Professionalism in Education and Training Seminar

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Teaching Methods

1) Dialogued exhibition, interviews with education and training professionals, focusing on the sharing of their experiences, the development of their skills (soft skills and hard skills) and their training and career paths.

2) Autonomous individual work, to carry out the exercise of balance of competences and application of the tools analyzed in the classes (Curriculum Vitae, Letter of Presentation and Motivation and Reference Letter)

3) Tutorial monitoring and supervision of autonomous work.

Learning Outcomes

The developed activities contribute to the consolidation of self-knowledge about the basic, transversal and specific skills necessary for the future professional practice in the various areas of activity of the pedagogue, as an expert in education and training. We expect to receive graduate students more able to conceive and plan their life project, which may focus on pursuing studies and/or the beginning of a profession.

The seminar unit aims to:

- Understand the state of the art of the pedagogue's soft skills and specific skills in different professional scenarios

- Analyse the influence of soft skills on the development of specific skills

- Carry out your skills balance in order to identify your professional needs and define a professional life project

- Apply tools of self-knowledge and self-valorization.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. Professionality in Education and Training: today challenges

1.1. The challenges of interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity

1.2. Professional Identity, Professions and Professionality 

2. Theory, research and practice in education: articulation on the scientific, training and professional paths in Education.

3. Transversal and specific skills of professionals in Education: formative profiles and professional fields

4. Development processes of the skills necessary to work as an expert in Education

5. Processes of education and training throughout life.

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Seminar report: 100.0%

Bibliography

- Agencia Nacional de Evaluación de la Calidad e Acreditación (2004). Libro blanco: Titulo de grado en pedagogía y educación social (Volumen 1 y 2). Universidad Deusto.

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

- López, S,Pinheiro, MR, Barreira,C.(2017).The concept of quality: Within the European Higher Education área: Dimensions and discourses. In Albuquerque et al (Org.), Higher Education after Bologna: Challenges and Perspectives (77-101). Imprensa Univ.Coimbra.

- Monteiro, A.R. (2008). Qualidade, profissionalidade e deontologia na Educação. Porto Editora.

- Mitchell, D. (2017). Diversities in Education: Effective ways to reach all learners. Routledge.

- Monteiro, A.R. (2008). Qualidade, profissionalidade e deontologia na educação. Porto Editora.

- Sá-Chaves, I. (2000). Formação, conhecimento e supervisão: Contributos nas áreas da formação de professores e de outros profissionais. Aveiro: Universidade de Aveiro.