News Express: Portuguese minister of education shares insight on humanities education with UM faculty and students
新聞快訊：葡萄牙教育部長與澳大師生探討人文教育
澳大人文學院舉辦“鏡海人文論壇”
UM’s Faculty of Arts and Humanities holds the Macao Humanities Forum
葡萄牙教育部長與澳大師生探討人文教育
澳門大學人文學院舉辦“鏡海人文論壇”，由葡萄牙教育部長暨里斯本新大學語言學講座教授João Costa以 “21世紀人文教育——葡萄牙經驗＂為題發表演講，吸引眾多師生線上線下同步參加。
論壇上，澳大人文學院助理院長鄺耀基介紹了澳門和葡萄牙的緊密聯繫和深厚友誼；葡文系主任João Veloso簡述了Costa教授在語言學界及教育學界的傑出貢獻。
演講圍繞“語言學如何促進人文教育”這一話題展開。João Costa首先講述目前世界教育體系所面臨的新挑戰，如科技與資訊的發展，並分析氣候變化等當下熱門教育議題，提出當今人文教育必須以包容和平等作為重要任務，以回應學生多元背景的新常態。
隨後，João Costa從語言意識在學校教育中的優勢切入，強調語言學為教育學提供新洞見，同時語言學家扮演著關鍵角色，能為中小學老師及管理者的課程設計提供有力的理論支撐。他也講述語言習得方法如何滿足教育系統的不同需求，以及展望語言學的未來研究。演講後，一眾與會者就論壇主題與João Costa進行深入交流，氣氛熱烈。
“鏡海人文論壇”每年邀請不同研究領域的知名人文學者與澳門師生分享前沿研究成果，是次論壇為2022／2023學年第三講。
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Portuguese minister of education shares insight on humanities education with UM faculty and students
The University of Macau (UM) Faculty of Arts and Humanities (FAH) recently held the Macao Humanities Forum. The event featured João Costa, minister of education of Portugal and chair professor of linguistics at NOVA University Lisbon, who delivered a lecture titled ‘Arts and Humanities Education in the 21st Century—The Portugal Experience’. Involving both online and in-person elements, the lecture attracted many faculty members and students.
At the forum, Joaquim Kuong, assistant dean of the FAH, discussed the strong ties and friendship between Macao and Portugal. João Veloso, head of the Department of Portuguese, highlighted Prof Costa’s outstanding contributions to the fields of linguistics and education.
The lecture placed an emphasis on how linguistics can promote arts and humanities education in the 21st century. Prof Costa began by reviewing the new challenges facing the world’s education systems, such as the development of information technology, and giving an overview of current hot topics in education, including climate change. According to him, humanities education must factor in inclusiveness and equity considering the fact that students today come from diverse backgrounds.
From the perspective of the advantage of language awareness in school education, Prof Costa discussed the new insights provided by linguistics to inform decision making in education, and pointed out that linguists play a key role in curriculum design at primary and secondary schools with their strong theoretical foundation. He also talked about how recent approaches to language acquisition can meet the different needs of education systems and explored the future of linguistics studies. After the lecture, faculty members and students, as well as online participants, had an in-depth discussion with the speaker.
The Macao Humanities Forum aims to provide a platform for world-renowned scholars from different humanities fields to share their latest research results with the UM community and local teachers and students. This was the third lecture of the forum in the 2022/2023 academic year.
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https://www.um.edu.mo/news-and-press-releases/press-release/detail/55640/