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Constança Vasconcelos and Inês Marques, teachers of the Master’s Degree in Visual Arts Teaching, participated with the paper Creative practices in teacher’s training: the pedagogical-artistic toolbox, in the X Matéria Prima International Congress, which took place from 18 to 20 July.

Vítor Rosa, João Sampaio Maia and Daniela Mascarenhas, researchers at CeiED, publish a new scientific article in EduSer, of the Polytechnic Institute of Bragança. This article, entitled “O PISA 2015 e a resolução colaborativa de problemas: os resultados dos alunos portugueses”, presents an analysis of one of the literacy domains of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA): Collaborative Problem Solving (CPR).

Orlanda Tavares, an integrated researcher at CeiED and OP.Edu, critically reflected on the publication of the school rankings, in the newspaper Público, highlighting the negative effects these may have on schools, teachers, students and families. She also signaled the need to improve the educational system based on multidimensional information and not just monochromatic information, limited to cognitive performance indicators, such as the ones the publication of rankings seems to offer.

The Report of the International Commission on the Futures of Education, in its Portuguese version, can be read in full here.

On June 29, 2022, the integrated researcher of CeiED, Maria Odete Emygdio da Silva, presented a communication entitled Inclusive Education: the current education paradigm in Portugal, at the event Inclusive Teaching Practices – Creativity and Innovation using technologies of information and communication – PIECIT Our Inclusive Schools.

The Academi@ STEM de Mangualde, in partnership with the EduFor Training Center, organized on the 8th and 9th of July, in person, the II Conference “Academi@ STEM Mangualde” in the Auditorium of the Municipal Library of Mangualde. They were part of the panel “Curriculum development in STEM areas – from theory to practice” together with the other ambassadors of Academi@, Vítor Teodoro, Professor Associate at Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias and Louise Lima, post-doctoral researcher at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Education and Development at Universidade Lusófona. The communication can be viewed here.