Vocational Areas in Alternative Curricula Pathways
1. The Vocational Areas in the curriculum
of classes with alternative curricula
Maria da Glória Santos
Universidade Aberta
mariagloriasls@gmail.com
Maria Ivone Gaspar
Universidade Aberta
migaspar@uab.pt
2. How to ensure that everyone
who attends school
will have access to quality
education?
How to avoid exclusion
and social marginalization?
3. This presentation is based on a research
focused on the syllabus of two classes, in the
3rd cycle. These have Alternative Curricula
Pathways and are part of a school with 2nd
and 3rd cycles. They have as determinant
focus the vocational areas that are part of
such a curriculum.
4. The implementation of alternative
curricula will allow:
•
the implementation of
measures able to fulfill
the ideal of educational
equality
• the means to fight
against social exclusion
• an innovative solution
• the search for solutions
adapted to the diversity
of the cases that cannot
be integrated in regular
education
5. We defend that
the main objective of alternative curricula is to adjust
education to those students, giving schools flexibility
to organize and adequate the curricula according to
the students’ difficulties
6. We assume
the curriculum
in its plan dimension, it integrates the experiments
so as to develop the project leading it to a process
of the pedagogical praxis reconstruction
8. Empirical study
Five teachers
Twenty two students that compose the two
Alternative Curriculum Pathways classes
Twenty seven semi-structured script-guided
interviews
9. research objectives
to know the opinion of those directly
involved in this process
to know if these fields appeal to students
10. Results
• Students and teachers were
excited
with
the
implemented
project,
vocational areas were an
added-value
• The high motivation, built
upon the results obtained
with students
• The fields existing at the
school seem to appeal to
students
• The affective relation
between teachers and
students, which seemed to
be very relevant for the
success of this project
11. freedom for the
teachers/class council
to design and
implement projects
with a curricular
dimension adapted to
the students’ skills and
needs
a way for active
and motivating
learning, which will
foster interest in
school
Alternative
curricula
advantages
an effective way to
fight against
school failure and
drop-out
the possibility of
new learning
options for the
students
