Personal and Social Education of Children and Youth

Recommended Prerequisites

Educational  and Developmental Psychology; Sociology of Education.

Teaching Methods

Classes include oral exposure and participatory discussion of the thematic program, supported by the projection of visual and audiovisual material by teaching staff. It is also expected the presentation by students and by professionals of projetcs in the field of  intervention in personal and social development of children and youth.

Learning Outcomes

1. Dominate the concept of personal and social development in children and youth

2. Knows and applies tools to assess the personal and social desenvolviento in of children and youth

3. Appropriates tools and methods of promoting personal and social development in children and youth.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Module I. Personal and Social Education of Children

1. Personal and social development in children

Attachment and  development

The strange situation in the evaluation of attachment

The role of the father

The daycare centres as a promoter of social context and personal development

3. Personal and social development in preschool

The developmental trajectories of antisocial behavior

The curriculum for pre-school education as a promoter of personal and social development: longitudinal studies

The assessment of personal and social development in preschool

4. The personal and social development at school age

 Schools and wellness

The family-school relationship

 

Module II. Personal and Social Education of Youth.

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Synthesis work: 30.0%
Project: 70.0%

Bibliography

Lopes, J., Rutherford, R., Cruz, M., Mathur, S., Quinn, M. (2006). Competências sociais: Aspectos comportamentais e de aprendizagem. Braga: Psiquilibrios.

Marzocchi, G.,  Capron, C., Di Pietro, M.,  Tauleria, E., Duyme, M., Frigerio, A., Gaspar, M., Hamilton,  H., Pithon, G., Simões,  A., & Thérond, C. (2004). The use of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) in the Southern European countries. European Child an Adolescent Psychiatry (Suppl

Pinheiro, M., & Ferreira, J. (2005). Motivação para o contacto social em jovens: Um estudo com a Escala de Orientação Interpessoal.  In C. Vieira et al. (Eds). Ensaios sobre o Comportamento Humano: Do diagnóstico à intervenção contributos nacionais e internacionais , 269 - 302. Coimbra: Almedina.

Pinheiro, M. R. (1998). (Re)Pensar o menor adolescente: Contributos para o seu desenvolvimento e (re)educação.  In  O direito de menores reforma ou revolução, 91 - 104. . Lisboa: Edições Cosmos.