Avaliação para as aprendizagens de alunos com necessidades educativas especiais no 1º ciclo de ensino básico : da diversidade da avaliação à avaliação da diversidade

Tese de doutoramento, Educação (Avaliação em Educação), Universidade de Lisboa, Instituto de Educação, 2014

World Cultures in English(es) at the School of Arts and Humanities Library, University of Lisbon: the Communication Platform Architecture and Its Critical Analysis

We will consider the architecture of the communication platform prototype, "World Cultures in English(es)" (WCE), in relation to the interaction among different types of media and audiences. Such an architecture has emphasized the need for an interdisciplinary team of scholars, librarians, and Information Technology experts who have conceived the prototype. This prototype was developed using PHP and MySQL, and is based on the University of Lisbon server. The "World Cultures in English(es)" is an Open Access platform bringing together different types of documents—written, audio, visual, multimedia, and electronic—and aims at educational, cultural, social, and economic inclusiveness, namely in terms of users with special needs. The WCE platform strongly implies social commitment through reliable information and forms of communication adequate to different kinds of audiences. The "World Cultures in English(es)" prototype will be tested by different audiences from different schools and universities, leading to the necessary adjustments.

A valorização da função do objecto de design em contexto museológico : lógicas expositivas - a museologia do design industrial

The design objects give us a testimony of those who imagined, designed, developed, manufactured and used them. Each object, intentionally or not, portrays its own story, all the visible details are part of a decision taken by someone at some time of its chronology. The act of collecting objects, as well as private collections are the basis for the creation of museums as we know them today. Musealization - taking objects into a museum - means that one is restoring, preserving, enhancing some objects compared to others. And when restoring these objects, one is restoring their symbolic capacity, i.e. the fact that they tell a story, means you are restoring its message. In a museum, although out of context and deprived of most of the functions to which they had been designed for, the objects acquire other function(s), preserving their importance. Design museums give us the possibility to have a closer view of the objects, rather than just look at them, along with the pedagogical function. Thus presents a proposal for museography regarding industrial design, which is based on the appreciation of the function of anonymous design objects, based on expository logic, that takes the visitor to see, instead of just looking at objects, offering the possibility of interaction with the same, increasing the relationship between human being - object - museum, including groups with special needs, which are often forgotten in these exhibitions. This dissertation is a reflection and a projectual intervention on the design object in a museum, clarifying the concepts of object and museum, covering issues regarding the relevance of design museums, and culminating in the presentation of a museography project, where the function of an object prevails

Equipamento para quartos séniores de residências de serviços acompanhados ou domiciliários : projecto de desenvolvimento com a colaboração da empresa Mundinter S.A.

The presente study, entitled “Equipamento para quartos séniores de residências de serviços acompanhados ou domiciliários”, consists on a development of a new furniture line for Mundinter SA. This project aims to improve the quality of life of individuals with special needs. This social duty is to integrate, temporarily or permanently, elderly or disabled people, contributing to their balance and well-being. Focused in the social economy (nursing homes, assisted and private residences) and aware the care to be provided to the elderly and dependent it is intended, together with Mundinter S.A., create more versatile and appealing furniture equipment for rooms. The interest in this topic is based on the analysis of the space and equipment functions / purpose, as well as the user’s needs. Through contextualization we try to find solutions allied to the design, though in enormous expansion with society influence, is still unexplored in furniture equipment for elderly or disabled people

Operacionalização para Portugal: Critérios de Beers de medicamentos inapropriados nos doentes idosos

Introdução: A terapêutica medicamentosa do doente idoso requer cuidados acrescidos tendo em conta as suas alterações fisiopatológicas e múltiplas patologias, que o tornam mais susceptível a eventos adversos. Têm sido criados diversos instrumentos para avaliação do uso de medicamentos inapropriados no idoso, sendo o mais frequentemente utilizado, os Critérios de Beers, cuja última actualização data de 2002. Objectivos: Operacionalização dos Critérios de Beers para alertar os profissionais de saúde em Portugal. Métodos: Análise dos fármacos e grupos de fármacos dos Critérios de Beers, comercializados em Portugal, identificação das substâncias pertencentes aos grupos assinalados por Beers que não foram incluídas nestes Critérios. Resultados: Ajustaram-se as dois quadros dos Critérios de Beers, com referência às substâncias comercializadas em Portugal e inclusão das substâncias pertencentes aos grupos de fármacos indicados na escala de Beers, com respectivos graus de inapropriação e efeitos que podem ocorrer com a administração dos medicamentos aos idosos. No quadro 1 de Beers haviam 34 substâncias sem Autorização de Introdução no Mercado (AIM) e quatro possuem designações diferentes. No quadro 2, por possuírem AIM e não estarem mencionadas, incluíram-se três antidepressivos tricíclicos, 12 antipsicóticos convencionais, doses máximas de cinco benzodiazepinas de curta acção, não se tendo encontrado referência a doses de duas, e 28 AINEs, sendo que dois são Coxibs. Conclusão: A operacionalização para Portugal dos Critérios de Beers permite a criação de um instrumento que auxilie o médico na escolha de medicamentos e doses a prescrever ao idoso garantindo um aumento de segurança da terapêutica. Esta operacionalização permite ainda a comparação de resultados de estudos sobre terapêutica inapropriada no doente idoso realizados em países diferentes e que apliquem os Critérios de Beers.