Education Sciences
Cycle
Terceiro ciclo
Degree
Doctorate
Coordinator
Carlos Ceia; José Manuel Matos (FCT-UNL)
Opening date
September 2015
Vacancies
20 vagas (candidaturas na FCT/UNL)
Fees
2.750,00 €/year
Schedule
After-work schedule
Education objectives
The doctoral degree will be awarded to students who demonstrate:
a) Capacity of systematic understanding of the issues and problems of Educational Sciences;
b) Expertise, skills and research methods in Educational Sciences;
c) Capacity to design and carry out an inquiry respecting requirements imposed by international quality standards;
d) Skills that allow the achievement of a significant group of original research works in the area of Educational Sciences, that will contribute to the expansion of knowledge frontiers, and which can deserve dissemination in national and international publications with a selection committee;
e) Ability to critically analyze, evaluate, and synthesize new and complex ideas concerning the scientific and social world in general, and the area of educational sciences in particular;
f) Skills which enable to communicate with their peers, the remainder academic community and society at large about Educational Sciences.
Access conditions
To enter the doctoral studies cycle, the applicant must meet the conditions set by national legislation and UNL/ISPA regulations, meeting at least one of the following conditions: -holding a master´s degree, or equivalent, especially teachers and educators of all levels of education, education and training professionals, social workers and educators from the health areas; -holding an undergraduate degree and a particularly relevant academic or scientific curriculum recognized by the Scientific Council (CC) of the associated institutions; -holding an academic, scientific or professional curriculum recognized by CC at member institutions. Candidates are selected taking into account the academic and scientific curriculum; professional curriculum; interview; and a text with a max. of 5 pages describing the scientific, personal and/or professional motivation for the course. The criteria will be evaluated by at least two members of the Scientific Committee of the CED.
Degree pre-requisites
Length: 3 years/6 semesters. Student must accomplish 180 ECTS including 60 ECTS in curricular units and 120 ECTS in a thesis and its public defense.
Access to other courses
A Doctorate is a final qualification.
Evaluation rules
The study course leading to the doctoral degree includes the completion of a doctoral program that consists of curricular unit aimed at training for research; the realization of an original thesis, designed especially for this purpose, appropriate to the branch of knowledge or expertise. The seminar curricular units type are classified on a scale of 0-20. The final classification of the PhD course is expressed by approved or not approved formulas. In case of approval, the final classification of the PhD course is expressed in the range 10-20 on a scale of 0-20, doing the arithmetic average of the marks in which the curricular units with 10 ECTS. The final classification of the thesis is expressed by formulas approved or refused by justified nominal vote with no abstentions.
Structure
| Mandatory | ||
| Code | Name | ECTS |
| 73221101 | Metodologias de Investigação em Educação (not translated) | 10 |
| 73221115 | Monografia (not translated) | 20 |
| 73221100 | Questões e Problemáticas da Educação (not translated) | 10 |