Do Sucesso Escolar à Educação do Fracasso Violência Escolar e Consciência Crítica nas Representações Sociais dos Professores e Alunos de duas Escolas Públicas do Ensino Secundário

Nossa pergunta de partida é como os professores(as) e alunos(as) do Ensino Secundário de duas escolas públicas do Concelho de Cascais definem o fenómeno da violência escolar, o conceito de educação para a consciência crítica, o sucesso e insucesso escolar; como relacionam esses conceitos? Adoptamos a concepção teórica de Paulo Freire sobre a pedagogia do oprimido e a pedagogia da autonomia. O nosso corpus foi constituído pelos discursos de uma amostra não representativa de docentes e estudantes, recolhidos por meio de entrevistas semi-estruturadas. Concluímos que o conformismo é um reflexo das representações sociais dos atores educativos. Isto está explícito nas suas convicções de afirmação pela busca do sucesso escolar sob o modelo competitivo de educação neoliberal, e, sobretudo, por entenderem por bem que esse “ideal” deve ser conquistado, revelando maioritariamente uma concepção do processo educativo semelhante ao classificado por Paulo Freire como “educação bancária”. Ainda assim, encontrámos algumas definições bem articuladas por uma minoria de professores e alunos, que equacionam o conceito de consciência crítica com a relação educativa, mas sem que isso lhes permita articular um discurso alternativo sobre o sucesso e a violência.

Impact of social economic indicators on RSI incidence and success

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

Key success factors of replicated social businesses

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

Case study - Herdade Vale da Rosa – The fruits of passion: The role of a positive entrepreneur vision in the success of an organization from a depressed sector and region

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

Return on entrepreneurial passion: A study of funding success and timely delivery in crowdfunding

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

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

Determinants of success of Nova SBE’s undergraduate students

Applied Policy Analysis major

Predictors of student success: a study of Portuguese Higher Education graduates

Work Projected presented in the context of a Directed Research Internship at the Directorate-General of Statistics of the Portuguese Ministry of Education, and as part of the requirements for the Award of a Masters Degree in Economics from the NOVA - School of Business and Economics

Success in higher education

This paper analyses the determinants of success of undergraduate Nova SBE students from 2008 to 2011. We account for the question of selection that is likely to occur when we just observe the success of those students who were admitted and enrolled at school. The main result of our empirical analysis is that the high school score appears to be a stronger predictor of the students´ success than the national Math’s exam score. In addition, the evidence also suggests that male students tend to have a better performance in Economics than female students and displaced management students have more difficulties in terms of their scores. Finally, it does not seem to exist a strong visible difference on the final GPA between students from public and private schools.

Changing representations and practices in school mathematics: the case of Modern Math in Portugal

The curricular movement known as Modern Mathematics aimed at the transformation of representations and practices in school mathematics. Its study provides us with ways of understanding how these changes came about. The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the understanding of the ways in which representations of school mathematics gradually were influenced by ideas from the Modern Mathematics movement, how these new ideas merged into local educational traditions, and how they were transformed into meaningful practice. This work is centred on the Portuguese context from the middle 1950s to the middle 1960s, and builds on Chervel’s notion of school culture and Gruzinski’s discussion of connected histories.

Genomic and transcriptomic features of Chlamydia trachomatis. Tracking the basis for the ecological success

Dissertation presented to obtain a Ph.D degree in Biology, speciality in Molecular Genetics, by Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia

RAISING INTERCULTURAL AWARENESS AT PRIMARY LEVEL THROUGH STORYTELLING WITHIN A CLIL APPROACH

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

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

Internationalization strategy: HOLOS Mobile - Angola

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

H3 internationalization to Brazil

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