Perdão e Esperança Na Promoção Da Saúde Mental Do Sénior

As sociedades modernas são estruturas duplamente envelhecidas, caracterizadas por uma maior longevidade dos seus membros e por uma menor taxa de natalidade, o que torna necessário a conjugação de esforços multidisciplinares para minorar as consequências desta realidade. Envelhecer com saúde, autonomia, independência, o mais tempo possível, constitui assim, hoje, um desafio à responsabilidade individual e colectiva. Com este estudo pretendeu-se conhecer de que forma é que o desenvolvimento das competências emocionais (perdão, esperança) é promotor da saúde mental do sénior. Teve como apoio uma metodologia empírica, exploratória e transversal, e como suporte análise de conteúdo e pesquisas bibliográficas. A amostra utilizada neste estudo é uma amostra de conveniência e é constituída por indivíduos residentes no Algarve (Portimão) e Alentejo (Vidigueira e Beja), composta de 82 idosos com idades compreendidas entre os 65 a 85 anos, sendo 31 do sexo masculino e 51 do sexo feminino. A recolha de informação foi efectuada através da aplicação de três instrumentos aos respectivos inqueridos: a escala sobre o Perdão (Oliveira, J.H. B., 2002); a escala de Esperança Estado (Snyder et al., 1996; Faria, M.C., 2000) – versão portuguesa; “Inventário Depressivo” (Beck, A. T., 1967), versão portuguesa de (Vaz-Serra, A. & Pio Abreu, J. L., 1973). Os resultados da aplicação dos instrumentos permitiram concluir que não houve influências do género, da idade e das habilitações académicas. Constatou-se que não existem correlações significativas entre os totais dos instrumentos. As análises efectuadas expõem valores significativos que nos permitem concluir que quanto maior é o perdão, maior é a esperança e maior é a depressão, por outro lado, quanto maior é a depressão menor é a esperança. Assim, coloca-se um desafio à Psicologia da Saúde: intervir na educação de idosos e na formação dos cuidadores dos mesmos.

Cape Verdean in education

This paper illustrates haw the cape verdean evolved from being oral to gaining written representation.

An ASsessment of Relationship between Students' Perception of Social Studies and their Academic Performance in Colleges of Education in Kaduna State

The objective of this study was to find out the relationship between students’ perception of Social Studies and their academic performance in the subject in Colleges of Education in Kaduna State. The respondents of the study comprised NCE 2 and NCE 3 students of Social Studies at the Federal College of Education in Zaria and the Kaduna State College of Education in Gidan Waya. The data for the study was collected using a questionnaire with reliability coefficient of 0.87. The Pearson’s Product Moment Correlation Coefficient was used to test the hypotheses formulated for the study. The hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance with df = 232. The findings were as follows: 1. The Social Studies students in colleges of education in Kaduna State do not record high academic performance in the subject. 2. Students’ perception of the Social Studies curriculum does affect their academic performance in the subject 3. Students’ perception of relevance of Social Studies education has no bearing on their academic performance in the subject. 4. Students’ perception of public attitude towards Social Studies has no impact on their academic performance in the subject. 5. Students’ general perception of Social Studies does not affect their academic performance in the subject. Based on these findings the following recommendations were proffered for Social Studies researchers and policy makers. a. There is need for further research in order to determine the actual cause of students’ failure to display high performance in Social Studies. b. The NCE Social Studies curriculum should be reviewed in terms of volume and difficulty.

Girls’ Education: Keeping Girls in School. ( A Literature Review with Implications for Girls’ School Attendence in Cape Verde)

Education plays a very important role in society’s development in order to promote good citizenship and individual rights and freedom. To this end, it is fundamental that girls be included in the education process. Inmost developed and developing countries, theoretically, both males and females have access to education. Cape Verde is no exception; however, the reality is that even in Cape Verde, promoting girls’ education and creating conditions to motivate girls to stay in school remains a challenge. Whereas girls have access to education many girls drop out for gender-related reasons. This paper will investigate girls’ education initiatives in general, and Cape Verde specific to offer recommendations and strategies to keep girls in school.

KINDERGARTEN TEACHERS’ ATTITUDES TOWARDS INCLUSIVE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES IN THE REGULAR CLASSROOM IN WUHAN, CHINA

After the international trends towards inclusive education, Chinese legislations mandate the inclusion of students with disabilities into the regular education classroom. The purpose of this study was to investigate the kindergarten teachers’ attitudes towards inclusive education of children with disabilities in the regular classroom, in Wuhan, China, as well their sense of responsibility to include children with disabilities in regular classroom. Ninety kindergarten teachers from public and private kindergartens in Wuhan participated in this study. Descriptive analysis demonstrated that, in general, kindergarten teachers we studied have negative or contradictory attitudes towards inclusive education of children with disabilities in regular classroom. Statistically non-significant differences were found between teachers’ attitudes towards inclusion and teachers’ demographic variables (age, education degree, teaching experience, experience teaching children with disabilities, time experience with children with disabilities and training in special education). Significant correlation was found between teachers’ attitudes towards inclusive education and their sense of responsibility to include children with disabilities in regular classroom. The results allowed the identification of some crucial aspects necessary to achieve the inclusive education