Master in Multidisciplinary Intervention in Diversity in Educational Contexts
Ourense, Spain
DURATION
2 Years
LANGUAGES
Spanish
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
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EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2025
TUITION FEES
EUR 739 *
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* EU: €591.00 - Non-EU: €738.75
Introduction
Living with diversity, and above all learning from and with it, is a necessary requirement for the harmonious development of today's societies. The master's degree arises from the verification that in educational settings, both formal and non-formal, this diversity is present.
Neither the institutions nor the professionals who work in them can ignore this situation, having to attend to the demands that society claims through the affected individuals and groups. There are numerous references that, in the different educational regulations (eg Organic Law 2/2006 of Education, Royal Decree 1513/2006, of December 7, for which the minimum teachings of Primary Education are established; Decree 130/2007, of June 28, for which the primary education curriculum is established in the Autonomous Community of Galicia...), suggest the need for teachers and teachers of the different stages to address educational intervention paying special attention to the diversity of the student body.
Despite the relevance that the legislation grants to this aspect, the training currently received by teachers of the different educational levels, as well as management teams, counselors, social educators and other socio-community professionals, does not contemplate the subject in a holistic way. of diversity. For this reason, it is necessary to qualify the professionals who practice in these complex labor fields, some of them emerging, thus adapting their training and professional performance to the new demands of a reality in which equal time, compensation for inequalities is claimed. , and the right to difference.
In order to cover this formative gap, the academic organization of this master's degree contemplates differences originated by both personal, cultural and community traits, reflecting the real situation that occurs in the current educational and social world. Professionals related to the educational field will have the opportunity to reflect and acquire skills to act in contexts in which a diversity may be present caused by personal abilities, gender, age, linguistic and cultural systems, as well as different socioeconomic situations, environments that are collected in the broad framework of attention to diversity.
The master's degree reflects the diversity contained in the Organic Law 2/2006, of May 3, on Education, which, in its title dedicated to Equity in Education, includes the fields that are dealt with in this master's:
- Students with special educational needs.
- The student body with high intellectual abilities.
- The student body with late integration into the Spanish educational system.
- The compensation of inequalities in education, which also covers equal opportunities in the rural world.
In addition, the master's degree is coherent and promotes university studies related to the educational field, formal and non-formal, and with those that are integrated into the social services that support the good work of educational institutions, not coinciding, moreover, with their contents with no other Galician postgraduate program.
It relates and expands the training offered by the Degree in Early Childhood Education, Degree in Primary Education, Degree in Social Education, Degree in Social Work, integrated both in the Galician university system and in the University of Vigo, degrees all of which are socially demanded, as can be seen in the evolution of the enrollment of the last academic years.
Both the modules in which the master's degree is structured, as well as its teaching staff (academic training, lines of research and professional experience) and the work areas in which the planned internships will be carried out, adequately integrate the interdisciplinary nature and the degree of specialization necessary to attend to the training and professional profiles required to act in diversity.
Ideal Students
The ideal entry profile for master's students is people who have transversal interests especially linked to interpersonal relationships:
- Be interested in human and community development.
- Know how to work in groups, in multidisciplinary teams, and in contexts of diversity.
- Possess critical capacity, self-criticism and ethical commitment.
- Be interested in democratic and solidarity training and conflict resolution.
At the same time, and given the intervention nature of the master's degree, students must be able to assume risk situations, be creative, and be able to design and evaluate educational intervention programs.
Admissions
Curriculum
Basic skills
- CB06: Possess and understand knowledge that provides a basis or opportunity to be original in the development and/or application of ideas, often in a research context.
- CB07: That students know how to apply the knowledge acquired and their ability to solve problems in new or little-known environments within broader (or multidisciplinary) contexts related to their area of study.
- CB08: That students are able to integrate knowledge and face the complexity of formulating judgments based on information that, being incomplete or limited, includes reflections on the social and ethical responsibilities linked to the application of their knowledge and judgments.
- CB09: That students know how to communicate their conclusions and the ultimate knowledge and reasons that support them to specialized and non-specialized audiences in a clear and unambiguous way.
- CB10: That students possess learning skills that allow them to continue studying in a way that will be largely self-directed or autonomous.
General competitions
- CG01: Acquire theoretical training of a multidisciplinary nature and understand the theoretical-practical foundations related to the areas of diversity, with emphasis on special educational needs, interculturalism, compensation for inequalities, sex/gender and adult education.
- CG02: Know and analyze real situations of diversity that can be reflected in educational contexts, both formal and non-formal, engaging in systematic processes of inquiry.
- CG03: Establish direct contact with innovative experiences related to diversity, valuing their interest and the possibilities of being transferred to other similar professional contexts, as well as being applicable to new and emerging situations.
- CG04: Promote the acquisition of knowledge and skills suitable for design, implementation and evaluation of intervention proposals in the field of diversity, offering new initiatives to resolve problems.
- CG05: Acquire an ethical commitment in the development of the profession, especially in relation to the support of discriminated and less favored groups and social sectors.
Specific competencies
- CE01: Understand the basic principles of the major areas of diversity from a multidisciplinary perspective, being able to describe and compare the different dominant theoretical currents in each area.
- CE02: Acquire basic skills in the design, application and evaluation of intervention proposals aimed at working with diversity, especially valuing innovative contributions.
- CE03: Be able to analyze professional practices related to the treatment of diversity, detecting strengths and weaknesses, with special emphasis on those of an innovative nature.
- CE04: Carry out systematic studies, especially those that involve advances in educational practices, being able to disseminate them clearly to various types of audiences.
- CE05: Prepare specific materials to work with diversity, assessing, to the extent possible, their application in practice.
- CE06: Know the basic legislation referring to diversity in educational and socio-educational contexts, analyzing its implication in professional practice.
- CE07: Identify school and socio-community support services that can be useful in the area of diversity.
- CE08: Plan and organize supervised work, being able to search and analyze information from different sources, obtain and analyze data and correctly prepare a report related to one of the master's modules.
- CE09: Understand, analyze and value the ethical and political dimensions implicit in formal and non-formal educational processes in contexts of diversity.
- CE10: Relate the contents of the master's degree with personal experience and with real educational situations, through the use of autobiographical narratives.
- CE11: Know and apply decision-making processes related to the treatment of diversity. Being able to discern the ideas on which these decisions are based, also anticipating their effects.
- CE12: Be able to issue a critical assessment of educational and socio-educational programs, materials and practices related to diversity.
- CE13: Promote a positive attitude towards innovative educational ideas and practices related to diversity.
Cross-disciplinary competences
- CT01: Use new technologies in different contexts: training, research, professional application, to disseminate and share ideas, etc.
- CT02: Master different methodological strategies with the purpose of improving professional behaviors and facilitating autonomous learning, through the use of resources such as learning contracts, problem-based learning or the use of portfolios.
- CT03: Acquire respectful and helpful behaviors. Be sensitive to all types of diversity.
- CT04: Acquire basic skills for debate and the presentation of well-founded ideas.
- CT05: Favor cooperative work, assuming responsibilities and accepting the disparity of opinions.
Program Outcome
General objectives
- OG1: Have acquired advanced knowledge and demonstrated, in a scientific and technological or highly specialized research context, a detailed and well-founded understanding of the theoretical and practical aspects and work methodology in one or more fields of study.
- OG2: Know how to apply and integrate their knowledge, their understanding, their scientific foundation and their problem-solving abilities in new and imprecisely defined environments, including multidisciplinary contexts, both researchers and highly specialized professionals.
- OG3: Know how to evaluate and select the appropriate scientific theory and the precise methodology of their fields of study to formulate judgments based on incomplete or limited information, including, when precise and relevant, a reflection on the social or ethical responsibility linked to the solution that is proposed in each case.
- OG4: Be able to predict and control the evolution of complex situations through the development of new and innovative work methodologies adapted to the specific scientific/research, technological or professional field, generally multidisciplinary, in which their activity is carried out.
- OG5: Know how to transmit in a clear and unambiguous way to a specialized or non-specialized audience, results from scientific and technological research or the most advanced field of innovation, as well as the most relevant foundations on which they are based.
- OG6: Have developed sufficient autonomy to participate in research projects and scientific or technological collaborations within their thematic scope, in interdisciplinary contexts and, where appropriate, with a high component of knowledge transfer.
- OG7: Be able to take responsibility for their own professional development and specialization in one or more fields of study.
Specific objectives
- SO1: Expand training from first cycle studies, related both to the conceptual fields of diversity in formal and non-formal educational contexts, and to being able to offer new initiatives in problem solving, in which Its theoretical foundation is as important as the degree of originality and adaptation to specific contexts.
- OE2: Acquire multidisciplinary, pedagogical, didactic, psychological, and socio-cultural training, being able to integrate knowledge and apply it to solve problems in little-known or totally new contexts related to the subject of the master's degree.
- OE3: Be able to integrate theoretical-practical training to be able to make value judgments in situations of complex, ambiguous individual and cultural diversity, and for which only limited information is available.
- OE4: Be aware of the personal and social implications that can arise from our decisions, especially when we deal with groups that may suffer some type of marginalization caused by their difference.
- SO5: Manage to communicate in a clear and substantiated way the conclusions derived from the studies or decisions made as professionals, both to specialized audiences and, and especially, to audiences more related to the world of work (other colleagues, managers administrative...) and with the users of the educational and social services for which they are intended.
- OE6: Manage to develop a continuous training process, in the line of lifelong learning, once acquired skills related to autonomy and self-learning.