2023
Hard Questions for Educators
Name: Hard Questions for Educators
Code: PED13945M
3 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/78 hours
Scientific Area:
Education Sciences
Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese, English, French
Regime de Frequência: Presencial
Presentation
Education is a human action that mediates between the world we inhabit and the world we aspire to inhabit. It turns out that while the world we inhabit is, the worlds to inhabit are multiple possibilities to choose. It is a matter of trying to discover the reasons that make some preferable to others
Sustainable Development Goals
Learning Goals
- Understand education as a process of choosing between alternatives and promoting values.
- Know the main explanatory theories of values and the main trends of thought, historical and contemporary ones, about the purposes of education.
- Know the main educational methodologies to teach values, and understand their theoretical basis.
- Be able to stand in a critical position about the choices that, in Portugal and at the present time, have to be made, in educational terms, by decision makers in the political, social and pedagogical fields.
- To be able to participate, critically and in a educated way, in the public discussion about citizenship and educational issues
- Know the main explanatory theories of values and the main trends of thought, historical and contemporary ones, about the purposes of education.
- Know the main educational methodologies to teach values, and understand their theoretical basis.
- Be able to stand in a critical position about the choices that, in Portugal and at the present time, have to be made, in educational terms, by decision makers in the political, social and pedagogical fields.
- To be able to participate, critically and in a educated way, in the public discussion about citizenship and educational issues
Contents
1. Education is a kind of action
1.1. A theory of action
1.2. Education, reasons, beliefs and convictions
1.3. Education and worldviews
2. Become who you are: education and humanity
2.1. The being and the ought to be in education
2.2. Kinds of humanity in time and space
2.3. Education and Negative anthropology
3. Difficult choices in education
3.1. Between freedom and equality
3.2. Between the good and the fairness
3.3. Between the individual and society
3.4. Between identity and inclusion
3.5. Between reason and emotion
3.6. Between school and family
3.7. Between education and training
3.8. Between creation and reproduction
3.9. Between growth and sustainability
4. Middle-term education: is it possible to pass between Scylla and Charybdis?
1.1. A theory of action
1.2. Education, reasons, beliefs and convictions
1.3. Education and worldviews
2. Become who you are: education and humanity
2.1. The being and the ought to be in education
2.2. Kinds of humanity in time and space
2.3. Education and Negative anthropology
3. Difficult choices in education
3.1. Between freedom and equality
3.2. Between the good and the fairness
3.3. Between the individual and society
3.4. Between identity and inclusion
3.5. Between reason and emotion
3.6. Between school and family
3.7. Between education and training
3.8. Between creation and reproduction
3.9. Between growth and sustainability
4. Middle-term education: is it possible to pass between Scylla and Charybdis?
Teaching Methods
The UC starts with a set of four sessions of an expository type in order to define of concepts and establish a general framework of the theme. Of course, expository does not at all imply closed to dialogue and discussion.
Master's students will organize themselves in groups of two. Each group will analyze and expose, in a session reserved for the purpose, an antinomy among those listed in the contents (or another that they suggest)
The remaining sessions, will follow the seminar methodology to address the remaining themes. It is up to the teacher to contribute to the discussions with the memory of past discussions and the possible syntheses.
Continuous Evaluation:
1. presentation of a group theme 50% of the final evaluation
2. Elaboration of a field notebook for reading notes and daily reflections. It will include the extended summaries of the sessions (%) 50%
Final evaluation:
Written exam 100%
Master's students will organize themselves in groups of two. Each group will analyze and expose, in a session reserved for the purpose, an antinomy among those listed in the contents (or another that they suggest)
The remaining sessions, will follow the seminar methodology to address the remaining themes. It is up to the teacher to contribute to the discussions with the memory of past discussions and the possible syntheses.
Continuous Evaluation:
1. presentation of a group theme 50% of the final evaluation
2. Elaboration of a field notebook for reading notes and daily reflections. It will include the extended summaries of the sessions (%) 50%
Final evaluation:
Written exam 100%
Teaching Staff
- Luís Miguel dos Santos Sebastião [responsible]
