University of Barcelona

Information for the student – Educational Psychology - MIPE (currently being replaced)

Objectives and competences

Objectives

The inter-university master's degree in Educational Psychology offers three learning pathways associated with different profiles:

  • Psychoeducational Intervention. Students choosing this profile develop the ability to plan and carry out psychoeducational interventions with a high degree of specificity to individual cases, group cases or institutional situations. Professional practices are considered from a lifelong perspective.
  • Psychoeducational Intervention in Secondary Education. Students choosing this profile develop the ability to plan and carry out innovation actions at different levels of secondary school organization involving different agents (management teams, teachers, students, families), transforming secondary education institutions in a move towards a system consistent with the new learning ecology.
  • Psychoeducational Research. Students choosing this profile develop the ability to generate high-quality scientific knowledge, to carry out and critically analyse studies in highly specific areas, to create, analyse and disseminate scientific information, and to offer qualified education in the field of educational psychology.

By the end of the programme, successful students will have acquired the following general and specific competences related to these profiles:

Competences

  • Capacity to evaluate the psychological processes of human development and learning, in both normal and atypical cases, from the first months of life to old age, related to participation in educational activities and practices of diverse natures.
  • Ability to collect, record, analyse and evaluate data and information and generate new knowledge about learning processes in formal and informal educational contexts.
  • Capacity for evaluation and intervention in the psychological processes involved in the development of educational practices, in order to facilitate and promote the learning process and the development of participants and to help improve the performance and organization of the institutions involved.
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