SIMF: Contexts of Work and Mediation in Education

Code:

E107

Acronym:

SIMF1

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Social Pedagogy

Instance: 2025/2026 - 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	67	Official Curricular Structure	1	-	6	57	162

Teaching language

Portuguese
Obs.: Português

Objectives

This UC seeks to introduce fields and professional experiences of graduates in education according to the different areas of professional pre-specialization under the program of the "licenciatura". It is intended, by this means, to make a first approach to the field of work, clarifying what are contexts and work situations in education sciences.

Learning outcomes and competences

The following learning outcomes and competencies are expected to arise:
a) building a comprehensive knowledge of professional field of intervention in educational sciences, knowing how to identify concrete situations;
b) appropriating fundamentals and practices of work in education, through  mobilization of resources of diverse nature, fundamentally theoretical support;
c) reflecting, both individually and in group, around speeches and documents on the intervention space in educational sciences;
d) applying knowledge aquired in this UC to the production of multimedia materials anc ontents, in articulation with the UC of LME.

Working method

Presencial

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

NA

Program

I – General introduction to areas of professional pre-specialization:
1 – Education, citizenship, and Social Protection
2 - School and Educational Management
3 - Education and training of Adults and Local development
4 – Education and culture and leisure contexts

II – Foundations of knowledge and practices in education:
1 – Basic Knowledge of education and its articulation with the areas professional pre-specialization
2 – Work in education: socioeducational mediation

III – Educational knowledge articulation appealing to communication devices
1 - Complementarities between the semester Uc's
2- Development of devices, formats and multimedia content around the ‘Seven Knowledges for Future Education’

Mandatory literature

Delors, Jacques; Educação, um tesouro a descobrir, Lisboa, ASA, 1996
Morin, Edgar; Os sete saberes para a educação do futuro, Instittuto Piaget, 2002
Canário, Rui ; Ciências da Educação: saber científico, agir profissional e construção identitária. In Maria João, Antunes; Medina, Teresa; Caramelo, João; Magalhães, António; Ferreira, Manuela (Orgs.), Ciências da Educação em Portugal: saberes, contextos de intervenção, Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação da Universidade do Porto, 2019
Vaz, Henrique; A Mediação em Contexto de Formação como Reinvenção de Novos Ofícios: O caso dos estágios e da licenciatura em Ciências da Educação da Universidade do Porto, Educação, Sociedade & Culturas, CIIE, 2009
Gert Biesta; Risking Ourselves in Education: Qualification, Socialization, and Subjectification Revisited, Educational Theory, 2020

Complementary Bibliography

AAVV; Vivências, percursos e produção científica em Ciências da Educação, Educação, Sociedade & Culturas, CIIE, 2007
Cosme, Ariana & Rui Trindade; Todas as aprendizagens são pessoais, mas ninguém aprende sozinho: gerir as salas de aula como comunidades de aprendizagem, Curitiba: Editora Melo, 2010
Silva, Ana et al; Novos actores no trabalho em educação: os mediadores socioeducativos, Revista Portuguesa de Educação, 2010
Cavaco, Carmen & Costa, Vanessa; Formação em ciências da educação – diversidade de áreas e de contextos de intervenção?, In Maria João, Antunes; Medina, Teresa; Caramelo, João; Magalhães, António; Ferreira, Manuela (Orgs.), Ciências da Educação em Portugal: saberes, contextos de intervenção e profissiona Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação da Universidade do Porto, 2019

Teaching methods and learning activities

Contact activities

Exhibitions. Debates. Collaborative work. Presentation of work by students.

Autonomous work

Bibliographical research and reading of indicated works. Writing of reports and individual reflections, with tutorial support.

Assessment:

Students who attend 75% of the scheduled classes.

1) Individual reports (on sessions organised by guests) - 30%

2) Group presentations (work on Morin's 7 knowledges) - 40%

3) Individual final reflections (to be be delivered in the evaluation period) - 30%

keywords

Social sciences > Educational sciences

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

designation	Weight (%)
Trabalho escrito	60,00
Apresentação/discussão de um trabalho científico	40,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

designation	Time (hours)
Frequência das aulas	25,00
Trabalho de campo	7,00
Trabalho escrito	7,00
Estudo autónomo	25,00
Total:	64,00

Eligibility for exams

In accordance with the rules of assessment, students obtain frequency when participating in 3/4 of sessions efectively carried out. Except those students who, by law, are exempted from attendance in class, whose must negotiate with the teacher evaluation system.

Calculation formula of final grade

The evaluation adopts a distributed assessment with no final exam:

1) Individual reports (on sessions organised by guests) - 30%

2) Group presentations (work on Morin's 7 knowledges) - 40%

3) Individual final reflections (to be be delivered in the evaluation period) - 30%

Examinations or Special Assignments

Students who are legally exempt from attending classes may choose to be assessed in this course unit through a final exam. To do so, they must contact the course instructors within the first two weeks of the semester to define the form of their assessment.

Internship work/project

NA

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

NA

Classification improvement

According to regulations of UPorto.

Observations

The training sessions will take place in person