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Objectives: right to the point

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The second phase of the Method proposed is the definition of the objectives. Lots of authors talk about the importance of this practice in education because it gives an orientation to the intervention. Although the guidelines of every theory say to define the goals of a project clearly and specifically, it rarely happens in education. Indeed, it is easy in this discipline to state the objective using common sense, or rather talking about concepts that are presumed to be known by everyone, but which are actually understood in different ways by different persons. Constructs such as "empathy" or "health", for example, are understood in different ways by every person and this, in a project, could bring the different educators involved to work with different directions and not be effective in the service given. What the following paragraphs are going to explain is a practice to avoid misunderstanding and state the goals of a project in a clear way which meets the d...