Mediation: theory and practice in the field of organisations
[COMU2320]
[30h] 5 credits
Teacher(s): Marie-Elisabeth Volckrick
Language: French
Level: Second
Aims
- put in context and problem practices of mediation
-develop a critical viewpoint of mediation based on an analysis of mediation models, practices and theories;
- analyse mediation measures ;
- use methodological tools to make a critical assessment of certain present-day issues of communications and the regulation of organisation.
Main themes
- To know about the various sectors of mediation, and about organisational sectors in particular.
- To differentiate between the main mediation models, and for each one, to identify UNE CRITIQUE SPÉCIFIQUE DE LADJUDICATION a social bond theory and a normative conception of justice.
- To analyse measures of mediation.
- To measure the contribution that pragmatic theories make to mediation.
Content and teaching methods
- Changes of the ratio to the standard .
- Definitions, models, designs and sectors of the mediation .
- Institutional mediation.
- Mediation like communication procedure.
- Pragmatic theories of the communication: pragmatic "austinienne", pragmatic conversational, pragmatic "habermassienne".
- Sociological theories of the argument (Boltanski and Thévenot) and of the recognition (Honneth) .
- Psychological theories of the development (Piaget) and the personality (Mead) .
- A pragmatic approach of a device of mediation
- Fundamental principles of the mediation.
- The issue of the third party.
Methodology
The courses methodology is based on:
- on a lecture marked by video and concrete experiments suggested with the audience in order to promote interactivity ;
- the contribution of practitioners in various fields of mediation;
- an analysis of mediation measures based on videos.
Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)
The syllabus is divided into sessions, and is made up of various texts.