Saberes essenciais para o ensino das ciências. Leituras das instituições portuguesas formadoras de professores dos 1.º e 2.º Ciclos do Ensino Básico

• Autor(a) principal: Sá, Patrícia
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Outros Autores: Paixão, Maria de Fátima
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.34624/id.v5i3.4515

The present study is part of a project entitled “Basic Knowledge to all citizens - readings and practices of Portuguese institutions responsible for the Basic Education teachers’ training”. This project had as one of its main purposes to identify and characterize the readings that Portuguese institutions responsible for the training of Basic Education teachers have of the defined principles, presented in major international reference documents, for curriculum reconceptualization based on basic knowledge (understood as foundational competencies). Towards achieving the purpose identified in the research mentioned above, it was necessary to undertake a thorough documents analysis in order to support the development of an instrument that allowed the content analysis of the Curricular Units’ programmes submitted to the General Directorate of Higher Education by the public institutions responsible for the Basic Education teachers’ training. This instrument was subsequently validated and applied in the analysis of the study plans that constituted the research corpus. This research revealed that the considered Curricular Units’ programmes include references both to transversal competencies, as well as to specific competencies for science education. These are precisely the last ones that are more explicitly highlighted in the Curricular Units’ programmes considered in this study.