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Ferreira Matias Alves, José Joaquim

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  • Da Liderança do direito aos resultados escolares dos alunos
    Publication . Pina, Raul Manuel Tavares de; Cabral, Ilídia; Alves, José Matias
  • Projeto COPA: colaborar para aprender
    Publication . Cabral, Ilídia; Alves, José Matias
    Neste texto apresenta-se um projeto de interação colaborativa entre pares (Projeto COPA – Colaborar para Aprender), centrando-se na forma como este foi desenvolvido pelos docentes de um colégio privado do distrito do Porto. O projeto implica a observação de aulas numa lógica horizontal, centrada na promoção do desenvolvimento profissional e da melhoria das práticas educativas. Da experiência narrada é possível concluir-se que a implementação de dinâmicas de observação de aulas enfrenta ainda resistências várias por parte dos professores. No entanto, a proposta de uma adesão voluntária e livre a um projeto desta natureza, dando aos professores a primazia da escolha dos pares com os quais pretendem cooperar e atribuindo-lhes a responsabilidade pela escolha do(s) objeto(s) a observar e dos instrumentos para o fazer, apresenta-se como uma forma possível de quebrar essas resistências, dotando estas práticas de sentido para os professores e fazendo delas uma oportunidade efetiva de desenvolvimento
  • Projeto Fénix: o que pensam os alunos sobre os fatores que promovem as suas aprendizagens?
    Publication . Cabral, Ilídia; Alves, José Matias
    This article focuses on the perception of two groups of pupils with different academic performances regarding the factors that most influence their learning. We intend to know what these two groups value the most in such learning and whether there are differences in such perception. By means of an open questionnaire applied to 39 pupils of 16 schools from the Fénix network (“More School Success” program), stratified in two groups (pupils with good academic results and pupils with poor academic results), it has been possible to know their representations of the factors that make them learn the most. To read this production we used the good schools’ categorization by MacBeath (1999), and concluded that the dimensions (i) support to their learning, (ii) relations between pupils and between pupils and teachers, (iii) organization and communication, and (iv) value attributed to education are the most referred, which is aligned with the generality of the knowledge available. It can also be concluded that the dimensions with a more organizational nature, non-directly observable by pupils, tend not to be referred, especially by pupils with lower academic results. Last, we note that some implicit risks of a project that makes differentiation an educational surplus value, but that may contribute to the emergence of growing inequality between pupils.
  • Escolaridade obrigatória
    Publication . Azevedo, José Maria; Cabral, Ilídia; Alves, José Matias; Melo, Paulo
  • Principal`s leadership on students' outcomes
    Publication . Pina, Raul; Cabral, Ilídia; Matias Alves, José
    This study aims to explore, in a sample of Portuguese schools, if there is an impact of school leadership, particularly of the principal, on students` outcomes. The study adopts mixed-methods, combining the analysis of national examination, questionnaire surveys (from LOLSO, Leithwood, Mulford & Silins, 2004), structured open-ended interviews and focus groups to the principals of 6 school groupings, heads of department, teachers and students. This study reports results from the interviews analyses of the principals, and the focus group of the head of departments and students. By means of content analysis, we make inferences from data to the context, providing knowledge and new insights on the object of the study. A preliminary analysis of data identifies some contradictions between what principals claim to do and the perceptions of heads of department and students in categories like Building a shared vision through the school project and communicating that vision; High performance expectations to students and teachers and Providing individual support (mainly in schools over 1000 students). In the interviews and in the questionnaires principals, head of departments and students say that the students` outcomes promote changes in school organization and in the leadership practices of the principal.
  • Creando relatos de vida para desarrollar líderes y contextos educativos
    Publication . Tintoré, Mireia; Serrão Cunha, Rosário; Cabral, Ilídia; Alves, José Matias
    En los próximos años, un reto importante que se le plantea a los sistemas educativos es la formación de directores capaces de hacer frente a los problemas derivados de cada contexto. Para facilitar el desarrollo directivo, la utilización de historias de vida de directores escolares puede resultar de utilidad pues es conocida la importancia de los modelos para la formación. El objetivo de la presente investigación es mostrar el proceso de elaboración de historias de vida correspondiente a 19 directores y directoras de escuelas públicas portugueses llevado a cabo por un grupo de investigadores. Se comentan los objetivos, metodología, fases de la investigación, resultados y productos elaborados. Como resultado de la investigación, se han producido relatos de vida, historias de vida, casos, vignettes, y relaciones de buenas prácticas. Todos estos productos pueden ser utilizados en los programas de dirección y contribuir a la mejora en la formación de líderes escolares.