Objectives of Programme's Learning Outcomes

• Understand, thoroughly and critically, the basic theoretical frameworks on social transitions and innovations.
• Understand and appropriately apply highly specialised knowledge of human and social sciences.
• Analyse social, political and economic change.
• Analyse social experiment processes.
• Understand the epistemological postures and the methodological tools human sciences related to issues of social transitions and innovations.
• Understand the epistemological frameworks in human and social sciences in order to change thought patterns.
• Understand the methodological frameworks in human and social sciences in order to change practices.
• Mobilise the relevant analytical approaches and the appropriate methodological tools to analyse, rigorously, thoroughly and comparatively, the problems of social transitions and innovations, including their interactions and their spatial and temporal evolutions.
• Appropriately apply analytical approaches and methodological tools in contexts of social transitions and innovations.
• Comparatively analyse the problems of social transitions and innovations.
• Develop an interdisciplinary and multiscale approach that integrates complementary disciplines, such as anthropology, sociology, political science, psychology and education, urban planning and architecture, geography, and history, in order to analyse transitions and put them into context.
• In an interdisciplinary framework, analyse social transitions by applying acquired knowledge of social sciences and put them into context.
• Articulate reflection, research and action in order to design and carry out an innovative research project.
• Understand the different steps and methods necessary to conduct scientific research on issues regarding social transitions and innovations.
• Construct a frame of reference and formulate an innovative issue based on the analysis of scientific literature and observations in the field.
• Intervene appropriately in concrete problems regarding transition, among other things, by developing answers and action plans from the creativity of local actors.
• Apply acquired skills in professional contexts of social transitions and innovations.
• Critically evaluate the scope, potential impacts and limitations of actions implemented in contexts of social transitions and innovations.
• Understand the tools of applied social sciences, and respond to social demands of actors concerned by issues of social transitions and innovations.
• Take a critical and ethical approach regarding the challenges of societal transitions of the 21st century and raise awareness among society and within politics.
• Refer to ethical principles by implementing innovative solutions for social and political actors.
• Communicate (verbally and in writing) with the different audiences concerned by issues of societal transitions.

Learning Outcomes of UE

At the end of this teaching unit, students will be able:
- To quote the definitions of inclusion and recent Legislative and paradigmatic changes;
- To list the major historical stages of inclusion;
- To quote the indicators of exclusion and inclusion;
- Identify and describe the devices and teaching practices for the educational and social inclusion of people with special needs
- To describe the nature and implications of the ecological approach in education sciences;
- To work in a multidisciplinary team in the implementation of an inclusion system;
- Plan and teach a curriculum promoting the inclusion of students

UE Content: description and pedagogical relevance

During this teaching unit, the key concepts and issues of social and educational inclusion will be addressed. This teaching unit is about studying the teaching contexts or social participation in order to promote social inclusion of every particpant. Students will take part to the analysis and conceptual elaboration in present researches.

Prior Experience

Not applicable