Observation and Intervention Unit I - Seminar of Professional Identity and Deontology.

Recommended Prerequisites

Knowledge and skills mentioned on the several curricular units of the four previous semesters.

Teaching Methods

Seminar (in which issues / problems are analysed).

Referring to the topic / issue of each in-person session, its structure is as follows:

-Presentation of contents.

-Supported analysis of documents (in various media),

- Carrying out individual and/or small group tasks.

- Extended group discussion

- Preparation of summaries

- Autonomous work by students (for consolidation and deepening knowledge)

-Preparation and/or continuation of the work of in-person sessions

-Follow-up tutorial (for diverse learning support)

-Support to the study, for preparation and development of tasks.

Learning Outcomes

At the end of this unit students should:

-Aquire/update/revise and understand knowledge in one of the domains of the UOI options (educational psychology, special education; training of trainers and teachers; educational administration and management of education and training; Social education; adult education and vocational training; communication technologies and distance education).

-Recognize and understand identity aspects of education professions.

-Reflect, based on knowledge, on ethical and deontological framework education professions.

-Analyze problematic situations from the point of view of identity and professional ethics.

-Contact with institutions and analyze, based on knowledge, education professional practices.

-Collaborate with institutions and professionals elected as subjects of observation and intervention in the areas common to UOI I and II.

-Develop clarified proposals of professional interventions.

-Draw up an activity report.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

A. Contents of the seminar:

1. professional Identity

-Singularities of education professions

- Meaning of professional performance in education

-Institutional framework of professional performance in education

2. Professional ethics of education professions

-professional action values

-duties and rights of professionals of education

-documents regulating thought and professional action

3. Ethical thinking and action of the education professionals

- ethical considerations that mark the contemporary education

-ethical decisions in concrete educational situations

 

B) Contents set in each of the following areas of the UOI: psychopedagogy, special education, training of trainers and teachers; Educational administration and management of education and training; Social education, Adult education and professional training; Education and training technologies and distance learning.

Head Lecturer(s)

Maria Helena Lopes Damião Silva

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Report of a seminar or field trip: 20.0%
Laboratory work or Field work: 40.0%
Final Report of OII : 40.0%

Bibliography

Boavida, J. (2000). Norma e liberdade: Para uma compreensão dos seus pressupostos educativos. Revista Portuguesa de Pedagogia, XXXIV, 673-729.

Cunha, P. D. (1996). Ética e educação. Lisboa: Unives. Católica.

Esteves, M. (s.d). Ética e deontologia profissional: O professor, 3ª série, 38, 4-6.

Estrela, M.T. (1995). Deontologia e profissionalismo. In Seminário: A profissão docente. Fenprof (policopiado).

Damião, M.H. (2013).Questões de ética e deontologia no quadro das profissões da educação. Caderno da UOI - I. Coimbra: FPCE-UC.

Maia, C. (1997).Uma ética para o futuro. Revista Portuguesa de Pedadogia, 30(3),165-186.

Monteiro, A.R. (2005). Deontologia das profissões da educação. Coimbra: Almedina.

Monteiro, A.R. (2008). Qualidade, profissionalidade e deontologia na Educação. Porto: Porto Ed.

Quintana-Cabanas, J. (2005). La educación en valores y otras cuestiones pedagógicas. Barcelona: PPU.

Vincent, G. (2002) (Dir.). Responsabilités professionnelles et déontologie. Paris: L’Harmattan.