School Organization and Culture

Code:

EEF68

Acronym:

OCE

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	General Education Training

Instance: 2024/2025 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Course/CS Responsible:	2nd Cycle in Teaching Physical Education in the Basic and Secondary School System

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
EEFEBS	148	2º Ciclo em Ensino da Educação Física nos Ensino Básico e Secundário (2022)	1	-	3	30	81

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

At the end of this course, students should be able to

- Apply adequately the main concepts related to the school organizational culture ;

- Identify and analyze multiple cultural configurations of the school as an organization;

- To perspective future interventions in intermediate management structures;

- To develop a critical analysis of the research about the school's organizational culture and school effectiveness;

- Challenging the cultural and symbolic framework of autonomy in school management and the goals and evaluation models of the Portuguese education system;

- To develop proposals for activities following the school's identity project.

Learning outcomes and competences

Know how to apply the main concepts of the school's organizational culture.

Shows a critical capacity and a professional intervention concerning school management.

Discusses cultural and symbolic framework of pedagogical autonomy in school management.

Demonstrates ability to elaborate projects and activities according to the specificity of contexts.

Working method

Presencial

Program

Mandatory literature

Rui Canário; O que é a escola?. ISBN: 972-0-34172-6
Isabel Maria Venâncio; Eficácia e qualidade na escola
Jorge Ávila de Lima; Em busca da boa escola. ISBN: 978-989-8151-04-9
Torres, Leonor; Configurações culturais e o processo de construção da gestão democrática numa escola secundária, 2005. ISBN: Revista Portuguesa de Educação, 18(2), 89-124.
Pol, M; Hlouskova, L; Novotny, P; Zounek, J. ; Em busca do conceito de cultura escolar: uma contribuição para as discussões actuais, Revista Lusófona de Educação, 10, 63-79, 2007
Torres, Leonor ; A escola como entreposto cultural: o cultural e o simbólico no desenvolvimento democrático da escola. , Revista Portuguesa de Educação, 21(1), 59-81., 2008

Teaching methods and learning activities

Interrogative and expository with participative presentation techniques.

Apply questioning, argumentation, and debate in classes.

Active and collaborative learning methods. Synchronous and asynchronous thematic discussions; case studies; debates; thinking and sharing (TPS: think-par-share).

Software

Moodle

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

designation	Weight (%)
Trabalho prático ou de projeto	70,00
Trabalho escrito	30,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	51,00
Frequência das aulas	30,00
Total:	81,00

Eligibility for exams

 

 

Calculation formula of final grade

To succeed in the curricular unit, the student must have a minimum of 10 points in the final classification.