EDUCATIONAL AND SOCIAL THEORY AND RESEARCH

Curriculum: Educational theory and research Objectives Higher education and research activity training, also towards job placement. The doctorate aims to coordinate and improve existing potentialities in research education and in educational professions training. Connections between educational and social professions imply shared epistemological aspects, developing professional and research activities. Fields of research The Doctorate develops research programs on different issues related to methodologies (action research, oral history and life history, source documents research, qualitative and quantitative research methods, intervention research, participative observation), involving strong connection among them in order to achieve appropriate cognitive outcomes in relation to the complexity of investigated problems. The ‘Educational theory and research’ curriculum offers an interdisciplinary and international approach in four main topics: education and training problems in modern and contemporary society; individualized teaching; media and communication; interculturalism. Curriculum : Theoretical and applied social research Objectives Higher education and research activity training, also towards job placement. The doctorate aims to coordinate and improve existing potentialities in theoretical and applied social research. Fields of research The Doctorate develops research programs on different issues related to methodologies (action research, oral history and life history, source documents research, qualitative and quantitative research methods, intervention research, participative observation), involving strong connection among them in order to achieve appropriate cognitive outcomes in relation to the complexity of investigated problems. The ‘Theoretical and applied social research’ curriculum offers an interdisciplinary and international approach in the following main topics: a) history of sociological thought; b) sociological theory; c) politics on reduction of social inequalities and human empowerment; d) civil society and social volunteering; e) social work as a helping profession.