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Education and Multiculturalism

Objectives

a – To reflect about Education today.
b – To relate educative questions with multi-ethnic academic contexts.
c – To understand the relevance of Education building individual and social identities.
d – To contribute to an intercultural citizenship.

General characterization

Code

722141037

Credits

10.0

Responsible teacher

Sílvia Maria Cândido de Almeida

Hours

Weekly - 3

Total - 280

Teaching language

Portuguese

Prerequisites

None

Bibliography

DÍAZ-AGUADO, M. J. (2000). Educação intercultural e aprendizagem cooperativa. Porto: Porto Editora.
LEITE, C. M.(2002). O currículo e o multiculturalismo no sistema educativo português. Lisboa: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian e Ministério da Ciência e da Tecnologia.
PERREGAUX, C.; DASEN, P.; LEANZA, Y. e GORGA, A. (Dir.) (2008). L’interculturation des savoirs: entre pratique et théories. Paris: L’Harmattan.
SILVA, M. C. V. da (2008). Diversidade cultural na escola: encontros e desencontros. Lisboa: Edições Colibri, Colecção Pedagogia e Educação.
SILVA, M. C. V. (2006). Ethnic Discrimination in the Classroom: A Case Study in a Portuguese School, in Race, Equality and Teaching, vol. 24 (3); 40-43.

Teaching method

- Teacher’s report .
- Groups’ work: texts, documents; video,…
- Initiation to individual research.
- Debate.

Evaluation method

Evaluation method - Presentation of two activities: individual report and a group report, according with curricular unity context. (100%)

Subject matter

1 – Education: goals and challenges.
2 – Multiculturalism in the world: interrogations; orientations; constraints.
3 – Culture / cultures: concepts; cultural discontinuities; academic multi-ethnic contexts of teaching and learning.
4 – Multi/intercultural education: principles; goals; approaches; dissemination.
5 – Education and society: building new competences in school and in life.