Philosophical Anthropology of Education

Code:

MFIL002

Acronym:

AFE

Instance: 2011/2012 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of Philosophy
Course/CS Responsible:	Masters in Philosophy

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MFIL	6	MFIL - Study Plan	1	-	10	58	270

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

Main objective: Taking the human being as the subject and the basis of education, the objective of this seminar is to provide a critical understanding of connections between philosophical anthropology and philosophical issues of education.

Specific objectives:
- To analyse the status of philosophical anthropology, of educational anthropology and of pedagogical anthropology;
- To deepen the knowledge of relations between man, culture and education;
- To have a perspective of education as an anthropological project
- To reflect upon the philosophical presuppositions of a pedagogical anthropology as experiential anthropology;
- To promote reflection upon themes and issues of Philosophical Anthropology of Education.

Program

1. Philosophical anthropology, educational anthropology, pedagogical anthropology and philosophy of education.
- Anthropology as knowledge about man.
2. Education as anthropological project.
- Identification of the main anthropological and historical references of philosophy history.
- Human nature and the educative nature of the human condition.
- The man as "homo educandus": educability, perfectibility, complex anthropogenesis and liberty.

3. The construction of the human in association (and affinity) with meanings.
- An anthropology of meaning: dramaticity and experience in making the world (of theatre).
- The educative experience as experience in feeling: trans-positivity of sense construction with senses.
4. Construction of the human in contemporary public space
4.1. Democracy and citizenship.
4.1.1. The complex construction of identity. Diversity and urbanity.

Mandatory literature

— "De la spécificité philosophique de l'éducation", Penser l’éducation, Revue International, Université de Rouen, n°23, Avril 2008, pp. 77-87.
Carvalho, A. Dias de, A Educação como Projecto Antropológico, Porto, Afrontamento, 1993.
Hamann, Bruno, Antropología Pedagógica. Introducción a sus teorías, modelos y estruturas, Barcelona, Vicens Vives, versión castellana José M. Quintana, 1992
Perniola, Mario, Do Sentir, Presença, trad. António Guerreiro, Lisboa, 1993.
— (coord.), Dicionário Temático de Filosofia da Educação, Porto, Gabinete de Filosofia da Educação do Instituto de Filosofia e Edições Afrontamento. 2006.
Pereira, Paula Cristina, «Filosofia da Educação: evidências, vidências e vivências», in Utopia e Pragmatismo em Educação: Desafios e Perspectivas, Actas do II Colóquio de Filosofia da Educação, Universidade dos Açores, Ponta Delgada, 2002, pp. 115-124.
— Do Sentir e do Pensar. Ensaio para uma antropologia (experiencial) de matriz poética Porto, Afrontamento, 2006.
Couto, M. João, Da Comunicação entre as diferenças. Reflexões em torno da educação social e do seu sentido contemporâneo, Porto, ed. fotocopiada, Gráfica da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto, 1996
— "La diferencia como primado de lo humano", Revista ESPÍRITU, Barcelona, 135-LVI, 2007, pp. 227-236.
— “Da sensibilidade como acolhimento”, in Sentidos Contemporâneos da Educação, org. Adalberto Dias de Carvalho, Afrontamento, Porto, 2002, pp. 219-238.
Vilela, Eugénia, Do Corpo Equívoco. Reflexões sobre a Verdade e a educação nas Narrativas Epistemológicas da Modernidade, Braga, Angelus Novus, 1998.
Jolibert, Bernard, Raison et Éducation, Paris, Éditions Klincksieck, 1987.
Pereira, Paula Cristina (org.), A Filosofia e a Cidade, Porto, Campo das Letras, 2008

keywords

Humanities > Philosophy > Philosophical anthropology
Humanities > Philosophy > Epistemology

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Description	Type	Time (hours)	Weight (%)	End date
Attendance (estimated)	Participação presencial	45,00
	Trabalho escrito	103,00		2012-07-20
	Trabalho escrito	2,00		2012-07-20
	Total:	-	0,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Description	Type	Time (hours)	End date
	Estudo autónomo	120	2012-07-20
	Total:	120,00