Class Social and Educational Change Theories

This CU (or module) addresses the issues of social change and educational change, which are fundamental for master's students to know the difficulties and obstacles as well as the demands and the processes that mark the processes of change. Without this knowledge, it will not be possible to ensure that each professional assumes himself as the protagonist of the necessary organizational and pedagogical changes in a changing world.

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Theme 1. The challenges of today's societies. The Global and the Local: "Living together". Theme 2. Thinking about social change. An introduction and some themes Theme 3. School and society: production and reproduction of the conditions of change.  The school in the construction of the modern nation-state. School model and ‘school grammar’ Theme 4. The role of conflict and consensus in processes of change Theme 5. The New School movement and critical and emancipatory pedagogies: Dewey, Freinet and Freire ¿Theme 6. The utopia of education as a project of social and cognitive justice. The debates and projects in conflict

- Presentation of thematic lines in a synthetic and questioning way,seeking to illustrate the issues addressed in space,time and in situations known by participants. - Diversity of pedagogical supports; - University pedagogy based on adult pedagogies, explaining the representations and experiences of the participants. Interactive sessions; - Individual readings and reading sheets, to be performed during the module (50%); - Group approach to partial themes, to be carried out during the module; - Informed debates based on the work bibliography distributed during the module, with the presentation of group analyses, with final systematization by the teacher; - Personal summaries (of a critical nature) on the work topics to be carried out and delivered at the end of the module (50%); - Self-assessment and final assessment of the module; - The assessment is based on works carried out during the module as well as on the individual final synthesis.

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