Teaching Philosophy in Secondary Education

Cycle

Segundo ciclo

Degree

Master

Coordinator

Luís Manuel Bernardo

Opening date

September 2015

Vacancies

10 vagas

Fees

1.000€/year

Schedule

Evening schedule comprises seminars and teaching practice is carried out during working hours. (to be available at http://www.fcsh.unl.pt/ensino/mestrados)

Education objectives

- Comprehension of the guide lines of the national political education.
- Ability to apply the pedagogical principles, didactics and research methodologies.
- Ability to adequate the pedagogical and didactics practices to the disciplinary specificity, student and
circumstantial;
- Ability to apply scientific, cultural, pedagogical and didactics knowledge into learning-teaching activities.
- Ability to reflect about the ethics and social-cultural implications to the exercise of teaching, in the context of
the modern world, political education and civic learning.
- Learning skills, continuous training and professional development.
- Development of philosophical knowledge acquired and the ability to apply it on the orientation of the teaching
activity.
- Ability to develop a consistent reading of the Philosophy’s programme.
- Ability to plan, evaluate, innovate within the teaching-learning process.

Access conditions

The rules for admission to Masters in Education (Teacher Training) in FCSH/NOVA are as described in regulation standards of study for Masters in Education and include the following criteria for the ranking of candidates: • Classification of degree (20%); • Academic and scientific curriculum (30%); • Professional Resume (20%); • Proof of proficiency in written Portuguese (20%); • Interview (10%). Candidates must have completed a number of credits in the specific subject matter training.

Degree pre-requisites

Length: 2 years / 4 semesters. Total credits: 120 credits (70 in course units of the study programme + 50 in the non-taught component).
To obtain the masters degree, the student must realize in accordance with Decree-Law 79/2014, 14th May, an introduction to professional practice which are assigned 50 credits (45 ECTS match Supervised Teaching Practice and 5 ECTS to the Seminar of Supervised Teaching Practice).

Access to other courses

Completion of the Masters degree allows the holder to apply for the cycle of studies which leads to a Doctorate Degree. For the specific access requirements for doctoral programmes, consult the regulations governing the doctoral programmes at FCSH/NOVA.

Evaluation rules

1) No obligatory precedences for attending the program’s courses. 2) Knowledge evalutation in the courses is individual and takes place at the end of each semester. The following tools will be considered: final oral and/or written assignments, papers or other assessment tools, in conditions to be agreed upon with each lecturer. The result of the evaluation is expressed in a mark from 0 to 20. 3) Approval in a course requires a final grade equal to or above 10. 4) Only those students who have obtained 60 ECTs on the scholar component of the program can proceed to the Supervised Teaching Practice. 5) For the evaluation of the Supervised Teaching Practice, please consult FCSH/NOVA’s relevant regulations.

Structure

Mandatory
Code	Name	ECTS
722031083	Didactics of Philosophy	10
722031084	Didática da Filosofia II	10
722171259	Education, Curriculum and Multiculturalism	5
722031072	Philosophy of Education	10
722160059	Prática de Ensino Supervisionada em Filosofia	45
722031069	Problematics of Teaching Philosophy	10
722171257	Educational Psichology	10
722160057	Seminário de Orientação da Prática de Ensino Supervisionada em Filosofia	5
722171258	Education Systems and School Cultures	5
722171258	Education Systems and School Cultures	5

Elective option 1
Code	Name	ECTS
Options
722031042	Aesthetics and Ontology	10
722031047	Philosophy of Law and State	10
722031032	Questions regarding Philosophical Anthropology	10
722031043	Issues in Ethics	10
722031046	Issues in Philosophy of Knowledge	10
722031059	Issues in the History of Philosophy	10
722031054	Issues in Ontology	10