Online Scientific Volunteering: the technological immersion for the co-construction of knowledge, employability, entrepreneurship and innovation in a logic of inclusion

“We all have something to learn and something to share” is the motto of this project, through which we aim to assess the impact of a multilingual platform which combines and makes the most of the potentials of digital environments and favours inclusion, in the co-construction of knowledge in learning/practice, in employability, entrepreneurism and innovation. In this article we will introduce an ongoing project which is founded on the principle of openness to the research community. Its philosophy is Online Scientific Volunteering for the co-construction of knowledge about learning best practices. The platform that will emerge from the project will be open access. The academic community, whether national or international, can contribute with content and knowledge to the platform, through interaction and discussions around relevant and emerging topics. The community may also exploit, without encumbrance, the contents of the platform for their own benefit. This way students and scientific expertise can share in a common knowledge space, and together build a comprehensive knowledge base.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

A questão russa: seu lugar nas reflexões de Vanguarda Socialista

Vanguarda Socialista, a newspaper edited by Mário Pedrosa in Rio de Janeiro from 1945 to 1948 elaborates a socialist and democratic political proposal as an alternative to the bolshevik conception, which was believed surpassed by history. The "Russian question" lies thus at the center of the group's preoccupations. This paper tries not only to analyse the newspaper's explanation for the origins of bureaucracy in the USSR, bringing to light the contradictions which run through it, but also to establish the group's affiliation to Rosa Luxemburg's ideas, in the attempt to clarify those contradictions.Vanguarda Socialista, jornal editado por Mário Pedrosa no Rio de Janeiro, de 1945 a 1948, elabora uma proposta política socialista e democrática como alternativa à concepção bolchevique, que acredita superada pela história. Nessa medida, a "questão russa" encontra-se no centro das preocupações do grupo. Este artigo procura não só analisar a explicação do jornal para as origens da burocracia na URSS, mostrando as contradições que a perpassam, como também estabelecer a filiação do grupo às idéias de Rosa Luxemburgo, na tentativa de esclarecer as referidas contradições

Potencialidades da disciplina TIC para a mudança de práticas educativas: Um estudo de caso no 3º ciclo do Ensino Básico

"A integração das Tecnologias da Informação e da Comunicação (TIC) na educação requer a criação de hábitos de trabalho com recurso à tecnologia, sistemáticos, e a alteração de práticas educativas. As orientações curriculares para a disciplina de TIC, emanadas pela equipa CRIE (Computadores, Rede e Internet na Escola), em Setembro de 2006, apontam para uma abordagem assente na construção refletida e participada de um projeto curricular de turma, orientador do processo educativo. No estudo que realizámos, no ano letivo de 2008/09, procurámos, perceber de que forma a disciplina de TIC do 9º ano podia contribuir para a mudança de práticas educativas ao nível da utilização integrada das tecnologias em contexto educativo. Em termos metodológicos, o estudo é de natureza predominantemente qualitativa e exploratória, do tipo estudo de caso. O caso em estudo foi constituído pela operacionalização das referidas orientações curriculares, numa turma de 9º ano de uma escola de Aveiro. As técnicas de recolha de dados foram o inquérito, a análise documental e a observação. Os resultados evidenciam que os professores participantes no estudo se mostraram motivados para desenvolverem projetos interdisciplinares mas revelaram dificuldades ao nível da integração das tecnologias em contexto educativo. Existiram barreiras ao nível do trabalho colaborativo que se relacionam com falta de tempo, para este tipo de trabalho, e com lacunas e falta de hábitos de utilização das TIC. À semelhança dos resultados de outros estudos, constatámos que a abordagem interdisciplinar à integração das tecnologias assente no trabalho de projeto, pode ser potenciadora de alterações de práticas educativas.--Palavras-chave: Ensino básico; integração das TIC; práticas educativas; aprendizagem por projetos; sociedade da informação.--ABSTRACT:Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) integration in education requires the systematic use of these technologies by teachers and their students. The curricular guidelines for the ICT subject matter, proposed by the CRIE (Computadores, Rede e Internet na Escola), team, in September 2006, point to a reflected and participated construction of interdisciplinary classroom projects, involving teachers of different subject matters . This approach is seen as an important step towards the expected ICT integration in school. Thus, the aim of this study, carried out in 2008/09, was to understand how the ICT subject matter (at the time, one of the subjects of the 9th school year), can contribute to educational change, namely concerning teachers´ educational practices, and to the integrated use of technologies in educational context. The adopted methodology was predominantly qualitative and exploratory, having a case study nature. The study was developed in a school in the Aveiro region and the data gathering techniques included inquiry by questionnaire, documental analysis and direct observation. The results evidenced that the teachers involved in the study were motivated to develop interdisciplinary projects, but disclosed difficulties concerning the integration of ICT in educational context. The main identified barriers include lack of collaborative work, amongst teachers, due to lack of time and lack of ICT skills that hinder the expected ICT integration and changes. Moreover, evidences showed that the interdisciplinary approach, proposed by the curricular guidelines, can promote the integration of ICT in education when grounded in project based curricular methodologies. The approach can potentially induce changes in educational practices, as referred in the literature.--Keywords: Elementary education; ICT integration; educational practices; project-based learning; Information Society.--Para citar este texto:Barbosa, I., & Loureiro, M. J. (2011). Potencialidades da disciplina TIC para a mudança de práticas educativas: Um estudo de caso no 3º ciclo do Ensino Básico. Educação, Formação & Tecnologias, 4 (2), 4-14 'Online, disponível a partir de http://eft.educom.pt.

Matemática e recursos educativos digitais: um estudo sobre as repercussões no ensino e na aprendizagem no 1º CEB

Os recursos didáticos mais utilizados pelos professores na escolaridade básica são, tradicionalmente, os disponibilizados por editoras escolares. Presentemente, estas instituições/estruturas desenvolvem recursos educativos digitais (RED), que as condições da maior parte das escolas permitem usar. O presente estudo surge no sentido de compreender como é que, em escolas da rede pública portuguesas, o uso daqueles RED se repercute no ensino e na aprendizagem da Matemática no 1o Ciclo do Ensino Básico. Mais concretamente, pretende-se: (i) averiguar se os professores os usam ou não e porquê; (ii) caracterizar os mais usados; (iii) analisar as finalidades e as práticas letivas quando os usam; (iv) averiguar se os alunos os usam ou não fora da sala de aula e porquê; (v) identificar para que fins e como os usam e analisar se o seu uso promove uma mais sólida aprendizagem da matemática. Enquadra-se este estudo num paradigma construtivista–interpretativo, de natureza predominantemente qualitativa e design de estudo de caso (Bogdan & Biklen, 1994). No âmbito desta comunicação, apresentam-se alguns resultados preliminares relativos ao primeiro objetivo que o estudo persegue.publishe

Técnicas de recolha de dados em investigação qualitativa

As Tecnologias de Informação e Comunicação (TIC) estão a provocar alterações importantes na sociedade, em particular no modo como comunicamos, consultamos informação e a recolhemos. E na investigação qualitativa, haverá alterações provocadas pelas TIC? Esta pergunta orientou o presente artigo de revisão bibliográfica onde se concluiu que não havendo alterações significativas na forma das investigações, as TIC contribuem para facilitar a recolha e o tratamento de informação e aumentar o potencial universo de participantes.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Municipal Waste Map: a Case Study of Guimarães, Portugal

Guimarães is located in the north of Portugal, is a middle size town, which historic centre is UNESCO World Heritage. The city was also European Cultural Capital by 2012 and in 2013 was European City of Sports. Currently, is running for European Green Capital 2020, being the Waste Production and Management (WPM) one of the strategic guideline. Taking into account the WPM policy and the city goals, a Municipality Strategic Waste Plan (2016-2025) (SWP), will be done. Guimarães is considered to be a “diffuse territory”, as it encompasses land use and economic activity development, leading to different scenarios. It is also important to notice that 1/3 of the Guimarães population is located on the urban area. Under this context, the WPM across the Municipality will be directly affected by specific features of the urban population, and the correlation between several other variables shall be considered in a holistic approach comprising waste production characterization, land use, citizens socio demographic aspects and human resources. This project aims at presenting a first approach to the definition of the SWP, in the form of an integrated Roadmap of waste production, in a multi-disciplinary approach between the land use and the sociodemographic characteristics.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Adolescents’ Empowerment for Mental Health Literacy in School: A Pilot Study on ProLiSMental Psychoeducational Intervention

Adolescence is a critical life phase for mental health and anxiety an emerging challenge for adolescents. Psychoeducational interventions to promote mental health literacy (MHL) on anxiety in adolescents are needed. This study aimed to test the primary outcome of a future full-scale trial: improvement of adolescents’ anxiety MHL components on recognition, prevention strategies, and self-help strategies. A sample of 38 adolescents, 24 (63.2%) females and 14 (36.8%) males, with an average age of 14.50 years (SD = 0.89) participated in this study. Each class was allocated to the intervention group (IG, n = 21) or the waiting list control group (WLCG, n = 17) with single-blinded randomization. MHL was assessed using the QuALiSMental. The ProLiSMental psychoeducational intervention consists of four or eight weekly sessions of 90 or 45 min for adolescents, using different active pedagogical methods and techniques. There also are initial and final sessions with adolescents, legal guardians, and teachers. There was a significant improvement with a small to relatively strong effect size in many dimensions of anxiety MHL components. This study suggests the progression to the full-scale trial and values the important role of mental health and psychiatric nurses in the adolescents’ empowerment for MHL in schools.This work is financially supported by National Funds through FCT—Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P., under the project UIDB/04279/2020

The role of community-based participatory research in mental healthpromotion

R E S U M O - A saúde mental é imprescindível ao desenvolvimento social e económico das comunidades. Envolver as comunidades no desenho e desenvolvimento de planos locais de promoção da saúde mental é um importante desafio para garantir mais e melhor saúde mental a cada comunidade. De 2009 a 2012 desenvolveu-se um estudo de caso baseado nos pressupostos de uma investigação participada de base comunitária numa comunidade urbana da região metropolitana de Lisboa, com o objetivo de fundamentar o desenho de um plano local de promoção da saúde mental local. O resultado deste trabalho de parceria, que envolveu habitantes e organizações governamentais e não-governamentais da comunidade urbana, fundamentado na capacitação individual e comunitária da comunidade e dos seus membros, confirmou a necessidade de uma participação ativa e efetiva da comunidade no desenvolvimento de políticas locais de promoção da saúde e concluiu pela definição de 6 eixos estratégicos de intervenção pelo período temporal 2012/2015: uma escola com saúde mental; uma comunidade ativa e segura; uma comunidade solidária e inclusiva; uma comunidade atenta; uma organização económico-laboral promotora de saúde mental; uma senioridade mentalmente saudável.A B S T R A C T – Mental health is essential to community social and economic development. Involving com-munities in the design and development of mental health promotion local plans is a majorchallenge to ensure more and better mental health in each community.From 2009 to 2012 a case study was developed based on the assumptions of a community-based participatory research in an urban community in the metropolitan area of Lisbon, inorder to support the design of a mental health promotion local plan. The result of this partnership, which involved inhabitants and governmental and nongovernmental organizations of the urban community, based on individual and community empowerment of the community and its members, confirmed the need for an active and effective participation of the community in the development of health promotion local policies and concluded by defining six strategic areas of intervention between 2012 and 2015: a school with mental health, an active and safe community, a supportive and inclusive community, a community aware, an organization promoting economic and work mental health, a seniority mentally healthy.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Interventions for caregivers of heart disease patients in rehabilitation: scoping review

Map the interventions/components directed to the caregivers of heart disease patients in cardiac rehabilitation programs that promote their role and health. Methods: The Joanna Briggs Institute method was used to guide this scoping review. Two independent reviewers assessed articles for relevance and extracted and synthesized data. Inclusion criteria comprised articles published in English, Spanish, and Portuguese since 1950. The following databases were searched: CINAHL Complete (Via EBSCO), Medline (via PubMed), Scopus, PEDro, and Repositórios Científicos de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (RCAAP). Results: From 351 articles retrieved, 10 were included in the review. The interventions identified directed to the caregiver were: educational interventions and lifestyle changes; physical exercise; psychological interventions/stress management; and a category “Other” with training interventions in basic life support, elaboration of guidelines/recommendations, and training for the role of caregiver. Conclusions: It was found that most of the related cardiac rehabilitation interventions are aimed at the dyad heart failure patient and their caregivers/family. Including specific interventions targeting caregivers improves the caregiver’s health and empowers them. Patient care planning should include interventions specifically aimed at them that result in health gains for caregivers and patients, striving to improve the quality of care. This study was not registered.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Using ICT to enhance the online research supervision process

Online research supervision is a relatively new and evolving process due to changes in university at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. New models of research supervision include different research supervisor and student roles and entail the constitution of online research communities regarding common goals. Even though the potential of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for shaping the supervision processes is undeniable, literature related to this issue is still scarce. This article presents a case study about the use of ICT to enhance the online research supervision process. ICT was used for content delivery and sharing, and to facilitate the interaction between postgraduate students and a supervisor, as well as between the students. Based on the supervisor’s reflections, key positive and negative factors are also systematised