Family, Community and Children's Education

Code: PED11416M

3 ECTS

Duration: 15 weeks/78 hours

Scientific Area: Education Sciences

Teaching languages: Portuguese

Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese

Sustainable Development Goals

Saúde de qualidade - 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.

Cidades e comunidades sustentáveis - Tornar as cidades e os assentamentos humanos inclusivos, seguros, resilientes e sustentáveis.

Paz, justiça e instituições eficazes - Paz, justiça e instituições eficazes promover sociedades pacíficas e inclusivas par ao desenvolvimento sustentável, proporcionar o acesso à justiça para todos e construir instituições eficazes, responsáveis
e inclusivas em todos os níveis.

Learning Goals

• To know the rights of children and discuss the implications of a vision of a child as citizen, subject of rights;
• Recognizing and valuing equity in education for Children: Diversity, differentiation, multiculturalism and cooperation;
• Meet and reflect about family and community in a descriptive, historical, political and cultural way;
• Meet analyze and outline several approaches to work with the family and the community and solving the underlying problems;
• Understanding the city as an educational space in order to build cooperatively with their peers, with families and with the school community, a fruitful learning environment for all children;
• Understanding the Education of Children in a holistic way: the ecology of child development.

1. Listening to children: the radical ethical, political and pedagogical assumption of the child as a citizen subject to rights.
2. Family, parenting and social changes;
a. Parental education: conceptions and praxis;
b. Challenges of the school-family relationship
c. Strategies for interaction and cooperation with families in the education of children;
3. The educational role of the community:
a. Concept of "Educating Cities" - letter from educating cities (Barcelona Declaration);
b. Child-friendly cities UNICEF
4. Transits between border spaces
a. Service integration
b. Transitions between family, daycare, Pre-school, primary school

Teaching Methods

Using methodologies that appeal involved in the construction of knowledge through the involvement and participation of students, individually and in groups: lectures with discussion, research and presentation to the class, debates with guests with relevant experience; participation in community events.
Each student organizes a on a theme of the program in pairs;

The evaluation is based on the construction of a reflective Portfolio on the topics covered in class. One of the reflections must focus on the prepared by the students (30%)