Master MEEF Pratique et Ingénierie de l'Education, du Travail et de l'Action Social (Practice and Engineering of Education, Work and Social Action)

Analysing, understanding and summarising complex social problems. Analysing and evaluating the responses provided. Taking a global approach, the social worker acts to :

• improving living conditions ;
• developing the capacities of individuals and groups ;
• work with them to prevent or overcome their difficulties;

Social workers make proposals to help develop and implement social policies. Their duties are to :

• welcoming, assessing and guiding people ;
• social support ;
• mediation ;
• social monitoring ;
• expertise ;
• training ;
• managing projects and working with groups ;
• networking.

There is a glaring shortage of managers in these various organisations in the department, so the opening of a master's programme of this kind is a genuine response to social demand. This master's degree will provide the department with experts in social policy and action.

Cross-disciplinary skills

• Child and adolescent psychology
• Group psychology
• Sociology of work
• Sociology of the family
• Public law

Scientific and technical skills

• Research methodology

Subject-specific skills

• Interculturality and social work
• Project management
• Medico-social field
• Public policy and social intervention

Recruitment level : Bac +3 (for Master 1) and Bc+4 (for Master 2)
Accessible in : Initial training

Training required

Master 1 : Hold a baccalaureate (bac+3) or equivalent qualification, or have obtained validation of personal and professional experience (VAPP): DEEJE, DEES, DEETS, DEASS, DE infirmier, etc. have knowledge of social work and social action; have completed the following courses: Education, Work and Training (ETF), Education Sciences (SEF), Modern Literature, Law, Economic and Social Administration (AES), Applied Foreign Languages (LEA), History.

Master 2 : Access to the second year is automatic for any student who has completed the first year of the Master MEEF PIF PIETAS.

Admission requirements

Admission is by application.

Registrations

Instructions concerning the application procedure are posted on the ESPE website during the annual admissions campaign. Applications and administrative registration are made online.

ESPE de Guyane website : http://www.espe-guyane.fr

Master 1

Semester 1

• UEO 11 Epistemology and Human Sciences, 68 HETD, 11 ECTS
• PSU 12 Contextual Knowledge 1, 52 HETD, 10 ECTS
• UEP 13 Contextual knowledge 2, 44 HETD, 6 ECTS
• UEC 15 LVE and ICT, 24 HETD, 3 ECTS

Semester 2

• UEO21 Research and Internship, 51 HETD, 10 ECTS
• UEP 22 Professionalisation, 36 HETD, 9 ECTS
• UEP23 Law, Health and Migration, 62 HETD, 8 ECTS
• UEC24 LVE & TICE, 24 HETD, 3 ECTS

Master 2

Semester 3

• UEO31 Research and work placement, 49 HETD, 8.5 ECTS
• UEP32 Law, Economics and Health, 39 HETD, 6 ECTS
• UEP 33 Contextual knowledge 3, 44 HETD, 10 ECTS
• UEP 34 Multilingualism, Interculturality and Social Action, 37 HETD, 4 ECTS
• UEC35 LVE, 12 HETD, 1.5 ECTS

Semester 4

• EC 41 Work placement, dissertation and presentations, 18.67 HETD, 30 ECTS

Internship:
compulsory or exemption for employees in the social sector (application for exemption to be submitted at the start of the academic year). The work placement is carried out in the second semester in a company, association, local authority, etc. or any other social-related structure. Four weeks of work experience in M1 and M2.

Career opportunities

This Master's degree will therefore provide experts in social policy and action, with links to education and training issues. The aim of this course is to meet regional and local demand and to feed into initial and continuing training. It is therefore aimed more specifically at careers as study managers, project managers and research managers in local authorities, organisations and associations working on educational issues, and as research managers in training centres.

Sectors of activity

• Social work
• Education
• Mediation