Cursos / 1º Ciclo / Institute of Psychology and Educational Sciences :: Psychology

Versao Portuguesa

ANÁLISE DE DOCUMENTOS - 2021/2022

3º curricular year
Semestralidade: 1st semester
ECTS: 6

Teachers

Leading Teacher: Prof. Doutora Isabel Torres
Assistant Professor: Prof. Doutora Isabel Torres

Class type and School hours

Teórico-prática : 2 Horas
Orientação Tutorial : 1 Horas

Teaching Language

Portuguese

Main Aims/Objectives

To obtain knowledge (and practice) to conduct a qualitative data analysis within psychological investigation and practice, namely for document analysis.

Specific Aims/Objectives

More specifically, students should develop skills of documents analysis according to different theoretical and methodological approaches distinguishing and using main concepts and procedures related to content analysis, grounded analysis and discourse analysis.

Skills to be acquired

More specifically, students should develop skills of documents analysis according to different theoretical and methodological approaches distinguishing and using main concepts and procedures related to content analysis, grounded analysis, discourse analysis and narrative analysis.

Teaching Procedures

Classes will include lecture and discussion, but students? participation will be strongly encouraged. Mandatory and complementary readings for each class will be indicated as teaching and learning method will stress students? active role. Practical exercises will be provided during classes. A team work data analysis? project will be conducted extra-classes by students in order to materialize skills developed.

Programme

Unit 1. Introduction to Doc.Analysis.
1. Doc. Analysis in Psychology specific issues and distinctions.
2. Types of doc. in Psychology.

Unit 2.Content Analysis.
1. Introduction to Content Analysis
2. Defining concepts
3. Object.of Content Analysis
4. Steps in Content Analysis. Organiz.in Content Analysis: initial readings; documents sampling (corpus); setting hypothesis and objectives; preparing materials; and defining classific.procedure. Cod.procedures: setting up text units; indexing; and counting. Categorizing procedures: defining categories; classifying text units.Inference.
5. Practice Applications and examples..

Unit 3.The Grounded Analysis.
1. Introduc.to the Grounded Analysis.
2. Grounded Analysis as an upgrades of qualitative investigation.
3. Principles and procedures in coding.
4. Practice Applications and examples.

Unit 4.Discourse Analysis.
1. Theoretical influences.
2. Definit.and understandings on Discourse Analysis.
3. Proced.in the Discourse Analysis.
4. Practice Applications and examples.

Evaluation Type

Both written assignment and teamwork´s project are included in evaluation.

Teaching Resources

The classes will be supported by several features including, computer / projector and the frame.
Qualitative data processing program NVivo (if available).

Sustainability Objectives

Keywords

Content analysis; Discurse analysis; Grounded Theory.

Main Bibliography

Author Silverman, D.
Title Interpreting Qualitative Data
Place London
Editor Sage
Year 2014
Author Frost, N.
Title Qualitative research methods in psychology. (...)
Editor McGraw Hill
Year 2011
Author Charmaz, K.
Title Constructing Grounded Theory
Edition
Place London
Editor Sage
Year 2014

Complementary Bibliography

Author Gee, J. P.
Title An Introduction to Discourse Analysis. (...)
Author Remenyi, D.
Title Grounded Theory
Edition Second
Place
Editor Lightning Source
Year 2014