Convocando outras vozes: a trajetória de Maria Therezinha Machado na História da Educação Especial do Município do Rio de Janeiro

A trajetória da professora Maria Therezinha Machado protagoniza a história da Educação Especial no sistema educacional da cidade do Rio de Janeiro. Este estudo tem o objetivo de contribuir, por meio de narrativas e memórias desta biografia, para análise e reflexão sobre as preocupações com a formação, a docência e a Educação Especial. O recorte temporal escolhido tem como marco inicial a criação da Seção de Educação Especial da Secretaria de Educação e Cultura do estado da Guanabara em 1961 e se estende até 1983. A coleção de entrevistas autobiográficas de antigas professoras que participaram da implantação da educação especial no antigo estado da Guanabara foram as fontes privilegiadas para construção dos dados. O estudo das memórias como perspectiva que legitima as vozes que contam de si e de outros favoreceu a compreensão do período, permitindo problematizar aspectos naturalizados dessa história escolar. Foi necessário o diálogo com autores que discutem a representação da educação especial na história política e social e com aqueles que teorizam sobre docência e formação. Algumas publicações de Therezinha Machado foram incorporadas ao estudo pelo aspecto formativo que apresentam. Esse trabalho, portanto, representa a tentativa de buscar, na história desta professora, a história de muitos. Dessa forma, busca compreender a educação especial da cidade do Rio de Janeiro e as marcas que são reveladas na constituição do presente e no que é possível intuir para o futuro. O trabalho pretende trazer subsídios para as reflexões sobre os rumos da Educação Especial nesta cidade

Por entre histórias e memórias: caminhos do curso de formação de professores do Colégio Estadual Trasilbo Filgueiras (19841985)

A presente dissertação centra-se na investigação das memórias e histórias da criação do Curso de Formação de Professores em nível médio, do Colégio Estadual Trasilbo Filgueiras, localizado no bairro Jardim Catarina, no município de São Gonçalo. O recorte temporal da pesquisa concentra-se no início da oferta do referido curso os anos de 1984 e 1985. A partir de um enfoque metodológico de natureza qualitativa, buscamos em fontes documentais - arquivo permanente da instituição escolar e impressos do Jornal O SÃO GONÇALO -, em diálogo com fontes orais - narrativas dos/as moradores/as, professoras, funcionários/as e alunas egressas - indícios (GINZBURG, 1989) das histórias vividas neste espaço formativo. As questões que este trabalho de investigação se propõe a discutir são: Por que foi criado o Curso de Formação de Professores no Colégio Estadual Trasilbo Filgueiras? Que narram os sujeitos da pesquisa sobre a criação do curso na instituição? A relação memória e história são compreendidas a partir de Benjamim (1996) e Nunes (2003), em uma perspectiva de que passado é entendido como tempo presente ao ser rememorado. A escala de análise (REVEL, 1998) é utilizada como ferramenta reflexiva da interação entre os diferentes sujeitos sociais. Sujeitos sociais que cotidianamente, no âmbito da esfera local e global, constroem os processos históricos mediante suas práticas culturais, relações sociais e modos de vida. A pesquisa justifica-se pela necessidade da reflexão, da rememoração e valorização das memórias escolares e da história da formação de professores no município de São Gonçalo, com vistas ao fortalecimento das instituições públicas que a desenvolvem. Palavras-chave: Curso

Memória e Representações Sociais de Práticas Religiosas de Matriz Africana

Esta dissertação de mestrado realizou um estudo sobre a identificação de memórias e representações sociais das práticas religiosas de matriz africana na população negra do bairro Dom Bosco situado no município de Juiz de Fora - MG. Foram entrevistados 60 sujeitos, de ambos os sexos, que se auto identificavam como negros, pardos, mulatos e outras denominações que caracterizam a ascendência negra. Através dos dados levantados na pesquisa concluímos que as representações sociais que esta população possui, são de que as práticas de matriz africana são demoníacas, feitiçarias para o mal e ações que causam prejuízo para as pessoas. As lembranças se mesclam com esquecimento, e as representações e memórias dos sujeitos da pesquisa estão associados com as práticas de sincretismo religioso existentes no Brasil. Os entrevistados não possuem lembrança dos líderes religiosos negros e nem dos locais de memória do bairro. Os participantes da pesquisa não se associam com estas práticas religiosas e têm em relação a elas uma visão de distanciamento e desinteresse. Constatamos que isto ocorre devido à dificuldade de aceitação pela sociedade em geral que as desvaloriza e discrimina, sempre atribuindo negatividade a elas e aos praticantes. Estas práticas são estereotipadas, folclorizadas e menosprezadas socialmente. O que faz com que a população afrodescendente não queira ser identificada com as tradições históricas, culturais e religiosos dos seus ancestrais

Library management systems in the UK: 1960s-1980s

Tedd, L.A. (2007). Library management systems in the UK: 1960s-1980s. Library History, 23(4),301-316 Originally published (as above) by Maney Publishing.

Imagining the Turkish nation through 'othering' Armenians

G?l, A. (2005). Imagining the Turkish nation through 'othering' Armenians. Nations and Nationalism. 11(1), 121-139 RAE2008

Comunicação política

Tese de Doutoramento apresentada à Universidade Fernando Pessoa como parte dos requisitos para obtenção do grau de Doutor em Ciências da Informação.

CHASING THE SINGERS: THE TRANSITION OF LONG-SONG (URTYN DUU) IN POST-SOCIALIST MONGOLIA

Long-song (Urtyn duu) is a prominent Mongolian traditional folk song genre that survived throughout the socialist period (1921-1990) and throughout the political transformation of Mongolia from socialism to democratic capitalism after the Soviet Union was dismantled and terminated its aid to Mongolia in 1990. This dissertation, based on research conducted from 2006 to 2010, presents and investigates the traces of singers' stories and memories of their lives, songs, and singing, through the lens of the discourse on change and continuity in, and as, folk tradition. During the socialist period, this genre was first considered backward, and was then subtly transformed into an urban national style, with the formation of a boundary between professionalism and amateurism among long-song singers and with selective performance of certain songs and styles. This boundary was associated with politics and ideology and might be thought to have ended when the society entered its post-socialist period. However, the long-song genre continued to play a political role, with different kinds of political meaning one the one hand and only slight musical modification on the other. It was now used to present a more nostalgic and authentic new Mongolian identity in the post-socialist free market. Through my investigation, I argue that the historical transition of Mongolia encompassed not merely political or economic shifts, but also a deeper transformation that resulted in new cultural forms. Long-song provides a good case study of the complicated process of this cultural change.

Exploration of the student experience of e-learning: beginning to bridge the learning divide

Introduction This proposal aims, through debate within symposium to explore the student experience of e-learning. The team facilitating the discussion will draw upon their experience of an HEA funded pathfinder project, the main aim of which was to collect learner stories about their experience of using technology in their everyday learning activities at the University of Greenwich across a range of programmes, levels, locations and student groups. Method The project design responded to the growing body of student voice literature and then utilised and built upon the JISC-funded studies that focussed on understanding the learner perspectives on the role of technology in learning, namely: • the LEX study which investigated a broad spectrum of technology use by eliciting rich data about learners’ feelings, beliefs and intentions towards e-learning (Creanor et al, 2006); • the LXP studies which explored disciplinary differences in uses of technology by university students through a variety of methodologies (Conole et al, 2006). Results The symposium will be organised as a round table discussion that will be structured into three sections: • Designing an online survey tool, and the results of our survey. • Exploring student stories. • What can learned from the project and taking the findings back to enhance learning. To stimulate discussion each section will start by asking the participants to discuss and debate a particular question, this will be followed by an interactive presentation by the respective member of the project team who will share the findings of the project and invite contributions to the resulting discussion from personal perspectives. The questions are: • What is effective learning within a context of digital technology? • What are the myths and truths about the identity of today's learners? • What practical changes need to happen in order to see real change? Conclusion The final section of the symposium will invite contributions from the participants in order to collate the views and perspectives of all the participants in order to focus the discussion on the following: • The issues that have arisen as a result of the round table debates. • New speculative approaches to enhancing the student experience. • A controversial stand to the future of Higher Education teaching and learning and the role and integration of technology within that education. The symposium will provide an opportunity to explore the predictive value of Student Experience of E-Learning Laboratory (SEEL) project.

Factores explicativos de las actitudes hacia el castigo juvenil. Evidencias de un diseño factorial

El rol desempeñado por la opinión pública en el desarrollo de la política criminal actual justifica el incremento de investigaciones destinadas a evaluar las actitudes de los ciudadanos hacia el castigo. No obstante, los avances en este ámbito han sido limitados debido a la utilización de rudimentarios instrumentos de medida. Por ello, el presente trabajo tiene como propósito explorar el efecto que generan en la opinión ciudadana ciertas variables referidas al hecho delictivo y al infractor, precisando su contribución relativa y la interacción existente entre ellas. Para satisfacer este objetivo se recurrió a un diseño factorial de la encuesta, creando una población de 256 casos-escenario fruto de la combinación de cuatro factores: la edad del joven, su historial delictivo, el grado de implicación en el hecho y el tipo de delito cometido. Los mismos fueron distribuidos en grupos de ocho casos ordenados aleatoriamente y fueron suministrados a 32 sujetos. Posteriormente se aplicaron análisis de regresión logística binaria. Los resultados obtenidos revelan que la naturaleza violenta de los hechos, la implicación activa de los jóvenes y el historial delictivo son predictores importantes de las condenas punitivas. Sin embargo la edad, una variable fundamental en la configuración de la justicia juvenil, no resulta significativa. De este modo, el trabajo muestra el potencial explicativo de este conjunto de factores y debate sus implicaciones teóricas y metodológicas para la investigación futura en este terreno.

‘Close as a kiss’: Gyn/Affection in Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad

Margaret Atwood’s novella The Penelopiad (2005) seemingly celebrates Penelope’s agency in opposition to Homer’s myth in The Odyssey. However, the twelve murdered maids steal the book to suggest the possibility of what Janice Raymond calls gyn/affection, a female bonding based on the logic of emotion that, in Atwood’s revision, verges on Kristevan abjection, the sinister and the fantastic, and serves a cathartic effect not only in the maids but also in the reader. This essay aims to question the generally accepted empowerment of Atwood’s Penelope and celebrates the murdered maids as the locus of emotion, where marginal aspects of gender and class merge to weave a powerful metaphorical tapestry of popular and traditionally feminized literary genres that, in plunging into and embracing the semiotic realm, ultimately solidify into an eclectic but compact alternative tradition of women’s writing and myth-making.

Wino's vanitas:Ivresse transgressive et affirmation littéraire dans les romans noirs de Ken Bruen

Based on a theoretical framework owing to Bourdieu, Viala and Meizoz successive adjustments of the notion of literary posturing, and on Maingueneau's concept of auctorial scenography, this chapter probes the writer's ethos of Irish crime fiction author Ken Bruen and its impact on his reception in the French literary field. It studies in particular the double transgression characteristic of his ethos as a pioneer of the Irish noir : a cultural transgression attacking relentlessly the international currency of myths and stereotypes of Ireland, and a generic transgression, which thrives in the tension between codes and constraints of the noir novel.

MESAS

MESAS is an urban intervention that promotes the relationship with everyday sound through indispensable pieces of furniture for the domestic, the professional and the playful in our lives – the table. Different uses and contexts determine the many variations in form; from dinning, to coffee tables, kitchen, garden, meeting, bar, side or game tables. The MESAS project, by artists Pedro Rebelo and Ricardo Jacinto was conceived for Rua Direita in Viseu and consists of a sequence of tables suspended throughout the street, which reveal experiences and memories through sound. The materiality, context and utility of each table articulate sonorities that include the manipulation of objects on their tops or the conversations happening around them, as well their impact on the soundscapes of the places in which they are situated. The project makes audible these particular experiences through a set of sound installations associated with places such as the jewellery, the school, or the tailor’s.

Peace by Piece: (Re) imagining Division in Belfast’s Contested Spaces through Memory

This paper investigates processes and actions of diversifying memories of division in Northern Ireland’s political conflict known as the Troubles. Societal division is manifested in its built fabric and territories that have been adopted by predominant discourses of a fragmented society in Belfast; the unionist east and the nationalist west. The aim of the paper is to explore current approaches in planning contested spaces that have changed over time, leading to success in many cases. The argument is that divided cities, like Belfast, feature spatial images and memories of division that range from physical, clear-cut segregation to manifested actions of violence and have become influential representations in the community’s associative memory. While promoting notions of ‘re-imaging’ by current councils demonstrates a total erasure of the Troubles through cleansing its local collective memory, there yet remains an attempt to communicate a different tale of the city’s socio-economic past, to elaborate its supremacy for shaping future lived memories. Yet, planning Belfast’s contested areas is still suffering from a poor understanding of the context and its complexity against overambitious visions. 

Feminine Identities

The first four essays in this volume all focus on issues of gender in the works of different English authors and thinkers. Shorter versions of each of these essays were formerly presented as papers in an autonomous section of the Research and Educational Programme on Studies of Identity at the XXth Meeting of the Portuguese Association of Anglo-American Studies (Póvoa de Varzim, 1999) and published in the proceedings of the conference. The second cluster of essays in this volume — two of which (Jennie Wang’s and Teresa Cid’s) were first presented, in shorter versions, at the joint ASA/CAAS Conference (Montréal, 1999) — addresses the work of American women variously engaged in contexts of cultural diversity and grappling with the ideas of what it means to be an American and a woman, particularly in the twentieth century. These essays approach, from different angles, the definitional quandaries and semantic difficulties encountered when speaking about the self and the United States and provide, in one way or another, a sort of feminine rewriting of American myths and history.