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Sustainable Development in Primary Education – A Perspective from Official Portuguese Guiding Documents

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Computer Supported Qualitative Research (WCQR 2019)

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This study aimed to identify and characterize the perspectives of the concept sustainable development present in official Portuguese primary education guiding documents. Methodologically, this is a qualitative study framed by the interpretive paradigm and implemented through an exploratory and interpretative-descriptive strategy. In order to fulfil the defined objective, a documentary analysis was carried out, enabling the constitution and analysis of the corpus through content analysis. The content analysis instrument used resulted from the adaptation and revalidation of a previous published instrument. The webQDA software was used to categorize and analyse the data. The results show that the environmental dimension is privileged over the economic and socio-cultural dimensions. However, the three dimensions of analysis considered are present in the vast majority of analysed documents.

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This work is funded by: (i) National Funds through FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P., under the UID/CED/00194/2019 project; (ii) Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia with the SFRH/BD/132272/2017 PhD grant, through the European Social Fund and Human Capital Operational Programme.

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  1. Department of Education and Psychology, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal

    Patrícia Sá, Patrícia João & Ana V. Rodrigues

  2. Research Centre on Didactics and Technology in the Education of Trainers, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal

    Patrícia Sá, Patrícia João & Ana V. Rodrigues

  3. Geosciences Centre, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

    Patrícia João

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  1. Department of Education and Psychology, Research Center on Didactics and Technology in Education of Trainers (CIDTFF), Ludomedia and University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal

    António Pedro Costa

  2. Faculty of Engineering, Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science Laboratory (LIACC), University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

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Sá, P., João, P., Rodrigues, A.V. (2020). Sustainable Development in Primary Education – A Perspective from Official Portuguese Guiding Documents. In: Costa, A., Reis, L., Moreira, A. (eds) Computer Supported Qualitative Research. WCQR 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1068. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31787-4_22

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