Educational Policies, Organization and Regulation

Code: PED12652D

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

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

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.

Redução das 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.

Learning Goals

Privileging an approach to educational policy as a collective construction of actors in interaction, the botton-up dynamics of modes of pedagogical organization and regulation as negotiation processes and compromise between the various institutional agents and actors, at the end of the unit the student should be able to:
- To problematize the processes of production, dissemination and appropriation of knowledge and how they structure the formulation and regulation of educational policies at different scales and contexts;
- Evaluate the effects of curricular, pedagogical and organizational dynamics on school performance, infer of its adequacy and effectiveness and test new solutions based on contextualized knowledge.

I. Educational policies and regulation
1 . Theoretical perspectives for the study of public policies
2 . Educational policies and school governance
3. The regulation of education in Portugal: from the "Dictatorship Regime" to "Democracy"
4. School networks and modes of regulation of the educational system
5. The emergence of the local and the new ways of regulating educational policies

II. Educational system and new sociopolitical and organizational approaches
1. Political, organizational and professional conditions for promoting school success: synthesis essays
2. Curricular and pedagogical organization of the school: curricular and organizational flexibility; models of student and teacher organization and school time.
3. Definition of strategies and development of evidence-based school practices
4. The as unit of analysis - compositional structure, pedagogical dynamics and performance

Teaching Methods

The teaching methodologies use strategies to provide thematic documents and interpretive exposition, involving and challenging students in the analysis of scenarios from texts, documents, videographic supports and to different working modalities such as research, interactive exhibition, group discussions, case studies, analysis and presentation of comments, performance of activities in or outside of it related to the contents covered. The evaluation is done in 2 moments: in the first moment the students will make a presentation in class, in a group, and in a second an individual essay. The first moment corresponds to 20% of the final mark, while the second corresponds to 70%, the remaining 10% resulting from participation in classes.