Corruption and Education: Empirical evidence from cross-country micro-data

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

Atmosfera moral da escola: condições para a promoção do desenvolvimento ético

Tese de doutoramento em Ciências da Educação: área de Educação e Desenvolvimento

Learning in higher education: strategies to overcome challenges faced by adult students – lessons drawn from two case studies in Portugal

This paper appears in International Journal of Information and Communication Technology Education edited by Lawrence A. Tomei (Ed.) Copyright 2007, IGI Global, www.igi-global.com. Posted by permission of the publisher. URL:http://www.idea-group.com/journals/details.asp?id=4287.

Distance continuing education for enterprises in European Universities

Proceedings of EDEN 10th Anniversary Conference, 10-13 June 2001 Stockholm, Sweden

Environmental impact assessment in higher education and training in Portugal

Journal of Cleaner Production, nº 16, p. 639-645

The development of a knowledge-based society - Challenges for e-learning and adult students in higher education

This chapter appears in Encyclopaedia of Distance Learning 2nd Edition edit by Rogers, P.; Berg, Gary; Boettecher, Judith V.; Howard, Caroline; Justice, Lorraine; Schenk, Karen D.. Copyright 2009, IGI Global, www.igi-global.com. Posted by permission of the publisher. URL: http://www.igi-global.com/reference/ details.asp?ID=9703&v=tableOfContents

Building a knowledge and learning society in Portugal - Adult students in technological schools and higher education institutions

Chapter in Merrill, Barbara (ed.) (2009) Learning to Change? The Role of Identity and Learning Careers in Adult Education. Hamburg: Peter Lang Publishers. URL: http://www.peterlang.com/ index.cfm?vID=58279&vLang=E&vHR=1&vUR=2&vUUR=1

The moral status of animals within the framework of Peter Singer's preference utilitarianism

Dissertação apresentada para cumprimento dos requisitos necessários à obtenção do grau de Mestre em Filosofia

A filosofia moral em acção: construção e transmissão do conhecimento filosófico

Quando nos propusemos participar nos Encontros Interdisciplinares, tínhamos entendido o seu teor como correspondendo a uma vontade de reflexão sobre os processos epistemológicos que sustentam e legitimam a importância e o alcance da investigação na Universidade. Para nós, tratar-se- -ia de discudr as modalidades de construção e de transmissão do conhecimento, nas várias áreas científicas, do que, eventualmente, resultaria tanto o reconhecimento de proximidades e divergências, quanto uma crítica da sujeição da racionalidade inquiridora aos limites impostos pela racionalidade polídca. Assim, supusemos oportuno debater a confusão disseminada entre uma certa concepção da acção polídca, incluindo a política científica, e a acção cognitiva. Para o efeito, demos conta de um mal-estar causado pelo pressuposto de que o modelo comunicativo interactivo, assente na analogia entre socialização e direito processual, por via da confiança nos procedimentos, modalidade "fraca" da categoria marxista de "praxis", mas, supostamente, melhor ajustada à descrição das formas de regulação e normalização da convivência democrática, pode ser transposto, com resultados garantidos, mediante variações de escala e de instrumentos crídcos, para o domínio da investigação. A origem desse sendmento reside no facto de ficar por formalizar a pergunta sobre a escala das escalas, não com o propósito de impor uma meta-escala, mas de compreender o sentido dos procedimentos praticados.

Program Catapultas: Education for development in Bairro Padre Cruz

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

Education for sustainable development – How are Portuguese children being educated in order to become responsible consumers

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

The use of corpora to the teach english as a foreign language in secondary education in Portugal

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

Conference on Enabling Teachers for Entrepreneurship Education

The Conference on Enabling Teachers for Entrepreneurship Education (ENTENP2013) in Initial Teacher Education (ITE) will be held at the Guarda Polytechnic Institute (GPI) in Guarda on 7/8 June 2013. We expect delegates from all the Portuguese Higher Education Institutions and the EU Member States, as well as Pre-Accession Countries and countries participating in the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme (CIP). ENTENP 2013 addresses to all practitioners from the area of teacher education and entrepreneurship education, but also the early stage adopters of education in entrepreneurship. The conference is jointly organized by Guarda Polytechnic Institute with the collaboration of Castelo Branco Polytechnic Institute, Viana do Castelo Polytechnic Institute and Universidade Nova de Lisboa and shall be hosted by the European Commission and GPI. The purpose of the event is to discuss burning questions and exchange good practice examples in the field of enabling teachers for entrepreneurship education and looking at possible areas of development and cooperation.

Public funding of higher education: who gains, who loses?

This paper analyses the effects of public funding of higher education on the welfare of the different agents. It takes into account the hierarchical nature of the educational system and also the fact that parents always have the possibility to complement basic public education with private expenditures in individual tutoring. It is obtained that although public funding implies a larger access to higher education it is always the case that some of the agents that gain access lose in welfare terms. Moreover, it is shown that the marginal agent to access university would always prefer a pure private funding system. Thus, when studying the effects of public funding of higher education, we can not identify gaining access to University with an increase in welfare. Finally, I consider a funding system where only those that send their o¤spring to university support the funding of higher education.