Educational Politics and Pedagogical Movements in Deaf Education

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The classes will be theoretical-practical, with an interactive and demonstrative approach, focusing mainly on the reflexive component based on group and individual exercises.

Within the scope of this UC, the master’s degree students should be able to:

(a) to pursue the main lines of education policy in the light of national and international contexts;

(b) understand the relevant notions of the legal framework that regulates the bilingual education system and the professionalism of the teaching function of the Portuguese Sign Language;

(c) to analyze the relevant critical reflections within the scope of the linguistic policies of the Portuguese Sign Language as the vehicular language of teaching and learning;

(d) to express and substantiate the reflections on bilingual education;

(e) identify and know the discursive matrices of linguistic policies considered relevant in the deaf community;

(g) to know and analyze current pedagogical trends that reveal the students’ school successes and possible limitations of pedagogical methodologies with regard to the materials available in the development of the necessary educational policies in school and out-of-school

1. Introduction: Meaning and framework of Educational Policy and the articulation between the linguistic policies and the Portuguese educational model;

2. Horizon and trends of bilingual education policies in the light of national and international contexts;

3. Legal framework of the bilingual education system: organization, management and curriculum evaluation;

4. The status of the teaching profession and the professionalism of the Portuguese Sign Language: evolution, problems and current and future challenges

5. Critical analysis and reflection of educational and linguistic policies: the bilingual curriculum and pedagogical currents

• - test in LGP - 30.0%
• - Homework assignments and lectures: (a) Exercises to apply existing legislation to the reality of deaf students (15%); (b) Analysis and reflection of sociopolitical and legal discursive matrices for the education of the deaf (15%) + participation (10%) - 40.0%
• - elaboration of a critical reflection on the contents taught, in LGP, individually, and presentation of the same in class - 30.0%

• - Exame em LGP - 100.0%

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