Curriculum, Teaching and Evaluation

Objectives

This program has the following learning outcomes:

1) Identify and define curriculum theories;

2) Identify practices of curricular differentiation from a historical perspective and its relation with educational inequalities or equity;

3) Apply models of curricular development at the macro, meso and micro levels;

4) Analyze, evaluate and design curricular policies in a comparative perspective, at the macro (national and international policies), meso (regional and municipal policies) and micro (local policies and practices and school dynamics) scales of intervention;

5) Apply models of evaluation of curriculum development at the macro, meso and micro levels;

General characterization

Code

02103010

Credits

5.0

Responsible teacher

Sílvia Maria Cândido de Almeida

Hours

Weekly - 3

Total - 140

Teaching language

Portuguese

Prerequisites

Available soon

Bibliography

Bernstein, B. (2000). Pedagogy, symbolic control and identity: Theory, research, critique. Rowman & Littlefield.


Bernstein, B. (1990). Class, codes and control: The structuring of pedagogic discourse, vol. iv. Routledge.


Pelletier, G. (Org.) (2001). Autonomie et décentralisation en éducation: entre projet et évaluation. AFIDES.


Stufflebeam, D. L. & Coryn, C. L. (2014). Evaluation theory, models, and applications (2nd Edition). Jossey-Bass.


Young, M. (1998). The Curriculum of the Future. From the ‘New Sociology of Education’ to a Critical Theory of Learning. Falmer.

Teaching method

Classes are organized into theoretical and practical sessions. Theoretical sessions are oriented towards the exposure of the syllabus of the curricular unit, associated with audiovisual resources and articulated with questioning in order to facilitate students' critical participation. Practical classes operate in a flipped classroom format, supported by previously distributed texts. These classes are based on active techniques, to facilitate the mobilization of knowledge acquired in theoretical classes. Classes are oriented towards debate and problem solving, individually or in groups, enabling theoretical and methodological questioning, as well as cooperative learning.

Evaluation method

1. Oral presentation/discussion, in a group (20%), of a text proposed in the lesson planning and respective reading sheet, in a group (20%);
2. A final, individual research work on the application of a curricular evaluation model (60%).

Subject matter

1. Curriculum or Curriculum Theories:

1.2 What is the curriculum?

1.2.1 Curriculum theories: technical, practical and critical theories

1.2.2 Sociology of the curriculum. Young: curriculum as fact” and “curriculum as practice”

1.3 Bernstein: pedagogical discourse theory – Curriculum assessment model

1.4 Socio-historical perspective of the curriculum and educational inequalities

1.5 Curricular integration: the Portuguese case

 

2.Curriculum development: concept and levels

2.1 Concept of curriculum development and levels

2.2 Levels of curriculum development

2.2.1 Macro level: Policies of curricular autonomy: history, current affairs

2.2.2 Influence of international policies

2.2.3 Meso level: school institution projects

2.2.4 Micro level: curricular action

 

3. Curriculum development: Assessment

3.1 Regulation and verification of student learning

3.2 Regulation of the curriculum development process

3.3 Assessment model: the CIPP Evolution

3.3.1 Examples of assessments

Programs

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