The course aims to describe the main lines of the transition from research orientations that move in a objectivistic and rationalistic framework to mostly qualitative approaches turned to open and recursive forms of research; the course intends to let students understand the main features of a transformative and ethnographic approach, connecting them to educational contexts. By the end of the course students will be able to: - identify some relevant qualitative research on vocational education and training in the major search engines and in academic sites; - know and understand the review criteria used in the peer review procedures of qualitative research articles; - critically analyse these research works; - know and understand the main features of transformative and ethnographic research methods, linking them to a concrete research process in educational contexts; - design the main elements of a qualitative research work, starting from a real or simulated educational context.
The course aims to describe the main lines of the transition from research orientations that move in a objectivistic and rationalistic framework to mostly qualitative approaches turned to open and recursive forms of research; the course intends to let students understand the main features of a transformative and ethnographic approach, connecting them to educational contexts. By the end of the course students will be able to: - identify some relevant qualitative research on vocational education and training in the major search engines and in academic sites; - know and understand the review criteria used in the peer review procedures of qualitative research articles; - critically analyse these research works; - know and understand the main features of transformative and ethnographic research methods, linking them to a concrete research process in educational contexts; - design the main elements of a qualitative research work, starting from a real or simulated educational context.
SYLLABUS
The course will develop the following thematic cores:
- Quantitative research and qualitative research: from opposition to complementarity?
- the process of doing research: identification of the research question, collection, analysis, and interpretation of data;
- research and training: the formative value of research processes;
- the epistemological horizons of doing ethnographic research on the analysis of educational practices in the training sector;
- approaches and tools of qualitative research for the analysis of training practices: examples;
- the main resources for educational research in the educational field: research centers, journals.
| Author | Title | Publisher | Year | ISBN | Note |
| Lipari, D. | Dentro la formazione. Etnografia, pratiche, apprendimento | Guerini | 2016 | 9788868960773 | |
| Mario Cardano | La ricerca qualitativa | Il Mulino | 2011 | 978-88-15-14980-0 | |
| Giuseppe Tacconi e Nicoletta Morbioli (a cura di) | Reinventare la scuola. La sfida dell'istruzione degli adulti in Italia (Edizione 1) | Erickson | 2019 | 978-88-590-2041-7 |
ORAL examination with
• 3 essay questions to assess the acquired knowledge (up to 12 points)
• one presentation of a selected article (up to 8 points)
• one question to assess deep understanding (up to 10 points)
