Introduction to Educational Sciences

Code:

E100

Acronym:

ICE

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Educational Sciences

Instance: 2010/2011 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Education Sciences
Course/CS Responsible:	First degree in Educational Sciences

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
LCED	77	Official Curricular Structure	1	-	6	65	162

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

-- To contextualize socio-historically and epistemologically the production of problems in the field of education and their transformation into research objects.
-- To characterize the multi-referentiality and the diversity of contributions both in the Educational Sciences and in the studying of education phenomena.
-- To display competencies in critically analysing education issues.

Program

I -- EDUCATION AS PHILOSOPHICAL DEDUCTION OF CONCEPTS OF THE HUMAN
1- The concepts of 'human nature' and 'education'.
2- From an education as 'perfecting' to an education as 'unfinishedness'.
3- From a philosophical approach to a scientific approach in education. Education as the central issue in contemporary anthropology.
II -- THE SOCIO-HISTORICAL-EPISTEMOLOGICAL QUESTION OF THE PRODUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE EDUCATION SCIENCES
1- Socio-historical conditions: the production of mass schooling.
2- Epistemological conditions: positivism and the phenomenology of social and human sciences.
3- The status of Pedagogy and Education Sciences: origin and development of a problematic. From the specialists era to the return of Pedagogy.
III -- FROM EDUCATIONAL SCIENCES TO TRAINING SCIENCES
1- Adult training and self-training: features and directions.
2- Permanent training and the educating city.

Mandatory literature

Carvalho Adalberto Dias de; A educaçao como projecto antropológico. ISBN: ISBN 972-36-0293-8
Santos Delfim; Fundamentação existencial da pedagogia
Estrela Albano; O^tempo e o lugar das ciências da educação. ISBN: 972-0-91100-X
Correia josé Alberto; Para uma crítica das teorias em Educação, Porto Editora, 1998
Revista de Psicologia e Ciências da Educação, 1992
Carvalho Adalberto Dias de; Epistemologia das ciências da educação
Pombo Olga; Quatro textos excêntricos, Relógio d'Água, 2000

Teaching methods and learning activities

Contact activities
- Lecture presentation
- Group assignments
- [Large and Small] Group dicussion

Autonomous work activities
- Reading and analysing texts
- Writing texts
- Group assignments
- Making a 'Training Trajectory’

keywords

Social sciences > Educational sciences > Education

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Description	Type	Time (hours)	Weight (%)	End date
Attendance (estimated)	Participação presencial	56,00
	Defesa pública de dissertação, de relatório de projeto ou estágio, ou de tese	30,00
	Teste	10,00
	Total:	-	0,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Description	Type	Time (hours)	End date
	Estudo autónomo	36
	Estudo autónomo	20
	Estudo autónomo	10
	Total:	66,00

Eligibility for exams

The adopted mode of evaluation is distributed evaluation without a final exam if presence in 75% of presented classes is guaranteed. Following the principles of this mode, the evaluation of this course consists of three instruments:
1. Active participation in class, in the proposed assignments, which integrate the discussed contents.
2. Individual and group research. The outcomes of this activity should translate into the making of a small, individual 'Training Route' which will show the investment students made in this course. The 'Training Route' will be handed in by the end of the semester but there will be inbetween moments when students will account for the work being done.
3. There will be a formal evaluation moment, written, and in presence, at the end of the semester.

Calculation formula of final grade

Active participation in class - 15%
Training Route, individual - 45%
Formal, written evaluation moment, in presence - 40%
Should a student fail in any one of the evaluation components, he/she will have to re-elaborate his work for that component. A student fails a component if his/her grade is below 8 (out of 20).
Final classification will be expressed in a grade between 0 and 20.

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

Working students who, due to schedule complications, cannot regularly attend class should present an extra assignment, to be arranged with the course lecturer. That assignment will incorporate the 'Training Route'. They will have, whenever necessary, a larger amount of in presence work.

Classification improvement

Final classification can be improved by:
-- re-doing the 'Training Route' and its discussion, during the period attributed to evaluation in the first semester;
-- final exam.