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Masters in Teaching Philosophy in Secondary Education

Education objectives

- Comprehension of the guide lines of the national political education.
- Ability to apply the pedagogical principles, didactics and research methodologies.
- Ability to adequate the pedagogical and didactics practices to the disciplinary specificity, student and
circumstantial;
- Ability to apply scientific, cultural, pedagogical and didactics knowledge into learning-teaching activities.
- Ability to reflect about the ethics and social-cultural implications to the exercise of teaching, in the context of
the modern world, political education and civic learning.
- Learning skills, continuous training and professional development.
- Development of philosophical knowledge acquired and the ability to apply it on the orientation of the teaching
activity.
- Ability to develop a consistent reading of the Philosophy’s programme.
- Ability to plan, evaluate, innovate within the teaching-learning process.

General characterization

DGES code

4271

Cicle

Master (2nd Cycle)

Degree

Master

Access to other programs

Completion of the Masters degree allows the holder to apply for the cycle of studies which leads to a Doctorate Degree. For the specific access requirements for doctoral programmes, consult the regulations governing the doctoral programmes at FCSH/NOVA.

Coordinator

Luís Manuel Bernardo; Carlos Ceia (Coordenador geral mestrados em ensino)

Opening date

September 2019

Vacancies

10

Fees

More information provided in the Call for Applications, available on www.fcsh.unl.pt

Schedule

(see at https://www.fcsh.unl.pt/cursos/)

Teaching language

Available soon

Degree pre-requisites

Length: 2 years / 4 semesters. Total credits: 120 credits (70 in course units of the study programme + 50 in the non-taught component).
To obtain the masters degree, the student must realize in accordance with Decree-Law 79/2014, 14th May, an introduction to professional practice which are assigned 50 credits (45 ECTS match Supervised Teaching Practice and 5 ECTS to the Seminar of Supervised Teaching Practice).
The degree of “mestre” corresponds to the level 7 of the NQF and EQF-National Qualifications Framework/European Qualifications Framework.

Conditions of admittance

Please consult the application call available at www.fcsh.unl.pt

Evaluation rules

1) No obligatory precedences for attending the program’s courses. 2) Knowledge evalutation in the courses is individual and takes place at the end of each semester. The following tools will be considered: final oral and/or written assignments, papers or other assessment tools, in conditions to be agreed upon with each lecturer. The result of the evaluation is expressed in a mark from 0 to 20. 3) Approval in a course requires a final grade equal to or above 10. 4) Only those students who have obtained 60 ECTs on the scholar component of the program can proceed to the Supervised Teaching Practice. 5) For the evaluation of the Supervised Teaching Practice, please consult FCSH/NOVA’s relevant regulations.