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The PIF specialization is aimed at working professionals who wish to enhance their knowledge and skills in a field or area related to teaching, education or training. To this end, 4 courses are offered in M1 and 5 in M2. M1 comprises a majority of core curriculum units (TC), to give students time to discover and refine their choice of course.
Hybrid training in M1 and M2 with distance learning and two compulsory group sessions
per year at the FDE in Montpellier.
Course description
The ACTES pathway is designed for those wishing to study and support the transformation of work and related professional activities in light of the challenges posed by the ecological transition.
It is part of an initial training or lifelong learning approach. It is designed for students and professionals from a variety of fields (education, architecture, agriculture, crafts, sport, etc.) who wish to engage in a tool-based analysis of work, professional activities and the associated experience, in order to enter into informal transformative approaches (in actual work situations, through innovation, for example) or formal ones (within the framework of training schemes, for example), taking into account the ecological challenges of the moment.
Although the focus of the ACTES program is on analyzing the work, activities and experiences of professionals, scientific work from a variety of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences (education and training, anthropology, philosophy, social economy, etc.), as well as the life sciences (ecology, agronomy, etc.), is mobilized.
General objectives
- Contribute to the development of high-level cross-disciplinary skills relating to the analysis of work and its transformation in the light of ecological issues
- Contribute to the development of robust, ethically and technically sound professional skills.
Organization
Designed to be followed while maintaining a professional activity, the training is based on
three systems:
- Two to three weeks of compulsory annual retreats, during the 1st week of school holidays
of the school vacations (autumn, winter, spring). - Stand-alone (asynchronous), synchronous or co-modal distance learning (some Wednesdays);
- Individualized support from a tutor to help you prepare your dissertation.
The multi-day courses will take place at the FDE Montpellier site.
Distance learning will be supported by a digital platform providing access to a range of resources: course documents, bibliographical elements, training activities, exchange mechanisms, etc.
Training content
The contents are organized around three axes:
- Precise empirical, theoretical and methodological scientific contributions to (1) analyze and (2) be able to support the effects of the ecological transition on work, professional activities and the lived experiences of professionals in situ. Although the Master's program is focused on work and training, certain contributions will also come from different scientific disciplines in order to grasp the complexity of the issue (political context, socio-economic issues, etc.).
- Original training situations (reflective analysis, video-training, role-playing, etc.) to evoke, understand and analyze specific work situations. These situations aim to develop professional knowledge, know-how and interpersonal skills, as well as building training systems and tools (training platforms, situations, instruments, etc.).
- A collaborative research approach, based on qualitative and situated approaches (socio-anthropology, ergonomics and activity analysis in particular), leading to the production of a dissertation. This dissertation, with both scientific and professional aims (training tools, for example), may take the usual written form, or a mixed form combining written parts and films or sound documents.
This course begins in M1. Direct access to M2 is possible in exceptional cases, depending on the candidate's level of study, or by validation of professional experience within the university framework.
- Be a teaching or education professional
- Hold a license
- Pre-register on the Faculty of Education website.
- Registration fee: approx. €250
| Semester 2 totals | 135 | 30 | |
| Total Master 1 | 212 | 60 | |
| Semester 1 | Total student hours | ECTS | |
| EU 101 | Challenges and changes in education | 45 | 15 |
| EU 102 | Introduction to research | 32 | 15 |
| Total semester 1 | 77 | 30 | |
| Semester 2 | ECTS | ||
| EU 201 | Using scientific literature | 24 | 5 |
| EU 202 | Building a research project | 21 | 5 |
| EU 203 | Foreign languages and research writing | 24 | 5 |
| EU 204 | Practice and analysis of activity: trainees and trainers | 30 | 7 |
| EU 205 | Knowledge and situations | 21 | 4 |
| EU 206 | Learning theories and professional development | 15 | 4 |
| Semester 4 totals | 93 | 30 | |
| Total Master 2 | 165 | 60 | |
| Semester 3 | Total student hours | ECTS | |
| EU 301 | Work and training engineering | 24 | 8 |
| EU 302 | One man's work and another man's work | 24 | 7 |
| UE 303 | Conducting research | 24 | 15 |
| Total semester 3 | 72 | 30 | |
| Semester 4 | ECTS | ||
| EU 401 | Work, heritage, environment and society | 30 | 7 |
| EU 402 | Invention at work | 33 | 7 |
| EU 403 | Completing your search | 30 | 16 |


