Step by Step inside the Project - A study on the school intelligence

Author(s):

Maria Isabel Candeias

Conference:

ECER 2008

Network:

16. ICT in Education and Training

Format:

Poster

Session Information

MC_Poster, Poster Session; Main Conference

All Poster are presented in the two Poster Sessions of ECER 2008: - 11 September 12.15 - 13.15 and - 12 September 12.15 - 13.15

Time:

2008-09-11

12:15-13:15

Room:

Poster Exhibition Area

Chair:

Contribution

The goal of this research is to identify the relationship among three different School purposes: the Intelligence of school, the Learning which it carries out, and the Change which it promotes as a response to the demands of student development. The study also tries to understand how the School Project is sustained in this trilogy. In a time when schools face the need to respond to the challenges of innovation through the construction of a collective project, which implies individual and groups changes in their concepts and practices, the study seeks to understand what are the striving demands teachers are confronted with as professionals who are responsible for the organizational management and the dynamic construction of the curriculum.

Method

Using a methodology with ethnographic characteristics, this research sets out to analyse and interpret the school’s efforts to encounter the logics of thinking and the action involved in the construction, development and evaluation of curricular projects at different levels.

Expected Outcomes

This research identifies the dimensions of the School's Intelligence, as well as how they are revealed and how they influence the learning process and the tendencies of change within the school itself.

References

Alonso, Luisa & Candeias, Isabel. (2004)."The Practicum in the Primary Teacher-Training in Portugal". In Renate Seebauer (Ed.). Bridges: From Theory to Practice – Study material, Reports. Authentic – Topical – Multilingual. Brno: Paido –Verlags. Candeias, Isabel (2007). Step by Step inside the Project - A study on the school intelligence. Ph.D. Thesis. Braga: Universidade do Minho: Instituto de Estudos da Criança. Gardner, Howard (1993). Frames of mind: the theory of multiple intelligen-ces. New York: Basic Books. MacGilchrist, Barbara, Myers, Kate & Reed, Jane (1997). The intelligent school. London: Paul Chapman. Sternberg, Robert & Jordan, Jennifer (2005). A Handbook of Wisdom: Psychological Perspectives. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Author Information

Maria Isabel Candeias

University of Minho

Child Studies Institute

Braga

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