SAFIR
Contact / Information
Registrar's Office – Faculty of Education
Tel: +33 (0)4 67 61 82 83
Course leaders
Registration
Montpellier Faculty of Education
Training location
Montpellier

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, 3 courses are offered in M1 and 3 in M2. M1 includes a majority of core curriculum units (TC), to give students time to discover and refine their choice of course.
This master's degree does not prepare students for the competitive examinations for primary and secondary school teachers.
Hybrid training in M1 and M2, with distance learning and two mandatory
per year at the FDE in Montpellier.
Course description
The SAFIR path studies the development, evolution and transmission of Knowledge, and questions the different conceptions of Learning. It aims to build training skills linked to engineering practices, as well as to the analysis of situations integrating the real activity of players in the teaching and educational training professions as closely as possible. The trainer's identity and professionalism are built up within a community of practice through research and the implementation of training research initiatives.
Backed by various fields of research in education and training science, this course mobilizes a multidisciplinary team of teachers and teacher-researchers.
General objectives
This course is designed for continuing education and certification of professional skills. Following validation of the Master's degree, it is also possible to pursue a doctorate. The aim of this program is to enable professionals in education, teaching and training to progress within their own institution or in other institutions. It can also open the door to a career in research in the field of education and training.
Training content
Training content focuses on :
- Theoretical insights into the elaboration, evolution and transmission of Knowledge (including disciplinary knowledge and skills, didactic and inter-didactic know-how, etc.) in educational training professions, from epistemological, historical, didactic and methodological perspectives.
- Questions about the design, management, support and evaluation of training courses. The perspective adopted is that of training engineering practices, initial and continuing, university and institutional, integrating the question of the trainer's actual activity.
- And a personal research process leading to the production of a thesis based on a training issue, supervised by a tutor and shared with all students during research seminars.
Organization
Designed to be followed while maintaining a professional activity, the training is based on several systems:
- Face-to-face teaching at the Fde in Montpellier for 3 weeks in M1 and 2 weeks in M2, spread over the autumn, winter and spring school vacations, as well as a few Wednesdays throughout the year;
- Distance learning supported by a digital platform providing access to a range of resources: training activities, course documents, bibliography, exchange mechanisms, etc;
- Observations in the workplace in M2.
- Group work.
- Optionally, a complementary internship in a professional training environment
- A research seminar throughout the course;
- Individualized support from a tutor to help you prepare your dissertation.
- Individualized support from a tutor to help you prepare your dissertation.
Application
You must submit your application on the Mon Master platform according to the national calendar:
www.monmaster.gouv.fr
Access conditions
Access to the program (in M1): Hold a L3 or equivalent qualification. Submit an application (letter and CV) based on an interest, project or actual experience in the training professions. Access to the course may also be subject to validation of professional experience on presentation of a dossier (VAP85). Access to M2 is possible for people with solid training experience.
| Master 1 | Hourly volume total student |
ECTS | |
| EU 101 | Challenges and changes in education | 45 | 15 |
| EU 102 | Introduction to research | 32 | 15 |
| EU 201 | Using scientific literature | 21 | 5 |
| EU 202 | Building the research project | 21 | 5 |
| EU 203 | Foreign languages and research writing | 21 | 5 |
| EU 204 | Practice and analysis of trainer activity | 30 | 7 |
| EU 205 | Knowledge and didactics | 21 | 4 |
| EU 206 | Learning theories | 15 | 4 |
| Total | Master 1 | 206 | 60 |
| EU 301 | Didactics and training | 24 | 8 |
| EU 302 | Training engineering | 24 | 8 |
| UE 303 | Research: data analysis | 24 | 15 |
| EU 401 | Trainer's professional identity | 24 | 8 |
| EU 402 | Inventing in training | 33 | 7 |
| EU 403 | Presentation of his research | 30 | 15 |
| Total | Master 2 | 159 | 60 |


