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Ethics and Supervision
Courses Master's Degree in Pedagogical Supervision
Cod: 12013
Department: DEED
ECTS: 7
Scientific area: Philosophy
Total working hours: 182
Total contact time: 36

This course unit shows how supervision is a privileged field for the promotion and implementation of ethical principles. Having analyzed the conceptual definition and the field of ethics application, the course unit attempts to further analyze the primary aspects of the ethical and deontological dimension of the educational process. Combining the philosophical dimension with diverse approaches in the school area, such as pedagogy, psychology and sociology, it discusses the training of values, in the perspective of the development of human capacity in creating autonomous and free decisions. A significant part of the research is directed towards practical ethical activities, i.e. as askesis for self care.
At the end of this course unit, the student must be able to critically position itself in relation to the importance of implementing ethical principals in teaching, to view pedagogical supervision as a mix of self and external training and to take the Socratic principle of self-knowledge as a basic condition for educational leadership.

Ethics
Morals
Educational Ethics
Self care

Students are expected to be able to place themselves critically in relation to the importance of implementing ethical principles in teaching. Students are also expected to have a perspective on pedagogical supervision in the meeting of these stages of the act of teaching, clarifying and appropriating values, expressed in their professional conduct.

Unit I - ETHICS
    1. The Subject of Ethics
    2. Moral and Ethical Problems
Unit II – BASIC PROBLEMS OF ETHICS
    1. Moral Conscience
    2. Basis of Moral Norms
Unit III – ETHICS AND DEONTOLOGY
    1. Morals and Axiology
    2. Educational Ethics
Unit IV – ETHICS AND SELF CARE
    1. Philosophy as the Art of Living
    2. Fundamental Principles of the Stoics
    3. Marco Aurelius Meditations

DIAS, Barros, Ética e Educação, Lisboa, Universidade Aberta, 2004
ARAÚJO, Luís de; A Ética como Pensar Fundamental. Elementos para uma Problemática da Moralidade, Lisboa, Imprensa Nacional-Casa da Moeda, 1992
CUNHA, Pedro d’Orey da; Ética e Educação, Lisboa, Universidade Católica Editora, 1996.
KECHIKIAN, Anita; Os Filósofos e a Educação, Col. “Paideia”, nº 1, Lisboa, Edições Colibri, 1993, trad. do francês por Leonel Ribeiro dos Santos e Carlos João Nunes dos Santos.
MARCUS AURELIUS, Meditações - tradução da versão inglesa (Maxwell Staniforth, Penguin Books. Com introdução do tradutor inglês) disponível em http://acesso.alol.com.br/gustavo/acervo/complementos/biblioteca/livros/meditacoes_ma.pdf
PATRÍCIO, Manuel; Lições de Axiologia Educacional, Lisboa, Universidade Aberta, 1993.
RATHS, Louis E. et al.; Values and Teaching. Working with Values in the Classroom, 2ª ed., Columbus-Toronto-London, Sydney, Charles E. Merrill Publishing Company, 1978.

E-learning (fully online).

Evaluation is made on individual basis and it involves the coexistence of two modes: continuous assessment (60%) and final evaluation (40%). Further information is detailed in the Learning Agreement of the course unit.

A personal computer and IT competences are required. Students are encouraged to follow up, intervene, and complete all the course unit activites on time.