O projecto Fénix, a alteração da gramática escolar e a promoção do sucesso evidências de um percurso de investigação

Abstract

The current work aims to show how, by manipulating the school organizational and educational conditions - by forming relatively homogenous classes, distributing teachers, laying emphasis upon the core subjects, coopera tive work, supervising permanently the students and finally by closely monitoring/following the exogenous factors that can influence the student's performance - the students can get better results than the ones achieved with traditional school conditions. This study presents a description of the project Phoenix's development and operationalization, as well as its first year implementation. Our case study has a naturalistic research design, with an assessment or intrinsic approach. A number of data collection techniques have been used, such as document analysis, interview, survey by questionnaire and non-participant observation. The following conclusions have been reached: there is a positive correlation between the project development and the students' results; the Phoenix project promotes learning and enhances the students' success not only in the subjects directly related to the Phoenix project, but also in the remaining subjects, thus significantly increasing ali the success pointers.