teaching / ensino
teaching / ensino
teacher
Fall 2020.
Amidst the Covid-19 pandemic, I joined Tutoria Enem at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF). This is a 'cursinho popular,' a free preparatory course designed to help working-class and low-income high school students prepare for the 'vestibular' (selection exams for Brazilian universities). The initiative was coordinated by Professor Rosilene de Oliveira Pereira from UFJF. I taught the following classes:
Philosophy: Ethical theories. [In Portuguese]
Sociology: Welfare state; Citinzenship and Brazil's Constitution; Social Stratification. [In Portuguese]
teaching assistant
As a teaching assistant, I've consistently gone above and beyond my assigned duties. Whenever possible, I've discussed and suggested improvements to my professors' syllabi, offered additional classes, and created supplementary materials. This includes translating materials into Portuguese and drafting methodological notes on academic activities. Some of these materials can be found below.
Welfare Economics (ECN 044), Spring, 2021 [In Portuguese], Professor Sibelle Diniz (Faculty of Economics)
complementary material:
translations to Portuguese (complementary materials):
Arrow (1982), Why People Go Hungry ["Por que as pessoas passam fome"]
Hidalgo (2017), Not Quite Rational Man ["Um homem nem tão racional"]
Hausman & McPherson (2006), Preference Satisfaction and Pareto Efficiency in Economic Analysis, Moral Philosophy, and Public Policy ["Satisfação de Preferências e Eficiência de Pareto"]
Atkinson (1987), Original Sen ["O Sen Original"]
Maskin & Sen (2017), The Rules of the Game: A New Electoral System ["As Regras do Jogo"]
Alexandrova (2017), Constructs of Well-Being across Sciences, in A Philosophy for Sciences of Well-Being ["O Bem-estar em diferentes ciências"]
Bucelli et al. (2019), Excerpts from Understanding the Relationship Between Poverty and Inequality: Overview Report.
Philosophy of Social Science Course (DIG FIL 035), Fall 2020 [In Portuguese], Professor Ivan Domingues (Departament of Philosophy)
complementary material:
classes taught:
on Marx and Lévi-Strauss;
presenting "Natural sciences and sciences of man," by Gilles-Gaston Granger;
how to prepare a handout (on "Natural sciences and sciences of man," by Gilles-Gaston Granger);
presenting "Challenges of building the human sciences," by Ivan Domingues;
translations to Portuguese:
"Ethic and emic" entry (from Alan Barnard in Barnar & Spencer (1996), Encyclopedia of social and cultural anthropology)
On Rigor in Science ["Sobre o Rigor na Ciência," by Jorge Luis Borges (1946)]
Daniel Little (2008), What is hermeneutic explanation [“O que é uma explicação hermenêutica”]
Excerpts from Segal (2004), Myth – A Very Short Introduction (with scientific perspectives on myth from Tylor, Lévy-Bruhl, Malinowski, Lévi-Strauss, Horton, Popper and Bultmann, and myths and rituals according to Smith
"belief" from Abbagnano (2012), Dicionário de Filosofia
"belief", "causal nexus", "explanation", from Blackburn's Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy
"evidence", "Clifford [ethics of belief]", "explanation", "teleology", from The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy
Avoiding Plagiarism section of Harvard's Guide to Using Sources
Philosophy of Science Course (FIL 176 / FIL 276), Spring 2020 [In Portuguese], Professor Antônio Coelho (Departament of Philosophy)
Photo: intersection in the Sagrada Família neighborhood.