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Education Curriculum and Multiculturalism

Objectives

This course unit expects:


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

5.0

Responsible teacher

Raquel Cardeira Varela

Hours

Weekly - Available soon

Total - 140

Teaching language

Portuguese

Prerequisites

None

Bibliography

Asad Haider, Armadilha da identidade: raça e classe nos dias de hoje. Tradução: Vinicius Liberato. São Paulo: Editora Veneta, 2018


Dermerval Saviani, A Pedagogia Histórico Crítica: primeiras aproximações, 11. ed. rev. Campinas, Autores Associados, 2011.


Dermeval Saviani, Escola e democracia, 32. ed. Campinas, Autores Associados, 1999.


Newton Duarte, A individualidade para-si - contribuição a uma teoria histórico-social da formação do indivíduo, Campinas, Autores Associados, 1993


Newton Duarte,  Educação escolar, teoria do cotidiano e a escola de Vigotski. Campinas, Autores Associados, 1996.


Frederic Jameson, Pós-modernismo, a lógica cultural do capitalismo tardio, São Paulo, Ática, 1997. 


Immanuel Kant, “Resposta à Questão: O que é Esclarecimento?” (Beantwortung der Frage: Was ist Aufklärung ?), Tradução de Márcio Pugliesi Cognitio: Revista de Filosofia, Cognitio, São Paulo, v. 13, n. 1, p. 145-154, jan./jun. 2012.


Jacques Delors, (org.), Educação: um tesouro a descobrir, São Paulo, Cortez, Brasília, DF: MEC: UNESCO, 1988.


Lev Vygotski, Psicologia pedagógica, São Paulo, Martins Fontes, 2001. 


Maria Cândida Proença (coord), O Sistema de Ensino em Portugal séculos XIX-XX, Lisboa, Colibri, 1998.


S. Stoer;  L. Cortesão,  Levantando a pedra: da pedagogia inter/multicultural às políticas educativas numa época de transnacionalização, Porto, Edições Afrontamento, 1999.


Vivek Chibber, Capitalism, class and universalism – escaping the cul-de-sac of postcolonial theory, 2014, Socialist Register, 63-79.

Teaching method

Lectures


Debates in classes with the support of documents and texts


Individual research

Evaluation method

3 written critical reviews 50%


 Class discussion in the form of a seminar/debate on content 3 written critical reviews 40%


Participation and attendance 10%

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.