Oficina de Introdução à Ética Educacional

Code:

E532

Acronym:

OIEE

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Educational Sciences

Instance: 2025/2026 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Web Page:	https://sigarra.up.pt/fpceup/en/UCURR_GERAL.FICHA_UC_VIEW?pv_ocorrencia_id=576861
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	14	Official Curricular Structure	3	-	3	28	81

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

1. Identify, recognise, and critically reflect on the ethical dimension of education, whether in the professional or scientific context.
2. Develop mastery of the concepts constitutive of the problem under study.
3. Understand ethics and deontology as regulatory dimensions of professional practices.
4. Understand and critically evaluate documents guiding educational research, such as the SPCE Ethics Charter.
5. Develop skills for analysing educational situations from an ethical perspective.

Learning outcomes and competences

1. Ability to analyse practical educational and research scenarios in light of ethical principles.
2. Ability to develop well-founded arguments about ethics in education and research, and to apply this knowledge to the analysis of concrete situations.
3. Ability to analyse ethical documents and deontological standards in education and research.
4. Development of a reflective and critical stance on educational and research practices, considering the ethical implications of each decision.
5. Ability to identify and act ethically in resolving complex educational issues.

Working method

Presencial

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

Not applicable.

Program

1. Ethics and Morality at the core of human nature: the anthropological and social need for ethics.


2. Ethics and Morality as social constructs and constructors of social reality and human identity.


3. Theories of Ethics: ethics of conviction, responsibility, and responsible conviction.


4. Ethics and Education: from aristocratic ethics to meritocratic ethics.


5. Ethics and professional deontology.


6. Ethics and research in Educational Sciences.

Mandatory literature

Banks, Sarah & Nøhr, Kirsten; Ética prática para as profissões do trabalho social, Porto Editora, 2008
Baptista, Isabel (coord.), Caetano, Ana Paula, Amado, João, Azevedo, Maria da Conceição & Pais, Sofia Castanheira; Instrumento de Regulação Ético-Deontológica: Carta Ética, SPCE, 2021
Boff, Leonardo; A águia e a galinha uma metáfora da condição humana, Editora Vozes, 1997
Ferry, Luc & Vincent, Jean-Didier; O que é o Homem. Sobre os fundamentos da Biologia e da Filosofia, Edições Asa, 2003
Magalhães, João Batista; Horizontes da ética. Para uma cidadania responsável, Edições Afrontamento, 2010
Nóvoa, António; Carta a um jovem investigador em Educação. Investigar em Educação, II ª Série(3), 13-22

Complementary Bibliography

Baptista, Isabel; Ética e Avaliação do Desempenho Docente, Ministério da Educação (Coleção Cadernos CCAP, 3), 2011
Arendt, Hannah; Eichmann in Jerusalem: a report on the banality of evil, The Viking Press, 1964
Clifford, W. Kingdon; The Ethics of Belief and Other Essays, Prometheus Books, Publishers, 1877
Le Bihan ; Les grands problèmes de l’éthique, Seuil, 1997
Prairat, Eirick; L'éthique éducative: entre déontologisme et conséquentialisme. Revue française de pédagogie, 137(1), 37-46., 2001

Comments from the literature

In addition to the indicated bibliographical references, other more specific ones will be provided to deepen the discussion of the concepts covered or support the topics of interest and works chosen by the students.

Teaching methods and learning activities

Theoretical and practical classes.
Lectures.
Case discussions.
Reading, presentation, and analysis of texts.
Participation in online forums.
Production of individual written work.

keywords

Social sciences > Ethics in social sciences
Social sciences > Educational sciences

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)
Estudo autónomo	30,00
Frequência das aulas	20,00
Trabalho escrito	50,00
Total:	100,00

Eligibility for exams

Obtaining attendance presupposes compliance with attendance in accordance with the law for other courses at the faculty and without prejudice to the provisions of nº 4 of article 9º of the evaluation regulation.

Calculation formula of final grade

The final grade is based on the following assessment components:

 - Class participation (2 points) + Online forum participation (minimum 3 entries) (2 points)

 - A final individual written work (10-15 pages) (16 points).

For final assessment purposes, the final individual written work requires a minimum grade of 9.5.

If the final individual written work is unsuccessful during the regular period, a revised written work is expected to be submitted during the appeal period.

Examinations or Special Assignments

Not applicable.

Internship work/project

Not applicable.

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

According to the FPCEUP regulation.

Classification improvement

Through improving the final individual written work.