2024
Education and knowledge in contemporary societies
Name: Education and knowledge in contemporary societies
Code: PED12649D
6 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours
Scientific Area:
Education Sciences
Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese, English
Regime de Frequência: Presencial
Sustainable Development Goals
Learning Goals
- To discuss the status of knowledge, in its various modalities, and its complexity, with practical and existential relevance in contemporary societies.
- To understand Education as an object for study and knowledge
- To know the main trends of educational thought and the debates between them
- To understand the great paradigms in which policies and educational systems. are organized, at the global systemic level,
- To know the global Agencies for the regulation of education and their main policies
- To recognize and discuss the main challenges that contemporary society poses to current educational systems.
- To understand Education as an object for study and knowledge
- To know the main trends of educational thought and the debates between them
- To understand the great paradigms in which policies and educational systems. are organized, at the global systemic level,
- To know the global Agencies for the regulation of education and their main policies
- To recognize and discuss the main challenges that contemporary society poses to current educational systems.
Contents
1. Thinking about education: the object and its epistemology
2. Knowledge in the 21st Century
3. Educational thought and its drift in contemporary society
4. The global agencies for the regulation of education policy and their agendas
5. Education and future: prospective analysis
2. Knowledge in the 21st Century
3. Educational thought and its drift in contemporary society
4. The global agencies for the regulation of education policy and their agendas
5. Education and future: prospective analysis
Teaching Methods
Each one of the topics will be introduced by the teacher, that will raise problems and feed up debates about them. This same topic will be considered later, based on a nuclear text purposed in advance. Several working methodologies will be used, like small group work, broad debates and dilemma discussions.
The assessment of the students will be based on "critical summaries" of each working sessions produced by the students after each working sessions. These "critical summaries" consist of brief critical reports (no more than 3 A4 pages, 2-line spacing with TNR 12 or equivalent) of the working sessions. In order to cover the possibility of a doctoral student being unable to participate in one or more sessions, only the 4 best summaries will be considered for classification purposes. The final classification will be obtained through the arithmetic mean of the four best marks achieved of each student.
The assessment of the students will be based on "critical summaries" of each working sessions produced by the students after each working sessions. These "critical summaries" consist of brief critical reports (no more than 3 A4 pages, 2-line spacing with TNR 12 or equivalent) of the working sessions. In order to cover the possibility of a doctoral student being unable to participate in one or more sessions, only the 4 best summaries will be considered for classification purposes. The final classification will be obtained through the arithmetic mean of the four best marks achieved of each student.
Teaching Staff
- Luís Miguel dos Santos Sebastião [responsible]
Certificações
