Society and Culture

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Taking care of to the objectivos and contents of this curricular unit it will be looked to follow a diversified methodology looking for, however, to privilege the work of individual research and the active participation of the pupils.
The continuous/periodic assessment takes into account the individual performance of the students, namely, their attendance, motivation, participation and critical reflection (20%), as well as the resolution of a test (40%) and the elaboration and discussion of works (40%). Aspects such as structure and organization of information, recipients’ adequacy and work goals, language used, quality and correctness of scientific information will be valued. Evaluation by exam (100%) will be made through written and oral test (only if the classification 8 or 9 points).

One intends that finished this unit, the pupil is capable of:
– To explain the concepts of Society and Culture;
– To clarify the concept of Cultural Identity;
– To infer of the importance of the Education (formal and informal) in the process of individual and group construction;
– To understand the cultural changes in the societies throughout the times;
– To assume its responsibility as person, as citizen and as professional in the educative context;
– To critically analyze the social matters, cultural and ethical that take place in the current global society;
– To apply the knowledge and capacity of form understanding to evidence a professional and civic boarding;
– To disclose capacity of understanding of the social and cultural problems, being capable to construct its proper recital and argument.

1. Society, culture and individual:
– The Man, the nature and the society: the Man as one being of course cultural.
– Socialization and individual freedom.
– The construction of identities. The Portuguese example.
– Cultural Diversity: Etnocentrismo and Cultural Relativism – concepts and historical context.
– The society and the minorities: the multiculturalism in the school and the intercultural education.
– The cultural change today: the globalization.
2. Education and cultural reproduction: the development of the literacy and the education as change factors.
– Literacy and school in western modernity.
– The process of schooling.
– The development of the educational systems. The Portuguese case – schooling and democratization.
– Contemporary educational issues

• - Attendance and Participation - 20.0%
• - Frequency - 40.0%
• - Elaboration and discussion of works - 40.0%

• - Exam - 100.0%

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