Understanding children and youngsters’ participation as a key dimension in educational innovation processes assumes the evolution from a conceptualisation of learners as beneficiaries to another which sees them as partners within that innovation and active individuals, agents of the teaching-learning-evaluation process. The research was centred on this topic, focusing on secondary education, within the scope of...
Este estudo está focado na análise do modo de produção da exclusão escolar que subjaz e provoca o abandono escolar precoce, em 20 escolas da região do Porto, em Portugal, tendo por base o estudo qualitativo e documental dos “processos escolares individuais” de 25 jovens, nascidos entre 1996 e 2003, que abandonaram a escola e se encontram em situação de exclusão social. Foi construída uma grelha de caracterizaçã...
The studies published in the field of educational innovation have been seeking to diffuse experiences rather than to understand its complexity. In general, they use quality indicators to describe educational experiences, but generally do not anchor in solid theoretical frameworks upon the concept of innovation in education. On the other hand, the rhetoric of innovation seems to be part of the predominant educat...
This short essay on the connection between the Fratelli Tutti Encyclical, written by Pope Francis in 2020, and pedagogy is based on my involvement in the socio-educational project Arco Maior and the study about it I have been conducting for the past few years. This alternative educational scheme (www.arcomaior.pt) welcomes teenagers who have left school without having completed mandatory education, following a ...