Initiation Activities for Teaching Practice I

Code:

MEAV01

Acronym:

AIPD1

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Started to Practice Profssional

Instance: 2025/2026 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Education Sciences
Course/CS Responsible:	Master in Teaching of Visual Arts for Teachers of the 3rd cycle of Basic Education and of Secondary Education

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MEAV	26	Plano de Estudos 2025	1	-	6	48	162
		Plano de Estudos 2025 - Transição	1	-	6	48	162

Teaching language

Portuguese and english
Obs.: Português é a língua de discussão, embora muitos textos da bibliografia sejam escritos noutras línguas, sobretudo em inglês.

Objectives

Identify the complexity of educational activity and the tensions inherent to art and education;

Reflect about the relationshio between teacher /student in the field of arts education;

Cross the artistic and the educational;

Understand teaching activity as a questioning of the discourses on teaching, education, and the arts;

The teaching activitiy as a practice of research and the construction of a critical positioning.
 

 

 

Learning outcomes and competences

Recognize the contingencies, the contradictions and the potential of teaching in contemporary times;

To problematize the places and the figures of the teacher and the student in the teaching of the visual arts;

To face arts education in the construction of the teacher and student;

To construct proposals from artistic contexts;

To problematize the tensions between the artistic and the educational;

To present and discuss, in the epistemological field of arts education, the proposals of activities.

Construction of a critical positioning.

Working method

Presencial

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

Does not apply

Program

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Mandatory literature

Rancière, Jacques; . O Mestre Ignorante: Cinco lições sobre a emancipação intelectual. , Lisboa: Edições Pedago, 2010
Michel Foucault; O Exame
Arthur Efland; The School Art Style: A functional analysis
Jorge Ramos do Ó; Problemas à Escola Contemporânea
Nuccio Ordine; Introdução de A Utilidade do Inútil
Maarten Simon s & Jan Masschelein; School - A Matter of Form
Nora Sternfeld; Learning Unlearning
Luciana Loponte; Desafios à arte contemporânea
Gaztambide-Fernandez; Why the Arts don't Do Anything
Nadine Kalin; We're All Creatives Now: Democratized Creativity and Education
Jan Masschelein; E-ducating the gaze. The idea of a poor pedagogy.
Groys, Boris ; Education by Infection, In Madoff, Steven (Ed.) Art School. Propositions for the 21st Century, US: MIT, 2000
Larrosa, Jorge B. ; Notas sobre a experiência e o saber da experiência, Revista Brasileira de Educação, Jan/Fev/Mar/Abr, 19, pp. 20-28 , 2002
Henry Madoff; States of Exception
Biesta, Gert; No education without hesitation: exploring the limits of educational relations, Philosophy of Education, Urbana-Champaign, IL: PES, pp. 1-13, 2012
Luis Camnitzer; The source of our nobility and our path to the highest things
Byung Chul Han; A Pedagogia da Visão
Claire Bishop; Pedagogic projects how do you bring a classroom to life as if it were a work of art
Rui Canário; A Forma Escolar
Dennis Atkinson; The adventure of pedagogy, learning and the not-known
Dennis Atkinson; The cultural production of the ability in drawing
Carmen Moersch ; At a Crossroads of Four Discourses documenta 12 Gallery Education in between Affirmation, Reproduction, Deconstruction, and Transformation
Javier Rodrigo Montero; Instituciones que escuchan? Tensiones entre museos, territorios y comunidades
Maria do Mar Castro Varela & Nikita Dhawan; La violencia de la representación y la representación de la violencia
UNESCO; Roteiro para a Educação Artística – Desenvolver as capacidadas criativas para ao século XXI
DGE, Ministério da Educação; Plano Nacional das Artes

Teaching methods and learning activities

1. Academic contact activities

Dialogue approach

Debate and qualifying discussions

Individual and group work

Learning evaluation

Preparation of papers for presentation

2. Autonomous work activities

Reading and analysis of texts

Writing 

Bibliographical research

Preparation of papers for presentation

keywords

Social sciences > Educational sciences > Education > Teacher training

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

designation	Weight (%)
Apresentação/discussão de um trabalho científico	35,00
Participação presencial	30,00
Trabalho escrito	35,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	57,00
Frequência das aulas	48,00
Trabalho escrito	57,00
Total:	162,00

Eligibility for exams

Qualified participation in classroom activities;
Attendance (according to the regulation of student assessment);
Quality of presentations in class and final paper.

Calculation formula of final grade

The final assesment integrates the qualified participation of each student in the classes and the preparation and presentation of a group work.

60% - qualified participation in class, including debates around the themes (20%) and a presentation in class (40%).

40% - preparation of a final paper whose reflection (theoretically grounded) incorporates some of the issues raised during the presentation (this paper should be between 3 and 5 pages).

 

Examinations or Special Assignments

Does not apply

Internship work/project

Does not apply

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

The set with faculty, in the particular case of each student, and in the first month of classes.

Classification improvement

Frequency of the UC in the following year.