Fundamentos do Pensamento Educativo

This Curricular Unit takes as its premise the involvement and active participation of students, individually and collaboratively. Thus, in
addition to lectures, it will be also contemplated reading and analyzing texts of reference, selected by the teacher. Students, under the
guidance of the teacher, should search, select and analyze information in order to allow the acquisition of knowledge, the debate and
reflection on the topics related to the educational thought.

Students are expected to: develop instrumental skills, being able to analyze, select, evaluate and synthesize criteriously information from
different sources; produce oral and written discourse in a clear and reasoned way; show interpersonal skills and ability to reasoned criticism
and self and hetero-evaluation; develop the ability to work collaboratively, acquiring skills of systemic and autonomous work and generate
new ideas.

I. Basic questions on education.
– Polysemy and definitions of education.
– Elements and dimensions of education.
– Education as antinomic reality: the overcoming syntheses.
II. Contemporary mouvements of educational thought.
– From Traditional Education to New School Movement.
III. Education envisaged by different Theories of Education.
– Behaviorist Theory.
– Cognitivism and Constructivism as a basis to an educational theory.
– The Personalist Theory.
– The Critical Pedagogy.
IV. Current trends of Education: New challenges.
– Learning Communities in the Information and Knowledge Society.

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