Constructing and Using Multimodal Narratives to Research in Science Education: Contributions Based on Practical Classroom

This study deals with the problem of how to collect genuine and useful data about science classroom practices, and preserving the complex and holistic nature of teaching and learning. Additionally, we were looking for an instrument that would allow comparability and verifiability for teaching and research purposes. Given the multimodality of teaching and learning processes, we developed the multimodal narrative (MN), which describes what happens during a task and incorporates data such as examples of students’ work.

The making of saudade. National identity and ethnic psychology in Portugal

Roots and rituals.The construction of ethnic identities, Ton Dekker, John Helsloot Carla Wijers editors, p. 267-268; Selected papers of the 6TH SIEF conference on 'Roots & rituals', Amsterdam 20-25 April 1998.

Fazer uma história da própria vida. Narrativa pessoal e memória comunicativa em Paul Schatz im uhrenkasten

This essay offers a reflection on the concepts of identity and personal narrative, a line of argument that is closely interlaced with a subject‘s capacity to self-representation. As self-representation is necessarily composed upon remembrance processes, the question of memory as an element that directly influences the formation of an individual‘s identity becomes an emergent topic. Bearing this objective in mind, I shall highlight the notion of biographic continuity, the ability to elaborate a personal narrative, as an essential prerogative to attain a sense of identitary cohesion and coherence. On the other hand, I will argue that not only experienced memories play a key role in this process; intermediated, received narratives from the past, memories transmitted either symbolically or by elder members of the group or, what has been meanwhile termed ―postmemory‖, also influence the development of an individual‘s identitary map. This theoretical framework will be illustrated with the novel Paul Schatz im Uhrenkasten, written by German post-Holocaust author Jan Koneffke.

THE MAKING OF THE IMMIGRANT IDENTITY IN THE PRESS: Constructing the Immigrant Imagined Community

A dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master in Arts

Constructing the National Canon in Ireland and Macedonia: The Function of Folklore in the Plays The Countess Cathleen and The Land of Heart’s Desire by William Butler Yeats, and Proud Flesh and The Black Hole by Goran Stefanovski and Their Role in Strengthening National Identity

Erasmus Mundus Masters “Crossways in European Humanities” June 2011

FROM NON-PLACE TO PLACE: A STUDY OF EUROPEAN PUBLIC SPACE AS A SPACE OF IDENTITY

Master Erasmus Mundus Crossways in European Humanities

Ambivalent Islam: the identity construction of Muslims under Portuguese colonial rule

This article wishes to contribute to the study of the historical processes that have been spotting Muslim populations as favourite targets for political analysis and governance. Focusing on the Portuguese archives, civil as well as military, the article tries to uncover the most conspicuous identity representations (mainly negative or ambivalent) that members of Portuguese colonial apparatus built around Muslim communities living in African colonies, particularly in Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique. The paper shows how these culturally and politically constructed images were related to the more general strategies by which Portuguese imagined their own national identity, both as ‘European’ and as ‘coloniser’ or ‘imperial people’. The basic assumption of this article is that policies enforced in a context of inter-ethnic and religious competition are better understood when linked to the identity strategies inherent to them. These are conceived as strategic constructions aimed at the preservation, the protection and the imaginary expansion of the subject, who looks for groups to be included in and out-groups to reject, exclude, aggress or eliminate. We think that most of the inter-ethnic relationships and conflicts, as well as the very experience of ethnicity, are born from this identity matrix.

Relatório de estágio em educação pré-escolar e ensino do 1º ciclo do ensino básico

O presente documento, intitulado Relatório de Estágio de Qualificação Profissional, constitui uma reflexão crítica, em relação à experiência vivenciada nos contextos educativos de Educação Pré-Escolar e Ensino do 1. Ciclo do Ensino Básico, no âmbito da unidade curricular de Prática Pedagógica Supervisionada. Este relatório resulta de um quadro teórico conceptual rigoroso, visando o alcance dos objetivos delineados no programa da unidade curricular supramencionada, assim como o desenvolvimento de competência e de saberes, designadamente do perfil específico de desempenho do professor de 1.º Ciclo do Ensino Básico e do Educador de Infância. A ação pedagógica desenvolvida pela formanda, nos centros educativos, foi pautada pela metodologia de investigação-ação, que deve ser a base da prática de qualquer educador/professor na medida em que figurou-se improrrogável a ocorrência de momentos de observação intencional, de planificação e de intervenção no terreno, de reflexão crítica e sistemática, visível nas narrativas individuais e colaborativas, de avaliação individualizada dos alunos, estimulando diferentes momentos de diferenciação pedagógica, bem como de adequação da ação aos contextos educativos, levando a uma presente reflexão crítica sistemática. A pesquisa constituiu, também, uma referência eloquente para encontrar soluções eficazes aos desafios quotidianos. Importa, ainda salvaguardar que a referida, para além de sustentar o desenvolvimento da ação educativa, alicerçou o processo construtivista de crescimento pessoal e profissional da formanda, que assumiu uma atitude indagadora, crítica e reflexiva. De relevar o trabalho colaborativo em díade pela mais-valia neste processo de formação, uma vez que potenciou a partilha de saberes, de experiências, e reflexões importantes para o aperfeiçoamento da prática pedagógica. Assim, este relatório espelha o processo dinâmico de formação contribuindo para a construção da identidade profissional da futura educadora e professora.

The words about a “sea of trees”. Colonial and post-colonial narratives about Gorongosa (Mozambique)

8º Congresso Ibérico de Estudos Africanos (CIEA8). Madrid, 2012

Ambivalent Islam: the identity construction of Muslims under Portuguese colonial rule

This article wishes to contribute to the study of the historical processes that have been spotting Muslim populations as favourite targets for political analysis and governance. Focusing on the Portuguese archives, civil as well as military, the article tries to uncover the most conspicuous identity representations (mainly negative or ambivalent) that members of Portuguese colonial apparatus built around Muslim communities living in African colonies, particularly in Guinea- Bissau and Mozambique. The paper shows how these culturally and politically constructed images were related to the more general strategies by which Portuguese imagined their own national identity, both as ‘European’ and as ‘coloniser’ or ‘imperial people’. The basic assumption of this article is that policies enforced in a context of interethnic and religious competition are better understood when linked to the identity strategies inherent to them. These are conceived as strategic constructions aimed at the preservation, protection and imaginary expansion of the subject, who looks for groups to be included in and out-groups to reject, exclude, aggress or eliminate. The author argues that most of the inter-ethnic relationships and conflicts, as well as the very experience of ethnicity, are born from this identity matrix.

The Visual Culture of Human Rights. Observations on Amnesty International

Trabalho de project de Mestrado em Antropologia de Direitos Humanos e Movimentos Sociais

"Joãozinho", Hospital de S. João do Porto: A proposal for a brand identity for the new pediatric hospital

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

Identity dynamics in non-profit organizations: Ideological and methodological identity orientations

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

Nestum vs private labels: A renewed identity for Nestum

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

"Gente da nossa": uma construção mediática da ideia de "comunidade portuguesa".

O texto tem por base a investigação realizada no quadro do projecto ““Feeling the Pulse of the community" - Identity politics and narratives of a portuguese migrant community in Canada”, financiado pela Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia. O projecto centrou-se no estudo do programa de televisão “Gente da Nossa”, que integra as características dos “Ethnic minority media”. Colocando-se no interior do campo da Antropologia dos Media, a estratégia metodológica integrou uma etnografia da produção e da recepção. O texto coloca o programa “Gente da Nossa” no interior da problemática mais geral das relações complexas que se estabelecem entre a produção e a difusão dos conteúdos dos “media étnicos” e os processos de etnicização de comunidades migrantes: o programa é conceptualizado enquanto veículo estrategicamente usado nos processos de construção, difusão, objectificação e mercadorização de imagens da “comunidade portuguesa do Canadá”. Quando tomado no seu conjunto, o processo de etnicização surge como algo complexo: uma etnografia do detalhe permite ler e discutir as diferentes dimensões desse complexo trabalho de construção da ideia de “comunidade”.