2023

History of Pedagogy and Education

Name: History of Pedagogy and Education
Code: PED02474L
6 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours
Scientific Area: Education Sciences

Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese, English, French, Spanish, Italian
Regime de Frequência: Presencial

Presentation

This Course Unit focuses on key moments in the history of Western education and educational thought through the study of the facts, institutions, methods, techniques and pedagogical theories.

Sustainable Development Goals

Learning Goals

Forming an evolutionary framework of Western civilization, for education and
pedagogy, identifying, characterizing and relating their key moments.
Locate dynamically education and pedagogy across the social, economic, political and
cultural life.
Integrating the evolution of education in pedagogical thinking Portuguese.
Connect the past with the present and give to both, and to this unity a prospective
sense.

Contents

1. THE GRECO-ROMAN WORD
2. CRISTIANITY
3. RENAISSANCE AND HUMANISM
4. REFORM AND COUNTER-REFORM
5. THE ENLIGHTENMENT TO THE END OF THE IX CENTURY
5. EDUCATION AND COMTEMPORARY PEDAGOGY EN PORTUGAL

Teaching Methods

The classes complement the methodology with expository dialogue, individual work and / or
group work - practical work. Students receive, at the beginning of the chair, an anthology of
texts that will be worked by them throughout the semester, following the respective field.

The final grade is obtained from the classification of two tests, according to the following
formula:

End note: A+b:2
A represents the classification obtained at a first frequency and B at second, the end
classification with a weight of + 1 or - 1 according to the practical work.

Teaching Staff