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The Seminar PISA 2022. Discourses, the truth of numbers and post-pandemic changes in education will be held online on 11 January 2024 (Thursday). The event is organised by OP.Edu – the Observatory for Education and Training Policies in collaboration with the Autonomous Section for General Education and Training of NOVA University of Lisbon – School of Social Sciences and Humanities.

PROGRAMME

One month after the OECD – Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development – published the results of the latest edition of PISA – Programme for International Student Assessment, the seminar aims to open a space for exchange and informed debate on the regulation of education policies through the so-called International Large-Scale Assessments (ILSAs), of which PISA is the most iconic representative.

Main topics to be discussed: PISA 2022 results and the post-pandemic changes in education; the relationship between Portugal’s participation in PISA and the improvement of its equity levels; the PISA discourses  and the conceptual and methodological limitations that the Programme has placed on education research.

PANEL 1 – 3.00 p.m. to 4.45 p.m.

Helena Hinke Dobrochinski Candido – Faculty of Education Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki Inequality Initiative | The political implications of PISA from the perspective of comparative education

Gil Nata and Tiago Neves – CIIE – Centre for Research and Intervention in Education, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Porto | Equity and its relationship with PISA

Daniel Bart – University of Lille, CIREL – Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Education de Lille | Le discours du PISA : quelques limites pour la recherche en éducation/The PISA discourse: some limits for education research

PANEL 2 –  5.00 p.m. to 7.00 p.m

Teresa Teixeira Lopo – Lusófona University,  OP.Edu – Observatory for Education and Training Policies | PISA 2022 numbers and post-pandemic changes in basic education: first results of a national survey with teachers and school leaders

António Teodoro – Lusófona University, CeiED – Interdisciplinary Research Centre for Education and Development | The theoretical sources of the OECD approach. Limitations and the importance of a humanist alternative

Luís Manuel A. V.  Bernardo – NOVA University of Lisbon – School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Autonomous Section for General Education and Training | Prescribing to quantify: PISA and the eight competences for the 21st century

Moderator: Raquel Pereira Henriques – NOVA University of Lisbon – School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Autonomous Section for General Education and Training

In partnership with the António Sérgio Training Centre, the Seminar is certified for participants from Portugal as a Short Duration Training Action (ACD, under Order 5741/2015 of 29 May), for the purposes of career progression of early childhood educators, primary and secondary school teachers and special education teachers. Those interested in obtaining this certification will need to register on this link: https://www.cfantoniosergio.edu.pt/centro/index.php/

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The first seminar of the cycle of International Seminars of the Citizen Science and Education Working Group (CC.Edu) will be held on 5 December at 2.30pm in Room 1 – CES Alta, under the theme Science outreach in non-formal education spaces to promote sustainability and people’s inclusion. The seminar will be presented by Magnólia Araújo, Professor at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN-Brazil), with comments by researcher and co-director of OP.Edu Ana Maria Seixas.

More information about the event can be accessed here

OP. Edu – the Observatory for Education and Training Policies opens its doors on 23 November to visitors who want to get in touch about its mission, activities and ongoing research projects.

This initiative is part of the Science and Technology Week 2023 programme, which aims to showcase national scientists, what they research and their contributions to the advancement of knowledge and the well-being of society.

OP.Edu is a joint creation of the Interdisciplinary Research Centre for Education and Development (CeiED) from Lusófona University and the Centre for Social Studies (CES) from the University of Coimbra. Its aim is to disseminate information and carry out studies and fundamental and applied research that can improve a better understanding of education and training policies and practices. It is located on the facilities of CeiED, at the Lisbon University Centre of the Lusófona University (Edifício U, Av. Marechal Craveiro Lopes 2A,1700-284 Lisboa).

Visits are subject to prior registration, until 22 November, using the following form: https://forms.gle/XqDJKRKEVrA9nQ4V6  

Next 2 November at 4.15pm, in an online session with free attendance, we’ll be talking to the sociologist, full professor and researcher João Teixeira Lopes about his book, published this year, “ELAS”.

This is a book about young women from working class backgrounds who have achieved great academic success at university. Starting with their life narratives, crossing past, present and anticipation of the future, it covers areas such as childhood and family, schooling, sociabilities, intimacy, love and sexuality, leisure and cultural practices, attitudes towards class and gender inequalities, and the relationship with religion and politics.

We’ll be talking to João Teixeira Lopes about this “exercise of a sociology close to the ground”, in an initiative organised by OP.Edu – Observatory for Education and Training Policies, in liaison with ESEL-IPLUSO – School of Education of IPLUSO and LusoGlobe – Lusophone Centre on Global Challenges.

Join us by clicking on this link: https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/91689921952