The teaching career of Higher Education in Angola: performance provision and evaluation

Abstract

Concern about the policies and practices on the teaching career of higher education results from society's questions about the quality of education that often blames the “raw material” and the “product”, the process is rarely questioned. This study aims, therefore, to understand the options of administration and management of HEI, regarding the provision and evaluation of teaching performance and their influence on career effectiveness. Two PhD researches (2008-2013) carried out by the authors, focusing on teaching provision at the Angolan Public University and institutional evaluation at Agostinho Neto University were the basis of this hermeneutics. A confrontation was made between the norms and theories that support the provision and the evaluation of teaching performance, and it was concluded that the repeated adherence to legislative decisions slows down the effectiveness of the teaching career, due to the omission of historical foundations, as a defining identity of the teachers.

Keywords

• teaching provision
• performance evaluation
• teaching career
• organizational policies and practices