The wedding of Prince Charles and Camilla Parker-Bowles: royal mediation and press mediatization

Bearing in mind the relationship between discourse and society at large, this article addresses the way the British monarchy represented Charles’s second marriage and the way the media constructed their accounts in the period from 10 February (announcement) until 9 April 2005 (wedding) in relation to wider issues such as power relations, newspaper economic structures and popular culture. Particular attention is paid to the multifunctional features of discourse (i.e. its ideational, interpersonal and textual functions), which requires a contextualized reading of a dual process of mediation: on the one hand, the staging of the ceremony by St. James’s Palace and its strategy for attaining monologic closure and, on the other hand, discursive representations by the British press open to a polyphony of voices and discursive frames

O “Programa de Generalização das Actividades de Enriquecimento Curricular” como instrumento de regulação da política educativa

A partir de uma abordagem pela “análise das políticas públicas”problema público, tendo como fonte os textos e os discursos oficiais do Governo e de outros actores, pretende-se ensaiar um quadro explicativo para a génese das medidas de generalização do alargamento do horário das escolas do 1.º ciclo e das actividades de enriquecimento curricular (AEC), procurando desocultar as situações problemáticas que lhes estão subjacentes e justificar a sua “entrada” na “agenda política”. Neste processo releva-se o papel dos actores enquanto “empreendedores”, na definição das políticas públicas de educação. Focusing on the public policy analysis, a framework to explain the genesis of the generalization of the extension of school day and curriculum enrichment activities (CEA) in primary schools (1st Cycle) is provided, trying to make clear the problems underneath, as well as to justify their ‘entry’ in the ‘policy agenda’. The inquiry is based on the texts and discourse of government and other stakeholders. In this process the actors’ role is emphasized as "entrepreneurs" in the definition of the public policies for education