Epistemology in Education

Code:

MFIL038

Acronym:

EE

Instance: 2012/2013 - 1S

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	5	MFIL - Study Plan	1	-	10	58	270

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

To provide a grounded reflection about the status of philosophy in education, within the context of philosophical subjects and of education sciences.

Program

- Pedagogical reason and philosophical reason: matters of sense and status.

- Goal, purpose, models and paradigms in education; educational conceptualization and educative pragmatics.

- Education as an object of study and as a social phenomenon, facticity and objectivity in education. Education as object-project.

- From pedagogy to education sciences: the matter of values and truth in education. From the educational axiology to the normativity of education.

- Positive, dialectic and rhetoric dimensions of education: circularity, recurrence and urgency of antinomies in education: identification and study of some of the classical contemporary antinomies. The place for metaphors in educational speech.

- Role and status of philosophy in education, in the context of philosophical subjects and education sciences: ethics, aesthetics, ontology, phenomenology, epistemology, hermeneutics and anthropology in education.

Mandatory literature

CARVALHO, A. Dias de; Epistemologia das Ciências da Educação, Afrontamento, 1996
HOUSSAYE, Jean, (sous la dir.), ; Éducation et philosophie. Approches contemporaines, E.S.F. Éditeur, 2000
JOLIBERT, Bernard; Raison et Éducation, Éditions Klincksieck, , 1987
RORTY, A. ; Philosophers on Education. , Routledge, 1998
ULMANN, Jacques ; La Pensée Éducative Contemporaine, , Vrin, 1982

Teaching methods and learning activities

Theoretical exposition of the content’s program, text analysis, individual and/or group research works’ presentation and debate, supervised by the teacher, about one of the themes from the program.

keywords

Humanities
Humanities > Philosophy
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	123,00		2013-02-16
	Trabalho escrito	2,00		2013-02-16
	Total:	-	0,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Description	Type	Time (hours)	End date
	Estudo autónomo	100	2013-02-16
	Total:	100,00

Eligibility for exams

Each student must attend at 75% of the seminar sessions, except in cases foreseen by law.

Calculation formula of final grade

The final classification is an outcome of the calculated arithmetic average or all evaluation components:
Participation in seminar debates (25%)
Critical reviews of recommended readings (25%)
Final research work (50%)