Communitarian Education

Code: PED02490L

6 ECTS

Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours

Scientific Area: Education Sciences

Teaching languages: Portuguese

Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese

Presentation

The Community Education curricular unit provides students with the opportunity to learn about the different types of education present in human communities, the different theoretical frameworks on which they are supported and the most relevant impacts on human, social and economic development.

Sustainable Development Goals

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

Parcerias e meios de implementação - Fortalecer os meios de implementação e revitalizar a parceria global para o desenvolvimento sustentável.

Learning Goals

1. Reflecting on the concepts of formal, non formal and informal education and their interconnections, on the assumption that all these forms of education and training are present in human communities;
2. Knowing the different theoretical approaches to Community Education and its historical development;
3. Relate the different understandings of Community Education in their moorings and the different conceptual models of human development, economic and social determine;
4. Know and describe national and international examples of projects of Community Education;
5. Design and implement (with reasons, developing and evaluating) proposals for Community Education at different levels: community institutions, etc..

1. The field of formal education;
2. The field of non-formal education;
3. The field of informal education;
4. The institutional, family and individual dimensions of Community Education;
5. The intergenerational projects as a crosscutting Community Education;
6. Officials of Community Education;
7. The design, implementation and evaluation of Community Education projects.

Teaching Methods

The methodological approach will build on the joint, active and complementary face moments between the provision of information and autonomous activity (individual or group) the students duly accompanied by the teacher. The use of real case studies will be privileged. The involvement of students in research initiatives and academic events or otherwise directly related to the scope of the course.
The process of learning evaluation will take into account the quality and regularity of the work produced by students and result in the provision of written and / or the carrying out of practical nature to be determined, during term time.