2024

Reading and Literary Education

Name: Reading and Literary Education
Code: PED12659D
6 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours
Scientific Area: Education Sciences

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

Sustainable Development Goals

Learning Goals

To characterize the literary communication in its specificity, as an aesthetically relevant phenomenon.
To reflect on the nature, functions, and status of literature in school and society.
To reflect critically on the impact of the concept of literary education in the construction of the individual profile as a reader as well as in his formation.
To consider possibilities of enhancing the relevance of literary education in the current educational context.
To consider possibilities of enhancing the relevance of literary education in non formal educational context.
To recognize the vitality of the valorization of reading the literary text as a determining experience in the integral individual formation.
To know the research developed in the area of literary education.

Contents

Literary education and its promotion.
Understanding and developing literary communication.
The specificity of the literary text: difficulties inherent to its integration in the school context.
The construction of readers: the reading of literary text in school and in non-formal educational contexts.
The importance of literature in promoting an education centered on the experience of values, namely of aesthetic order.
The relation and importance, for the promotion of a literary education, between literature and other semiotic codes.
The research in literary education.

Teaching Methods

Lectures. Texts reading, followed by debate with line-oriented reading. Individual work (from reactions to texts reading and debates). Share reading experiences. // Assessment: Individual reflexive report about a paper (RC); Presentation/oral discussion of this paper (DO).
Final Classification= (60*RC + 40*DO)/100

Teaching Staff (2023/2024 )