Childhood and Education

Code:

E413

Acronym:

IE

Instance: 2012/2013 - 2S

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	15	Official Curricular Structure	3	-	3	-
		Official Curricular Structure	3	-	3	-

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

This UC seeks to explore and discuss the relationships between adults and children, among children and between childhood and education, contextualizing them within the framework of children's rights and of the tensions that arise from there, particularly between the rights of provision and protection and those of participation. Bailing up of theoretical contributions from History, Sociology and Anthropology, the UC aims to contribute to building an understanding of childhood as i) a generational structure; ii) as a socio-historical category and iii) as a social space in which children are recognized as individual and collective actors involved in their life worlds.

Emerging themes from the social reality of contemporary childhood, including the Portuguese, are intended to be reflected as dual relationship in which children are involved with adults and other children in order to grasp the interdependence of its various crafts as pupils, children or colleagues... and understand them as social realities and educational complex.

 

Learning Objectives:

- to know the main theoretical frameworks and concepts within social studies of childhood, mobilizing contributions from relevant authors to this area and establishing its relationship to the educational field;

- understand and interrogate the social relationships between adults and children and among children as social and educational realities, and as essential to the construction of children's peer cultures

- understand the socio-educational and the political implications of social studies of childhood to the promotion of children's rights and the processes of its social participation

Learning outcomes and competences

Learning outcomes and competences

- Be able to read and critically analyze situations and texts in which childhood and education intersect

- Be sensitive and be able to identify social and educational issues, particularly with regard to social inequalities, gender, ethnicity, in order to promote practices of inclusion and of children's participation

- Be able to analyze situations and educational activities from the questions and problems posed by children and in  which the knowledge and the children's perspectives are crucial to be taken into account

- show skills of interpretation and theoretical-practice analyses to understand social and educational realities in all its complexity

Working method

Presencial

Program

1. The situation of children and childhood in the world and in Portugal: the numbers and what they mean about children's rights
2. The Social Studies of Childhood: the childhood as a social structure and as generational and social construction and the children as social actors
3. Children and the crafts of the children
4. Cultures of childhood and children's rights

Mandatory literature

Almeida Ana Nunes de; Para uma sociologia da infância. ISBN: 978-972-671-234-3
Corsaro William A.; Sociologia da infância. ISBN: 978-85-363-2539-2
Ferreira Maria Manuela Martinho; A^gente gosta é de brincar com os outros meninos!. ISBN: 972-36-0740-9
Sarmento Manuel 557; Estudos da infância. ISBN: 978-85-326-3716-1

Teaching methods and learning activities

- Activities of contact

Lectures about the UC theoretical contents

Watching films and / or documentaries followed by large group discussion

Reading and analysis of texts

Tutorials sessions dedicated to orientation of individual work or in small group

 

B - Autonomous work

Research, reading and analysis of recommended bibliography

Pratices to promote articulation between theory and empirical situations performed individually and in small group, which include i) mobilize pertinent literature, ii) analysis, interpretation and justification of relevant reasoning over the empirical materials provided iii) drafting work

keywords

Social sciences > Educational sciences > Education > Childhood studies

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Description	Type	Time (hours)	Weight (%)	End date
Attendance (estimated)	Participação presencial	34,00
	Trabalho escrito	6,00	30,00	2013-06-04
	Trabalho de campo	20,00	70,00	2013-06-04
	Total:	-	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Description	Type	Time (hours)	End date
	Frequência das aulas	10	2013-06-04
	Frequência das aulas	8	2013-06-04
	Frequência das aulas	4	2013-05-21
	Frequência das aulas	6	2013-06-04
	Estudo autónomo	15	2013-06-04
	Estudo autónomo	15	2013-06-04
	Trabalho de investigação	23	2013-06-04
	Total:	81,00

Eligibility for exams

In order to obtain frequency to this course will be necessary the attendance at 75% of classes taught and a final grade equal to or higher than 10 at any one of the small written work realized along the semester, and individual written work to deliver in the end.
The individual written work receives support and guidance from teachers through tutorial mode.
Its nature can be
i) essay around a theme or a contemporary problem about childhood and education;
ii) essay on a work of fiction or film;
iii) critical review about a research conducted in the social studies of childhood.

It is intended that this essay could reflect how the students mobilize the contributions of the discipline and it will be taken into account: i) the revealed knowledge and decoding of concepts and their relationships, ii) the debate around relevant issues and their theoretical foundations; iii) the formal presentation of work
The work must be delivered in the final period of evaluation.

Students who have attended a minimum of 75% of contact hours provided but have not gotten a final evaluation equal to 10 can go to the final exam.
Not performing the activities undertaken in the evaluation process will result in not obtaining attendance Course.
WORKERS STUDENTS who MAY NOT PARTICIPATE IN REGULAR ACTIVITIES SHOULD CONTACT THE TEACHER, SINCE THE BEGINNING OF THE SEMESTER TO NEGOCIATE THE WORK TO BE SUBMITTED.
The assessment scheme adopted requires mandatory compliance with the attendance, without prejudice to paragraph 4 of Article 9 of Regulation Review.

Calculation formula of final grade

Final classification is the result of the marks obtained on the following evaluation components:

- Small written papers carried out in small groups during contact activities with a weighting of 30% on a scale of 0-20.

- Final presentation of an essay written individually with a weighting of 70% on a scale of 0-20

In summary: (30% +70% = 100%)

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

Special evaluation (TE, DA, ...)

The evaluation and classification of students with specific statutes will be organized according to the terms set out in the Act and will be held in accordance with guidance to be agreed with the teacher the first week of classes of the semester.

Classification improvement

Improving the final classification is possible only once, by submitting to an examination to be held in one of two seasons, normal or appeal, immediately subsequent to that they received approval and in which discipline has provided evidence evaluation (cf. Article 11, paragraph 1.'s "rules of the principles to be observed in the assessment of students at the University of Porto and standards to be applied in specific courses FPCE").