apresentação na european conference on curriculum studies
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The Vocational Areas in the curriculum of classes with alternative curricula
Maria da Glória SantosUniversidade Aberta
Maria Ivone GasparUniversidade Aberta
How to avoid exclusion and social marginalization?
How to ensure that everyone who attends school
will have access to quality education?
This presentation is based on a research focused on the syllabus of two classes, in the 3rd cycle. These have Alternative Curricula Pathways and are part of a school with 2nd and 3rd cycles. They have as determinant focus the vocational areas that are part of such a curriculum.
The implementation of alternative curricula will allow:
• the implementation of measures able to fulfill the ideal of educational equality
• the means to fight against social exclusion
• an innovative solution
• the search for solutions adapted to the diversity of the cases that cannot be integrated in regular education
We defend that
the main objective of alternative curricula is to adjust education to those students, giving schools flexibility to organize and adequate the curricula according to
the students’ difficulties
We assume the curriculum
in its plan dimension, it integrates the experiments so as to develop the project leading it to a process
of the pedagogical praxis reconstruction
Qualitative methodology-descriptive
Methodology
case-study
Five teachers
Empirical study
Twenty two students that compose the two Alternative Curriculum Pathways classes
Twenty seven semi-structured script-guided interviews
research objectives
to know the opinion of those directly involved in this process
to know if these fields appeal to students
Results
• Students and teachers were excited with the implemented project, vocational areas were an added-value
• The high motivation, built upon the results obtained with students
• The fields existing at the school seem to appeal to students
• The affective relation between teachers and students, which seemed to be very relevant for the success of this project
Alternative curricula
advantages
freedom for the teachers/class council
to design and implement projects
with a curricular dimension adapted to
the students’ skills and needs
a way for active and motivating
learning, which will foster interest in
school
the possibility of new learning
options for the students
an effective way to fight against
school failure and drop-out
Thank youvery much!