Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
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2500260 Social Education | OB | 1 | A |
2500261 Education Studies | OB | 1 | A |
2500797 Early Childhood Education | FB | 1 | A |
2500798 Primary Education | OB | 1 | A |
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This subject does not have specific prerequisites, but it is very important that, before starting the course, knowledge in philosophy, history and sciences of the contemporary world have been updated, common subjects of post-compulsory secondary education.
It is also essential to master the basic languages of study and communication in the academic field (concept maps, preparation of academic posters, oral presentations, basic mathematical operations, unit changes, writing and spelling, etc.)
Given the teaching methodology to be used, project-based learning and challenges, it is appropriate for students to think about what autonomous work, collaboration and research means, in order to correctly face the challenge of the process of learning that will be proposed.
First, the subject must provide students with knowledge, analysis and understanding of the sociocultural, scientific and humanistic context that is shaping the present, allowing them to adopt a critical and constructive position of the current reality and the transformations that have occurred in all these areas in recent times. This should allow the students to become aware of their own involvement in the environment, as well as the responsibilities they must assume towards those elements that comprise it, such as the environment, sustainability, education, culture, social structures, etc.
Secondly, the students of this subject will have to be involved into a learning system based on problems and challenges, which will force them to work intensely in individual or shared research with a high rate of autonomous work, and with an intense responsibility in the conduction and concretion of their own learning.
Since this course will work with Learning Based on Projects and / or Challenges (ACbRr, see the Methodology section), the contents presented below correspond to the different projects to be carried out.
Each student will carry out the mandatory annual project, and three projects more (1 in each trimester), that he/she will have to choose among the ones that are offered according to the different schedules and the optional courses of the degree that they study.
Each of the three projects is equivalent to 4 credits, and the whole subject is equivalent to 12 credits. The teaching of the obligatory annual project is part of the other three projects, therefore, it doesn’t have its own credits.
ANNUAL OBLIGATORY PROJECT FOR ALL STUDENTS:
A Subject, a Biography, a Trip
CHALLENGE: Elaborating a document in which it is shown how the things that I have studied during my "trip" throughout this subject are also present in my daily life.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION: This project is designed to complete the multi/transdisciplinary meaning of the course. We understand education as a process intimately linked to personal experience: the learning of academic activity and daily life are intertwined to make sense with the teaching activities. The subject is also seen as a journey towards knowledge and sensitivity from and through one's biography. For this reason, the student will have to document all this journey with a visual diary that confirms how in their day-to-day experience they live the contents that they work in the subject. This personal document is built autonomously and it doesn’t require class attendance; the students will be tutored by the teaching staff.
Project: Words to Change the World
CHALLENGE: Preparing an entertaining, emotional and inspiring TED style conversation, that motivates reflective and transformative actions.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION: In recent years, the TED talks have become the model of a highly effective type of oratory that connects perfectly with the way of disseminating ideas from the digital age. The teaching staff involved in this project will tutor the students in the preparation of a conference built following the TED model. The talk will last between 15 and 18 minutes, and it will be meant to propagate an inspiring idea related to some of the scientific, technological, social or cultural challenges that human beings face today. The final goal is to develop a motivating discourse that stimulates listeners to change their personal life, their social nucleus or the world in which they live in a positive way. The talk will be recorded on video and uploaded to a digital platform so that it can be used as teaching material in pre-university schools.
Project: Correspondents of Migrations with a Gender Perspective
CHALLENGE: Antinarratives of migration: gender, vulnerability and mobilizations in the world economy.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION: This project takes its name from the book Migration Correspondents (Marthos, 2012), that was focused on the responsibility of narrating the migratory fact in another way —with an approach to the daily life of the Migrants— and to address, in this case, the forms of representation from a gender and antiracist perspective. The challenge of this publication is: Do you need correspondents for migrations with a gender perspective? Taking into account this question, a research work will be carried out using narrative and visual methodologies to build a series of counter narratives (comic, audiovisual, journalistic, etc.) about working conditions and everyday life of migrants in Catalonia.
Project: Is Democracy at Risk? The Temptation of Authoritarianism
CHALLENGE: Designing a political miting with the related electoral material to discuss and defend the assumption of a political action program of any selected ideological option.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION: Around the second decade of the 21st century, we find ourselves in a moment of stagnation and sociopolitical, economic and cultural uncertainty of Western society (and, consequently, of the global one too). The fear of an increasing sociological complexity, the fall of the ideologies, the return to a capitalism prior to 1945 and the technological changes, are leading us to a wave of electoral responses with more and more protagonism of the formations that propose authoritarian models to restrict pluralism and fundamental freedoms. Is democracy at risk? Why there are so many Europeans and Americans who are attracted by "hard" and simple answers to complex problems? Trying to understand the reason for this drift, reflect on the psychological methodology and encourage analytical skills in students, to understand the current society from a global perspective, is the goal of this project.
Project: We are what we eat: Ecology, cultural identity and social change
CHALLENGE: Developing a sustainable and healthy consumption strategy for an educational center based on research, diagnosis and proposals for improvement and sustainability.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION: Food is the basis of many characteristics of human beings, their health, their ecological and social environment and their cultural identity. We are what we eat, and in many different aspects, our body depends on food to carry out basic vital functions, as well as being a determining factor in relation to various diseases. At the same time, the type of food in a society determines key parts of the economy, ecosystems and politics. Also, our cultural identity is closely linked to the type of food we eat. Therefore, changes in diet can induce changes at a social, cultural and environmental level. One of the main objectives of this project is to immerse ourselves in thisworld of food and its impacts at an ecological, social and cultural level.
Project: Social Utopias: How to live Exponentially in a Finite World
CHALLENGE: Developing a strategy for the future, facing the current idea of infinite growth, with possible scenarios based on a diagnosis, specifically contemplating a topic, a historical moment and a specific place. The choice of topic, time and place will be made taking into account the factors that build the subject: Social, geographical, political, scientific and cultural.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION: This project is designed so that students can understand the macro behavior of the human species in its global future, taking into account that this globality manifests itself specifically in a very specific spatio-temporal context. The transdisciplinary perspective will provide us with a broad view of the complexity and interdependence of human phenomena and nature, as well as a theoretical and practical framework in which we can think and propose a wider range of solutions to the potential ruptures of the immediate future.
Project: Thinking of future: Transhumanism and biotethics
CHALLENGE: Orienting ourselves in the broad knowledge required to deal with the complexity that currently represents the relationship between biotechnology and life. Therefore, we propose the elaboration of a didactic unit that contains the materials to achieve this challenge. This box will contain several activities to deal with, from the different disciplines of the project, the necessary knowledge to have a critical perspective of this reality.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION: Transhumanism was born as an integral project to improve humanity in the physical, intellectual, emotional and moral aspects, thanks to the progress of science and in particular of biotechnology, based on the belief in the unlimited progress of the human species. Some ofthe guidelines underlying transhumanism relate to the modification of the body (cyborg) and the idea of immortality or, in other words, to cure aging. Technoscience as an improvement of human existence and modification of the human genome in order to eliminate hereditary diseases are an example, in principle, laudable and valuable for human life. On a practical level, it can involve significant risks for the manipulation of the genetic material that is part of the natural evolution process in biological as well as sociocultural, existential, economic and political terms. The need for an ethical, bioethical and philosophical approach becomes indispensable when thinking about the consequences for human life.
This subject will work with learning based on projects and challenges (ABPr, ABR) with a transdisciplinary background. In other words, the projects will integrate knowledge and cases from different disciplines, from a holistic and transversal perspective.
Each student will carry out the obligatory annual project, plus three projects (1 in each trimester), to choose between the existing ones in each schedule (see description in the section's contents) and according to the variables that their specialty allows.
Project-based learning is a didactic methodology of growing interest in teaching, both because of the abundant evidence of its effectiveness, and because it allows us to comprehensively address some of the challenges posed by the adaptation of teaching to the needs of European Higher Education Space (challenges such as the planning of student work inside and outside the classroom, or the development of transversal competences).
The center of the teaching / learning process is the student and under this premise the course has been planned.
Thus, the methodology will focus on three types of sessions. On the one hand there will be sessions with the whole group of classes, with different types of support, and transdisciplinary activities. On the other hand, there will be activities in smaller groups in seminar or laboratory sessions.
All this will allow us to apply the knowledge imparted, the analysis and resolution of cases and practical problems, the carrying out of small investigations and experimentations; allowing students to build their own critical vision of the world and society in which we live.
Finally, some field trips will be carried out directly related to the projects worked on to learn directly and applied the related contents, and it may be that some of them involve a cost (e.g. cost of entry to an exhibition) by the students, which will always be tried to be as minimal as possible.
Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.
Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Type: Directed | |||
Big group sessions | 45 | 1.8 | 20, 31, 7, 8 |
Seminar classes | 45 | 1.8 | 1, 13, 17, 18, 19, 28, 29, 33, 5 |
Type: Supervised | |||
Tutorías presenciales / virtuales: colectivas o individuales. Revisión de actividades aprendizaje basado en proyectos ABP*. | 45 | 1.8 | 20, 17, 18, 31, 7, 8, 33 |
Type: Autonomous | |||
Realization of individual or group projects. Challenges, investigations, questions. | 150 | 6 | 13, 20, 31, 19, 29, 7, 8, 33 |
A different project in groups of 3 people will be carried out each term. Therefore, 50% of the final grade of the subject will be the result of group work. Each project will also be accompanied by a test (25%) to assess the essential knowledge associated with the project (25%).
Another 25% of the grade will be the individual project "a subject, a biography a journey". In order to pass the subject, it is essential to present the individual annual project "A subject, a biography, a journey" and obtain a minimum grade of 4 for this project.
With regard to this project, it is necessary to take into account:
a) The writing must correctly follow the grammatical and spelling rules. Otherwise, 2 points will be deducted from the delivery grade.
b) If the delivery is made after the deadline (without justification), 2 points will be deducted from the delivery.
c) It is mandatory to attend a minimum of 3 tutorials, otherwise, the delivery of the project will not be evaluated.
d) If the project is not presented (or the project is suspended with a grade lower than 4) the entire subject of "Looking at the World: transdisciplinary projects" will be failed.
In order to be able to access to second chance examination, a minimum total grade of 3.5 is required for the subject. In order to participate in the this second change exam, students must have previously been assessed in a set of activities whose weight is equivalent to a minimum of two-thirds of the subject's total grade.
The individual exams of the different projects willbe recoverable and the type of test for the second chance will be an oral exam.
This subject do not expect a single assessment system.
Each quarterly project will have three deliveries, and the different delivery dates throughout the course will be as follows:
First quarter project:
-Groups on Monday: 16/10/23; 6/11/23; 20/11/23
-Groups on Wednesday: 04/10/23; 25/10/23; 15/11/23
-Groups of Friday: 6/10/23; 27/10/23; 10/11/2023
Second quarter project:
-Groups on Monday: 18/12/23; 12/02/24; 26/02/24
-Groups on Wednesday: 20/12/23; 14/02/24; 28/02/24
-Groups on Friday: 15/12/23; 19/01/24; 23/02/24
Third quarter project:
-Groups on Monday: 8/04/24; 29/04/24; 13/05/24
-Groups on Wednesday: 03/04/24; 24/04/24; 15/05/24
-Groups on Friday: 22/03/24; 19/04/24; 03/05/24
Monday groups: 13/11/23 (first quarter project test), 19/02/24 (secondquarter project test), 6/05/24 (third quarter project test)
Wednesday groups: 8/11/23 (first quarter project test), 21/02/24 (second quarter project test), 8/5/24 (third quarter project test)
Friday groups: 03/11/23 (first quarter project test), 16/02/24 (second quarter project test), 26/04/24 (third quarter project test)
The annual project will consist of two delivery dates and will be as follows:
December 15th, 2023
June 7th, 2024
Class attendance, participation and involvement in the work are very important for this project-basedlearning subject. It is for this reason that attendance is considered an essential requirement.
The grade of the subject is obtained by averaging the grades of the various activities according to the weighting values shown. To pass the subject, a minimum of 5 must be obtained in the final grade. Failure to complete any of the assessment activities is a zero in that activity.
The grades for each of the assessment evidences will be made public on Moodle within three weeks of their delivery. The student who wants to review the grade must do so within 15 days of its publication, during the tutoring hours established by the teaching staff for this subject.
The subject does not save part notes, from one course to another.
All evaluable activities will be subject to formal criteria, including spelling, writing and presentation. The teaching staff may suspend or lower the grade of the activity that they consider does not meet the academic minimums in the aspects mentioned.
Copying or plagiarizing material, both in the case of assignments and in the case of exams, constitutes a crime that will be sanctioned with a zero in the activity. In case of recidivism, the entire subject will be suspended.
Remember that a work that reproduces all or a large part of someone else's work is considered a "copy". "Plagiarism" is the act of presenting all or part of an author's text as one's own, without citing the sources, whether on paper or in digital format.
See UAB documentation on "plagiarism" at: http://wuster.uab.es/web_argumenta_obert/unit_20/sot_2_01.html.
The proposed teaching methodology and assessment may undergo some modification depending on the restrictions on attendance imposed by the health authorities
Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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1st trimester project | 16.67% | 3 | 0.12 | 1, 6, 11, 4, 2, 13, 32, 30, 9, 20, 17, 18, 31, 12, 16, 15, 14, 19, 35, 27, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 28, 29, 7, 8, 33, 10, 34, 5 |
2nd trimester project | 16.67% | 3 | 0.12 | 1, 6, 11, 4, 3, 2, 13, 32, 30, 9, 20, 17, 18, 31, 12, 16, 15, 14, 19, 35, 27, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 28, 29, 7, 8, 33, 10, 34, 5 |
3rd trimester project | 16.67% | 3 | 0.12 | 1, 6, 11, 4, 2, 13, 32, 30, 9, 20, 17, 18, 31, 12, 16, 15, 14, 19, 35, 27, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 28, 29, 7, 8, 33, 10, 34, 5 |
Compulsory annual project | 25% | 3.75 | 0.15 | 1, 6, 11, 2, 13, 32, 30, 20, 17, 18, 31, 12, 14, 19, 35, 28, 29, 7, 8, 33, 5 |
Knowledge test: unforgettables | 25% | 2.25 | 0.09 | 6, 30, 17, 28 |
TÍTOL DEL PROJECTE: Paraules per canviar el mon
Ferran Ramon-Cortés. (2013). L’illa dels 5 fars: un recorregut per les claus de la comunicació. Barcelona. La butxaca
Leith, S. (2011). Està parlant amb mi? La retòrica d'Aristòtil amb Obama. Madrid, Espanya: Taure.
TED. Manual del orador. (s.f.). Recuperat 2 juliol, 2019, de http://storage.ted.com/tedx/manuals/TEDx_Manual_del_Orador.pdf
TÍTOL PROJECTE: Corresponsals de les migracions amb mirada de gènere
Bauman, S. (2005). Vides malgastada. La modernitat i els seus pàries. Mèxic: FFE.
Butler, J. (2004). Vides precàries: el poder del dolor i la violència. Barcelona, Espanya: Paidós.
Jean-Luc, Nancy. La existencia exiliada. Revista de Estudios Sociales [En línea]. 08 | 01/01/2001, Publicat el 7 desembre 2018, consultat el 2 juliol 2019. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/revestudsoc/28892
TÍTOL DEL PROJECTE: Utopies socials: com viure exponencialment en un mon finit
Sempere, J. (2018). Les cendres de Prometheus: transició energètica i socialisme. Barcelona, Espanya: passat & present.
Diamond, J.M. (2005). Col·lapse: per què algunes societats perduren i d'altres desapareixen. Barelona ,Espanya: Debatre sobre. Disponible en línia:https://issuu.com/fundacionbasura/docs/diamond__jared_-_colapso._por_que_a
TÍTOL DEL PROJECTE: Ètica i transhumanisme
Cortina, A., & Serra, M. A. (2015). ¿Humanos o Posthumanos? Barcelona, Espanya: Fragmenta.
Déquez, A. (2017). La Tranhumanisme. La recerca de la millora humana. Barcelona, Espanya: Herder.
Ferry, L., & Martorell, A. (2017). La revolució Transhumista: com Technomedicine el món i Uberization van a transformar les nostres vides. Madrid, Espanya: Aliança.
Penyes, E. (2018, 11 d'abril). El transhumanisme convertirà les classes socials en classes biològiques. Entrevistem a Antonio Diéguez, catedràtic de lògica i filosofia de la Universitat de Màlaga i expert en transhumanisme. Recuperat2Juliol, 2019, https://Ethic.es/2017/11/transhumanismo-Antonio-Dieguez/
TÍTOL DEL PROJECTE: Som el que mengem: Ecologia, Identitat cultural i canvi social.
Carson, R. (1962). Primavera silenciosa. Ed. Crítica.
Mies, M., & Shiva, V. (1997). Ecofeminisme: teoria, crítica i perspectives. Barcelona, Espanya: Icaria.
Vivas, E. (2014). El negoci dels aliments. Barcelona, Espanya: Icaria.
TÍTOL DEL PROJECTE: La democràcia està en perill? La temptació de l’autoritarisme
Rodon, T. (2017). L’erosió de la confiança en la democràcia. Eines per a l'esquerra nacional [en línia], 2017, Núm. 29 , p. 12-27. https://www.raco.cat/index.php/Eines/article/view/328969 [Consulta: 02-07-19]
Perrineau, P. (s.f.). L’extrema dreta a Europa i el malestar democràtic. Recuperat 2 juliol, 2019, de https://www.iemed.org/observatori/arees-danalisi/arxius-adjunts/anuari/med.2011/Perrineau_cat.pdf
Fonts, J.F.(2008). Totalitarisme: origen i evolució d'un concepte clau. Revista d'estudis polítics, 0(134). https://RECYT.FECYT.es/index.php/RevEsPol/article/View/45485
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