Sociology of Education and Sport

Recommended Prerequisites

NA

Teaching Methods

Theoretical classes using the lecture method and the Socratic dialogue.

Practical classes consisting of group work and resolution of worksheets.

Learning Outcomes

Analyse the social phenomenon according to the methodological principle of understanding and explain the social by the social;

Develop the relational nature of scientific knowledge in rupture with the common sense knowledge of society;

Develop the critical thinking through the continuous critical exercise of scientific reason;

Enhance interdisciplinary through the practice of relate social, cultural and economic dimensions;

Understand the origins of mass schooling in Portugal, integrating it in the process of globalization of education systems worldwide;

Know the theories and models of analysis of social and educational inequalities;

Analyse the school curriculum and the role of Physycal Education;

Analyse Sport as a social phenomenon.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

I – The Portuguese School and the globalization of mass schooling

1. Genesis of mass schooling

2. Mass schooling in Portugal

3. The case of the Unified Secondary Education

II – Schooling and social system

1. School failure and social inequalities in education

2. Gender: female advantage in school context and male advantage in labor system

3. Ethnicity: immigration, ethnocentrism and multiculturalism

4. School inequalities and social inequalities: the case of assessment

III – Education and Culture

1. The Physical Education and the curriculum

2. Discrimination in Physycal education. the case of obesity

3. The contemporary status of the body and the Physical Education

IV – Body and Sport

1. Sport and the racionalization of body

2. The Portuguese sport practices

3. Sport paradoxes: the doping

4. The passions of risk: the new sports.

Head Lecturer(s)

Miguel Ângelo Sousa Fachada Domingues Coelho

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Resolution Problems: 48.0%
Mini Tests: 52.0%

Bibliography

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GOMES, R. (2003). A Cultura de Consumo do Corpo Contemporâneo e a Queda da Educação Física Escolar. Reflexões Pouco Óbvias. In O Desporto para Além do Óbvio. Lisboa: IDP, 87-99
GOMES, R. (2005). O Governo da Educação em Portugal. Coimbra: IUC
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STOER, R., CORTESÃO, L., CORREIA, J.A. (2001). Transnacionalização da Educação. Porto: Afrontamento