The Postgraduate Course in Literary Education and Literature for Children and Young People comes in response to the specialised training needed in the area and keenly felt on the ground: creches, kindergartens, primary and middle schools, school libraries and public libraries, free time activities and other educational spaces. In fact, the proliferation of children’s books allied to the recent government directives in the area of literary education are in contrast to the shortage of training courses for mediators in general and teachers in particular.

This postgraduate course allies a diverse set of approaches to literature for children and young people (genre, illustration, publishing…) to a practical component of experimenting with techniques for approaching this aesthetic product from an artistic, formative and affective point of view, thus making it an important means of training for all those who, aware of the power of reading, seek responses for bringing the book and its preferred reader together, not only from a reader and literacy perspective, but also from an active citizenship perspective.

This course meets all the conditions for recognition for the purposes of career progression for teachers under the terms of Article 54 of the ECD (kindergarten, primary, middle, secondary and vocational school teachers with at least five years of experience working as a teacher), by the Scientific and Pedagogical Council for Continuous Training (CCPFC) as a training course in the teaching area under the terms of D.L. No. 29/14, of 11 February.