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Sociology of education - course description

General information
Course name Sociology of education
Course ID 0314-WP-PED-SE
Faculty Faculty of Social Sciences
Field of study WNS - oferta ERASMUS / Pedagogy
Education profile -
Level of studies First-cycle Erasmus programme
Beginning semester winter term 2018/2019
Head faculty Faculty of Social Sciences
Course information
ECTS credits to win 5
Course type obligatory
Teaching language english
Author of syllabus
  • dr Joanna Frątczak-Müller
Classes forms
The class form Hours per semester (full-time) Hours per week (full-time) Hours per semester (part-time) Hours per week (part-time) Form of assignment
Class 30 2 - - Credit with grade

Aim of the course

The aim of the subject is providing students with complex knowledge of functioning a labour market and dynamics of qualitative and quantitative changes of employment. The extra aim is preparing students to implementing knowledge of organization of labour market and searching and analysing dates of it.

Prerequisites

No special prerequisites

Scope

Lecture:

Labour market in socialism

Labour market in capitalism and in postmodern economy 

Labour market in Poland after 1990

Process of migration at the work market

Professional success, professional biography

Employment flexibility

Classes:

Analysis of labour market, preparing to labour market analysis, source of knowledge of labour market, examinations of work offers

Analysis of situation of selected social category at the work market (women, youth, the handicapped)

Phenomenon of unemployment

Occupational biographies

Work market in lubuskie voivodeship.

Teaching methods

Lecture: lecture with discussion.

Class: class discussion. Small groups discussion. Multimedia learning process – using Power Point presentations, use of filmstrips, recordings etc. Open textbook study. Problem solving or case studies.

Learning outcomes and methods of theirs verification

Outcome description Outcome symbols Methods of verification The class form

Assignment conditions

Class: Credit with grade on the basis of presentation and written papers. The class will be divided up into discussion/presentation groups. Students will organize and prepare oral presentations and demonstrations to the class explaining assigned chapters from the texts. Each student is likely to make one presentation during the semester.

Lecture: written examination

Final grade will be the average of class and exam credit.

Recommended reading

1.     Fevere R. “Sociology of Labour Markets”, Publisher: University College of Swansea, Cardiff University 2003.

2.     Shapiro C. Stiglitz J. E. "Equilibrium Unemployment as a Worker Discipline Device", The American Economic Review 74, 2011.

3.     Xiaohong H. “From trade among nations to trade within firms across national borders" in Globalization and Regionalization: Strategies, Policies, and Economic Environments”. Edited by Mucchielli J. L., Buckley P. J., Cordell V.V. International Business Press: Binghamton, NY, 2010.

Further reading

Notes

*The subject can be run every semester, in case there is not enough persons to make a group there will be individual class run during instructor hours.


Modified by dr Magdalena Zapotoczna (last modification: 11-04-2018 17:08)