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Solving STEM-relevant problems: A study with prospective primary school teachers
Morgado, Sofia; Leite, Laurinda; Dourado, Luís; Varela, PauloSolving a problem requires and promotes a diversity of competencies, which include conceptual knowledge, technical and methodological knowledge, and transversal competencies. Everyday STEM-relevant problems are contextualized, ill structured, and multidisciplinary in nature. By focusing on daily life issues, they promote students’ engagement in the problem-solving process and enable them to perceive how science...
Biology and geology teachers’ perspectives on environmental problems and positi...
Carvalho, Luísa; Dourado, LuísCurrent global concerns invite reflection on which qualities, characteristics, or capacities should be prioritised in ecosystems so that judgements of moral relevance lead to actions, policies, and programmes whose impacts are environmentally sustainable. Regarding the importance of teachers’ role in education, as agents of change, it was considered pertinent to investigate the perceptions of Portuguese Biology...
Biology and geology teachers and ecoethics education: From the guidelines and t...
Carvalho, Luísa; Dourado, LuísEcoethics studies the moral relationship among human beings, the environment and its non-human components, whereas education for ecoethics involves a reflexion on how to live, how to make environmental choices and how to think about the consequences of human activities. To promote this reflexion, teachers must be able to teach subjects related to ecoethics, having adequate teacher training in the field. Thus, i...
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Leite, Laurinda; Dourado, Luís[Excerto] Um dos objetivos do desenvolvimento sustentável (ODS) que a Organização das Nações Unidas (ONU) estabeleceu, em 2015, como devendo ser alcançado até 2030, é garantir o acesso à educação inclusiva, de qualidade e equitativa, e promover oportunidades de aprendizagem ao longo da vida para todos (ODS 4).
Integrando a contextualização e a resolução de problemas para educar em ciência...
Dourado, Luís; Leite, Laurinda; Morgado, Sofia[Excerto] Introdução A afirmação de que a educação é um direito de todos os cidadãos tornou-se um lugar comum, em parte devido ao fato de as metas de desenvolvimento sustentável (UN, 2015) reconhecerem esse direito. No entanto, a meta quatro realça o fato de, não só dever ser facultada educação a todos os cidadãos, mas de essa educação dever ser uma educação de qualidade articulada com o ambiente em que os alun...
Higher education students’ perceptions of issues related to Covid-19: a study o...
Leite, Laurinda; Dourado, Luís; Mapatse, Maria Verónica; Arão, José; Moraes, Jerusa; Castellar, SôniaIn early 2020, a pandemic caused by the new coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 affected the world and all countries had to adopt important measures to face a disease named COVID-19. This paper aims at investigating the perceptions about key issues related to COVID-19 held by students attending the third year of three different areas of undergraduate studies at higher education institutions of three Portuguese-speaking coun...
Conceptions of Portuguese science teachers on the concept of ecoethics
Carvalho, Luísa Maria dos Santos; Dourado, Luís; Varandas, Maria JoséEcoethics is a philosophical subject that studies the moral relationship of human beings concerning the environment and its non-human components. Education for ecoethics addresses issues of how to live, how to make environmental choices, and how to think about the consequences of human activities. It is important that, firstly, the concept of ecoethics is clear to all involved, including teachers and students. ...
Education knowledge transfer: Report on in-school placements needs and possibil...
Carvalho, José António Brandão; Morante, M. Carmen Fernández; Viseu, Floriano; Dourado, Luís; Lencastre, José Alberto; Osório, António JoséThe WP2 of the EKT project aimed at describing how in-school placement (ISP) is organised and developed in the initial teacher education in the countries participating in the EKT project (Austria, England, Ireland, Portugal and Spain). In order to achieve this goal, two main pr ocedures were developed: 1. The characterization of national ISP systems, based on the analysis of institutional documentation (legisla...
Teaching for the contextualised learning of science: a checklist-based science ...
Morgado, Sofia; Leite, Laurinda; Dourado, LuísContextualised learning is required for learners to master successfully the ‘big ideas’ of science and to perceive the relevance of science education. Science curricula can either foster or impair teaching for contextualised learning depending on what science they plan to be taught and the way they recommend this to be done. This paper presents an analysis of the Portuguese science curriculum that aims at ascer...
Os professores portugueses de ciências face à impossibilidade de usarem o labor...
Dourado, Luís; Nunes, Inês; Leite, LaurindaNo início de 2020, a pandemia COVID-19 atingiu o mundo e, de repente, as pessoas tive-ram que mudar a sua forma de viver, de se relacionar e de trabalhar. O confinamento impediu o funcionamento das escolas, mas logo se percebeu que as aulas não podiam parar, sobretudo pelo bem da saúde mental dos alunos. Isso representou um desafio pa-ra os professores: forçou-os a envolverem-se no ensino a distância, algo novo...