Duration: 2017 – 2018
Principal Researcher
António Ribeiro
Team Members
Agostinho Ribeiro
Ana Capelo
Ana Patrícia Martins
Anabela Novais
António Ribeiro (IR)
Cristiana Mendes
Helena Margarida Gomes
João Nunes
Lucimara Santos
Luís Menezes
Maria Cristina Gomes
Maria Dalila Rodrigues
Maria Isabel Abrantes
Maria João Silva
Maria Paula Carvalho
Soeli Monte Blanco
Institutional and Enterprise Partners
Escola Superior de Educação de lisboa-Portugal/Universidade Estadual de Santa Catarina-Brasil/Museu Nacional Grão Vasco-Portugal
Funding
IPV/CGD
This project aims to identify, characterize, and share initiatives developed within Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) teacher training programs. These initiatives are designed to enhance the promotion of planning, implementation, and evaluation skills in interdisciplinary practices (IPs), including those that encourage connections with both formal and informal contexts. Numerous studies (1,2,3) Emphasize the importance of promoting IPs in teacher training HEIs, as a means for these professionals to explore their academic skills in the best and most comprehensive way possible, contributing to the improvement of the quality of teaching and learning processes.
This research project aims to encompass Portuguese HEIs, such as the School of Education (ESE) in Viseu, and Brazilian institutions, such as the State University of Santa Catarina, that offer teacher training courses promoting IPs. The perspective is that international cooperation will enrich the knowledge about such practices. The project also intends to establish partnerships with public institutions of a cultural nature (IPCC) (4), as an enriching avenue for interdisciplinary articulation. To achieve its proposed objectives, the project is fundamentally based on a qualitative methodology.
omplemented by quantitative methods. Taking as a starting point some initiatives in the training of education professionals and interdisciplinary research, which have been developed by members of the research team, the project will consist of three phases (Phase I, II, and III).
PHASE I will involve the conceptual and terminological clarification of terms related to and/or associated with IPs.
PHASE II will involve the monitoring of initiatives related to the planning, implementation, and evaluation of IPs.
PHASE III aims to gather, disseminate, and facilitate sustained and ongoing reflection on best practices in interdisciplinary education, through the establishment of a network association of researchers and professors from HEIs. This association will propose recommendations for innovation and/or adjustment of such practices, combining research, training, and education.
In summary, this project represents a unique opportunity to gather and share, in a context of national and international cooperation, IPs developed in HEIs, strengthening the relationships between researchers and implementers of both formal and informal practices. It is also expected that the knowledge produced will serve as a background and stimulus for other interdisciplinary projects, both within and outside the same HEI.
1 http://pendientedemigracion.ucm.es/info/eurohum/docs/dea.pdf
2 http://www.palgrave-journals.com/articles/palcomms20151
3 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/aehe.3502/epdf
4 http://www.patrimoniocultural.pt/pt/museus-e-monumentos/rede-portuguesa/m/museu-grao-vasco/