Compared Education

Code: PED02484L

6 ECTS

Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours

Scientific Area: Education Sciences

Teaching languages: Portuguese

Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese

Presentation

In this Course Unit students of Education should have the opportunity to deepen their knowledge about the world educational diversity, starting themselves in comparative studies.

Sustainable Development Goals

Saúde e bem-estar - Assegurar uma vida saudável e promover o bem-estar para todos, em todas as idades.

Educação de qualidade - Assegurar a educação inclusiva, e equitativa e de qualidade, e promover oportunidades de aprendizagem ao longo da vida para todos.

Igualdade de género - Alcançar a igualdade de gênero e empoderar todas as mulheres e meninas.

Trabalho decente e crescimento económico - Promover o crescimento económico sustentado, inclusivo e sustentável, emprego pleno e produtivo, e trabalho decente para todos.

Inovação infraestrutura - Construir infraestrutura resiliente, promover a industrialização inclusiva e sustentável, e fomentar a inovação.

Redução das desigualdades - Reduzir as desigualdades dentro dos países e entre eles.

Learning Goals

1. Definition of the scope of Comparative Education.
2. Clarify the basic concepts of the discipline.
3. Knowing the history of the discipline and the milestones and key players in its evolution.
4. Identify the main and general and specific methodological and epistemological problems of "comparison" in the field of education.
5. Deepen knowledge about current education major problems worldwide, particularly those related to international programs of quantitative and qualitative assessment of education.
6. Initiation to the study of Prospective of Education applied both to national education systems and the global analysis of world education.
7. Deepen the understanding of "education system" of a particular country.

1. The Comparative Education under the Education Sciences.
2. Basic concepts of the discipline: Comparative Education and Comparative Education?
3. History of discipline and milestones and key players in its evolution.
4. Methodological problems of "comparison".
5. Comparison of the specific problems in education.
6. Resources for research in Comparative Education.
7. International and national institutions in the field of education and comparative studies.
8. The international comparison and assessment of the quantity and quality of education.
9. The Educational Prospects - perspectives on the future of education.
10. Main problems of current education worldwide.

Teaching Methods

Teaching methods:
a) Theoretical and Practical classes - In an initial moment there is an exposition by the teacher framing and synthetizing the main problems and ideas about each point. In a second moment of "practical" nature there is an analysis and interpretation of texts / documents, and an exercise and application of research centered on national education systems.
Methods of assessment:
a) 2 written partial exercices or a final Exam.
b) An individual practical work - exercises/analysis on the educational system of one country.