Project-based learning in teacher education

Abstract

The new “Licenciatura em Ensino Básico”, in Portugal, derives from the adaptation of teacher education programmes to the Bologna Process. Its novelty in relation to traditional programmes requires: i) clarification of the concept “basic education” and corresponding professional profile; ii) implementation of formative strategies intended to foster the development of an educational competence considered to be a key issue in this profile. At the University of Aveiro, the project approach was elected as a strategy oriented to the objective to be accomplished, though some legal regulations constrained the curriculum development of the study programme. Key words – Basic education; project approach; teacher education