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2022/2023

Master's Dissertation

Code: 42960 ECTS Credits: 6
Degree Type Year Semester
4313816 School Library and Reading Promotion OB 0 2

Contact

Name:
Cristina Aliagas Marin
Email:
cristina.aliagas@uab.cat

Use of Languages

Principal working language:
catalan (cat)

Other comments on languages

English, Spanish and Catalan are combined as possible languages of dissertations and bibliography

Teachers

Joan Portell Rifŕ
Martina Fittipaldi Fittipaldi
Jordi Parés Parral
Cristina Correro Iglesias
Mireia Manresa Potrony

Prerequisites

None

 

Objectives and Contextualisation

A master thesis aims at getting participants in the master programme to apply in a real/specific context the knowledge and abilities acquired during the course so as to design, implement and present a project related to pedagogical interventions that can be carried out through the use of school libraries or through the organisation of activities to promote reading. Participants are expected to base their master thesis on a real case. They need to depart from the diagnosis of a particular situation (in a school or in any other social environment), set strategies to remediate the situation/achieve the needs and plan how to implement, monitor and assess a successful plan of action.

Competences

  • Apply the knowledge and skills acquired on the course to the real world and gain familiarity with workplace duties and tasks.
  • Communicate and justify conclusions clearly and unambiguously to both specialist and non-specialist audiences.
  • Contextualise professional activity in the reading habits of today's society and in the processes of school-based learning.
  • Design, plan and evaluate library, school and community reading projects that are appropriate to their context.
  • Detect reading and information needs in school or other community contexts.
  • Detect, assess and select fiction and non-fiction resources that are suited to the different types of recipients of educational or promotional interventions .
  • Develop communication and inter-personal skills needed to manage projects involving the different members of the educational community.
  • Develop strategies for innovation, creativity and entrepreneurship in the context of school libraries and reading promotion.
  • Incorporate ICT for learning, communicating and sharing in education.
  • Link up and promote reading and cultural activities, both internal and external, using the appropriate tools.
  • Manage the collection, resources and services of the library.
  • Master the use of ICT and apply it to management and promotion processes in a library 2.0. context.
  • Solve problems in new or little-known situations within broader (or multidisciplinary) contexts related to the field of study.
  • Use acquired knowledge as a basis for originality in the application of ideas, often in a research context.

Learning Outcomes

  1. Analyse the information obtained use the indicators to make an initial assessment of the situation in the environment under study.
  2. Apply and assess plans, projects and actions to promote reading in different contexts
  3. Choose between different ICT tools and resources on the basis of the objectives and activities set.
  4. Communicate and justify conclusions clearly and unambiguously to both specialist and non-specialist audiences.
  5. Contribute to the implementation of a project or activity in the workplace where the practicum is being undertaken.
  6. Create guides and resource lists based on a particular need expressed by the library or by community members.
  7. Design a procedure to promote cultural and reading activities offered by a library or other organisation.
  8. Design, plan, implement and evaluate an action plan based on a previous assessment, in a specific context.
  9. Evaluate the services of a library, identify weaknesses and propose solutions to these.
  10. Identify key indicators for determining reading habits in the environment under study.
  11. Incorporate ICT for learning, communicating and sharing in education.
  12. Solve problems in new or little-known situations within broader (or multidisciplinary) contexts related to the field of study.
  13. Suggest possible interventions to improve reading promotion processes in a school library or other context.
  14. Use acquired knowledge as a basis for originality in the application of ideas, often in a research context.
  15. Use the network to share educational, communicative and bibliographic strategies.

Content

  • Structure and characteristics of a school reading plan and of a community reading plan.
  • Diagnosis of reading situations at schools or at other social establishments.
  • Diagnosis instruments used in different contexts for different purposes.
  • Strategies to analyse the results of a diagnose.
  • Strategies to implement a plan of action based on a previous diagnose of a given situation.
  • Assessment of strategies to promote reading.
  • Resources and materials to organise a detailed procedure to implement, monitor and assess an action plan. 

Methodology

Participants will be assigned a tutor who will provide them with a calendar with the group tutorials, the slots for individual tutorials and the deadlines for delivering each of the TFM chapters.

During the group tutorials, the tutor and the participants will design the various individual MA thesis projects. The elaboration of each project will be done in four stages: (1) data collection and diagnosis, at a school or any other social milieu, of a real case; (2) development of strategies to implement an action plat that fits the project objectives; (3) detailed procedure to implement, monitor and assess an action plan; and (4) elaboration and public presentation of the TFM. 

Participants will receive feedback and scaffolding form their tutors. If necessary, the original sketch of the project can be modified during the whole process. Participants can ask their tutors for private appointments, if necessary. Participants are advised to send the texts their want to discuss with their tutors short before the actual meeting.

Our teaching approach and assessment procedures may be altered if public health authorities impose new restrictions on public gatherings for COVID-19.

Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.

Activities

Title Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
Type: Supervised      
Tutorials 50 2 12
Type: Autonomous      
Gathering information, diagnosing a case and elaborating the MA thesis 100 4 1, 2, 9, 5, 15, 8, 10, 11, 13, 4, 14

Assessment

Master’s theses go through a process of continuous assessment. Tutors will write a progress report during the process of developing the MA project. Such report, together with the final written text and the oral presentation (in front of a jury) of the work done will be used as assessment tools.

MA’s theses can differ from one to another. Participants should choose the type of project they want to design and in which context (schools, other social establishments, etc.). All written works should, however, contain the following sections:

1) Introduction and justified presentation of the work done.

2) Theoretical framework. It includes an analysis of the context and a list of the objectives for the action plan.

3) Methodological framework. Detailed account of the project’s design and implementation: techniques, procedures and instruments use to sketch the action plan based on the diagnostic of a given situation.

4) Descriptive, interpretative and explanatory analysis of the information gathered during the diagnosis phase.  

5) Diagnosis conclusions.

6) Sketch of the plan of action to solve the challenges outlined during the diagnosis phase.

7) Conclusions about the work done. Conclusions should link the context of action with the theoretical framework and the strategies used to intervene. Participants should also reflect upon the adequacy of the action within the context of intervention.

8) References. List of all full references cited in the text. Participants are advised to use the citing criteria used by the American Psychological Association (APA citation style).

9) Annexes.

Our teaching approach and assessment procedures may be altered if public health authorities impose new restrictions on public gatherings for COVID-19.

 

Assessment Activities

Title Weighting Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
Assessment of first drafts 10% 0 0 5, 12, 4
Master's Thesis Viva 25% 0 0 2, 11, 4
Master's Thesis final written report 65% 0 0 1, 2, 9, 5, 15, 8, 7, 6, 10, 11, 13, 12, 4, 14, 3

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