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Education and Cultural Diversity
Courses Degree in Education
Cod: 11011
Department: DEED
ECTS: 6
Scientific area: Education Sciences
Total working hours: 156
Total contact time: 15

This course addresses the cultural diversity in educational settings and the development of intercultural perspectives for action in education. From a cultural perspective, special attention is given to the analysis, conceptions and educational practices in contemporary social groups, as well as the following topics: the process of socialization, acculturation, race, ethnicity, cultural discontinuities, immigration and education and cultural influences in the processes learning.

The study, discussion and reflection will be headed  toward helping students to develop a cultural awareness about educative issues and to support their educational performances from an intercultural perspective.

  1. Education
  2. Diversity
  3. Culture
  4. Multiculturality

At the end of this course the student should be able to: 

  • Analyze emerging educational issues, from a cultural perspective. 
  •  Integrate and apply theoretical knowledge in the design of educational interventions to promote intercultural education.

1 - Socialization and culture

  •  The anthropological concept of culture 
  •  Socialization and socialization agents
  •  Ethnocentrism, race and ethnicity
  •  Cultural diversity and educational paradigms

 2 - Culture and Learning 

  •  The centrality of culture in the educational process 
  •  Formal and informal education. 
  •  Cultural and familiar impact on  in education 
  •  The impact of globalization on education

3 - Education and interculturality

  •  Inclusive Education 
  •  Intercultural Education 
  •  Cities educators 
  •  Cultural diversity and school

 

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Candau, V (2008) Direitos humanos, educação e interculturalidade: as tensões entre igualdade e diferença, Revista Brasileira de Educação, v. 13 n. 37 jan./abr. 2008

França, D. X. & Monteiro, M. B. (2004) A expressão das formas indirectas de racismo na infância, Análise Psicológica, 4 (XXII) pp. 705 -720

Freire, S. (2008) Um olhar sobre a inclusão. Revista da Educação, Vol. XVI, nº 1,  pp. 5 - 20

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Machado, J. (2004)Cidade educadora e administração local da educaçãona cidade de Braga, Actas dos ateliers do Vº Congresso Português de Sociologia. Sociedades Contemporâneas: Reflexividade e Acção. Atelier: Cidades, Campos e Territórios pp.83-89

Moreira, A. & Candau, V. (2003) Educação Escolar e Cultura(s): constro caminhos,  Revista Brasileira de Educação, nº23 pp. 156-168.

Seabra, T (1997) Estratégias familiares na Educação das crianças, Sociologia, Problemas e Práticas. Lisboa ISSN 0873-6529.23 pp.49-70

E-learning

Continuous assessment is privileged: 2 digital written documents (e-folios) during the semester (40%) and a final digital test, Global e-folio (e-folio G) at the end of the semester (60%). In due time, students can alternatively choose to perform one final exam (100%).