How to Improve Portuguese Secondary Education

TL;DR

This paper provides personal insights and suggestions aimed at modernizing and improving Portuguese secondary education, especially in physics, based on extensive experience and observations.

Contribution

It offers practical recommendations for reforming Portuguese secondary education, drawing from decades of experience and numerous direct observations.

Findings

Current system needs modernization

Suggestions for improving physics education

Extensive experience informs recommendations

Abstract

I share some personal thoughts on the status of Portuguese secondary education in general, and of the physics part thereof in particular, drawn from several decades of experience of organizing training activities for students and school teachers, as well as several hundred visits to secondary schools and similar numbers of interviews of secondary school students (from Portugal and elsewhere). I offer various suggestions for improving and modernising our current system.