2025
Introduction to Ethics and Educators Deontology
Name: Introduction to Ethics and Educators Deontology
Code: FIL15008L
3 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/78 hours
Scientific Area:
Philosophy
Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese
Regime de Frequência: Presencial
Sustainable Development Goals
Learning Goals
1. To use, with epistemological adequacy, the concepts of Ethics and Deontology.
2. To identify, in own experience, the values whose achievement is aimed at through ethical principles.
3. To understand the meaning of ethical experience and the formation of the Person as subject of ethical acts.
4. To interrogate the great ethical imperatives underlying the duties of educators.
5. To justify the importance of Educators Deontology.
6. To be able to take a stand, with congruence, regarding the relationship between being free and be responsible, and educating in and for freedom and responsibility.
2. To identify, in own experience, the values whose achievement is aimed at through ethical principles.
3. To understand the meaning of ethical experience and the formation of the Person as subject of ethical acts.
4. To interrogate the great ethical imperatives underlying the duties of educators.
5. To justify the importance of Educators Deontology.
6. To be able to take a stand, with congruence, regarding the relationship between being free and be responsible, and educating in and for freedom and responsibility.
Contents
I. ETHICS AS A PHILOSOPHICAL DISCIPLINE The object and methodology of work in Ethics
II. ETHICAL VALUES AND PRINCIPLES OF ACTING From the relevance of recognizing fundamental ethical values to the experience of acting out of duty
III. DEONTOLOGY AS A SCOPE OF ETHICS Questioning the importance of a theory of duties, in general, and the duties of educators, in particular
IV. THE PROBLEMS OF FREEDOM AND RESPONSIBILITY Their formulation and their presence in the processes of formation of the human person
II. ETHICAL VALUES AND PRINCIPLES OF ACTING From the relevance of recognizing fundamental ethical values to the experience of acting out of duty
III. DEONTOLOGY AS A SCOPE OF ETHICS Questioning the importance of a theory of duties, in general, and the duties of educators, in particular
IV. THE PROBLEMS OF FREEDOM AND RESPONSIBILITY Their formulation and their presence in the processes of formation of the human person
Teaching Methods
In the teaching and learning of the curricular unit, the use of student participation methodologies in their learning process is recommended, thus seeking to contribute to the implementation of a pedagogical model centred on each student's learning.
The use of texts, their discussion, participated individually and in groups, along with the constant exercise of dialogue and contraposition of arguments will constitute the main methodological axis of fulfilling points I to IV of the syllabus. The use of digital resources will also be encouraged at all times during the development of the curricular unit, especially when carrying out bibliographical research and comparing texts on the themes and problems raised by the syllabus.
The use of texts, their discussion, participated individually and in groups, along with the constant exercise of dialogue and contraposition of arguments will constitute the main methodological axis of fulfilling points I to IV of the syllabus. The use of digital resources will also be encouraged at all times during the development of the curricular unit, especially when carrying out bibliographical research and comparing texts on the themes and problems raised by the syllabus.
Assessment
The assessment of learning in the curricular unit will be continuous and will include the following written tests:
1st) a reading form 40%;
2nd) a final written test 40%.
The rate for attendance and level of participation of each student in classes is 20%.
1st) a reading form 40%;
2nd) a final written test 40%.
The rate for attendance and level of participation of each student in classes is 20%.
Teaching Staff
- Margarida Isaura Lourenço da Silva Almeida Amoedo [responsible]
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