Knowledge oh the World in Early Childhood

Code: PED11404M

3 ECTS

Duration: 15 weeks/78 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.

Paz, justiça e instituições eficazes - Paz, justiça e instituições eficazes promover sociedades pacíficas e inclusivas par ao desenvolvimento sustentável, proporcionar o acesso à justiça para todos e construir instituições eficazes, responsáveis
e inclusivas em todos os níveis.

Learning Goals

O1. Assess the role that natural and social sciences play within a education framework for all and lifelong learning.
O2. Understand and appreciate the role that the area of "Knowledge of the World" plays in children's intellectual, aesthetic, and socio-moral development.
O3. Understand the importance of promoting scientific literacy at the intersection of sustainability and active citizenship from the early years.
O4. Develop scientific attitudes by fostering habits of research, selection, organisation, and processing of information, as well as precision and objectivity in language.
O5. Integrate the area of "Knowledge of the World" with different content areas in early childhood education.
O6. Plan, in an integrated manner, themes within the scope of "Knowledge of the World" that are pedagogically appropriate for nursery and preschool contexts.

C1. The area of "Knowledge of the World" and child development.
C2. The area of "Knowledge of the World" in the Curriculum Guidelines for Pre-School Education.
C3. The importance of scientific education in childhood.
C4. The scientific methodology in discovering the social, physical, and natural world.
C5. The educator's role as a mediator in learning about the physical, natural, and social world.
C6. Organisation and planning of the "Knowledge of the World" area.

Teaching Methods

Pedagogical methodologies privilege the active participation of students in the co-construction of knowledge, through diverse strategies, such as debate, analysis of reported or experienced situations, reflection and reasoned criticism, in moments of individual work and collaborative work. Different resources (documents, videos, technological applications and direct observation) are mobilized to support learning situations - based on research, projects, problems. and field trips are carried out in different contexts (natural/social environments, museums and the like, a living science center) that contribute to the diversification of learning experiences and a greater enrichment of training. The teaching and learning process is mediated by assessment with regulatory functions, supported by instruments that facilitate autonomy and self-regulation of learning (learning guides and assessment rubrics)

Assessment

Continuous Assessment Modality: consists of carrying out Tasks (T) of a diverse nature, individual and/or in groups, carried out throughout the semester and related to program themes. The final classification is obtained from the average classification of the tasks performed.

Final Assessment Method: consists of a Written Test (60%) and an Individual Task (40%).