Deepened Topics of Education, Communities and Social Change

Code:

DE300

Acronym:

QAECMS

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
CNAEF	Educational Sciences

Instance: 2015/2016 - 2S

Active?	Yes
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	18	Official Curricular Structure	1	-	12	98	324

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

Deepening and problematizing the concepts of education / formation, community, development and social change and conceptions of democracy, human rights, citizenship and participation, aiming the construction by students of analytical frameworks critical and contextualized from the theoretical, methodological and ethical point of view, considered essential for equating participatory research and intervention processes and for the design and elaboration of research / internship projects within the field of "education, community (s) and social change"

Learning outcomes and competences

The UC aims to promote in students the acquisition of knowledge that allows:

- Reflect on policies, programs, projects and practices of educational, social and community participation and intervention, taking into account the educational meanings, conceptions of community, development, social change, democracy, human rights and citizenship and their consequences;

- Analyze and problematize different socio-educational intervention processes, projects and strategies;

-Develop research and intervention processes attentive to the socio-political dimensions that surround and shape them and to the local and participatory construction of education / training dynamics and social change.

- Elaborate and implement education / training, intervention and mediation projects, anchored in participatory methodologies;

- Build the research project / internship

Working method

Presencial

Pre-requirements (prior knowledge) and co-requirements (common knowledge)

N/A

Program

">I. Community (ies), Development and Social Change

1.1.
">Concepts of Community, Development and Social Change and their articulations

1.2.
 ">Territorialization of educational and social policies and practices

 II.
">Democracy, Citizenship and Social Participation

2.1.
">Democracy and Human and Social Rights

2.2.
">Conceptions of representative democracy and participatory democracy and its implications

2.3.
 ">Participation and Exercise of Citizenship

 III.
">Policies, Logics and Processes of Socio-educational Intervention in Communities

3.1.
">Concentration and decentralization of powers: the example of Local Authorities

3.2.
">Participatory community development policies, programs and processes

3.2.1.
">Local and Municipal Education Projects: Charter of Educating Cities

3.2.2.
">Social, Cultural and Educational Intervention Projects

3.2.3.
">Associativism and Social Movements

3.2.4.
">Sociocultural animation

3.2.5.
">Community Mediation

IV.
">Design and development of participatory research / intervention projects in the field of education, community (s) and social change


">4.1.Identification of research lines

4.2.
">Identification of institutions with intervention at Community level

4.3. Elaboration of research project / Identification of the internship context and lines of work to be developed

Mandatory literature

Canário, Rui ; Aprender sem ser ensinado. A importância estratégica da educação não formal”. In Lima, L; et al. A Educação em Portugal (1986-2006). Alguns contributos da investigação, Lisboa: CNE, 159-206, 2006
Correia, José A., & Caramelo, João ; Políticas e figuras do local: Contributos para a construção de um cosmopolitismo comunitário, Ideação, 10(2), 59-72, 2008
Guerra, Isabel ; Participação e Acção Colectiva. Interesses, Conflitos e Consensos, Estoril: Princípia, 2006
Ledwith, Margaret; Community Development. A critical approach, Bristol: Policy Press, 2011
Machado, Filipa da Silva, & Medina, Teresa; As universidades seniores: Motivações e repercussões de percursos em contextos de aprendizagem”, Educação, Sociedade & Culturas, 37, 151-167, 2012
Neves, Tiago, Cruz, Isabel, & Silva, Maria do Rosário ; Acção Local no combate à Pobreza e Exclusão Social., Porto: LivPsic, 2010
Terrassêca, Manuela, Costa, Alexandra Sá & Caramelo, João; Desenvolvimento local e processos de educação formal e não formal – relações realçadas pela avaliação de projectos, Global Journal of Community Psychology Practice, vol.3, issue 4, , 2012

Teaching methods and learning activities

The development of the UC provides methodologies that involve the involvement of students in:

- Hours of contact - dialogic presentation, presentation and debate of different perspectives around central concepts of UC; Invitation to specialists and professionals with intervention in the domain area; Small group work - analysis of relevant research and intervention articles and projects and their presentation and discussion; Tutorial support.

- Autonomous work - research and analysis of relevant bibliography and research and intervention projects; Participation in scientific events; Identification of research lines to be developed; Contact with potential institutions for the internship; Preparation of an internship and / or research project.

Software

N/A

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

designation	Weight (%)
Participação presencial	20,00
Trabalho escrito	80,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

designation	Time (hours)
Elaboração de projeto	36,00
Estudo autónomo	162,00
Frequência das aulas	90,00
Trabalho de investigação	36,00
Total:	324,00

Eligibility for exams

According to the Evaluation Regulation, students obtain attendance when attending 3/4 of the sessions actually held. Excepted are those students who, by law, are exempted from attending classes.

Calculation formula of final grade

The evaluation will be distributed without final exam, with the presentation and discussion in the class of a proposal for a traineeship and / or research project (20%) and the final design of the project (80%) as components. All papers will be graded from 0 to 20.

Examinations or Special Assignments

N/A

Internship work/project

N/A

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

Students who by law are exempt from attending classes should prepare the internship / dissertation project and proceed with their discussion with the UC professors. Students in this situation must contact the faculty members during the first 3 weeks of the semester in order to determine the necessary support and follow-up.

Classification improvement

The improvement of the classification supposes the reformulation of the final project of internship / investigation, classified in a scale of 0 to 20 values.

Observations

N/A