jul. 29 2021
Construing EU regions through VET and smart city policies
Presentation of paper at ECER 2021: ECER 2021 VET Smart Cities
jul. 29 2021
Presentation of paper at ECER 2021: ECER 2021 VET Smart Cities
jul. 26 2021
set. 04 2020
març 22 2020
Enllaço també aquí les presentacions i els vídeos que he elaborat per preparar docència online durant el temps de confinament.
Aquests materials formen part de l’assignatura Societat de la Informació, dels graus d’Empresa i Tecnologia i de Gestió Aeronàutica de la UAB.
2_Governança_Part1 Vídeo aquí
2_Governança_Part2 Vídeo aquí
des. 02 2019
En las prácticas profesionales del Máster de Política Social (UAB) los y las estudiantes participan en un proyecto que una administración pública, una entidad del tercer sector o un grupo de investigación esté llevando a cabo. Esta actividad formativa pretende tender puentes entre la educación académica y el mundo profesional.
En la evaluación de estas prácticas participan el tutor/a de la entidad que recibe al estudiante, y el equipo docente que coordina el módulo docente que corresponde. La primera evaluación se lleva a cabo rellenando un breve formulario con escalas de valoración (de 1 a 5). La segunda requiere elaborar un diario de campo y un breve análisis de la organización.
Los estudiantes aprender a aplicar los conceptos teóricos del máster. En ocasiones, para ello tienen que desempeñar tareas que presuponen un nivel avanzado de técnicas de investigación social. Si esta exigencia les provoca inseguridad, la coordinación académica de las prácticas les ofrece apoyo especializado para que puedan llevarlas a cabo. Además, las prácticas requieren que los futuros profesionales aprendan a desenvolverse en unas organizaciones que son muy distintas a la universidad que imparte el máster. Por este motivo, elaboran un análisis de la organización, el cual además de aplicar conceptos teóricos, afianza su competencia de orientarse en entornos profesionales de muy distinto tipo.
El diario, pues, es una de las principales actividades de evaluación. Al mismo tiempo que los/as estudiantes están desempeñando sus tareas en la organización, es conveniente que vayan tomando notas de varios aspectos significativos. Un buen diario se compone, al menos, de tres tipos de notas:
Para completar con éxito las prácticas, también es indispensable que estos/as estudiantes escriban un breve pero consistente análisis de la organización con la que han colaborado. Un análisis consiste en formular una hipótesis sobre varios aspectos, y en sugerir algunas referencias empíricas que permitan sustentarla. No se trata de demostrar nada ni de completar una investigación propiamente dicha, sino de acreditar hasta qué punto alguien puede formular los juicios más comunes entre los expertos en ciencias sociales. Por supuesto, no es necesario argumentar el fundamento teórico de la hipótesis, y el valor de las referencias empíricas puede ser muy relativo. Un análisis de este tipo simplemente tiene que elaborar un argumento convincente, breve y claro. Varias herramientas ofrecen instrumentos para realizar este análisis.
des. 01 2019
When completing the GLOBED master’s degree, students are capable to analyse education policies for global development through the lens of the social sciences as well as to evaluate their contributions to social justice and human development. In addition, they have acquired basic professional skills by conducing fieldwork, doing an internship and writting a thesis. The master fosters learning by both studying and doing at the same time.
The internship programme of GLOBED induces students to perform a varied array of tasks in an organisation where they improve skills such as abstract thinking, practical reasoning and creativity. In addition, the internship requires a few but systematic academic tasks that consist of reporting activity, reflecting on practice and analysing the organisation. These academic tasks bridge theory with professional experience. The academic tasks also trigger a form of professional reflexivity that help students to realise the underlying challenges and cultivate their career- management skills accordingly.
Mostly, the academic component of the internship lies in producing a reflexive journal that includes at least six substantial entries. Some of these entries simply narrate the routine of students in the organisation. Others highlight some aspects that indicate how students learn to perform in this context. A final type of entries draft some insights on the vision, mission, work processes, challenges and emerging changes of the organisation.
Experience goes hand in hand with analysis. Each type of skills feeds the other one. Students learn by going back and forth from one to the other, and back from the latter to the former.
Analysing consists of breaking complex phenomena into smaller parts whose close inspection and whose interconnections induce a deeper understanding of the whole. Although the internship does not expect students to theorise on the models that lead analyses in research, it proposes them to start with very simple and brief summaries and diagrams.
The following list compiles basic presentations of models that have proven helpful in previous editions of the master. These outline the main concepts that inspire the most intriguing and interesting questions:
maig 30 2019
Current debates on global governance often revisit an old debate in the social sciences. While some theories argue that good or bad ideas on how to design institutions are the ultimate cause of political developments, other theories insist that this ultimate cause lies in struggle and negotiation. Rational-choice and historical institutionalism represent the two perspectives in political science.
The same type of discrepancy divides experts on global governance nowadays. For instance, Jeffrey Sachs considers that coherent arguments on the potential of the SDGs are capable to make a difference by persuading the elites. In contrast, Aart Scholte highlights a complex array of social relations that condition global governance.
In 2018-2019, the students of Social Change and Globalisation evaluated the insights of these diverging theories. Their work focused on such issues of the global policy agendas as nutrition and education. On the one hand, Nestlé claims that it is producing shared value, while FAO works for achieving the SDGs that concern agriculture and food. On the other hand, GEMS Education claims that its activity fosters access to education, while the Global Campaign of Education warns that private education threatens the right to education.
Global nutrition and education policies entail a number of implications for the social sciences, political philosophy and practical decision-making. This exercise focused on one of these implications. An influential standpoint suggests the following research question: Are the current problems in these areas the consequence of good or bad previous institutional designs? However, another widespread perspective suggests a different research question: Are these problems the outcome of old struggles and negotiations?
Certainly, qualified and sound analyses must draw on the whole array of expert opinions in order to achieve consistent conclusions. However, halfway positions are not convincing simply because their premises are intermediate. Although all experts assume that both institutional designs and struggles play a role, the order of factors eventually alters the product. If designs set the the pattern, struggles only take place on the flaws of the initial designs. If struggles set the pattern, designs reflect an equilibrium of power. The floor is yours.
març 18 2019
The final newsletter of project YOUNG_ADULLLT summarises key insights and recommendations (here)
gen. 31 2019
El sociòleg Erik Olin Wright ha mort al gener de 2019. Aquest obituari explica força bé la seva enorme obra acadèmica.
A més de les teories i recerques, també ha llegat un veritable repositori de recursos per a la docència universitària. Entre molts, en podem destacar tres: