Strategic Planning and Local Education Administration

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Teaching Methods

Lecture method associated with the use of pedagogical practices that promote independent work of students and their active participation in the learning process, such as analyze and discussion of texts and conducting group work.

Learning Outcomes

The aim of this course is to promote reflection and critical analysis on strategic planning and administration and local management of education and training and to develop analysis and intervention skills taking into account the specificity of local contexts.

At the end of this course students should be able to:

- Understand basic concepts and theoretical perspectives of administration and management of education.

- Distinguish types and models of Public Administration.

- Understand the recent development of local education administration

- Identify municipal activities and competences in the educational domain

- Critically and theoretically analyze the changes in the local administration and management of education

- Identify the phases and devices of strategic planning

- Participate in the elaboration of strategic educational projects.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1- Strategic planning and local education administration - theoretical and methodological pluralism.

2- Trends in the evolution of public administration. The New Public Management: from bureaucratic to post-bureaucratic models.

2.1- NPM principles and instruments - the focus on quality ("benchmarking") and "accountability"

2.2. NPM and the reinvention of the State: A new spectrum of public participation

2.3. From NPM to Governance

3- Public administration in Portugal. Autonomous administration with a territorial base.

3.1 Evolution of the role and intervention of municipalities in Portugal in education in recent decades

4-Local administration of education and training

 4.1-Decentralization, territorialization and local regulation of education

4.2- Local educational policies and regulatory instruments

4.3- Local strategic planning. Models, principles and methodologies.

4.4- Local educational strategic projects - dynamics of construction, monitoring and evaluation.

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Oral and written presentation of group work: 50.0%
Frequency: 50.0%

Bibliography

Azevedo, R. (coord)(2011).Projetos educativos: Elaboração, monitorização e avaliação. ANQ

Barroso, J (2018) Descentralização, territorialização e regulação sociocomunitária da educação. RAEP, 4, 7-29

CNE (2016) Processos de Descentralização em Educação. CNE

CNE (2017) Lei de Bases do Sistema Educativo: balanço e prospetiva (Vol II). CNE

DGAEP (2012) Caf educação. DGAEP

Guerra, I. (2000) 0 Planeamento Estratégico das Cidades. Organização do Espaço e Acção Colectiva . Cidades- Comunidades e Territórios, 1, 37-55

Hintea, C, Profiroiu, M, & Ticlau, T (2019) Strategic Planning in Local Communities. Palgrave

Machado, J & Alves, J (orgs) (2014), Município, Território e Educação: A administração local da educação e da formação. UCP.

Machado, J et al. (2014) Municípios, Educação e Desenvolvimento Local. FML

Machado, J et al. (orgs) (2014) Projetos Educativos Municipais: Dinâmicas de construção, implementação e monitorização. UCP.