Are students and teachers ready for Bologna? a pedagogical project in a tourism course
Part of : Tourismos : an international multidiciplinary journal of tourism ; Vol.8, No.2, 2013, pages 137-158
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The implementation of the Bologna process in higher education leads torethinking the teaching-learning assumptions. Higher education today is focusedon curricula, teaching-learning processes, subjects and course programmesattending to European credits system, teachers’ qualification and training,academic success and scholar results, performance standards, assessment ofinstitutions, assessment of skills (and not merely knowledge).In 2010 a project(Construction of Learning | ConstAp) was developed in the Polytechnic Instituteof Castelo Branco, Portugal. The main goal was to motivate the adoption ofchanges concerning classroom methodologies and students’ autonomousworkload guidance in the scope of the Bologna process implementation.Thispaper presents a proposal of pedagogical intervention to deal with the mentionedobjectives, a project applied in a specific tourism course. The paper presents thefirst results collected regarding the project’s implementation and seeks to imparta methodology that can be applied to similar courses.
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Bologna process, autonomous work, skills, assessment, educational innovation
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