Characterization and identification of printed objects

A study about the physical appearance of pre-photographic, photomechanical, photographic and digital positive reflective prints was made, relating the obtained images with the history, materials and technology used to create them. The studied samples are from the Image Permanence Institute (IPI) study collection. The digital images were obtained using a digital SLR on a copystand and a compound light microscope, with different lighting angles (0º, 45ºand 90º) and magnifications from overall views on the copystand down to a 20x objective lens on the microscope. Most of these images were originally created by IPI for www.digitalsamplebook.org, a web tool for teaching print identification, and will be used on the www.graphicsatlas.org website, along with textual information on identification, technology and history information about these reproduction processes.

Children, space, and the urban street: an ethnomathematics posture

Dissertation presented for the PhD Degree in Education Science – Curricular Theory and Science Teaching, by Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia

Photographic source for the history of portuguese-speaking Africa, 1870-1914

History in Africa, n.18, pág.67-82

The discovery of three lost ‘Salting’ carpets: science as a tool for revealing their history

Thesis presented at the Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, to obtain a Master degree in Conservation and Restoration,Specialization in Textiles

The visual image in Epiphanic Short History

The visual image is a fundamental component of epiphany, stressing its immediacy and vividness, corresponding to the enargeia of the traditional ekphrasis and also playing with cultural and social meanings. Morris Beja in his seminal book Epiphany in the Modern Novel, draws our attention to the distinction made by Joyce between the epiphany originated in a common object, in a discourse or gesture and the one arising in “a memorable phase of the mind itself”. This type materializes in the “dream-epiphany” and in the epiphany based in memory. On the other hand, Robert Langbaum in his study of the epiphanic mode, suggests that the category of “visionary epiphany” could account for the modern effect of an internally glowing vision like Blake’s “The Tyger”, which projects the vitality of a real tyger. The short story, whose length renders it a fitting genre for the use of different types of epiphany, has dealt with the impact of the visual image in this technique, to convey different effects and different aesthetic aims. This paper will present some examples of this occurrence in short stories of authors in whose work epiphany is a fundamental concept and literary technique: Walter Pater, Joseph Conrad, K. Mansfield, Clarice Lispector. Pater’s “imaginary portraits” concentrate on “priviledged moments” of the lives of the characters depicting their impressions through pictorial language; Conrad tries to show “moments of awakening” that can be remembered by the eye; Mansfield suggests that epiphany, the “glimpse”, should replace plot as an internal ordering principle of her impressionist short-stories; in C. Lispector the visualization of some situations is so aggressive that it causes nausea and a radical revelation on the protagonist’s.

Developing writing skills in English language teaching through the use of blogs and e-mail at primary school level

Trabalho de Projeto apresentado para cumprimento dos requisitos necessários à obtenção do grau de Mestre em Teaching English as a Second / Foreign Language

Training and discovering corpus-based data driven exercices in english teaching (L2/FL) to native speakers of portuguese (L1)

Project submitted as part requirement for the degree of Masters in English teaching,

The role of literature: english textbooks and literature in secondary teaching in Portugal

Trabalho de Projecto apresentado para cumprimento dos requisitos necessários à obtenção do grau de Mestre em Ensino de Inglês

Troia Roman baths (Portugal) – Assessment of history of interventions

International Seminar in Conservation. A Tribute to Cesari Brandi. Lisboa, LNEC, May 2006, p.273-282

Codeship: Financing growth: Case study and Teaching note

A Work Project, presented as part of the requirements for the Award of a Masters Degree in Management from the NOVA – School of Business and Economics

Making connections: engineering and language issues in teaching english for specific purposes

Tese apresentada para cumprimento dos requisitos necessários à obtenção do grau de Doutor em Línguas, Literaturas e Culturas

Improving Learners’ Motivation through Feedback in English Language Teaching and Learning at Polytechnic School in Benguela, Angola

Currently, it is widely perceived among the English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teaching professionals, that motivation is a central factor for success in language learning. This work aims to examine and raise teachers’ awareness about the role of assessment and feedback in the process of language teaching and learning at polytechnic school in Benguela to develop and/or enhance their students’ motivation for learning. Hence the paper defines and discusses the key terms and, the techniques and strategies for an effective feedback provision in the context under study. It also collects data through the use of interview and questionnaire methods, and suggests the assessment and feedback types to be implemented at polytechnic school in Benguela

Educação para o Empreendedorismo: Uma prática no ensino da História e da Geografia

Este relatório reflete a experiência vivida durante a Prática de Ensino Supervisionada efetuada no âmbito do Mestrado em Ensino da História e da Geografia, no 3.º Ciclo do Ensino Básico e no Ensino Secundário. Descreve as atividades desenvolvidas nas turmas de 2.º ano de Instalação e Operação de Sistemas Informáticos (Curso de Educação e Formação) e 9.º3 da Escola Secundária 2,3 de Alvide e 8.ºD e 9.º C na Escola Secundária da Quinta do Marquês, no ano letivo de 2013/2014. O presente relatório encontra-se estruturado em três capítulos essenciais. No primeiro são abordados os seguintes temas: i) uma breve contextualização da temática; i) uma reflexão acerca da importância da Educação para o Empreendedorismo para as necessidades de educação e formação do mundo atual; iii) exemplos de práticas no sistema educativo português; iv) reflexão acerca dos contributos de um ambiente construtivista de aprendizagem, como uma das várias estratégias a adotar numa formação orientada para as competências-chave da Educação para o Empreendedorismo, com ênfase no trabalho cooperativo, aplicado durante as práticas letivas. Nos dois capítulos seguintes são abordadas as Práticas de Ensino Supervisionadas em Geografia e em História, respetivamente. Nestes capítulos surgem: i) um breve enquadramento e caracterização das escolas e turmas onde decorreram as práticas letivas. As referidas caracterizações foram efetuadas com base em inquéritos por questionário, aplicados aos alunos, orientados para a temática e que permitiram traçar o seu perfil académico e familiar e conhecer os seus planos de futuro profissional; ii) Descrição das práticas letivas desenvolvidas, estratégias implementadas orientadas para a Educação para o Empreendedorismo, materiais utilizados e resultados obtidos. A Educação para o Empreendedorismo consiste na prática pedagógica central aplicada nas referidas turmas, tendo estas, pelas suas caraterísticas, contribuído para o desenvolvimento das competências-chave que estão na sua base, tais como: o trabalho em equipa, o espírito crítico e de iniciativa, a resolução autónoma de problemas, a responsabilidade e a criatividade.

The good, the bad and the ugly: The fall and resolution of Banco Espírito Santo

This case study – and accompanying teaching note – briefly describes the history of the Espírito Santo family, a banking dynasty who led one of Portugal’s leading economic and financial groups, along with its “crown jewel”, Banco Espírito Santo. It chronicles how the corporate governance issues at BES allowed the family to exploit the bank, its shareholders and its customers, so as to support its unprofitable non-financial businesses. This left the bank in a poor financial situation, which deteriorated beyond control, leaving regulators – whose actions are also analysed here – with no alternative, amidst a severe liquidity crisis, but to apply a resolution measure, pinning large losses on junior bondholders and shareholders before recapitalising the bank.