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Education, Curriculum and Multiculturalism - 2nd semester

Objectives

To prepare students to be good professionals / future teachers in school contexts of cultural diversity and also
without diversity.
To be able to work with multicultural communities and to develop good practices and intercultural relations.
Teaching pupils to learn about the world and to think about others, in monocultural contexts of teaching and
learning.
To be entrepreneurs and develop entrepreneurship.

General characterization

Code

722171259

Credits

5

Responsible teacher

Sílvia Maria de Almeida

Hours

Weekly - 1,5 letivas + 0,5 tutorial

Total - Available soon

Teaching language

Portuguese

Prerequisites

None

Bibliography

ESTRELA, A. (1994). Teoria e prática de observação de classes: Uma estratégia de formação de professores. 4ª ed., Porto: Porto Editora.
PARASKEVA, J. (org.) (2006). Currículo e multiculturalismo. Mangualde: Edições Pedagogo.
SILVA, M. C. V. da (2008). Diversidade cultural na escola: encontros e desencontros. Lisboa: Edições Colibri,
Colecção Pedagogia e Educação.
SILVA, M. C. V. da & GONÇALVES, C. (2011). Diversidade linguística no sistema educativo português:
Necessidades e práticas pedagógicas nos ensinos básico e secundário. Lisboa: Observatório da Imigração (Estudo 46), ACIDI.
STOER, S. & CORTESÃO, L. (1999). Levantando a pedra: da pedagogia inter/multicultural às políticas educativas numa época de transnacionalização. Porto: Edições Afrontamento.
ZEICHNER, K. M. (1993). Formar os futuros professores para a diversidade cultural. In A formação reflexiva de
professores: Ideias e práticas. Lisboa: Educa-Professores, 3, pp. 73-112.

Teaching method

Theoretical information, their own students’ motivation for research, students’ interaction, interdisciplinarity
knowledge from students’ experience in different scientific areas, analysis of texts, videos and others relevant
materials, reflection.

Evaluation method

Evaluation: critical reading of one scientific article or book in group work (moment to discuss in group different
points of vue from the same source and to motivate to entrepeneurship); test (moment to produce an individual
opinion / speech about a subject proposed by the teacher and to develop synthesis competency).

Subject matter

III - Contents:
1 - Education:
1.1 - Concepts of education, evolution, and contexts.
1.2 - Paradigms of Education in XXI century: approaches by UNESCO, OCDE, EU.
2 - School:
2.1 - Portuguese school as organization: administration/management, culture, project(s).
2.2 - Contemporary portuguese school: state, actors, and challenges.
2.3 - Legislation: bench mark.
3 - Curriculum:
3.1 - Definition, concepts, and proposals.
3.2 - Curricular development and constraints.
3.3 - Curricular development: pupils, knowledge, and society.
3.4 - Teachers participation in curricular development.
4 - Multicultural educational contexts:
4.1 - Characterization.
4.2 - Approaches.
4.3 - To built pedagogical relation: the teacher; the pupil; the families; cultural descontinuities.
5 - Multi/intercultural contexts of teaching and learning:
5.1 - Pedagogical strategies.
5.2 - School / family relations.
5.3 - School / community relations.
5.4 - Building cityzenship.