Pre-school Education and Primary School Teaching

Master’s Programme

This cycle of studies is predominantly professionalizing, has as its main objective to qualify for teaching in the area of «Childhood Educator and Teacher of the 1st Cycle of Basic Education» ( see Decree-Law Nº 43/2007 of 22 February and Decree-Law Nº 79/2014 of 14May); to deepen scientific, didactical, pedagogical knowledge related with early childhood and primary education; to consolidate skills in planning, assessment, reflection, and critical analysis adequate to diversified educational contexts; to develop practices of learning environment management using differentiated pedagogy strategies; to develop life long research, intervention and learning capacities. It seeks to develop theoretical and operational competences that allow to have a reflection and intervention that are adequate for diversified educational contexts, more specifically early childhood and 1st cycle of BE as a complementary training to the undergraduate degree in Basic Education.

Programme Coordinator

Clarinda Luísa Ferreira Barata

clarinda.barata@ipleiria.pt

Reference

6915

School

Education and Social Sciences

City

Leiria

Language

Portuguese

Type

Morning & Afternoon

Length

4 Semesters

Vacancies

General Contingent 20
International student contingent 0

Notice

Edital 2023 (PT Doc)

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Study Plan

ECTS: 120

1st Year
2nd Year

1st Year
ID	Name	Semester	ECTS	Length
6915201	Teaching Practice in Childhood Education – Kindergarten	1st Semester	10	1st Year
– Observation and data collection in different nursery contexts; – Planning and intervention in Childhood Education – Nursery; – Assessment and reflection in Childhood Education – Nursery; – The dimensions of the professional practice of educators in the context of nursery.
6915202	Didactics of Childhood Education – Kindergarten	1st Semester	10	1st Year
1. The early years: host contexts and development and learning features 2. Curricular approaches in the early years: 2.1. High Scope; 2.2. Reggio Emilia; 2.3. Pedagogy in participation. 3. Postural acquisitions, locomotors and manipulative in the early years: 3.1. Childhood Educator’s role in promoting motor skills. 4. Issues of musical development in the early years: 4.1. Guidelines for the teaching/learning process of music. 5. Care health promoters: 5.1. Satisfaction of some child’s needs; 5.2. Health and safety.
6915203	Complements of Artistic Expressions	1st Semester	4	1st Year
Component Representation and Visual Communication 1. Structural components of the drawing; 2. The design and communication problems; 3. Drawing as Writing / Language; 4. Evaluation/reflection of the creative process. Component of Theatre and Education 1. Strategies for structuring the dramatic experience; 2. The theatrical language, curriculum and diversity; 3. Dramatic writing – from the idea to the text; 4. Dramatic representation Techniques: shadows, puppets and masks; 5. The evaluation / reflection processes of artistic creation. Component of Music and Education 1. Song: concepts, integration and pedagogical articulation; 2. Music, development and learning; 3. Strategies for structuring musical experience; 4. The evaluation / reflection process of musical creation.
6915204	Psychology of Education	1st Semester	2	1st Year
1. Educational Psychology: 1.1. Conceptualization and historical framework; 1.2. Fields of application and intervention. 2. Process (es) of teaching-learning: 2.1. Relational dynamics in the teaching-learning processes; 2.1.1. Behavior management within the activity room/classroom; 2.2. Teaching-learning methodological guidelines.
6915205	Organization of Teaching and Educational Contexts	1st Semester	4	1st Year
1. The official curriculum of the schools; 2. Curriculum development; 3. Diversity of contexts of teaching and education – most frequent curricular models; 4. Management tools curricular PE; PCE; PT; 5. Dimensions of teaching; 6. Analysis of organizational processes and dynamics of pedagogical intervention that generate learning environments, in diverse educational contexts; 7. Promotion of articulation and educational continuity between cycles. 8. Educational institutions and classrooms as communities of practice and professional development contexts.
6915206	Teaching Practice in Childhood Education – Kindergarten	2nd Semester	12	1st Year
1. The pedagogical relationship in the context of Kindergarten; 2. Observação and data collection in the context of kindergarten; 3. Planning and intervention in kindergarten. 4 Evaluation and reflection in Kindergarten.
6915207	Didactics of Childhood Education – Kindergarten	2nd Semester	10	1st Year
Knowledge of the world – Physical and Social Sciences Education in the early years; – Discovery Science Concepts, experiences and integrative activities; – The questioning and the quality of learning through discovery Sciences; – Recording and interpreting the results of the observations and experiences in promoting learning. Mathematics – Mathematics Education: current perspectives; – Mathematics on Kindergarten Education; – The sense of number and organization of data; – Geometry Standards. Artistic expressions – Characteristics of languages and educational meaning; – Educational experiences and methodological approaches; – Contributions to aesthetic, reflective and creative education. Oral Language and Approach to Writing – Tell and build stories; – To listen and to speak; – Propaedeutic of reading and writing; Personal and Social Education – The self and social development; – Relational environment: interactions, feelings and participation; – Social and cultural belonging
6915208	Educational Multiculturalism and Diversity	2nd Semester	2	1st Year
1. Education and Contemporary Social Theory; 2. Culture (s) and Identity (s); 3. Educational process and cultural contexts; 4. Multiculturalism Portuguese society Different heterogeneities in the classroom 5. Education and Cultural Diversity – Ethnic diversity, class, gender, rural / urban, the cognitive styles 6. The orality and writing in learning; 7. Between School and Home: what joke teaches; 8. The teaching and learning in school: strategies for adaptive education; 9. Tradition and Modernity; Local / Global. The globalization of culture; – The school and education media. 10. How I became what I am. – Who I was and who I am: Life histories and identity reconstruction of teachers and students. 11. Education, Identity and cultural metamorphoses – The reflexive self – Educational biographies and (self) training 12. The emergence of new social roles in school and pedagogical differentiation The socio-pedagogical mediation as a strategy for adaptive education.
6915209	Research in Education	2nd Semester	2	1st Year
1 – Research Methods: 1.1. The research process: nature and characteristics; 1.2. Methods of research in different paradigms – characterization and fundamentals; 1.3. Methods and techniques of research; 1.4. Analyse and comment of data. 2. The development of a research project: 2.1. Bibliographic reference standards; 2.2. The reporting. 3. Ethical issues in research.
6915210	Fisiologia Animal	2nd Semester	4	1st Year
1. INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF PHYSIOLOGY: – Definit. and goals; – General properties of living beings. 2. DIGESTIVE AND ABSORPTION SYSTEM: – Structure of system; – Concept of chew., swallow., ingest., digest., absorp. and excret; – Stages of gastrointestinal control. 3. RESPIRATORY SYSTEM: – Respiratory mechanics; – Gas exchange; – Respiratory movements. 4. CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM, BLOOD AND LYMPHATIC SYSTEM: – The structure of cardiov. system; – Blood; – Pulmonary and systemic circulation; – Control of heart rate; – Blood pressure and pulse; – Immunity. 5. URINARY SYSTEM: – The kidney and urinary tract; – Water and osmoregulat; – Excretion. 6. MUSCULAR SYSTEM AND LOCOMOTOR: – Different types of mus; – Physiology of contraction; – Connection nervous system and muscul. system; – Physiology of loco. 7. REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM: – Hormones and reproduct; – Male and female reprod. system. 8. THERMOREGULATION: – Body temperature of different species; – Mechanisms of thermogenesis and thermolysis; – Hyperthermia and fever.

2nd Year
ID	Name	Semester	ECTS	Length
6915211	Teaching Practice in the 1st Cycle of Basic Education I	1st Semester	14	2nd Year
The UC includes scientific and pedagogical contents required to the implementation of the curriculum of the 1st cycle of basic education and, in particular, the curricular guidelines for 1st and / or 2nd grades, where the teaching practice will preferably take place. Additionally the UC includes contents required to the development of the following themes: 1. Observation and data collection in educational contexts. 2. Planning teaching and learning (including assessment). 3. Teaching (implementation of the teaching plans). 4. Reflection on the different aspects teaching and professional practice. 5. Other that might become relevant, within the specific contexts of the teaching practice.
6915212	Didactics of the 1st Cycle of Basic Education I	1st Semester	8	2nd Year
• Curriculum development • Planning and evaluation of learnings • Roles of teacher and student • Specific didactics in conjunction with official programmes: -Concepts, integrative experiences in science; Registration and interpretation of results; Assessment and communication of evidence; -The meaning of social knowledge and its construction in childhood-the concessions and change conceptions alternative; -Features and teaching-learning strategies to the teaching practice in the context of the social environment; -Hearing, Interpretation and musical composition. Musical resources; -Creative processes. Creative methods and languages. Graphic-plastic development in childhood; -The teaching of reading, writing and speaking. The (target) language awareness and lexical development, morphological and semantic. The assessment of reading, writing and speaking; -The teaching/learning of numbers and operations with focus on integers; the teaching/learning of geometry and measurement.
6915213	Mathematics and Problem Solving	1st Semester	4	2nd Year
1. Resolution of problems as mathematical activity: 1.1. Problem solving in different contexts; 1.2. The role of intuition and creativity in problem solving; 1.3. Curious problems in mathematics and unsolved problems. 2 Mathematics and Reality: 2.1. Discrete models: – Definition of succession and different forms of representation; – Study of properties of succession; – Arithmetic progressions and geometric progressions; – Study of real situations involving discrete models. 2.2. Functions: – Function, graph of a function and their properties; – Solving problems involving functions of direct proportionality and inverse proportionality; – Solving problems involving polynomial functions, exponential function and the logarithmic function; Problem-solving situations involving modeling.
6915214	Literary Education	1st Semester	4	2nd Year
I. Between discipline and science. 1. The Rhetoric and Poetics of Classical Antiquity – a summary; 2. Problems of Liter. Studies – from intuition to scientism: 2.1 A Liter. History: literary gender periodization; 2.2 The Stylistics: a study of emotional language; 2.3 The New Criticism: the intrinsic literary study; 2.4 Structuralism: an analysis of structures of work; 2.5 Semiotics(s) and Narratology; 2.6 The Aesthetics of Reception: reader-response criticism and the reader’s place; 2.7 The Pragmatic of Communication: the intent of communication and psychoanalytic; 2.8 On Deconstruction: subversion of univocal theories of meaning. 3. From Post-Modern to PNL’s Neo-Pragmatism: possibilities of Liter. Education. II. Acquisitions and tools 1. The concepts of literature and literacy; 2. The liter. semiotic system; 3. The notions of literary text; 4. The liter. communication; 5. The notion of literary gender – modern mainstream; 6. Narrative categories. III. Literary Education and pedagogy.
6915215	Teaching Practice in the 1st Cycle of Basic Education II	2nd Semester	14	2nd Year
The UC includes scientific and pedagogical contents required to the implementation of the curriculum of the 1st cycle of basic education and, in particular, the curricular guidelines for 3rd and / or 4th grades, where the teaching practice will preferably take place. Additionally the UC includes contents required to the development of the following themes: 1. Observation and data collection in educational contexts. 2. Planning teaching and learning (including assessment). 3. Teaching (implementation of the teaching plans). 4. Reflection on the different aspects teaching and professional practice. 5. Other that might become relevant, within the specific contexts of the teaching practice.
6915216	Didactics of the 1st Cycle of Basic Education II	2nd Semester	8	2nd Year
The story on the first Cycle of basic education and contexts for their development: resources and strategies; Time and space; Local History. – Practical activities and the teaching of Sciences; – Evaluation and communication of evidence; – Diverse methodological approaches in different artistic languages and motor and its contribution to the development of the child; – The teaching of reading and writing; – The (meta) linguistic awareness and lexical, morphological and semantic development; – Transversality of the portuguese language; – Didactic pedagogical devices and differentiation; – Specific lesson: numbers and operations with a focus on rational numbers; – Didactics of Geometry: focus on geometric transformations Organization and data processing.
6915217	Study of the Social Environment	2nd Semester	4	2nd Year
History 1. Concepts in the social and cultural environment. 2. The time and space in history 3. The evolution of political systems and the org. of political power in Port. 4. The evolution of Port. social and economic structure. 5. Citizenship, social and cultural identities. 6. The local com.: the time evolution: 6.1 Processes of identification; 6.2 Sources of information. 7. Knowledge of the world: 7.1 The roots of the contemporary world; 7.2 The world in our time. Geography 1. The various dimensions of geographic space. 2. Change and development: paradigms of the world we live in: 2.1 The cont. world and the different concepts of development; 2.2 Human Development Index and the millennium goals. 3. Some planetary challenges of today: 3.1 The issue of the environment and global change; 3.2 overall nature of the relationship between man and the environment; 3.3 Main issues affecting the global level; 3.4 Human intervention in the biosphere and their human and physical consequences.
	Elective	2nd Semester	4	2nd Year
Tópicos de Física em Contexto Algebra and Geometry Discourse Analysis

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State: Acreditado
Nº years of accreditation: 3
Date of publication: 21/03/2022
Acreditação A3ES

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