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- The approach of socioscientific issues through children’s literature: a survey about the importance given by pre-service teachersPublication . Almeida, António; Gonçalves, CarolinaThe approach of socioscientific issues, some of them controversial, has led teachers to look for educational resources that help them in this task. Children’s literature has been one of this resources, as several books have been incorporating these issues. Some emerging issues are those related to sexuality and parental reality as well as the ones addressing environmental themes.
- Outdoor education and interdisciplinarity: a connection between science and mother tonguePublication . Gonçalves, Carolina; Almeida, AntónioThe study plans of the courses for Primary School Teachers in the Lisbon Higher School of Education include a curricular unit designed "Projects of Curricular Integration between Science and Mother Tongue". Their main goal is to develop interdisciplinarity reflection, discussion and didactic proposals between these two subjects. In the final session of the unit, in the last two school years, a questionnaire about interdisciplinarity was administered to the 37 students that chose it, in order to identify, among other aspects, the advantages and potentialities of this type of knowledge articulation. Fourteen educational resources designed by the students to explore Nacional Tapada of Mafra were also analyzed. The results showed that the majority of the students tend to emphasize the importance of interdisciplinarity in promoting meaningful learning and in the perception that knowledge is interconnected. Concerning the educational resources, the students explore mainly scientific vocabulary and the use of description and expository text, regularly used in outdoor tasks.
- Integrated didactics: an example of a curriculum model enhancing knowledge crossingPublication . Gonçalves, Carolina; Almeida, António; Rodrigues, Margarida; G Dias, AlfredoIn this paper, we introduce an innovative course in the Portuguese Context, the Master's Course in “Integrated Didactics in Mother Tongue, Maths, Natural and Social Sciences”, taking place at the Lisbon School of Education and discussing in particular the results of the evaluation made by the students who attended the Curricular Unit - Integrated Didactics (CU-ID). This course was designed for in-service teachers of the first six years of schooling and intends to improve connections between different curriculum areas. In this paper, we start to present a few general ideas about curriculum development; to discuss the concept of integration; to present the principles and objectives of the course created as well as its structure; to describe the methodology used in the evaluation process of the above mentioned CU-ID. The results allow us to state that the students recognized, as positive features of the CU-ID, the presence in all sessions of two teachers simultaneously from different scientific areas, as well as invitations issued to specialists on the subject of integration and to other teachers that already promote forms of integration in schools. As negative features, students noted a lack of integrated purpose, applying simultaneously the four scientific areas of the course, and also indicated the need to be familiar with more models of integrated education. Consequently, the suggestions for improvement derived from these negative features. The students also considered that their evaluation process was correct, due to the fact that it was focused on the design of an integrated project for one of the school years already mentioned.