Active Methodologies in Teaching and Learning Processes

Code:

MEAV03

Acronym:

MAPEA

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	31	Plano de Estudos 2025	1	-	6	48	162
		Plano de Estudos 2025 - Transição	1	-	6	48	162

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

This course unit aims to work on knowledge and develop practical skills for using active methodologies in the classroom, in order to integrate the diversity of students’ learning profiles.

As specific objectives, the course unit seeks to enable students to:

• Identify and discuss the concepts of: Active Methodologies; Changes in/of the social order; Education in change; Conditions for learning, belonging, and transformation.

• Articulate and develop active processes of learning mediation, promoting situations in which students can experience, conceptualize, analyze, and apply knowledge.

• Plan the assessment of a course unit’s work, articulating specialized knowledge with pedagogical-didactic knowledge.

• Foster interdisciplinary connections in the learning of complex knowledge.

Learning outcomes and competences

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  Critically discuss concepts related to active methodologies.

  
  


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  Differentiate learning rhythms and modes, adapting distinct knowledge processes to them.

  
  


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  Plan, develop, and assess learning situations involving active methodologies.

  
  


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  Articulate disciplinary knowledge with experiential knowledge.

  
  

Working method

Presencial

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

not applicable

Program

1 – Active Methodologies – Changes in/of the social order – Education in transition

2 – Pedagogies and Arts' Education: The approach of Critical Pedagogy

3 The processes of knowledge: Experiencing; Conceptualizing; Analysing; Applying

4 – Assessment of Learning – Levels of competence: Assisted; Autonomous; Collaborative

Mandatory literature

Leite, C., Monteiro, A., Sampaio, M., & Silva, A. ; The whole-school approach and transformative learning: The case of a Portuguese school., 2024

Teaching methods and learning activities

This course is based on the study of practical cases, the simulation of classes and reflection on the articulation between theoretical and practical knowledge, in a logic of solving problems emerging from everyday professional practice, with the aim of student learning. The methodologies adopted are orientated around ‘project work’, seeking to simulate in a learning context the students' work proposals as future teacher.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

designation	Weight (%)
Trabalho escrito	40,00
Trabalho prático ou de projeto	60,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

designation	Time (hours)
Frequência das aulas	48,00
Estudo autónomo	114,00
Total:	162,00

Eligibility for exams

75% frequency

Calculation formula of final grade

The course is the subject of an assignment to write an intervention project in an educational context and, although it is a group assignment, the assessment of the same assignment may differentiate the students' assessments. The final project will be weighted at 60% of the course unit's assessment. A second component of the assessment - individual - will consist of a critical reflection on the project work work methodology, which will be weighted at 40% of the Curricular Unit's assessment.