Curricular Development

Code: PED02481L

6 ECTS

Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours

Scientific Area: Education Sciences

Teaching languages: Portuguese

Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese, English

Regime de Frequência: Presencial

Sustainable Development Goals

3. Saúde de qualidade - Assegurar uma vida saudável e promover o bem-estar para todos, em todas as idades.

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

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

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

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

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

Learning Goals

1. Reflect on the concept of curriculum, their historical evolution and contemporary perspectives;
Further develop the network in the field of conceptual design, organization and curriculum development;
2. List the different understandings of curriculum with their consequences in practice in the management of curriculum and learning environments;
3. Reflecting on the role of the professional science education as an agent of construction and curriculum development;
4. Designing (with reasons, developing and evaluating) proposed curriculum at different levels: school, class, school, community, etc.).

1. The essential conceptual network (s) theories of the curriculum;
2. The curriculum development process and its anchoring in the learning process;
3. The basic principles of curriculum development;
4. Planning tasks;
5. The regulatory role of assessment in learning and curriculum development;
6. The school and as basic units of curriculum development and practice;
7. The diversification and flexible management of the curriculum;
8. The curriculum projects;
9. Personal management skills of learning how to cross-curricular purpose.

Teaching Methods

The methodological approach will build on the joint, active and complementary face moments between the provision of information and autonomous activity (individual or group) the students duly accompanied by the teacher. The use of real case studies will be privileged. The involvement of students in research initiatives and academic events or otherwise directly related to the scope of the course.
The process of learning evaluation will take into account the quality and regularity of the work produced by students and result in the provision of written and / or the carrying out of practical nature to be determined, during term time.