A estrutura pedagógica consonante

: colaboração e supervisão

Abstract

This introspective report analyses the evolution of the personal and occupational identities and tries to single out the markers of professional knowhow. It is focused on a crucial and relatively recent professional moment, which became a personal reference point on collaborative work. The career division introduced by the ECD and the subsequent changes to the career progression evaluation practices, as well as the new public school management and administration policies (DL 75/2008) had a particular impact on the schools’ internal organisation and the teachers’ daily work. This mostly affected the intermediate education supervision, introducing a complex field of uncertainty where all of the decisions had to be made without guidelines, effectively forcing the teachers to rely on and draw solely from their professional and personal experience to reorganize themselves and overcome these newly introduced measures. The intermediate education management board, previously non-existent in the public school management guidelines, was born out of the need to integrate supervision strategies (organisation, evaluation, leadership, mediation and regulation) and curricular department mediation strategies. This board was introduced by four department coordinators working at the same school, who decided to create internal guidelines on how to collaborate with one another. And thus, one relied upon written work by Isabel Alarcão, Bernardo Canha and Maria do Céu Roldão to substantiate and define the concept of nuclear supervision, as a collaborative and self-regulating work tool. Given that the concept of supervision is this narrative’s topic, it is expected that its effects and considerations transcend past the work environment, raising issues of will, enthusiasm and willingness to change and evolve, no doubt difficult for any occupational group.

Date of Award	28 Oct 2014
Original language	Portuguese
Awarding Institution	Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Supervisor	Maria do Céu Roldão (Supervisor)