José B. Duarte (Org.)

Authors, Editors

2011

Year of edition

978-986-8512-02-4

ISBN

Synopsis – [Textbooks: Changes in Discourses and Practices]. The research team of the Textbooks and Student Activities project shares the observation that in the current school context, there is a tendency for teacher-centered transmission and corresponding student passivity. In Portugal, since 2001, the curriculum guidelines propose that the content of each subject area be approached based on "situations and problems", aiming at the development of skills. With a perspective of an active and curiosity-motivating pedagogy, and considering the importance of textbooks as mediators between knowledge and students, we have been working for the past five years on researching the activities included in textbooks. In a desire to broaden the debate on this issue, our colloquia were held on June 19, 2009, and on September 10 and 11, 2010, from which we selected some communications for the present publication.