Os registos religiosos - o acervo da Pousada dos Lóios (Évora): Um caso de estudo

A presente dissertação de mestrado em Gestão e Valorização do Património Histórico e Cultural assenta num estudo de caso: o acervo dos registos religiosos da Pousada dos Lóios, em Évora. Ao longo dos quatro capítulos que a constituem, procuramos explicar o que são os registos religiosos, qual a sua dimensão e riqueza patrimonial e cultural, analisamos os vários aspectos que os definem, e propomos dois planos de acção para a sua salvaguarda, conservação e valorização. Neste contexto cruzamos o mundo da religiosidade popular em busca da fé que dá azo à criação dos registos religiosos, e o da história da gravura artística, uma vez que a gravura é o elemento fulcral, a imagem da religiosidade e do registo religioso; investigamos a presença da denominada arte popular no contexto da religiosidade, da história da arte e da sociedade; procedemos à elaboração do inventário do acervo, à respectiva catalogação e análise. Por último, apresentamos uma proposta de exposição como forma de valorização complementar para os registos religiosos da Pousada dos Lóios. ABSTRACT; The following dissertation of master's degree in Management and Valorization of the Historic and Cultural Patrimony is based on a case study of the assets of the religious registers of the Pousada dos Lóios in Évora. Through the four chapters that constitute it, we try to explain what are the religious registers, its dimension and patrimonial and cultural value, we analyze the many aspects that define them, and we propose two plans of action to its protection, conservation and valorization. ln this context we cross the world of popular religiosity in search of the faith that gives birth to the creation of religious registers, and the history of the artistic illustration, since the illustration is the central element, the image of religiosity and of the religious register; we investigate the presence of the so called popular art in the context of religiosity, in the history of art and in society; we elaborate an inventory of the assets, the respective cataloguing and analysis. At last, we present proposal of exposition as a way of complementary valorization of the religious registers of the Pousada dos Lóios.

"Os Conflitos ambientais em Portugal (1974-2015): uma breve retrospectiva"

In this chapter, the authors made a survey of the research undertaken by social scientists and their reflections on environmental conflicts in Portugal. In these, a critical discourse has emerged concerning, on the one hand, the weak public environmental awareness, and, on the other, the progressive obliteration of environmental movements and their institutionalization throughout the creation of different environmental groups and the incorporation of the “environment” in legislation and in political discourse. In a brief retrospective, we review several conflicts taking into account different relevant factors: level of mobilization, media attention received, organization, impact, and ideological reference they have had in Portugal since the seventies. We have particularly highlighted the movement against nuclear energy and the construction of dams, the pollution caused by intensive breeding, the expansion of eucalyptus plantations, the conflicts against “wild” forms of mining, the business of toxic waste, the expansion of the economy of the concrete, the installation of landfills, and the defense of the natural heritage. This survey has considered three periods: the 1970s, marked by the emergence and performance of ecological movements of different ideological extraction; the second half of the 1980s, marked by the institutionalization of the environment and the imposition of a new legal framework with impact on environmental policies resulting from the integration into the European Economic Community; and finally, a third period, from the 1990s to present, marked by increasing environmental media coverage, with a particular emphasis on environmental conflicts in a context of an increasing liberalization of economic activities and the expansion of extraction and of the concrete economy. This is also the period where the environment emerges in disputes over the uses of the territory as economic and asset value. Most of these conflicts arise from the activities of local agents or national environmental groups that quickly gain strong local roots and sometimes even have some success. However, their impact on the national and Community legislation seems to be less relevant.

Conflitos ambientais e progresso técnico na indústria mineira e metalúrgica em Portugal (1858-1938)

This chapter explores the relationship between environmental conflicts and technical progress, trying to understand, in the case of large mines of the Iberian Pyrite Belt, in Alentejo, how emerging environmental problems conditioned the performance or led to the search for alternative technical solutions, taking as chronological limit for this observation the beginning of World War II. In the absence of the archives of the companies, the research was based on existing administrative documents in the state archives (mining engineers reports, the licensing of mining activities), on reports and documents published in specialized mining press, in particular, the Bulletin of the Ministry of Public Works, Trade and Industry, the Journal of Public Works, Trade and Industry (both in Portuguese), and finally in the local press. Despite that limitation, the information available shows that in global competition markets, the success of the British enterprise in Santo Domingo had the active search for new technical solutions for the creation and adaptation of existing knowledge to local problems in order to maximize the mineral resources available. The early development of the hydrometallurgical processes for the treatment of poor ores, named ‘natural cementation’, can be explained as the way these companies tried to solve problems of competitiveness, boosting economies of scale. Thus, they transferred the environmental costs previously limited to agriculture to more fragile social groups, the poor fishermen of Guadiana River and of Vila Real de Santo António. Therefore, the hydrometallurgy of pyrites was developed locally, pioneered in Santo Domingo that allowed the survival and expansion of the British company from the late 1870s, that is, at a time when most small mines shut since they were not able to compete globally. Through different consented and regulated processes (judicial), through conflict or parliamentary mediation, the State imposed exceptionally additional costs to companies, either for compensation, the imposing the application of remediation measures to reduce the environmental damage in some cases, thus contributing to derail some projects. These cases suggest that the interaction between local conflicts, corporate behavior and technological progress proves to be complex. This article aims to contribute to the debate on economic and social history between the environment and technological progress, arguing that the fixed costs and economic imponderable social risks were factors that encouraged the companies to search for new solutions and to introduce innovations since that would allow the expansion of their activity. In this process the companies sometimes faced environmental dilemmas and unforeseen costs with consequences on the economy of firms. The nature of the knowledge needed to address the environmental problems they created, however, is of a very different nature from that knowledge needed to face the environmental burdens that were inherent to the development of its activity.

O passado e o presente nos conflitos ambientais na indústria mineira e metalúrgica

This chapter reflects on several forthcoming key topics on environmental social conflits in historical perspective, namely, the relationship between the expansion of extractivism and the reactive and preemptive conflicts, the role of scientists and scientific discourses on social mobilization, the environmental movements and the empowerment of the poor, the strategic response behavior of large mining corporations. The conclusive analysis looks for continuities and contrasts between contemporary environmental conflicts and the conflicts of the past, often identified as 'peasant conflicts' over industrial polution.

Recursos geológicos na construção de monumentos religiosos: Uma investigaçãoação com alunos do ensino secundário de Viseu

A geologia pode dar um contributo importante para a educação científica dos cidadãos, permitindo que estes reconheçam utilidade na ciência escolar para a resolução de problemas que os afetam e que afligem as sociedades em que participam. Os ambientes exteriores à sala de aula são, modernamente, reconhecidos como espaços de aprendizagem potenciadores do desenvolvimento de competências científicas e da compreensão da utilidade e importância do conhecimento científico e tecnológico nas sociedades atuais. Neste trabalho apresenta-se um percurso de aprendizagem que foi implementado na disciplina de Geologia, integrado na temática “A Terra, ontem, hoje e amanhã”, que mobilizou para o contexto educativo problemáticas locais relacionadas com o modo como foram utilizados, ao longo do tempo, recursos geológicos na construção de monumentos religiosos na região de Viseu.

Gestão da Sala de Aula: Perspetiva Psicoeducacional

A informação que aparece sistematizada neste capítulo tem como finalidade o estudo da gestão da sala de aula pelos professores, apresentando perspetivas teóricas e investigações empíricas que permitam a sua compreensão e promoção, à luz de contributos situados, sobretudo, no âmbito da Psicologia da Educação. Depois de uma primeira parte a incidir na teoria, apresenta-se uma segunda parte dedicada à investigação e uma terceira parte de aplicação prática. Na primeira parte, as competências de gestão da sala de aula são consideradas na sua multi- dimensionalidade, gestão de conteúdos, gestão de comportamentos e gestão de conflitos. Competências comunicacionais na gestão da sala de aula são descritas no âmbito do Modelo Comunicacional Eclético (MCE), dado que este modelo fornece conceitos, procedimentos e estratégias que, pela sua abrangência e facilidade de aplicação, agilizam a compreensão dos processos que caraterizam as interações na sala de aula. Competências de organização dos espaços e dos tempos aparecem também contempladas, no âmbito da teorização apresentada. Na segunda parte, descreve-se um conjunto de investigações acerca da gestão da sala de aula, diferenciadas em estudos de caraterização e de avaliação, estudos sobre a gestão da sala de aula como variável independente, e estudos sobre a gestão da sala de aula como variável dependente. Na terceira parte, incluem-se propostas de atividades mais práticas e, ainda, sugestões de leitura de aprofundamento do tema gestão da sala de aula, bem como indicações de recursos online.