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Topics and Problems of Education

Code 9024
Year 1
Semester S2
ECTS Credits 6
Workload TP(30H)
Scientific area Educação
Mode of delivery Face-to-face.
Work placements Not applicable.
Learning outcomes To build an integrate and compreensive vision on actual themes pertaining to education such as school violence, education for citizenship transdisciplinary epistemology and relationship between information and knowledge in the educational process.
At the end of this CU, student must te able to:
Plan, implement and assess pedagogical intervention, violence prevention-oriented and promoter of citizenship;
Apply transdisciplinary concepts and tools to educational context and teaching practices.
Recognize the role of education in the transition from the "information society" to the "knowledge society".

Syllabus Module I
The Crisis of the socializing institutions and Violence at School
1.1. Violence and Education: concept and practice.
1.2 Bullying: Definition, characteristics and consequences.
1.3 Intervention and Prevention of Violence at School: strategies and programs.

Module II
Education and Citizenship
2.1 Theoretical issues and legal framework
2.2 Methodological issues


Educação e Cidadania
2.1 Questões teóricas e enquadramento legislativo
2.2 Questões metodológicas

Module III
1. What is epistemology? Brief introduction to epistemological thought
2. What is the transdisciplinary epistemology? Distinctions between disciplinary, multi-, inter-and transdisciplinary approaches
3. Transdisciplinarity in educational environment.

Module IV
1. The economic, technological and ideological origins of the "information society".
2. The problem of the relationship between information and knowledge - the central role of education.
Main Bibliography Main bibliography:
Amado, J. & Freire, I. (2009). A(s) indisciplina(s) na escola. Compreender para prevenir. Coimbra: Almedina.
Castells. M. (2005). A sociedade em rede: do conhecimento à política. In M. Castells & G. Cardoso (Org.), A sociedade em rede: do conhecimento à acção política (pp. 17-30). Lisboa: Imprensa Nacional.
Nicolescu, B. et al. (2001) Educação e Transdisciplinaridade. S. Paulo: UNESCO.

Further reading:
Arendt, H. (2000). A crise na educação. In O. Pombo (Ed.), Quatro textos excêntricos (pp. 21-53). Lisboa: Relógio D' Água.
AA.VV.(2002). Educação e transdisciplinaridade II. S. PAulo: UNESCO, 2002.
Echeverría, J. P. (2008). Pluralidad, apertura e calidad de la ciudadanía. Avances en Supervisión Educativa,
Fonseca, A. M. (2001). Educar para a cidadania, educar para a comunidade. Brotéria, 153, 777-791
Serra, J. P. (2003). Informação e sentido: o estatuto epistemológico da informação (pp. 46-60). Covilhã: Universidade da Beira Interior.
Language Portuguese. Tutorial support is available in English.
Last updated on: 2012-05-16

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