Schools' external evaluation: what is changing in the early childhood curriculum practices?

3 d Eu opean Con e ence on Cu iculum S udies Abs ac submission empla e 1 PhD s uden in Educa ional Sciences in he ield o Cu iculum De elopmen a he Ins i u e o Educa ion in he Uni e si y o Minho (Po ugal) wi h a esea ch s uden ship by he Po uguese Founda ion o Science and Technology (FCT - SFRH/BD/93389/2013). 2 Full P o esso a Ins i u e o Educa ion, Uni e si y o Minho, B aga, Po ugal. Email: jp[email p o ec ed].p 3 This wo k is unded by CIEd – Resea ch Cen e on Educa ion, p ojec s UID/CED/1661/2013 and UID/CED/1661/2016, Ins i u e o Educa ion, Uni e si y o Minho, h ough na ional unds o FCT/MCTES-PT. P esen ing au ho [s] Joana Sousa1 Addi ional au ho s José A. Pacheco2 Ti le o p esen a ion Schools´ Ex e nal E alua ion: Wha is changing in he ea ly childhood cu iculum p ac ices?3 Abs ac In Po ugal Law No. 31/2002 has app o ed he Schools’ Ex e nal E alua ion (SEE) which has been implemen ed since 2006 by he Po uguese Gene al Inspec ion o Educa ion and Science (IGEC). Un il now he e a e wo cycles o SEE and he one ha is occu ing now is in i s inal s age o implemen a ion. Fo he IGEC (2015) his e alua ion sys em o non-highe educa ion has he pu pose o p o iding “an impo an con ibu ion o he schools’ de elopmen ". This p esen a ion add esses he issue o whe he kinde ga en eache s e ec i ely use he in o ma ion p o ided by he SEE o ac upon cu icula p ocesses and de elop hei p ac ices. Da a was collec ed in six Po uguese public schools h ough semi-s uc u ed in e iews (Bogdan & Biklen, 1994; Ba din, 1994; Es e es, 2006) wi h six kinde ga en eache s which p elimina y esul s we p esen . By he pe cep ions o he kinde ga en eache s, he in e iew analysis e ealed ha kinde ga en eache s do use he esul s om he SEE o pe o m some imp o emen s, bu mos ly on a supe icial le el. Kinde ga en eache s end o a gue ha he SEE is a schools’ aluable mac o-pe spec i e, bu does no add ess impo an eedback o cu iculum p ac ices. Fo he in e iewees, he SEE e ec s a e ypically ela ed o documen s as well as plans, epo s and o he suppo ing documen a ion in which kinde ga en eache s egis e he wo k ha is being planned and de eloped by hei g oup o child en. Simul aneously he kinde ga en eache s mani es he mos e iden e ec om he SEE abou cu iculum p ac ices ha co esponds o cu iculum a icula ion p ac ices be ween di e en g oups and school yea s. Wo d leng h 286 Key wo ds Cu iculum, School’s Ex e nal E alua ion, Ea ly Childhood Educa ion Con e ence heme Cu iculum policy and egula ion