TransForM

Contact / Information

Registrar's Office – Faculty of Education
Tel: +33 (0)4 67 61 82 83

fde-scolarite@umontpellier.fr

Course manager

Sebastien CHALIES

Registration

Montpellier Faculty of Education

Training location

Montpellier

The wide variety of professions in the world are not immune to the upheavals caused by current transitions (ecological, agricultural and food, energy, digital, mobility/transportation, health), which are more or less desired and/or undergone, and are therefore bound to change more or less rapidly. The TransForM course is aimed at those who wish to study these transitions and support their impact on the transformation of professions, through the design and implementation of appropriate training engineering.

The skills at the heart of the TransForM course are as follows:

- Responding to societal challenges through training engineering ;

- Analyze work to design and implement training engineering

- Building training engineering by integrating specialized knowledge

- Manage training projects as part of multidisciplinary teams;

- Use digital tools to build customized training engineering.

Although the training and work sciences are at the heart of the TransForM course, an "interdisciplinary" approach is emphasized. Contributions from other disciplines in the humanities and social sciences (anthropology, philosophy, social and solidarity economics, political science, geography, etc.) as well as the life sciences (ecology, agronomy, etc.) are mobilized in an attempt to analyze and grasp the complexity of transitions.

Objectives and contents

General objectives

Three objectives are pursued in the TransForM pathway:- Contribute to the development of high-level skills in training engineering to support the transformation of professions in the dynamics of transitions;- Contribute to the construction of robust, scientifically, technically and ethically-adjusted professional skills;- Discover and integrate into a professional sector.

Training content

The TransForM course is structured around :

(1) Precise interdisciplinary scientific contributions , both empirical, theoretical and methodological, for :

- Understand exactly what transitions are (origin, dynamics, modeling, etc.),

- Understand the impact of transitions on the transformation of professions and professionals (regulatory and technical developments, health issues, ethical challenges, etc.).

- Design and implement training engineering adapted (particularly from a human point of view) and situated (to the socio-political, territorial, economic context, etc.).

(2) Original training situations to bring project-based teaching and the skills-based approach to life. Case studies, training engineering hackathons, role-playing in simulated work situations, practice analysis workshops, tutored projects and internships are all part of the training program, to ensure that theoretical input feeds into the actual construction of the targeted professional skills.

(3) Involvement in a research project leading to a dissertation in the field of "Sciences With and For Society". This research work, anchored in a professional field, is both collaborative and produces scientific results as well as professional resources (training tools, for example). It can take the usual written form, or a mixed form combining written sections and film and/or sound documents. This research work may be combined with an internship.

Organization and Audience

Organization

In Master 1, part of the curriculum is shared with other courses in the field. The remainder is specific to the course. Classes are spread over the weeks of the academic year.

In Master 2, all courses are specific to the program. Training is organized in the following monthly format: 3 weeks in a company and 1 week of classroom training at the Faculty of Education.

Over the two years of study, synchronous and asynchronous distance learning is offered as a complement to classroom teaching.

Support for internships and research is also provided.

Public

The TransForM course is part of an initial or lifelong training program (continuing education, resumption of studies). It is therefore aimed at students or professionals working in a variety of fields (architecture, agriculture, crafts, sport, etc.), wishing to build their skills in training engineering to support the transformation of professions in the light of transitions.

The second semester is organized to enable students in initial training to complete an internship or enter into a work-study contract.

For professionals returning to school, the course can be completed over several years by capitalizing on the various UEs. Access to the Master 2 program only is also possible through a request for Validation of Higher Studies (VES).