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The first colloquium of the thematic cycle Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, organised by OP.Edu – Observatory for Education and Training Policies, in collaboration with ESEL-IPLUSO – IPLUSO’s School of Education, on the theme Pedagogical Innovation: Approaches, Practices and Challenges. will be held on Wednesday 26 March 2025, from 15.30 to 18.30, with online broadcasting.

Pedagogical innovation is a situated, multidimensional and intentional process of designing, developing and evaluating changes in educational practices. This seminar will present different pedagogical experiences and approaches. It will also critically analyse the different challenges posed by the relationship between pedagogical innovation and a transformative vision of education and school, capable of simultaneously contributing to the creation of relevant learning, inclusion and teachers’ reflection and professional development.

In partnership with the António Sérgio Training Centre (CFEAS), this event is certified for participants from Portugal as an ACD in accordance with Order 5741/2015 of 29 May, for the purposes of career development in teaching – Early Childhood Educators, Primary and Secondary School Teachers and Special Education Teachers.

Those interested in obtaining this certification must register at this link: https://www.cfantoniosergio.edu.pt/centro/index.php/

PROGRAMME

15h30 – Opening | Ana Maria Seixas (OP.Edu-CES, Faculdade de Psicologia e Ciências da Educação da Universidade de Coimbra) e Teresa Teixeira Lopo (OP.Edu-CeiED, Universidade Lusófona).

15h45 – Pedagogical innovation in schools: a framework | Flávia Vieira, Institute of Education at the University of Minho, President of the Specialised Commission “Pedagogical Innovation in Schools” of the National Education Council.

16h15 – Some questions to ask about innovation in schools | Daniel Bart, University of Toulouse 2 Jean Jaurès, where he carries out research dedicated to the critical analysis of school assessment practices and models.

16h45 – An Institute “at the margins” for inclusive science education | Gérald Peyroche Director of the Villebon – Georges Charpak Institute, which carries out a mission of general interest dedicated to the challenges of inclusion and pedagogical transformation in the teaching/learning of science and technology.

17H15 – The ATHENE project: the contribution of citizen science to pedagogical innovation | Rita Campos and Cláudia Pato de Carvalho, Researchers at CES – Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra. They coordinate the ATHENE project – Citizen Science as a methodology for developing competences in children and young people, in which students, teachers and researchers work together on curriculum content based on the principles of citizen social science.

17H45 – Pedagogical innovation and Unesco’s idea of a “new social contract for education” | Luís Manuel Bernardo, Coordinator of the Autonomous Section for General Education and Training of the School of Social Sciences and Humanities of NOVA University of Lisbon.

18h15 – Final remarks and closure | Teresa Teixeira Lopo (OP.Edu-CeiED, Lusófona University) and Ana Maria Seixas (OP.Edu-CES, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Coimbra)

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This document, which presents the partial results of the project RePeME – And after the pandemic? Recovery, continuities and changes in basic education (ISCED 1) in Portugal, concerning the Recovery of learning, follow-up and assessment of students is one of the outputs that can be accessed in the RePeME Community of the multidisciplinary open access digital repository Zenodo and in Harvard University’s open access repository Harvard Dataverse.

The publication includes the responses of leaders and teachers of School Clusters and Non-Grouped Schools  (SC/NGS), from the national public network, to the questionnaires applied between 10 October 2023 and 6 December 2023 (first wave of the survey), and the results of the focus group discussion held on 10 January 2024, which brought together 14 participants, including teachers and leaders, 12 from SC/NGS in the Porto metropolitan area and two from the Lisbon metropolitan area.