Escolas e Comunidades Políticas (not translated)
Code
722081103
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Sociologia
Credits
10
Weekly hours
3 letivas + 1 tutorial
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
It is intended that students acquire:
1. Knowledge of specific placements of the actors of the school context: teachers, students, school staff, parents, local politicians and other actors;
2. The ability to analyze the internal social dynamics of the school and its relationship with the community;
3. The ability to identify the theoretical assumptions present in (1) and (2);
4. The capability to articulate the school policies decentralized from government to the autarchies and school and local policies with the schools context;
5. The ability to identify and characterize specific situations in schools and, from there, to define appropriate strategies for research and professional intervention in this context: inequality, injustice, humiliation phenomena, sociability and exercise of political socialization.
Prerequisites
Subject matter
1. Condition and teacher´s craft and student. Crisis of educational systems and of the teaching profession, the centrality of the student and the effects of acts of school pedagogization - from educational crises to compensation policies.
2. School social dynamics: from sociability to political socialization.
3. School and historic retreat of local communities: central policies, relocation policy for municipalities, new school territorializations, school clusters and schools policies
4. School, families, Politician and Media: from the ideal of full participation to the real intervention dynamics of actors and collective in schools.
Bibliography
ALMEIDA, Ana Nunes de, VIEIRA, Maria Manuel, A escola em Portugal, Lisboa:
Imprensa de Ciências Sociais, 2006.
Barrère, A., Les enseignants au travail, routines incertaines, Paris, LHarmattan, 2002.
Bautier, Elisabeth, Rayou, Patrick, Les inégalités d´apprentissage. Programmes, pratiques et malentendus scolaires, Paris, PUF, 2009
Dubet, François, Duru-Bellat, Vérétout, Antoine, Les sociétés et leur école. Emprise du diplôme et cohésion sociale, Paris, Seuil, 2010
Resende, José Manuel, A Sociedade Contra a Escola? A Socialização Política Escolar num Contexto de Incerteza, Lisboa, Piaget, 2010
Vincent, Gut (coord.) L´éducation prisonnière de la forme scolaire. Scolarization et socialisation dans les sociétés industrielles, Lyon, PUL, 1994.
Teaching method
Expository lessons on concepts and example cases;
Group discussions and plenary problems proposed by the teacher or by the students;
Monitoring of students in developing personal essay and other reports.
Evaluation method