Education and Workplace Learning

Code: PED13950M

6 ECTS

Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours

Scientific Area: Education Sciences

Teaching languages: Portuguese

Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese

Regime de Frequência: Presencial

Sustainable Development Goals

Educação de qualidade - Assegurar a educação inclusiva, e equitativa e de qualidade, e promover oportunidades de aprendizagem ao longo da vida para todos.

Igualdade de género - Alcançar a igualdade de gênero e empoderar todas as mulheres e meninas.

Reduzir as desigualdades - Reduzir as desigualdades dentro dos países e entre eles.

Cidades e comunidades sustentáveis - Tornar as cidades e os assentamentos humanos inclusivos, seguros, resilientes e sustentáveis.

Learning Goals

To know paradigms and training models and understand relationships between personal, professional and organizational changes;
• To know conceptual frameworks of the subjects and contexts roles, supported by the concept of lifelong learning;
• To understand the concept of professional identity as a culturally inscribed process of self-knowledge and in permanent construction;
• Focusing relations between professional experiences, training and experience;
• Focusing the research and reflection as structural axes of the construction of professionalism, the professional knowledge and the educational quality;
• To develop skills on participation, collaboration and critical thinking;
• To mobilize research skills and constant reflection on, in and for the educational activity;
• To design educational proposals, considering the emerging needs of contexts, the personal and professional characteristics and partnerships needed.

• Educational challenges in the twenty-first century, change and learning throughout life.
• Paradigms and models of training and professional development.
• Life experiences, training in context and self knowledge paths.
• Professional issues and professionalism
• Teachers permanent learning and organizational change:
- Relations between scientific knowledge, knowledge building and professional practices;
- The role of subjects and contexts;
- Research, reflection and work contexts as structural dimensions of the action and of the professional development;
• The educational potential of formal and non-formal contexts.
• Communities of practice, professional learning communities, collaboration and teamwork: theory, concepts and practices.

Teaching Methods

The methodology is determined by the group's profile and its interests. It will combine moments of informational bias with the analysis of concrete examples, providing case studies and linking theory and practice. There will be valued personal and professional paths, adapting the scientific texts to analyze and interpret, the debate in small or large group, the autonomous subjects of study or developing a project in the context of work, supplemented with an oral presentation and dynamic. This methodology aims to provide an active role for the student in creating the learning process. The assessment will be supported by some elements: Individual written paper (PIE) with training proposals in context based on the presented and theoretically grounded problematic, attendance and participation in activities (AP) and dynamism and discussion (DD), in group, of the tasks in. the classroom. Final Classification = (45 * PIE) + 20 * AP + 35 * DD) / 100.