Education and Citizenship

Code:

FLUP0515

Acronym:

EDCIDA

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Teaching Education - Pedagogy and Philosophy of Education

Instance: 2004/2005 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Autonomous Section of Education
Course/CS Responsible:	Philosophy

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
EAA	0	Official Study Plan - LEAA	2	2,5	5	-
			3
EFA	4	Official Study Plan - LEFA	3	2,5	5	-
		Plano oficial - 4º ao 5º ano	3	2,5	5	-
		Plano oficial - 1º ao 3º ano	3	2,5	5	-
EFI	2	Official Study Plan - LEFI	3	2,5	5	-
EIA	13	Official Study Plan - LEIA	3	2,5	5	-
		Plano oficial - 1º ao 3º ano	3	2,5	5	-
EPA	4	Official Study Plan - LEPA	2	2,5	5	-
EPE	7	Official Study Plan - LEPE	2	2,5	5	-
EPF	15	Official Study Plan - LEPF	2	2,5	5	-
EPI	35	Official Study Plan - LEPI	2	2,5	5	-
EPO	13	Official Study Plan - LEPO	2	2,5	5	-
FIL	19	Official Study Plan - LFIL	3	2,5	5	-
GEO	33	Official Study Plan - LGEO	3	2,5	5	-
			4
HIS	40	Official Study Plan - LHIS	1	2,5	5	-
			2
			3
			4

Objectives

This subject will seek to analyse the relationship between the right to education and Human Rights, as the fundamental focal point for reflection on education as a social and human right. Consequently, and bearing in mind the challenges faced by education in the 21st century, students will also be encouraged to reflect on the tensions faced by contemporary societies, as well as on the notion of educational society and building citizenship

Program

1. Cultural models of contemporary education.
1.1. The Greek model
1.2. The Judaeo-Christian model
1.3. The liberal model

2. Education, Society and Values:
2.1. Education and democracy: facts and ideals in education and in democracy.
2.1.1. Education as an anthropological universal.
2.1.2. Democracy as a value.
2.2. The ethical dimension of socio-political reality: the central reference of human rights.
2.3. Education: a social and human right.
2.3.1 To educate for human rights
2.4. The institutionalisation of education: school as a place for human education.
2.4.1 Emile Durkheim - enhancing the school’s function within society and in educating the individual
2.4.2 Ivan Illich - the ideal of a deschooled society.
2.4.3 Pierre Bourdieu and Jean-Claude Passeron - a general theory of the conditions for dissimulating violent symbolical actions

3. Building citizenship.
3.1 Between universal and particular: the contingency.
3.2 Individualism, autonomy and participation.
3.3 The challenges faced by education in the 21st century.
3.3.1 The economic, political and social tensions in the contemporary world.
3.3.2 From information society to educational society.
3.3.3 Reconfiguration of the teacher’s role in contemporary society.

Main Bibliography

A.A V.V. , A Educação do Futuro, o Futuro da Educação, Porto, Ed. Asa, 1996.
A.A V.V. , Educação, um Tesouro a Descobrir, Porto Ed., Asa, 1996.
A.A. V.V, O século da Escola. Entre a Utopia e a burocracia, Porto, Ed.Asa, 2001.
AMILBURU, M. Garcia, Aprendiendo a ser humanos. Una Antropología de la Educación, Navarra, EUNSA, 1996.
ANDRADE, Julio Vaz, Os valores na formação pessoal e social, Lisboa,Texto Editora, 1992.
BOBBIO, Norberto, O Futuro da Democracia, Lisboa, Publicações D. Quixote, 1988.
BOURDIEU, P.; Passeron, J.C., A Reprodução. Lisboa, Ed. Veja, s/d.
BOURDIEU, P., “Reprodução cultural e Reprodução social”, in Sociologia da Educação, vol.I, (org. Sérgio Grácio), Lisboa, Ed. Livros Horizonte, 1982.
CAMPS, Victoria, : Los valores de la Educación. Madrid, Anaya, 3ªed., 1994.
CARVALHO, Adalberto Dias de, (org.) A Educação e os limites dos direitos humanos, Porto, Porto Editora, 2000.
CARVALHO, Adalberto Dias de, A Contemporaneidade como Utopia, Porto, Ed. Afrontamento, 2000.
CORTINA, Adela, La ética de la sociedad civil, Madrid, Anaya, 1994.
DELACAMPAGNE, Christian, De l’indifférence. Essai sur la Banalisation du Mal. Paris, Odile Jacob, 1998.

Complementary Bibliography

References to additional readings will be indicated by the lecturer throughout the semester.

Teaching methods and learning activities

Theoretical and practical classes plus research work.

Evaluation Type

Eligibility for exams

Please see 'Final Classification' below.

Calculation formula of final grade

- final assessment (100%)
- final assessment (75%) plus mark of the practical research assignment(s) (25%)

Examinations or Special Assignments

- individual or group research assignment(s).

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

According to the Assessment Regulations in force.

Classification improvement

According to the Assessment Regulations in force.

Observations

Language of Instruction: Portuguese