2025
Education for Citizenship
Name: Education for Citizenship
Code: PED15857M
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
Learning Goals
1 - To know the main conceptual frameworks regarding citizenship and understand their political, cultural, and educational implications.
2 - To discuss and understand the challenges and options that contemporary society (particularly digital transformation) imposes on education for citizenship.
3 - To critically analyze the national strategy for education for citizenship.
4 - To possess the didactic skills necessary to promote knowledge, values, and attitudes regarding citizenship issues.
5 - To assume an active and critical role in both professional and personal spheres, aiming for full citizenship.
2 - To discuss and understand the challenges and options that contemporary society (particularly digital transformation) imposes on education for citizenship.
3 - To critically analyze the national strategy for education for citizenship.
4 - To possess the didactic skills necessary to promote knowledge, values, and attitudes regarding citizenship issues.
5 - To assume an active and critical role in both professional and personal spheres, aiming for full citizenship.
Contents
1. The construction of the concept of citizenship.
2. The new scenarios of education for citizenship: digital citizenship, artificial intelligence, climate change, the multipolar world.
3. Education and Democratic Citizenship.
4. The National Strategy for Education for Citizenship and the Sustainable Development Goals.
5. Models and strategies for education for citizenship.
2. The new scenarios of education for citizenship: digital citizenship, artificial intelligence, climate change, the multipolar world.
3. Education and Democratic Citizenship.
4. The National Strategy for Education for Citizenship and the Sustainable Development Goals.
5. Models and strategies for education for citizenship.
Teaching Methods
The UC (curricular unit) integrates the general educational training component of the course and has a reflective and critical vocation.
The methodologies used in this UC aim at a solid theoretical knowledge of the contents, based on the most relevant thinkers, along with the application of these theoretical contents to the critical analysis of concrete and real situations, within the range of dimensions prescribed by the official curriculum. Therefore, several methodologies are used: expository moments, open debates, documentary research with or without field data collection, and presentation of the results of these investigations.
Working groups will be formed to which topics will be distributed that should be investigated, presented, and discussed. Naturally, priority will be given to those dimensions whose articulation with the scientific areas of training is more obvious and, therefore, more naturally articulable with the teaching practice of the students, such as the environment and sustainability, health education, sexuality, and gender.
As the UC is taught in a face-to-face modality, with 1.5 hours of classroom work per week, a very important part of the work will take place autonomously, individually or in groups, but supported by a series of digital tools, namely collaborative work platforms where it will be possible, asynchronously, with total respect, therefore, for the learning rhythms and styles of each student, to develop peer-to-peer forms of co-construction of knowledge and differentiated support from the teacher.
The methodologies used in this UC aim at a solid theoretical knowledge of the contents, based on the most relevant thinkers, along with the application of these theoretical contents to the critical analysis of concrete and real situations, within the range of dimensions prescribed by the official curriculum. Therefore, several methodologies are used: expository moments, open debates, documentary research with or without field data collection, and presentation of the results of these investigations.
Working groups will be formed to which topics will be distributed that should be investigated, presented, and discussed. Naturally, priority will be given to those dimensions whose articulation with the scientific areas of training is more obvious and, therefore, more naturally articulable with the teaching practice of the students, such as the environment and sustainability, health education, sexuality, and gender.
As the UC is taught in a face-to-face modality, with 1.5 hours of classroom work per week, a very important part of the work will take place autonomously, individually or in groups, but supported by a series of digital tools, namely collaborative work platforms where it will be possible, asynchronously, with total respect, therefore, for the learning rhythms and styles of each student, to develop peer-to-peer forms of co-construction of knowledge and differentiated support from the teacher.
Assessment
Due to academic regulations, the UC (curricular unit) has both continuous and final evaluation modalities. In the final evaluation, the exam consists of a test of theoretical knowledge regarding the concepts listed in the content list, based on the stated bibliographic references, and a part more focused on the master's students' critical analysis skills, where they will have to propose and defend a didactic strategy related to one of the dimensions of civic education identified in the program.
The continuous assessment has a group component (TG) that consists of a small investigation (documentary or even with field data) on one of the CE topics and its presentation and discussion in the class, and another individual one (TI), which consists of the production of a written text, reflecting on their own group work, or another that interests them more and they negotiate with the teacher.
Particularly during the development phase of the small investigations (this is a 3 ECTS UC), students are encouraged to seek frequent feedback from the teacher, in order to optimize their efforts.
The final grade (CF) will be determined using the following formula: CF = (2TI + TG) / 3
The continuous assessment has a group component (TG) that consists of a small investigation (documentary or even with field data) on one of the CE topics and its presentation and discussion in the class, and another individual one (TI), which consists of the production of a written text, reflecting on their own group work, or another that interests them more and they negotiate with the teacher.
Particularly during the development phase of the small investigations (this is a 3 ECTS UC), students are encouraged to seek frequent feedback from the teacher, in order to optimize their efforts.
The final grade (CF) will be determined using the following formula: CF = (2TI + TG) / 3
Teaching Staff
- Luís Miguel dos Santos Sebastião [responsible]
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