Cursos / 1º Ciclo / Institute of Psychology and Educational Sciences :: Psychology

Versao Portuguesa

PSICOLOGIA DA EDUCAÇÃO - 2016/2017

3º curricular year
Semestralidade: 2nd semester
ECTS: 6

Teachers

Leading Teacher: Prof. Doutora Joana Cruz
Assistant Professor: Prof. Doutor Jorge Castro

Class type and School hours

Orientação Tutorial : 1 Horas
Teórico-prática : 2 Horas

Teaching Language

Portuguese

Main Aims/Objectives

The main aim of Psychology of Education is to prepare students in what refers the study and the reflection on the principal paradigms and methodologies in order to offer them the possibility to develop research and intervention in educational fields whose main concern is to take into account a global analysis of development and learning processes from childhood to late adulthood, allowing motivation, learning and success through the life span.

Specific Aims/Objectives

1) To know Psychology of Education history.
2) To develop capabilities related to the evaluation and intervention in an educative context.
3) To critically analyze the Educational Psychologist intervention domains.

Skills to be acquired

1) To study Educational Psychology through ecological approaches.
2) To identify and to apply the generalities and the speficic characteristics of educational psychological consult.
3) To develop and apply effective psychological strategies in order to evaluate and to implement an intervention regarding teaching/learning processes, considering the multiple agents and contexts.

Teaching Procedures

Exposure lessons.
Practical exercises.
Interview to educational/scholar psychologists
Psychological evaluation.
pratical task that envolves a oral and a written presentation.
Case studies.
Study visit.

Programme

1.Educational Psychology: context, perspectives and intervention models
1.1. Educational psychology and school psychology: Conceptual delimitation

2.The educational psychologist and their tasks
2.1. General and specific characteristics of psychological education consultation
2.2. From psychological consultation models to consulting models
2.3. Psychoeducational based service: ecological interventions

3.The educational psychologist in schools
3.1. Improving the quality of early childhood education: the new curriculum guidelines for preschool children.
3.2. Reading, writing and mathematics skills
3.3. School indiscipline
3.4. Teaching and classroom behavioral management
3.5. Vocational psychological consultation

4.The educational psychologist in the family context
4.1. Parental educational styles
4.2. Establishment of rules and parental involvement: Strategies for promoting school-family relationship

5.The educational psychologist in the community
5.1. Elaboration and evaluation of projects

Evaluation Type

a) Attendance;
b) Participation in initiatives and work done in class;
c) Interventions;
d) Writings moments;
e) Individual work and / or group work.

Teaching Resources

Library.
Classroom assessement.
Pedagogical supervision.
Theoretical and bibliographic support.

Sustainability Objectives

Keywords

Education.
Psychology.
Student.
Learning and teaching process.

Main Bibliography

Author ALEXANDER, Patricia & WINNE, Philip (Eds)
Title Handbook of educational psychology
Place Mahwah, N.J.
Editor Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
Year 2006
Author REYNOLDS, Cecil & GUTKIN, Terry (Eds)
Title Handbook of school psychology
Edition 13ª ed.
Place New York
Editor John Wiley & Sons
Year 1999
Author DAMON, William & LERNER, Richard
Title Handbook of child psychology,vol 1, 2, 3 e 4
Edition 6.ª ed.
Place New Jersey
Editor John Wiley & Sons
Year 2006

Complementary Bibliography

Author MIRANDA, Guilhermina & BAHIA, Sara (Org.)
Title Psicologia da Educação - Temas de Desenvolvimento,
Author LOPES, João
Title Comportamento, aprendizagem e “ensinagem” na ordem