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Society, Family and School

Code: 102006 ECTS Credits: 6
2024/2025
Degree Type Year
2500797 Early Childhood Education FB 2

Contact

Name:
Paloma del Carmen Valdivia Vizarreta
Email:
paloma.valdivia@uab.cat

Teachers

Paloma del Carmen Valdivia Vizarreta
Andrea Jover Pujol
Enric Sauri Saula

Teaching groups languages

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Prerequisites

No requirements


Objectives and Contextualisation

The aim of this course is to present the relationship between the different bodies taht represent Society, Family and School


Competences

  • "Critically analyse and incorporate the most relevant issues of contemporary society that affect family and school education: social and educational impact of audiovisual languages and of screens. changes in gender relations and intergenerational changes; multiculturalism and interculturalism; discrimination and social inclusion and sustainable development."
  • Act with ethical responsibility and respect for fundamental rights and duties, diversity and democratic values.
  • Adopt ethical behaviour and attitudes and act according to the ethical principles of the profession.
  • Demonstrate an understanding of the role, possibilities and limits of education in today's society and core competencies that affect infant schools and their professionals.
  • Master social skills in dealing and relating with the family of each pupil and all families.
  • Participate and get involved in the events, meetings and events of the institution to which one belongs.
  • Promoting and cooperating in initiatives, inside and outside of the school, organised by families, municipalities and other institutions with an emphasis on civic education.
  • Recognize and evaluate the social reality and the interrelation between factors involved as necessary anticipation of action.
  • Take sex- or gender-based inequalities into consideration when operating within one's own area of knowledge.
  • Understand the historical evolution of the family, different types of families, lifestyles and education in the family context.

Learning Outcomes

  1. Analyse the sex- or gender-based inequalities and the gender biases present in one's own area of knowledge.
  2. Create and maintain communication links with families to have an effective impact on the education process.
  3. Demonstrate knowledge of the evolution of the educational implications of the information and communications technology and in particular of television in early childhood.
  4. Identify the principal forms of sex- or gender-based inequality and discrimination present in society.
  5. Identifying the teacher's framework of autonomy in today's society.
  6. Know and perform the duties of tutor and counsellor in relation to family education.
  7. Promoting and cooperating in initiatives, inside and outside of the school, organised by families, municipalities and other institutions with an emphasis on civic education.
  8. Recognising the social value of education and the value of diversity in order to acquire resources that encourage inclusive education and performance in multicultural contexts.
  9. Reflecting in a group on the acceptance of standards and respect for others.
  10. Understand the historical evolution of the family, different types of families, lifestyles and education in the family context.
  11. Understand the nature of the most relevant issues of complex societies in terms of gender, age, class and ethnicity and incorporate a critical reading with respect to the various forms of inequality and social exclusion.
  12. Understand the processes that occur in educational activities and their impact on training while accepting that the exercise of the educational function must be refined and adapted lifelong to scientific, educational and social changes.
  13. Weigh up the impact of any long- or short-term difficulty, harm or discrimination that could be caused to certain persons or groups by the actions or projects.

Content

Section A. Pedagogy

Right to education, childhood and family policies
1. The right to education from a historical perspective
2. Child protection
3. The educational role of the family

Management of community relations for coexistence
4. Management of community relations and family
5. School, diversity and inequality: handling diversity from schools. Inequalities and discriminations.

Section B: Sociology

Social change and family diversity
1. Family and school diversity
2. Ruptures and separations and school
3. Work-life balance
4. Poverty and educational exclusion
5. Interculturality. Transnational families and parenting

Family-school participation
6. Family Involvement in School: Why and for What?
7. The structures of participation of families in schools.


Activities and Methodology

Title Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
Type: Directed      
Evaluation 0 0 3, 5
Presencial in large grup 30 1.2 11, 3
Seminars 15 0.6 3, 5
Type: Supervised      
Supervised activities 30 1.2 2, 3
Type: Autonomous      
Autonomus activities 75 3 3

- They will be dynamic and digital classes for the large group: the digital class directed to the large group allows the exposition of the main contents and elements of discussion of the different thematic blocks and the seminars are spaces of work in small groups to analyse and debate the activities proposed by the teaching staff mainly on the Virtual Campus, to complement the theoretical sessions. Seminars will be held on campus and attendance is compulsory. Students will be assigned to one of the groups scheduled at the beginning of the course.

- This course includes activities for the development of Digital Teaching Competence.

- The activities supervised by the lecturer outside the classroom include a series of individual and group tutorials, both physical and virtual, which must be used to resolve difficulties, orientate tasks and ensure understanding of the learning of the subject.

- Autonomous work is work done independently by the student and involves the preparation of readings, cases and other types of tasks, exercises or work, to get the most out of the sessions and achieve the objectives of the subject.

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.


Assessment

Continous Assessment Activities

Title Weighting Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
Deepening work Seminar Section A (group activity) 15% 0 0 1, 10, 3, 4, 8, 9, 13
Deepening work Seminar Section B (group activity) 15% 0 0 7
Evidences Section A Seminars (individual activty) 10% 0 0 1, 12, 6, 10, 2, 4, 8, 9, 13
Evidences Section B Seminars (individual) 10% 0 0 12, 8, 9
Test Section B (individual activity) 25% 0 0 12, 6, 2, 3, 5, 7, 8
Text Section A (individual activity) 25% 0 0 6, 10, 11, 2, 8

The evaluation of the course will be held throughout the academic year through the activities shown in the grid below: assistances and participation in seminars (20%), personal work (30%), exam (50%)

The continued assessment of the subject will be carried out throughout the academic year using the activities shown in the following grid.

The single assessment consists of delivering the individual evidence indicated in the Virtual Campus and carrying out the examination of both blocks on the same day the B-block test is scheduled.

Class attendance is mandatory: students must attend at least 80% of the classes, otherwise they will not be considered for evaluation. Attendance to both theoretical and practical classes will be controled.

The results of each of the assessment activities will be communicated to thestudents through the Moodle no longer than 20 working days from the due date. After the grades of each activity are communicated to the students, they can attend to the professors' office hours for any queries concerning the assessment up to 10 days after their publication. 

The final grade of the subject will be calculated by weighting the proposed evaluation activities, as indicated on the grid. In order to pass the subject, each of the evaluation activities it consists of will be approved with a minimum of 5. Students will be able to do a re-evaluation in case they have not passed any of the evidence of evaluation (within the school period and marked in the schedule). The final grade for this reevaluation will be approved or unapproved.
The dates of the different evaluation activities are shown in the following table:

 

Activity

Average Weight

Dates Group 61

Dates Group 62

Deepening work seminar section A (group activity)

15%

Seminari date

Seminari date

Deepening work seminar section B (group activity)

15%

Seminar date

Seminar date

Test Section A (individual activity)

25%

22/10/2024

18/10/2024

Test Section B (individual activity)

25%

03/12/2024

13/12/2024

Evidences Seminars Section A (individual activity)

10%

Each seminar

Each seminar

Evidences Seminars Section B (individual activity)

10%

Each seminar

Each seminar

Resubmission

 

28/01/2025

31/01/2025

 

To pass this course, the student should show a good general communicative competence, both orally and in writing and a good command of the language and communication language contained in the syllabus.

To pass this course, the student must show good general communicative competence, both orally and in writing, and a good command of the language or languages spoken in the teaching guide.

All the activities developed by the students must be oriented to achieve an inclusive and accessible society that allows advancing towards the full autonomy of people, avoiding discrimination and promoting equal opportunities for everyone. It will use inclusive language in accordance with the following document: https://www.uab.cat/doc/pistes-us-no-sexista-llenguatge

In all the activities (individual and in group) the linguistic correction, the writing and the formal aspects of presentation will be taken into account. Students must be able to express themselves fluently and correctly and must show a high degree of comprehension of academic texts. We remind you that, in the case of the Catalan language, in the 1st and 2nd year it is requested that the student has a linguistic competence equivalent to Level 1 for Teachers of Infant and Primary Education and that from the 3rd year of the Degree the student must have shown a competence equivalent to Level 2 for Teachers of Infant and Primary Education. See: http://www.uab.cat/web/els-estudis/-competencia-linguistica-1345698914384.html and "Normativa d'avaluació en els estudis de la UAB" http://mat.uab.cat/~seccio/documents/arxiu/Normativa_avaluacio.pdf). 

The same system will be applied for the recovery of the single evaluation as in the continuous evaluation.

Inaccordance with UAB regulations, plagiarism or copying of any individual or grouppaper will be penalised with a mark of 0 for that paper, without any possibility of a re-sit. During the completion of a paper or the individual exam in class, if the teacher has reason to believe that a student is trying to copy or s/he discovers any kind of non-authorised document or device, the student involved will obtain a mark of 0, without any possibility to re-sit. A paper or test will be consideredas plagiarism when a chunk of text of four words or longer authored by another person (another student, scholar, webpage, etc.) without citing the source according to academic norms. Further information available at: 

https://ddd.uab.cat/pub/recdoc/2016/145881/citrefapa_a2016.pdf

http://wuster.uab.es/web_argumenta_obert/unit_20/sot_2_01.html


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Conroy, M., McKnight, K., & Sutherland, K. (2019). Partnering with families of students at risk for emotional and behavioral disorders. In Family, school, and community partnerships for students with disabilities (pp. 57-69). Springer, Singapore.

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Software

For this subject, a technological device that can be connected to the Internet is indispensable.


Language list

Name Group Language Semester Turn
(SEM) Seminars 611 Catalan first semester morning-mixed
(SEM) Seminars 621 Catalan first semester afternoon
(TE) Theory 61 Catalan first semester morning-mixed
(TE) Theory 62 Catalan first semester afternoon