Educação e Violências na Contemporaneidade

Code:

DE247

Acronym:

EVC

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Social Studies/Public Policies / Educational Sciences

Instance: 2025/2026 - 1S

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	16	Official Curricular Structure	1	-	6	49	162

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

To understand and deepen theoretical approches to volences in contemporary times;

To deepen interrsectional matriz of domination — gender, social class, race and coloniality;

Violences and resistance;

Empowerment.

Learning outcomes and competences

To identify and understand theories and concpts on violence

To develop studies theoretical-practical on violence


To explore political documents on the matter

Working method

Presencial

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

Accordingly to the rules of the MCED.

Program

• Human values and women's situations in contemporary societies

• Violence and violences: the concept of 'forms of violence'

• Specific impacts of war(s) and specific forms of war;

• Violence and gender; 
• Violence and coloniality

• Symbolic violence and diverse peripheries - rural areas, migrations, gender identity

• Violence and the body

• The racialization of the body
• Violence and resitances;
• Participation and recognition; 
• Empowerment.

Mandatory literature

Magalhães, Maria José & Cruz, Angélica Lima; Violência simbólica contra as mulheres na arte e na vida: o caso de Susana e os Velhos, Faces de Eva, nº 31, 73-96. , 2014. ISBN: ISSN 0874 – 6885
bell hooks; Belonging. A culture of place, Oxon: Taylor and Francis, 2009
Quijano, Anibal ; Coloniality of Power, Eurocentrism and Latin America, Nepantla: Views from South, 2000
Joyce Berth; Empoderamento Feminismos plurais
Eunice Macedo; Violência e violências sobre as mulheres: Auscultando lugares para uma democracia ‘outra’ mais autêntica. , Marília: Oficina Universitária & São Paulo: Cultura Acadêmica., 2015. ISBN: ISBN 978-85-7983-636-7
Magalhães, Maria José; Turner, Jackie & Hagemann-White, Carol ; Empowerment and intervention: perspectives of survivors and professionals, Berlin: Verlag Barbara Budrich, 2019
Kelly, Liz; Magalhães, Maria José; Meysen, Thomas; Garner, Maria; The contested concept of culture: encounters in policy and practice on violence and abuse, Berlin: Verlag Barbara Budrich, pp 121-133, 2019

Teaching methods and learning activities

Active pedagogy, involving research, debate and critical thinking will be priviledged.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

designation	Weight (%)
Participação presencial	10,00
Apresentação/discussão de um trabalho científico	40,00
Trabalho escrito	50,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

designation	Time (hours)
Apresentação/discussão de um trabalho científico	3,00
Estudo autónomo	50,00
Frequência das aulas	49,00
Trabalho de campo	15,00
Trabalho de investigação	30,00
Trabalho escrito	40,00
Total:	187,00

Eligibility for exams

Participation 10%
Oral presentation of an article/concept 40%
Individual essay: 50%

Calculation formula of final grade

Participation 10%
Oral presentation of an article/concept 40%
Individual essay: 50%

Examinations or Special Assignments

Follow the rules of the UP.

Internship work/project

N/A

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

Follows General Rules of UP.

Classification improvement

Follows the rule of Master in Sciences of Education

Observations

N/A