O papel da investigação educacional nos cursos de formação inicial de professores

• Autor(a) principal: Santos, Paulo Jorge
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Tipo de documento: Livro
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://hdl.handle.net/10216/146552

A growing number of studies have advocated the importance of research-based education in the degrees that qualify graduates professionally for teaching. This option is based on several perspectives, particularly the training of teachers as critical consumers of research in their area of professional activity. There is also a need to develop investigative attitudes and practices regarding their own professional performance, which they should question and adjust regularly, preferably within a collective effort for change. In Portugal, under the Bologna process, a Master's degree in teaching is required to teach professionally since 2007, after completing an undergraduate degree in the relevant area. This change has reinforced the need to anchor the practice of supervised teaching, which takes place in the second year of the Master's degree, adopting a research-based approach. Thus, the theoretical grounding of educational interventions is urgently required, as well as the need to collect evidence of their impact on student learning. However, the process through which this goal can be achieved was not included initially in the applicable legislation, and may be subject to several possible alternatives at the level of curriculum development and organisation. This paper describes the institutional options that have been adopted in the Master's in teaching at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto. These options include the creation of a core subject common to the different Master's degrees in which students, organised into groups, develop a research project over the course of a semester. The characteristics of this model are analyzed and a reflection on it is presented.