Coordinator: Profª Alice Casimiro Lopes
Description:The theme Curriculum Policies articulates the research line Curriculum: subjects, knowledge and culture of the Graduate Program of Education (ProPEd), who leads this project. By curriculum policy, one understands the process of meaning that occurs in the field - curricular thought - as well as in public policies in curriculum. In the curricular thought axis, transnational studies of specific subjects in the field are important, as well as researches that seek to understand how the internationalization of the field takes place. With regard to public policies, in an increasingly global world, both interconnections and crossings among nations, as well as differences and fluxes, stand out. The curriculum theme is, today in education, one of the most relevant, as the mechanisms of representation control increase. In this sense, the investigation of curriculum policies acquires internationally the outline of the research of political struggles by the meaning of what is curriculum and by the dispute in the representation of the other. The projects articulated here focus on different issues of these policies, maintaining ongoing exchanges for several years with research groups from the United States (Columbia University, Montclair State University, New York City University), Canada (University of British Columbia, University of Ottawa), Portugal (University of Porto, University of Lisbon), Argentina (University of Buenos Aires, University of La Plata, National University of Rosario), United Kingdom (Essex University), Mexico (National Autonomous University of Mexico, State of Mexico, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Cuajimalpa), Colombia (Universidad Francisco José Caldas), South Africa (Stellenbosch University), China (Normal East University), Chile (Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, University of Chile), Mozambique (Strategic Research), Australia (Charles Sturt A University) and Finland (Abo Akademi University).