Educational Administration and Regulation

Code: PED13928M

6 ECTS

Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours

Scientific Area: Education Sciences

Teaching languages: Portuguese

Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese

Regime de Frequência: Presencial

Sustainable Development Goals

Educação de qualidade - Assegurar a educação inclusiva, e equitativa e de qualidade, e promover oportunidades de aprendizagem ao longo da vida para todos.

Igualdade de género - Alcançar a igualdade de gênero e empoderar todas as mulheres e meninas.

Trabalho digno e crescimento económico - Promover o crescimento económico sustentado, inclusivo e sustentável, emprego pleno e produtivo, e trabalho decente para todos.

Reduzir as desigualdades - Reduzir as desigualdades dentro dos países e entre eles.

Cidades e comunidades sustentáveis - Tornar as cidades e os assentamentos humanos inclusivos, seguros, resilientes e sustentáveis.

Paz, justiça e instituições eficazes - Paz, justiça e instituições eficazes promover sociedades pacíficas e inclusivas par ao desenvolvimento sustentável, proporcionar o acesso à justiça para todos e construir instituições eficazes, responsáveis
e inclusivas em todos os níveis.

Learning Goals

At the end of this course the student should be able to:
- Identify the ideas and guiding principles of the education system
- Analyze the Basic Law on Education for the goals of school education, general structure, organizational
models and school management
- Discuss the issue of territorial decentralization of competencies and its implications for the
administration and school organization model
- Train for the use of monitoring devices and school regulation and interpret indicators systems
- Set goals, measurement indicators and means of verification based on the calculation of the expected
value in similar organizational contexts
- Evaluate the effectiveness of organizational arrangements and establish school improvement action
plans

1-Object of study of Educational Administration and Regulation
2-Educational system, organization and structures
-The constitutional ideology and guiding principles
-The Educational System Act as structuring of the referential system of education and teaching.
Educational aims and organizational and pedagogical implications
3- Educational administration and territorial distribution of competences
- Administrative organization systems
-Territorialization and municipalization of education
4- Educational policies, autonomy and development of school
-School Organizations, structures and configurations
- Education, contextual factors and educational equity
5- Knowledge and school regulation: managing information as a resource
- The ranking and benchmarking as a means of guidance and school governance
- Indicators systems configuration and school performance analysis
- Models for calculating the expected value and school effectiveness in similar organizational context

Teaching Methods

The teaching methodologies use interpretative exhibition strategies involving students in the analysis of
scenarios from texts, documents, media, videos and the different methods of work as interactive
exhibition, group discussions, case studies, analysis and submission of comments, conducting classroom
activities and work related to the contents in the study. Regular attendance is compulsory the student's
presence in 80% of the sessions witness. Students can choose either to perform continuous evaluation or
exam. Continuous evaluation comprises of 5 classroom work of application of thematic analyzed, with the
same weight each. The exam consists of one final written test.