Educação crítica e desenvolvimento de uma cidadania multi-étnica : uma perspectiva da Europa do Sul

Este artigo centra-se na problemática da multi-etnicidade na Europa do Sul. A sua importância decorre dessa realidade que é a imigração, uma característica das mudanças demográficas verificadas nesta parte do mundo, que coloca significativos desafios a uma pedagogia crítica inspirada em Freire. Um certo número de desafios são sublinhados e, a partir dos escritos de Freire, deriva para uma pedagogia crítica que coloca a ênfase no diálogo religioso e inter-étnico e na compreensão intercultural.

Technology enhanced learning and augmented reality : an application on multimedia interactive books

Multimedia Interactive Book (miBook) reflects the development of a new concept of virtual interpretation of traditional text books and audio-visual content. By encompassing new technological approaches, using augmented reality technology, allows the final user to experience a variety of sensorial stimuli while enjoying and interacting with the content; therefore enhancing the learning process. miBook stands for a global educational intention to enable people not only to access but also to appropriate intellectually valuable contents coming from different linguistic and cultural contexts.

The potential of digital interactive television for the provision of healthcare and wellness services

The potential of digital interactive television (iDTV) to promote original services, formats and contents that can be relevant to support personal health care and wellness of individuals, namely elderly people, has not been yet fully explored in the past. Therefore, in a context of rapid change of the technological resources, in which the distribution and presentation of content comes associated with new platforms (such as digital terrestrial TV and IPTV), it is important to perceive the configurations that are being developed for interactive digital TV (iDTV) that may result in relevant outcomes within the field of healthcare and wellness, with the aim of offering complementarity to the existing services and contents made available today via the traditional means and media. This article describes and discusses the preliminary results of the first part of the research project iDTV-HEALTH: Inclusive services to promote health and wellness via digital interactive television. These first results suggest that iDTV solutions may represent a real contribution to delivery healthcare and wellness to the target population, namely as a supplement to health services provision.