Family, Community and Children's Education

Code: PED11416M

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

Saúde de qualidade - Assegurar uma vida saudável e promover o bem-estar para todos, em todas as idades.

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

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

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

• Understand working with families and communities as a supporter of social, cultural, environmental and economic sustainability;
• View Early Childhood Education from a holistic and ecological perspective;
• Know and value childrens rights from the perspective of a child citizen;
• Starting from the principles and foundations of pedagogy for children, in order to build, cooperatively, with their peers, with families and with the living forces of the school community, a fruitful learning community for all children in their relationship with the natural-cultural world;
• Analyse different approaches to working with families that support the establishment of partnerships and the flow of quality communication based on a relationship of trust;
• Analyse perspectives of work with communities capable of building intersectoral support networks and increased opportunities for relationships with the world.

1. Early childhood education for sustainability: concepts and possibilities for action
2. Urie Bronfenbrenner's Systemic Ecological Perspective of Human Development
3. The child as a citizen: implications for their learning process
4. The family as a structuring system for the child's learning and development
4a. Family, Parenting and Social Transformations
4b. Parental education: concepts and praxis
4c. Challenges of the school-family relationship
4d. Strategies for interaction and cooperation with families in the education of children
5. The community recognized as having an educational role
5a. Concept of "Educating Cities" - Charter of Educating Cities (Barcelona Declaration)
5b. UNICEF Child-Friendly Cities
5e. Childrens participation in the city
6. Transits between border spaces
6a. Integrated early childhood education and care services the INTESYS 6b project. Transitions between family, daycare, preschool, 1st CEB
7. Being in relation to the natural-cultural world

Teaching Methods

Using methodologies that appeal involved in the construction of knowledge through the involvement and participation of students, individually and in groups: cooperative management of the curriculum; lectures with discussion, research and presentation to the class, debates with guests with relevant experience; participation in community events.
Each student organizes a on a theme of the program in pairs or individualy;

Assessment

The evaluation is based on the construction of a reflective Portfolio on the topics covered in (80%) + the assessement of the students participation (20%). One of the reflections must focus on the prepared by the students.
Final evaluation:
The final assessment will involve taking a written test on all subjects covered within the scope of the curricular unit (100%).

The teacher supervises the preparation work for the classes to be developed by the students, providing formative feedback.
Students can submit a first version of their portfolios to receive formative feedback that allows them to improve their work.