2025
Education and Community Development
Name: Education and Community Development
Code: PED15961O
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
Learning Goals
1. To understand the essential aspects of the contemporary debate surrounding the idea of sustainable development.
2. To identify the impacts of Education on community development processes.
3. To understand the education for development agendas of global institutions.
4. To empower trainees to think and act in various educational settings (formal, non-formal, and informal) to promote community development.
2. To identify the impacts of Education on community development processes.
3. To understand the education for development agendas of global institutions.
4. To empower trainees to think and act in various educational settings (formal, non-formal, and informal) to promote community development.
Contents
1 Education, development, equity, and sustainability.
2 The United Nations agenda for sustainable development.
3 Tensions between the global and the local: cosmopolitanism and community identity.
4 Nussbaum's capability theory and human development.
5 Education and community development: theories and intervention strategies.
6 A new social contract for education.
2 The United Nations agenda for sustainable development.
3 Tensions between the global and the local: cosmopolitanism and community identity.
4 Nussbaum's capability theory and human development.
5 Education and community development: theories and intervention strategies.
6 A new social contract for education.
Teaching Methods
This is a Curriculum Unit of a fundamentally theoretical nature. The choice of a theoretical-practical format, in a face-to-face pedagogical model, is directly related to the methodological options that will guide the concrete work in the classroom with the students. Theoretical presentations will be used, but fundamentally thematic discussions, reading, and discussion of texts proposed by the instructor or brought by the students.
The theoretical-practical nature of the classes allows for a more versatile and productive use of time, enabling a variety of methodological resources to be used within the same class. Naturally, the work methodologies also include supplementary cooperative work carried out on a digital platform asynchronously, thus respecting the specific circumstances, rhythms, and dynamics of the students, and enabling more individualized work by the instructor.
The theoretical-practical nature of the classes allows for a more versatile and productive use of time, enabling a variety of methodological resources to be used within the same class. Naturally, the work methodologies also include supplementary cooperative work carried out on a digital platform asynchronously, thus respecting the specific circumstances, rhythms, and dynamics of the students, and enabling more individualized work by the instructor.
Assessment
The assessment requires a minimum attendance of 75% of the classes and will consist of the evaluation of student participation in (duly recorded on participation observation sheets - FOP - 30%) and the completion and discussion of an individual assignment on one of the possible intervention strategies promoting community development (TI - 70%). Both assessment instruments will be graded on a scale of 0 to 20.
According to the academic regulations of the University of Évora, trainees may be subject to a final assessment exam (AF), as well as a resit assessment also through an exam of the same nature (AFR).
The final assessment, depending on the case, will be calculated as follows:
Continuous assessment:
AF = 0.30 x FOP + 0.70 x TI
In the final assessment exams, the evaluation will be equal to the grade obtained in the respective exams on a scale of 0 to 20.
According to the academic regulations of the University of Évora, trainees may be subject to a final assessment exam (AF), as well as a resit assessment also through an exam of the same nature (AFR).
The final assessment, depending on the case, will be calculated as follows:
Continuous assessment:
AF = 0.30 x FOP + 0.70 x TI
In the final assessment exams, the evaluation will be equal to the grade obtained in the respective exams on a scale of 0 to 20.
Teaching Staff
- Luís Miguel dos Santos Sebastião [responsible]
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