Teaching and learning sociology in distinct areas of the portuguese higher education system

• Catarina Egreja ^[1]
  1. [1] Instituto Universitário de Lisboa

     Instituto Universitário de Lisboa

     Socorro, Portugal

     
• Localización: Proceedings of the International Congress on Interdisciplinarity in Social and Human Sciences.5th - 6th May 2016 / coord. por Saul Neves de Jesus, Patrícia Pinto, 2016, ISBN 978-989-8472-82-3, págs. 602-615
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In recent decades, sociology has gained a lot of importance in both the higher education and research level, in Portugal. This growth, along with a gain in reputation, is found not only within the social sciences, but also in other areas of knowledge, fostering multidisciplinary scientific production. At the education level - not the teaching of sociology as a major training field, but its mobilization by graduations of other training areas in higher education - the intervention is often performed through ‘specialized sociologies’. It is the goal of this paper to present a few results of three steps in a doctoral research: first, the listing of the Portuguese higher education undergraduate programs that provide one or more curricular units in the area of Sociology (concerning the 2013/2014 academic year); second, in order to understand how the discipline stands within the general scope of the undergraduate program and what its usefulness is - both planned, and perceived -, pairs of coordinators / sociology teachers’ were interviewed; finally, an online survey was applied to students taking these undergraduate programs, seeking to understand to what extent they see value in sociology, both in their training as well as in their future.