Youth Cultures and Educational Pathways

Code:

DE111

Acronym:

CJPE

Instance: 2011/2012 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Web Page:	https://sigarra.up.pt/fpceup/FICHA_DISCIPLINA.EDITAR?p_cad_codigo=DE111&p_periodo=1S&p_ano_lectivo=2011/2012
Responsible unit:	Education Sciences
Course/CS Responsible:	Master Degree in Educational Sciences

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MCED	15	Official Curricular Structure	1	-	6	-

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

The course Youth Cultures and Educational Pathways aims to work the youth theories and concepts, understanding youth as cultural experience both in changing local and global contexts.
This course will be the place to understand how youths challenge diferent social contexts, namely educational contexts, besides school.
The course contents will allow to be aware, discuss and reflect on classical and new theoretical debates about youth problems. Also taking into consideration a set of dimensions that create diversity in youth, both in national and international contexts. Following this will be discussed pathways and possibilities towards citizenship and social justice.
Students will contac with new trends on youth studies, especially in the field of Youth Sociology.

Program

1. Contributions of Sociology of Education - formal and non formal - to understand Youth
2. Social, cultural and historical construction of Youth and social and sociological representations
3. Youth transitions, impredictability and post-linearity pathways
4. Bellonging topographies of youth: experiences and situated cultures
5. Youth places for participation and citizenship

Mandatory literature

Cabral Manuel Villaverde ed. lit.; Jovens portugueses de hoje. ISBN: 972-774-004-9
Skelton, Tracy; Valentine, Gill (eds.) (1998) Cool Places: Geographies of Youth Cultures. London: Routledge.
Stoer Stephen; Escola e aprendizagem para o trabalho num país da (semi)periferia europeia. ISBN: 972-8353-60-X
Walther, Andreas (2006) “Regimes of Youth Transitions: choice, flexibility and security in young people’s experiences across different European contexts”, Young: Nordic Journal of Youth Research, 2, 119-139.
Pais Jose Machado; Ganchos, tachos e biscates. ISBN: ISBN 972-43-0477-9
Pais José Machado coord.; Traços e riscos de vida. ISBN: ISBN 972-43-0331-4
Roberts, Kenneth (1997) “Structure and agency: The new youth research agenda”. In John Bynner, Lynne Chisholm; Andy Furlong (eds.) Youth, citizenship and Social Change in a European Context. Aldershot: Ashgate, 56-65.
Pais, José Machado (2006) “Buscas de Si: Expressividades e Identidades Juvenis”. In Maria Isabel Mendes de Almeida; Fernanda Eugénio (Org.) Culturas Jovens: Mapas de Afeto. Rio de Janeiro: Jorge Zahar Editor, 7-24.
Pais, José Machado (1996) “A Geração Yô-Yô: uma nova condição juvenil?”, Dinâmicas Multiculturais, Novas Faces, Actas das Sessões Plenárias do III Congresso Luso-Afro-Brasileiro de Ciências Sociais, Lisboa, 4-7 de Julho de 1994. Lisboa: Institu
Leccardi, Carmen (2005) “Para um Novo Significado do Futuro: mudança social, jovens e tempo”, Tempo Social, 2, 35-57.
Fonseca Laura Pereira da; Culturas juvenis, percursos femininos. ISBN: 972-774-107-X
Ball, Stephen; Maguire, Meg; McCrae, Sheila (2000) Choice and Pathways. Transitions Post-16. Milton Keynes: Open University Press.
Bourdieu, Pierre (1978) «La «Jeunesse» n’est q’un Mot». Entretien avec Anne-Marie Métailié, paru dans Les jeunes et le premier emploi. Paris : Association des Ages, 520-530.
Abrantes Pedro; Os^sentidos da escola. ISBN: 972-774-179-7
Costa, Alexandra Sá (2001) Políticas de Juventude: Regulação e/ou Emancipação. Tese de Mestrado em Ciências da Educação. Porto: FPCEUP.
Beck Ulrich; Risk society. ISBN: 0-8039-8345-X
Fonseca Maria Laura Pereira da; Vozes, silêncios e ruídos na educação escolar das raparigas

Complementary Bibliography

Wilson, Brian; Atkinson, Michael (2005) Rave and Straightedge, the Virtual and the Real: exploring online and offline experiences in Canadian, Youth & Society, 3, 276-311.
Correia, José Alberto; Matos, Manuel (orgs.) (2003) Violência e Violências na e da Escola”. Porto: Edições Afrontamento, 56-71.
Thomson, Rachel; Bell, Robert; Holland, Janet; Henderson, Sheila; McGrellis, Sheena; Sharpe, Sue (2002) “Critical Moments: choice, chance and opportunity in young people’s narratives of transition”, Sociology, 2, 335-354.
Silva, Sofia Marques da; Araújo, Helena Costa (2007) “Interrogando Masculinidades em Contexto Escolar: mudança anunciada?”, ex æquo, 15, 89-117.
Magalhães. A. (2003) “As Transformações do Mercado de Trabalho e as Novas Identidades Individuais e Colectivas: a Reconfiguração do Papel da Escola e da Cidadania”. In J. A. Correia; M. Matos (orgs.) Violência e Violências na e da Escola”.
Fonseca, Laura; Araújo, Helena Costa (2007) “Em Torno de Autonomia e Desafectação: dois conceitos para entender percursos escolares de jovens raparigas e rapazes na escola?”, ex æquo, 15, 63-65.
Ferreira, Victor Sérgio (2006) Marcas que Demarcam. Corpo, Tatuagens e Body Piercing em Contextos Juvenis. Tese de Doutoramento em Sociologia. Lisboa: ISCTE.
Alves, Natália (2007) “E se a melhoria da empregabilidade dos jovens escondesse novas formas de desigualdade social?”, Sísifo. Revista de Ciências da Educação, 2, 59-68. [On-line], http://sisifo.fpce.ul.pt, 10/03/08.

Teaching methods and learning activities

Exposing
documents analysis
debates
conferences
Pedagogical peers

Software

Fórum

Evaluation Type

Evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Description	Type	Time (hours)	Weight (%)	End date
Attendance (estimated)	Participação presencial	56,00
Final Report	Trabalho escrito	20,00		2012-01-06
	Total:	-	0,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Description	Type	Time (hours)	End date
Reading and Analysis	Estudo autónomo	20	2011-12-16
	Total:	20,00

Eligibility for exams

Students will be elegible if attend 75% of classes and if they are in a regular situation.

Calculation formula of final grade

Final grade:
Students will have to write a individual report. This report has to reflect theories, concepts, authors analysed and discussed during classes about youth experiences, concept and contexts. It is expected that students will deeply explore thoughts about youth aiming at considering possibilities for research and intervention with young people.
The final report will have to reflect pedagogical peers dynamic, being able of integrating, researching and theorizing mutual learnings and reflexions.

Examinations or Special Assignments

There are no special exams and assignments

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

Students, in situations that are predicred by law and regulations, and that did not attended 75% of classes, will have to contact the teacher in the beggining of the school year.
Beside having as assignment the above mentioned report they will have to do a final exame.

Classification improvement

To improuve final grade students will have to re write the above mentioned report and/or to make a oral defense and discussion.