Sete novos romances da Ilha da Madeira

Este artigo apresenta 7 das 54 versões de romances recolhidas por Maria-João Câmara Fontes em três aldeias madeirenses em Julho de 1990. Estas versões representam um total de 11 romances: 1. O Parto em Terras Alheias (trata-se da segunda versão deste romance descoberta na Madeira); 2. Frei João; 3. Bernal Francês + Claralinda + A Aparição; 4. Conde da Alemanha; 5. A Infanta Seduzida + Conde Alarcos + Flérida; 6. A Confissão de Nossa Senhora; 7. Vida de Freira. Cada texto é acompanhado por uma bibliografia das versões portuguesas publicadas, a qual inclui uma secção dedicada às versões recolhidas entre os emigrantes radicados na Nova Inglaterra, Califórnia e Canadá, a fim de destacar a sua importância. Quando apropriado, a bibliografia inclui também listas de versões brasileiras, galegas, castelhanas, catalãs, sefarditas, hispano-americanas e da tradição antiga (especialmente do século XVI). A última lista, que devemos ao trabalho de Samuel G. Armistead, proporciona uma correlação com as baladas pan-europeias

Portfólio: um instrumento de avaliação co-construído

O presente estudo reporta-se a um projecto de investigação-formação/ investigação-acção desenvolvido no Conselho de docentes de educação pré-escolar do Agrupamento Vertical de Escolas de Alfândega da Fé e que teve a duração de um ano lectivo. A forma como se concebeu e organizou a formação bem como o processo formativo das educadoras envolvidas, constituem as reflexões deste trabalho. A experiência de uma educadora na implementação dos portfólios revelou-se também como uma fonte importante de problematização não só do processo de implementação dos portfólios mas também das implicações formativas que a investigação-reflexão-acção constituiu no seu percurso

Research contributions towards the professionalization of coaching: the effects of coaching on psychological resources, job attitudes and performance - a between and within-person analysis

Coaching, an increasingly popular intervention in organizations, aims to induce change in coachees through collaborative, reflective and goal-focused relationships while achieving professional outcomes. Rooted in practice, coaching struggles to find the pathway to becoming a profession. Through four empirical studies, this thesis intends to contribute towards a more theoretically informed coaching practice, to fill some of the existing gaps in the literature. Given the non-homogeneous development of coaching worldwide, the first study provides perspective on the practice in Portugal. Findings evidence the need for theory-based practice, highlighting psychologists as better equipped practitioners with theory-driven tools. The second study attests to coaching effects regarding job attitudes and performance, plus the role of Psychological Capital (PsyCap) as mediator between coaching and job attitudes. The third study explores the transfer process in coaching. Three types of learning were found, together with main factors hindering transfer. The introduction of reflective writing exercises, based on PsyCap, evidenced its relevance also in coaching transfer. The last study analyses the change process in reflection, after coaching. Three types of change were found. The ability of implicit person theory to predict change and the correlations between change and coachees' reactions was shared. This thesis contributes to coaching research with implications for theory and practice, evidencing explanatory mechanisms of effectiveness, sustainability over time and the factors implied in coaching transfer. The rigorous and diverse methodological designs plus the theory driven tools also contribute to enrich the wellsupported empirical research thus to the professionalization of coaching practice.O coaching, com popularidade crescente nas organizações, induz a mudança nos coachees através do relacionamento colaborativo, reflexivo e focado em objetivos orientados para resultados profissionais. Enraizado na prática, o coaching ainda procura o reconhecimento como profissão. Esta tese, com quatro estudos empíricos, pretende contribuir para uma prática teoricamente mais informada, preenchendo lacunas da literatura. Atendendo ao desenvolvimento diferenciado do coaching a nível mundial, o primeiro estudo fornece perspetivas sobre a prática em Portugal. Os resultados evidenciam a necessidade de uma prática teoricamente fundamentada, destacando os psicólogos como profissionais mais bem equipados. O segundo estudo atesta os efeitos do coaching nas atitudes e desempenho e o papel do Capital Psicológico (PsyCap) como mediador entre o coaching e as atitudes no trabalho. O terceiro estudo explora o processo de transferência no coaching. Foram encontrados três tipos de aprendizagem, juntamente com fatores que dificultam a transferência. A introdução de exercícios de escrita reflexiva, baseados no PsyCap, evidenciou a sua relevância na transferência. O último estudo evidencia os três tipos de mudança na reflexão do coachee. A capacidade de prever essa mudança, com base em traços de personalidade e as correlações entre a mudança e as reações dos coachees foram partilhadas. Esta tese, com implicações teóricas e práticas, evidencia os mecanismos explicativos da eficácia do coaching e a sustentabilidade ao longo do tempo, bem como os fatores implicados na transferência. As metodologias rigorosas e diversas, aliados às ferramentas orientadas pela teoria contribuem para o enriquecimento da investigação e consequentemente, para a profissionalização do coaching

Contact process under renewals I

Motivated by questions regarding long range percolation, we investigate a non-Markovian analogue of the Harris contact process in $\mathbb{Z}^d$: an individual is attached to each site $x \in \mathbb{Z}^d$, and it can be infected or healthy; the infection propagates to healthy neighbors just as in the usual contact process, according to independent exponential times with a fixed rate $\lambda$; nevertheless, the possible recovery times for an individual are given by the points of a renewal process with heavy tail; the renewal processes are assumed to be independent for different sites. We show that the resulting processes have a critical value equal to zero.Comment: 13 page

People, ideas and models in flux in Medieval Europe

UIDB/00749/2020 UIDP/00749/2020This volume is the product of a profound reworking of a substantial number of contributions and, whilst it aims not to be about the “Global Middle Ages”, it does strive to contribute to the debate by suggesting different approaches to the theme through essays that hopefully will spark discussion and a reevaluation of the more traditional studies devoted to circulation, contact and exchange, and those dealing with cultural encounters and differing mental worlds. Here, possibilities may be activated by taking a view through the unsettling lens of global/local analysis and by aspiring to meet those challenges that thereby come into focus.publishersversionpublishe

Mechanisms that accelerate the diffusion of renewable technologies in new markets: Insights from the wind industry in Portugal

The spatial diffusion of sustainable innovations and the importance of local absorptive capacity in early adoption are studied through the comparison of the diffusion of wind energy in Denmark and Portugal. The novelty of this research consists in revealing patterns of spatial growth and explaining them with the help of concepts issued from the sustainability transitions literature. In particular, the technological innovation systems approach and the actor-oriented analysis focusing on the role of organizations and networks in the emerging innovation systems. An acceleration of diffusion was found in the case of wind technologies in Portugal in comparison with the “core”. The analysis permitted to identify some key drivers of this process. In a first exploratory stage, science and technology policies emerged as initial “motor” of change supporting the fulfillment of critical functions of the innovation system (e.g. knowledge development, experimentation). In the implementation stage, the market took off induced by an attractive feed-in-tariff that enabled the formation of expectations. This attracted key actors whose advocacy coalitions have gradually got the capacity to influence policy making, which contributed to further speed up market formation. Diffusion acceleration was possible thanks to a series of partnerships with international manufacturers for the transfer of state-of-the-art technology from “core” countries, and to the enhancement of absorptive capacity that permitted to better assimilate transferred knowledge and integrate it with local competences.FC