– 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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. Analyze 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

• Topics of Physics in Context

1. Introduction
2. Forces and Motion
   a. Forces and equilibrium
   b. Simple machines
   c. Motion in one and two dimensions
   d.Does it move…
3. Buoyancy
   a. Pure substances – proportional variations of mass and volume
   b. Density and density measurements
   c. Floating or sinking…
4. Waves
   a. Understanding mechanical and electromagnetic waves
   b. Sound and Music
   c. Light and color
   d. Wave after wave.
5. Light and Geometric optics
   a. Shadows
   b. Reflection from a plain mirror
   c. Images produced by curved mirrors and lenses
   d. Mirror, mirror on the wall…
6. Astronomy at our eyes – the moon, the sun and other stars
   a. Shadows of the sun
   b. Observing changes in the sky
   c. Size and shape of the Earth
   d. Phases of the Moon
   e. Celestial calendars and clocks

• Discourse Analysis

1.  Approaches to discourse analysis: Speech act theory; Pragmatics; Semiotic analysis; Discourse analysis; Critical discourse analysis.
2. Linguistic expressiveness: Subjectivity/Objectivity; formality and informality; Explicitation and Implicitation; Courtesy; Denotation e Connotation; Metaphor devices; Rhetorical figures; Appraisal;
3. Language, ideology and power ‒ the representation and construction of social actors in diferente discourses, namely in the institutional discourses and in the discourses which are mobilized in the Portuguese language classes: literature, advertising, institutional communication, media;
4. The discourses in the information society and education for the media;
5. Conversational analysis;
6. The discursive dynamic of interaction in the classroom and the process of learning.

• Complements of Childhood Education

1. National and international history of Childhood Education
2. Childhood Education types:
        2.1. Childhood education in contexts of Formal and non-Formal Education
        2.1.1. National and international models.
        2.1.2. New pedagogical currents

• Animal Physiology 
  

  1.INTRODUCTION TO PHYSIOLOGY STUDY
  Definition and goals/General properties of living beings
  2.DIGESTIVE AND ABSORPTION SYSTEM
  Structure of system/Concept of chewing, swallowing, ingestion, digestion, absorption and excretion/Stages of gastrointestinal control
  3.RESPIRATORY SYSTEM
  respiratory mechanics/gas exchange/respiratory movements
  4.CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM, BLOOD AND LYMPHATIC SYSTEM
  The structure of cardiovascular 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 osmoregulation/excretion
  6.MUSCULAR AND LOCOMOTOR SYSTEM
  Different types of muscles/Physiology of contraction/Connection nervous system and musculoskeletal system/ locomotion physiology
  7.REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM
  Hormones and reproduction/Male and female reproductive system
  8.THERMOREGULATION
  Body temperature of different species/Mechanisms of thermogenesis and thermolysis/Hyperthermia & fever

• Algebra and Geometry
  

  1 Analytic Geometry in the plane
  1.1. Points and lines in the plane
  1.2. Locus in the plane
  1.3. Distance between two points
  1.4. Vectors
  1.5. Inner product. Norma
  2 Analytic Geometry in space
  2.1. Coordinate system in space
  2.2. Locus in space.
  2.3. Distance between two points.
  3 Matrices
  3.1. Definition and notations
  3.2. Algebra of matrices
  3.3. Elementary operations.
  3.4. Systems of linear equations
  3.5. Matrix inversion
  4 Determinants
  4.1. Definition and properties
  4.2. Rules for calculating determinants
  5 Algebraic Structures
  5.1. Structures and substructures
  5.2. Homomorphisms.