Supervision and Mentoring for Professional Practice

Professor Luís Tinoca
Professor Maria João Mogarro
Professor Ana Sofia Pinho

The doctoral course in Supervision and Orientation of Professional Practice is the curricular part of the Doctorate in Education and aims to:

• Provide advanced education in theoretical and empirical knowledge regarding supervision, orientation, and follow-up of professional practice, as continuous processes of development and experiential learning based on work inserted in the social context of various professions.
• Enable students to design and develop research and innovation projects in the field of teacher and training of trainers.

• Holders of a Master’s degree or legal equivalent;
• Exceptionally, holders of a Bachelor’s degree or legal equivalent, if they have a particularly relevant academic or scientific curriculum that is recognised by the Scientific Council of the Instituto de Educação as attesting their capacity to carry out doctoral studies.

The main way to enter the doctorate is by applying for an open tender for a Doctoral Programme according to the field and specialty, with the indication of the number of places available. This invitation to tender will be advertised through a public notice and is subject to compliance with specific rules and forms.

In the doctoral areas where there is no call for tender, candidates must send an application to the Scientific Council of the Instituto de Educação da Universidade de Lisboa, formalizing their candidacy. Only in exceptional and duly justified cases may an individual candidacy enter the doctorate in a specialty area in years when an open tender took place.