dient men volgende opdrachten af te werken:

Written Exam met een wegingsfactor 70 en aldus 70% van het totale eindcijfer.
Paper met een wegingsfactor 30 en aldus 30% van het totale eindcijfer.

Aanvullende info mbt evaluatie

Formative assessment

Interactive lectures. Students process scientific texts before coming to class, and their questions and comments will be used as input for interactive lectures, forming the basis for the group discussion, peer-to-peer learning, and application of the subject matter to everyday examples
Written assignment (30% of the total mark). Students will write a paper for this course. Important: it is not possible to hand in the paper or rework it for the second examination session.

Summative assessment

Written exam (70% total mark). Students will take a written examination for this course. In this exam, it is assessed whether students can explain the theoretical approaches in their own words, discuss them in a critical manner, and apply them to new case studies.

Toegestane onvoldoende

Kijk in het aanvullend OER van je faculteit na of een toegestane onvoldoende mogelijk is voor dit opleidingsonderdeel.

Academische context

Deze aanbieding maakt deel uit van de volgende studieplannen:
Bachelor of Social Sciences: Sociology (enkel aangeboden in het Engels)