Abstract

FERREIRA, Sílvia; MORAIS, Ana Maria  and  NEVES, Isabel Pestana. Science curricula design: analysis of authors’ ideological and pedagogical principles. Educ. Real. [online]. 2010, vol.35, n.01, pp.283-309. ISSN 0100-3143.

The study analyses the extent to which the sociological message transmitted by the Official Pedagogic Discourse of the curriculum for Portuguese middle school contains the ideological and pedagogical principles of its authors. The research is epistemologically and sociologically grounded, placing particular emphasis on Bernstein theory of pedagogic discourse. The ideological principles refer to broad educational aims and the pedagogical principles to characteristics of the pedagogic practice. Data was obtained through a semi structured interview to the authors and documental analysis to publications they had produced. The results suggest that the authors were distinct in the ideological and pedagogical principles they valued and that discontinuities were evident between those principles and the curriculum message. These results are discussed and their consequences in terms of scientific learning are explored.

Keywords : Scientific Education; Curricula; Ideological Principles; Pedagogical Principles; Social Context.

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