RESUMO O objetivo deste estudo foi analisar as propriedades psicométricas da adaptação e tradução do Questionário de Fatores de Inovação Docente ao contexto português e compreender o seu significado segundo os professores inovadores. Foi desenvolvido um desenho misto de investigação, combinando técnicas quantitativas (questionário preenchido por 273 professores de primeiro, segundo e terceiro ciclo) e qualitativas (grupo focal numa escola inovadora com um diretor, um orientador e quatro professores). Realizaram-se análises psicométricas do questionário e uma análise qualitativa que confirmou e deu significado aos dados quantitativos. Constatam-se três fatores de inovação em Portugal: participação institucional, abertura psicopedagógica e planeamento didático. Tanto quantitativa como qualitativamente, o primeiro deles é o mais importante na inovação docente. Como conclusão, os fatores principais da inovação docente podem ser autoavaliados por meio de um questionário válido e fiável com professores.

Scientific literature has been shown several times the relation between the educational innovation linked to ICTs and the auto-perceived teaching well-being. This aspect wins a great importance during school change and improvement processes with the teachers' active participation. In the Spanish context, the Teaching Well-being Questionnaire is used with frequency, although it does not occur in the Portuguese framework. For this reason, the main aim of this study is to adapt the mentioned questionnaire to Portuguese language and context, wanting to analyze the situation of the neighboring country. The research proceeded with a descriptive and quantitative study through a questionnaire, with a sample (n = 273) composed by Portuguese teachers of first, second and third cycle. The results show explained variances, communalities, correlations, factorial weights and alphas with significant acceptance, as well as a positive expert judge. In conclusion, as original version of the questionnaire in Spanish language, there are clearly seven principal factors (motivations, emotions, skills, personal satisfaction, satisfaction towards the professional context, projects/values and school identity) that determine the teaching well-being in innovation processes with ICTs, and they can be assesses through a valid and reliable questionnaire adapted to the Portuguese context.

The main aim of this research is to understand future teachers' attitudes, knowledge and needs about Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). These courses may be a supplementary resource in higher education that can fill fields of knowledge which the curriculum could not encompass. In addition, this type of course can contribute significantly to both initial and continuing teacher training. For this reason, understanding students' perspectives on MOOCs is essential. For this reason a questionnaire was administered to students of the Bachelor in Teaching of Childhood Education, Bachelor in Teaching of Primary Education and Master in Training Teachers of Secondary Education (n=145). The results indicate that a large part of the sample confirm not that they do not know anything about MOOCs. The chapter concludes that universities need to train future teachers in MOOC culture. Keeping the focus on the book section “RIA and education practice of MOOCs”, this chapter provides a valuable research insight into the topic of “educational training design.”

La innovación educativa es un conjunto de procesos que tienen como objetivo principal la mejora de los procesos de enseñanza-aprendizaje. Así, los centros educativos procuran dirigir acciones de cambio orientadas a la mejora y la calidad. Sin embargo, generalmente esto no resulta una tarea sencilla, sino que existen diversas barreras que dificultan la innovación educativa, aunque también hay facilitadores de la misma. Por ende, haciendo referencia a estos últimos, la clave puede estar en determinar cuáles son y cómo manejarlos. Concretamente, son diversos los autores que apuestan por una serie de elementos encaminados a mejorar los procesos innovadores dentro de los centros educativos. Sin embargo, uno de esos elementos y que la literatura científica no aborda de manera sistemática y relevante es cómo los rasgos de personalidad influyen en las prácticas docentes y organizativas innovadoras. Por ello, lo que aquí se pretende es mostrar el estado del arte sobre cómo los conocimientos acerca de los rasgos de personalidad pueden actuar como facilitadores de la innovación educativa. De esta manera, si un miembro de la comunidad educativa (ya sea docente, asesor, etc.) conoce cómo son sus compañeros y él mismo, en cuanto a características personales se refiere, probablemente se favorezca la gestión de ciertos procesos de cambio dirigidos a la mejora educativa. Concretamente, dentro de esas características individuales más estudiadas se encuentran los rasgos de personalidad, aunque también se incluyen aspectos como el autoconcepto, los procesos atributivos, la estima, etc. Palabras clave: características personales, estado del arte, facilitadores del cambio, innovación pedagógica, rasgos de personalidad, resistencia al cambio.

Coexistence, democracy, citizenship, peace, tolerance, respect, cooperation, empathy and other similar terms are some concepts that make up the principles and aims of present education. For this reason, education managers design, develop and assess processes that try to reduce problems of coexistence. The main aim of this chapter is to show strategies for detecting problems of coexistence at school and to analyze the students' role in these processes. The background of the chapter is based on the following topics: school as a conflictive place, types of problems in coexistence, definitions and characteristics of the term conflict and models to improve coexistence at schools. After considering these ideas, the next step involves the analysis of some strategies for detecting problems of school coexistence. An important part of these strategies emphasizes student role in this task. However, students are often not properly trained to detect problems of coexistence at schools. Consequently, there are some processes for creating a school context based on democratic resolution of conflicts.