Experience, Social Context and Adult Education

Code:

EFA12

Acronym:

ECSEA

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Adult Education and Training / Professional Guidance

Instance: 2022/2023 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Psychology
Course/CS Responsible:	Master in Adult Education and Training

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MCED	9	Official Curricular Structure	1	-	6	49	162
MEFA	4	Official Curricular Structure	1	-	6	49	162

Teaching language

Suitable for English-speaking students

Objectives

The goal of the CE is to foster a comprehensive and critical perspective of the methodologies of recognition, validation and certification of prior learning in the context of adult education and training and of lifelong learning.

Learning outcomes and competences

To know the reasons of emergence of the methodologies of recognition, validation and certification of prior learning in the context of adult education and training and of lifelong learning.

To understand the  processes that support the methodologies of recognition of non formal and informal acquisitions, namely career guidance, identification and assessment of skills.

Acquisition of capacities and instruments  - both conceptual and methodological –related to processes of prior learning recognition, namely Bilan de Compétences.

Knowledge/ discussion of the most relevant devices in the domain of skills validation, such as tests/exams, observation, simulation, declarative methods, portfolio.

To understand the historical process of development of these methodologies in Portugal, namely their various institutional locations, devices, conceptual sustainability and insertion in  wider framework of the national qualifications system.

Working method

Presencial

Program

Adult education vs. lifelong learning: from their ambiguities to the emergence of skills recognition and validation methodologies.

Skills recognition, validation and accreditation methodologies in the European context: motivations, developmental levels and investment public, private and third sector modalities.

Methodologies of recognition and lifelong career guidance.

Methodologies of skills validation: tests and exams, observation, simulation, declarative methods and portfolio.

Learning, development and functional diversity.

Evolution of the implementation of the methodologies of recognition, validation and accreditation of prior learning in Portugal: a decade of formal recognition of informal acquisitions.

Methodologies of skills recognition: new professionals, new publics, new challenges.

Mandatory literature

Coimbra, J.L., Parada, F., & Imaginário, L.; Formação ao longo da vida e gestão da carreira. , Direcção-Geral do Emprego e Formação Profissional/Ministério do Trabalho e da Solidariedade, 2001
Watts, A.G., & McNair, S.; Towards a strategy for lifelong guidance to support lifelong learning and work., Routledge Library Editions: Education., 2013
Bragança, Â., Castro, J.M., & Coimbra, J.L. ; Como sobreviver à aprendizagem ao longo da vida como blame policies do mundo moderno. , Revista Portuguesa de Investigação Educacional, 10, 243-257, 2012
Kolb, A.Y., & Kolb, D.A. ; Experiential learning theory. , Springer, 2012
Halttunen,T.,Koivisto M., & Billett S.; Promoting and recognising lifelong learning: Introduction. , Springer Netherlands., 2014

Teaching methods and learning activities

Exposition/discussion of the main themes and contents of this  curricular unit. Exploration of work documents, methodological guides, action and activities proposals along the main domains of prior learning recognition, validation and accreditation methodologies. Contact with professionals and experts in the areas of implementation of methodologies, exploration of a diversity of contexts where they are developed (schools, enterprises, training centres, adult education and training courses, adult education centres).

Evaluation is based in the elaboration of a work project publicly presented in a thematic seminar, exploring some of the central themes of this curricular unit. The project focused on the themes discussed and presented during the classes is expected to include an original work or research proposal related to the themes of the methodologies of prior learning recognition, validation and accreditation, mainly stemming from informal and non-formal experiences

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

designation	Weight (%)
Trabalho escrito	100,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	50,00
Frequência das aulas	45,00
Trabalho escrito	40,00
Total:	135,00

Eligibility for exams

75% of classes attendance.

Calculation formula of final grade

100%