Arts Education I

Code:

EA1

Acronym:

EA

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Artistic Education

Instance: 2017/2018 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Desenho
Course/CS Responsible:	PhD in Art Education

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
DEA	15	Plano Oficial do ano letivo 2016	1	-	20	90	540

Teaching language

Suitable for English-speaking students

Objectives

To identify the ontological and epistemological field of arts education; Deepening and structuring an advanced knowledge in the domain of the methodologies of research in arts education; Produce systematic interdisciplinary knowledge and critical analysis of research projects in arts education; Contribute to stimulate the production of original knowledge, and create opportunities for young researchers in terms of relationships with international researchers and institutions; The UC is structured to promote the following skills: Ability to systematic understanding of research projects in Art Education; Ability to draw creative solutions for innovative projects in order to understand the complexities of the realities to work on.

Learning outcomes and competences

Production of a research project that allows the configuration of a PhD thesis well clarified and qualified within the field of arts education.

Ability to mobilize the different curricular units of the program to a qualified exercise of research according to each student's thesis.

Working method

Presencial

Program

The UC aims to develop skills and knowledge in the different fields of Arts Education linking research, creation and reflection on teaching practice. Functioning in the first year, the UC addresses a number of issues considered relevant to the production of contemporary knowledge in different areas, and contributes to the consolidation of the interests of individual research. Curriculum development consolidates the direction of research, founding it both in historical and critical context, supported by updated research methodologies and recension of texts and authors of reference. It also develops and provides advanced tools for reflection and creation in art, and of analysis and contact with the teaching activity, from the research proposal of each student.

Mandatory literature

ALLEN, Felicity; Education. WhiteChapell: Documents of contemporary art, MIT Press, 2011
ATKINSON, Denis; Art, Equality and Learning: Pedagogies Against the State., Sense Publishers. , 2011
BALDACCHINO, John; Art's Way Out: Exit Pedagogy and the Cultural Condition., Sense Publishers., 2012
BAMFORD A.; The Wow factor: research compendium on the impact of the arts in education., Waxmann Verlag, 2006
EFLAND, Arthur; A History of Art Education: Intellectual and Social Currents in Teaching the Visual Arts., Teachers College Press, 1990
EFLAND, A., FREEDMAN, K. e STUHR, P.; La educación en el arte posmoderno., Barcelona: Paidós, 2003
MADOFF, Steven; Art School: propositions for the 21st century, The MIT Press., 2009

Teaching methods and learning activities

he activities take place in a participatory environment through discussions and group work . The model also incorporates tutorial and autonomous activities ( bibliographic search, reading, analysis of texts, writing ).

Type of evaluation : Evaluation with final exam

keywords

Humanities > Arts
Social sciences > Educational sciences

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Defesa pública de dissertação, de relatório de projeto ou estágio, ou de tese	75,00
Participação presencial	10,00
Trabalho escrito	15,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Elaboração de projeto	120,00
Estudo autónomo	380,00
Frequência das aulas	360,00
Trabalho de investigação	220,00
Total:	1080,00

Eligibility for exams

Terms of Frequency : Attendance in classes, research work. Final project. This final work takes the form of ' Thesis Project ' and will be subject of public discussion before a jury. The event is called 'proof of qualification'.

Calculation formula of final grade

Formula Evaluation : The student obtains the frequency of the course through the 'proof of qualification' plus the qualified participation in the UC activities , the development of autonomous work, b.learning participation on the platform and the production and publication of original work.

Examinations or Special Assignments

final written work (project of thesis);

publication of a paper in a scientific journal with peer-review (or, at least, the acceptance for publishing)

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

The students, within the situations under the legislation and rules, that do not have a regularity in the activities will have to present, further than the elements for classification specified bellow, the proof of publication of at least two papers in peer-review journals.

Classification improvement

final exam (it doesn't replace the presentation of the works already noted)