2024-2025 / PTRA0014-1

Tool design and analysis of its implications

Duration

Number of credits

 University certificate in philosophical practices3 crédits 

Lecturer

Collégialité

Coordinator

Marc-Antoine Gavray

Language(s) of instruction

French language

Organisation and examination

All year long

Schedule

Schedule online

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Learning unit contents

Participants are invited to produce a tool, i.e. a game, a plan of discussion, a device or exercises with a philosophical purpose. These will be come with a reflection on ethical and political aims, but also on the expected philosophical effects.

Learning outcomes of the learning unit

This personal work will attest of the participant's hability to produce devices fit to his audience and own context for leading workshop. It will proove his comprehensive understanding of all theoretical and practical aspects met his training.

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

No pre-requisite

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Participants work alone, but they will have the opportunity to raise questions during one session of the training seminar.

Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)

Distance-learning

Course materials and recommended or required readings

Platform(s) used for course materials:
- MyULiège


Further information:

Participants are invited to use books and readings recommended during the Wednesday seminars and training sessions.

Exam(s) in session

Any session

- In-person

written exam ( open-ended questions )

Written work / report


Further information:

Working alone, in pairs or, possibly, in groups of three, the participants will create a tool - a notion that must be understood in a broad sense: a game, a facilitation device, sequences, critical reflection, a discussion plan, and so on.

This tool will take the form of an integrative piece of work, in which the participants are invited to draw on all the knowledge and skills taught during the certificate course, whether during the seminars or the training days. The mark awarded for this work will therefore be the same for Méthodes philosophiques (PCER0016), Éthiques and politiques de l'animation philosophique (PCER0017) and Création d'un outil et analyse de ses enjeux (PTRA0014).

The work will necessarily include a descriptive part, in which the participants will present the practical arrangements (type of audience, age, number, duration, etc.) and the general operation of the tool in such a way as to make the process sufficiently clear. Throughout the work, the participants are invited to ask themselves the following questions: what is the purpose of this tool, what skills does it aim to work on, what are the expected or observed effects, etc.? The aim is not to use the concepts covered in the seminars as they are, but to apply the same type of questioning and reflection.

Testing the tool is not mandatory. Where appropriate, participants are invited to report any difficulties they have encountered and any improvements they have made. If not, they can also reflect on the limitations or problems that the tool might give rise to.

The work is due by 31 May 2025. It will be sent electronically and submitted in hard copy (one copy) to Marc-Antoine Gavray's mailbox.

Work placement(s)

Organisational remarks and main changes to the course

We expect students to work by themselves. However a session of the seminar "Formations aux dispositifs d'animation philosophique" will be devoted to producing tools and devices. Students will be given the opportunity to raison questions, according to the progression of their personal work.

Contacts

Marc-Antoine.Gavray@uliege.be

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