Collaborative work on curricular policies in Portugal in the transition of centuries

Authors

  • Carlinda Leite Centro de Investigação e Intervenção Educativas (CIIE), Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação da Universidade do Porto (FPCEUP)
  • Carmem Lúcia Lascano Pinto Instituto Federal Sul-rio-grandense – IFSul

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4013/edu.2015.192.6907

Abstract

This paper is focused on teacher’s collaborative work. Its main objective is to compare public policies principles in two different phases of the Portuguese educational system. The study, which follows a qualitative orientation, collected data from interviews performed on four teachers and a Porto school principle, as well from two public Portuguese university professors. Their discourses were analysed through content analyses. The study allowed the conclusion that, even though collaborative work is valued, the current policies are preventing it. Teacher’s intensive workload and the pressure resulting from the national and international evaluation are generating a decrease in collaborative work that was stimulated by policies at the end of the 20th century. Nowadays, teachers are working with the students in order to achieve fast academic results.

Keywords: collaborative work, primary and secondary education, teaching work intensification, evaluation formats, public policies.

Author Biographies

Carlinda Leite, Centro de Investigação e Intervenção Educativas (CIIE), Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação da Universidade do Porto (FPCEUP)

Carlinda Leite, Professora Catedrática da Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação da Universidade do Porto (FPCEUP), investigadora do Núcleo Escola, Currículo e Formação de Identidades (ECFI) do Centro de Investigação e Intervenção Educativas (CIIE) da FPCEUP.

Carmem Lúcia Lascano Pinto, Instituto Federal Sul-rio-grandense – IFSul

Doutora em Educação

Professora do Instituto Federal Sul-rio-grandense – IFSul, Brasil.

Líder do grupo de Pesquisas FORMARE

Coordenadora do Curso de Pós-graduação Lato Sensu em Educação Profissional com Habilitação para a Docência do IFSul.

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Published

2015-04-27

Issue

Vol. 19 No. 2 (2015): May/August

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