Doctorate Degree in Curriculum And Pedagogical Innovation

This doctorate degree aims at providing professionals with research and intervention skills in a research-based manner and, consequently, enriching the national and local Educational system with Education specialists, and promoting the sociocultural development in a sustainable way.
This advanced training is focused in the systematic understanding of the curriculum and pedagogical innovation, in the development of skills, abilities and research methods, connected to the field of Education. It is centred in the development of the ability to design and perform original researches, in strict compliance with the requirements imposed by the quality and academic integrity patterns, taking a critical stance, broadening knowledge, and knowing how to communicate with their peers and with society in general about this field of knowledge.
Students are expected to be able to:
1. Design and perform significant research in the field of Education, in strict compliance with the requirements imposed by the quality and academic integrity patterns;
2. Analyse in a critical manner, evaluate and synthetize new and complex ideas within Education, namely in the field of curriculum and pedagogical innovation;
3. Deepen the systematic understanding of existing tensions and complementarities between curriculum and pedagogical innovation, thus contributing to the broadening of knowledge in Education;
4. Practice the analytical and projective thinking, having a proactive attitude towards social and cultural progress;
5. Communicate with specialised audiences the results of the original research and the systematic knowledge related to curriculum and pedagogical innovation, namely national and international scientific and academic communities;
6. To use, with great ability and critical stance, suitable research strategies and methods for research problems in the fields of curriculum and pedagogical innovation.
In Portugal, this cycle of studies is automatically recognized for career progression purposes of all education groups of pre-school, 1st, 2nd and 3rd cycles of basic and secondary education, by letter from the directorate-general of the School Administration.