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 Prof. Luís Miguel Oliveira Barros Cardoso |
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| Title: Horizon 2030: a global challenge with national insights. Evaluating the Portuguese “Project for Autonomy and Curriculum Flexibility” | |
| Abstract: We are experiencing a moment of profound changes in society and education. The vertigo of information, the multiple changes worldwide, and the recent pandemic of COVID-19 made us rethink the strategies and the great educational frameworks that have been drawn for the Horizon 2030, which naturally includes Preschool Education and Child Development. We believe that great global challenges demand global solutions, networking, and international cooperation, respecting the context and specificity of nations, culture, and the educational system. It is therefore important to coordinate international guidelines and national and local implementation. This interconnection is the key to the success of education for Horizon 2030. In this presentation, we intend to focus on the great challenges in education that we all face, resorting to the analysis of guidelines from UNESCO and OECD, which make us think about the current educational systems, curricula, the training path of our students since preschool education, and key skills and values that can make students face, throughout life, a society in constant change. Finally, we intend to present an analysis of a project implemented in Portugal. In July 2017, Portugal allowed schools to join the "Project for Autonomy and Curriculum Flexibility (PACF)" on a voluntary basis. PACF provides schools with the necessary conditions to manage the curriculum while also integrating practices that promote better learning. Per Portugal’s request, the OECD has conducted a review of the project, examining how Portugal can support schools and teachers in adapting existing subjects, curricula, and learning to incorporate the goals set out in the student profile. We will present an analysis of the overall strategy, curriculum design, and implementation of the PACF, as well as the first results of the pilot project. | |
| Biography: Luís Miguel Cardoso was born in Viseu (Portugal). After concluding the Humanities degree at the Catholic University in 1991, he concluded a Master in Classic Literatures at Coimbra University, in 1996. In 2007 he concluded his Ph.D. in Modern Languages and Literatures at Coimbra University (Portugal). After teaching for four years in secondary schools, he began teaching at the Polytechnic Institute of Viseu in 1995 until 2008, when he moved to the Polytechnic Institute of Portalegre as Adjunct Professor. He was elected Dean of the School of Education and Social Sciences in 2010 until February 2018, completing the two mandates permitted by law. From 2015 until May 2018, he was also President of ARIPESE – the Association for Reflexion and Intervention in Higher Schools Politics. Main interests in teaching and investigation include Science and Communication Languages, Literature and Cinema, and Management of Higher Education Universities. In 2016, he published Literature and Cinema: the look of Janus. Vergílio Ferreira and the space of the unspeakable. Luís Miguel Cardoso was the national coordinator for the Bologna Process in Polytechnics in Media and Communication Sciences. He is a member of several international organizations concerning Education, Communication, Comparative Literature, Narratology, Film Studies, and Higher Education Management and reviewer of several international journals. He has published several papers in national and international journals with peer review and is a member of C3i - Polytechnic Institute of Portalegre and of the Center for Comparative Studies of the University of Lisbon (Portugal). | |
