2025
Education for Citizenship
Name: Education for Citizenship
Code: PED11185M
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 know the main conceptual frameworks about citizenship and understand its political, cultural and educational interconnections.
• To discuss and to understand the challenges and options that contemporary society (in particular the digital transformation) imposes on citizenship education.
• To know the main debates around the topics to be addressed in the process of education for citizenship and, in the face of this, to have a well-founded critical position.
• To possess the necessary teaching skills to promote knowledge, values and attitudes in matters of citizenship
• To play an intervenient and critical role on the professional and personal levels, in order to promote full citizenship
• To discuss and to understand the challenges and options that contemporary society (in particular the digital transformation) imposes on citizenship education.
• To know the main debates around the topics to be addressed in the process of education for citizenship and, in the face of this, to have a well-founded critical position.
• To possess the necessary teaching skills to promote knowledge, values and attitudes in matters of citizenship
• To play an intervenient and critical role on the professional and personal levels, in order to promote full citizenship
Contents
A. Key concepts: democracy, ideology, justice, human rights, citizenship, freedom, equality, inclusion, globalization, individualism, liberalism, socialism.
B. Education for citizenship as education for values.
C. The new scenarios of citizenship education: digital citizenship, artificial intelligence, climate change, the multipolar world.
D. The National Citizenship Education Strategy.
E. The dimensions of citizenship education: (according to the DGE)
E.1. European dimension of Education.
E.2. Environmental Education for sustainability.
E.3. Consumer Education.
E.4. Financial education.
E.5. Intercultural education.
E.6. Education for Peace.
E.7. Education for Gender Equality.
E.8. Educating to avoid unnecessary risk.
E.9. Education for development.
E.10. Education for entrepreneurship.
E.11. Education for charity work.
E.12. Education for Human Rights.
E.13. Media education.
E.14. Education for road safety.
E.15. Education for health and sexuality
B. Education for citizenship as education for values.
C. The new scenarios of citizenship education: digital citizenship, artificial intelligence, climate change, the multipolar world.
D. The National Citizenship Education Strategy.
E. The dimensions of citizenship education: (according to the DGE)
E.1. European dimension of Education.
E.2. Environmental Education for sustainability.
E.3. Consumer Education.
E.4. Financial education.
E.5. Intercultural education.
E.6. Education for Peace.
E.7. Education for Gender Equality.
E.8. Educating to avoid unnecessary risk.
E.9. Education for development.
E.10. Education for entrepreneurship.
E.11. Education for charity work.
E.12. Education for Human Rights.
E.13. Media education.
E.14. Education for road safety.
E.15. Education for health and sexuality
Teaching Methods
The UC integrates a general educational training component of the course and has a reflective and critical vocation. The methodology used in this UC aims at theoretical knowledge of the contents, based the most relevant thinkers, along with the application of these theoretical contents to the critical analysis of concrete and real situations, within the range of dimensions prescribed by the official curriculum. There are, therefore, several methodologies convened: expository moments, open dbebates, documentary research with or without field data collection and exposition of results on these issues.
Working groups will be set up to distribute topics that must be investigated, presented and discussed. Naturally, priority will be given to those dimensions whose articulation with the scientific areas of training is more indirect and, therefore, more naturally articulated with the students' teaching practice, such as the environment and sustainability, health education, sexuality and gende
Working groups will be set up to distribute topics that must be investigated, presented and discussed. Naturally, priority will be given to those dimensions whose articulation with the scientific areas of training is more indirect and, therefore, more naturally articulated with the students' teaching practice, such as the environment and sustainability, health education, sexuality and gende
Assessment
By virtue of EU academic regulation, the UC has both continuous assessment and final assessment. In the final assessment, the exam consists of a test of theoretical knowledge regarding the concepts listed in the list of contents, based on the bibliographical references listed and a part more focused on the master's students' critical analysis skills, where they will have to propose and defend a strategy didactics related to one of the dimensions of education for citizenship identified in the programme.
Continuous assessment has a group component consisting of a small investigation (documentary or even with field data) on one of the EC themes and its presentation and discussion in the class, and another individual component, which consists of the production of a written text , reflection on your own group work, or another one that interests you more and negotiate with the teacher.
Continuous assessment has a group component consisting of a small investigation (documentary or even with field data) on one of the EC themes and its presentation and discussion in the class, and another individual component, which consists of the production of a written text , reflection on your own group work, or another one that interests you more and negotiate with the teacher.
Teaching Staff (2024/2025 )
- Luís Miguel dos Santos Sebastião [responsible]
- Luís Miguel dos Santos Sebastião [responsible]
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