Percepções dos professores acerca da sua motivação docente e da indisciplina dos seus alunos na sala de aula : um estudo realizado com professores das escolas básicas e secundárias da cidade de FaroJorge Guerreiro Rego Bispo de Sousa

Várias são as causas, apontadas por diversos autores e também pelos professores inquiridos neste estudo, para a (des)motivação dos professores (pessoais, pedagógicas, económicas, políticas, administrativas, históricas, massificação e democratização do ensino, etc.) e também para a (in)disciplina dos alunos em contexto de sala de aula (pessoais, familiares, nível sócio-económico, relação com professores, relações com colegas, culturais, raciais, drogas, etc.). Apesar de não serem estatisticamente significativos, os resultados encontrados na presente pesquisa apontam no sentido de não haver relação entre a motivação do professor e a indisciplina dos seus alunos na sala de aula, ficando o estudo em aberto para novas investigações. Esta tendência manifestou-se nas amostras globais do pré-estudo (30 professores) e do estudo (116) e nas subamostras do estudo por tipos de escola (básica e secundária), por cada uma das seis escolas estudadas, por ciclos e anos de escolaridade e por áreas disciplinares. ABSTRACT: There are several causes, mentioned by many authors and also by the teachers inquired in this study, for the (none)motivation of teachers (personal, educational, economic, political, administrative, historical, massification and democratization of education and so on) and also for the (in)discipline of the students in the context of the classroom (personal, family, social­ economic level, relations with teachers, relations with colleagues, cultural, racial, drugs and so on). Although not statistically significant, the results of this research suggest there is no relation between teacher's motivation and their pupils' indiscipline in the classroom, so the study remains opened for new researches. This trend manifested itself in the global samples of the first study (30 teachers) and the main study (116) and in partial samples of this study for type of school (basic and secondary), for each one of the six studied schools, for cycles and years of schoolarity and for discipline areas.

The Political and Social Dynamics of Poverty, Poor Relief and Health Care in Early-Modern Portugal

By the end of the fifteenth century most European countries had witnessed a profound reformation of their poor relief and health care policies. As this book demonstrates, Portugal was among them and actively participated in such reforms. Providing the first English language monograph on this topic, Laurinda Abreu examines the Portuguese experience and places it within the broader European context. She shows that, in line with much that was happening throughout the rest of Europe, Portugal had not only set up a systematic reform of the hospitals but had also developed new formal arrangements for charitable and welfare provision that responded to the changing socioeconomic framework, the nature of poverty and the concerns of political powers. The defining element of the Portuguese experience was the dominant role played by a new lay confraternity, the confraternity of the Misericórdia, created under the auspices of King D. Manuel I in 1498. By the time of the king's death in 1521 there were more than 70 Misericórdias in Portugal and its empire, and by 1640, more than 300. All of them were run according to a unified set of rules and principles with identical social objectives. Based upon a wealth of primary source documentation, this book reveals how the sixteenth-century Portuguese crown succeeded in implementing a national poor relief and health care structure, with the support of the Papacy and local elites, and funded principally through pious donations. This process strengthened the authority of the royal government at a time which coincided with the emergence of the early modern state. In so doing, the book establishes poor relief and public health alongside military, diplomatic and administrative authorities, as the pillars of centralisation of royal power.

Territorialisation and power in Portuguese America. The creation of comarcas (16th-18th centuries)

The general aim of this article is to analyse the political organisation of the territory in Portuguese America from the start of the building up of the Crown judiciary system from in the 16th to the 18th centuries and to look into the causes of its belatedness in comparison to what happened in Spanish America. The focus will however be on the comarcas through the reconstitution of the process leading to the setting up of these judiciary divisions. Four stages of this process will be identified and discussion will ensue over the social and political contexts in which these political and administrative novelties came to happen. It is claimed that the delay in the structuring of the judicial network in the States of Brazil and Maranhão stems from the fact that the Portuguese advance into the territories took place at a later stage. The comparisons between the two systems will also bring other differences to the fore, not least the greater rigidity of the Spanish model in contrast to the more experimental character of the Portuguese one, and the resilience found to exist in the donatarial system. It is also worth to point out that given solutions were the result of the will of central power as much as of local initiative, and it is suggested that the building up of the crown’s political apparatus (in which the judiciary network is included) brought about the connivance,albeit ephemeral, of social interests which are considered contradictory or irreconcilable by some authors.