Competência Social em contexto de carreira e autoconceito

A competência social é um construto multidimensional que abrange um conjunto de comportamentos aprendidos, socialmente aceites e que, deste modo, desempenha um papel fundamental no desenvolvimento humano em geral e, em particular, no funcionamento escolar e profissional, afetando as relações com os professores e pares e o sucesso académico e profissional (Lemos & Menezes, 2002). Por sua vez, o autoconceito, também descrito na literatura como um construto multidimensional que engloba um sistema de representações descritivas e avaliativas acerca do desempenho do self nos diferentes contextos e tarefas em que o sujeito se envolve, diz respeito à imagem que o sujeito tem de si próprio e aquilo que acredita ser (Veiga, 2006). A carreira é um exemplo de um processo sócio relacional (Blustein, 2011). Exige a capacidade do indivíduo para avaliar os conhecimentos de si e do meio, bem como para selecionar e implementar recursos sociais adequados para lidar com tarefas de carreira e desafios específicos. Tendo em consideração a falta de estudos teóricos e empíricos sobre a compreensão das competências sociais e do autoconceito no âmbito da carreira dos jovens adolescentes, este estudo tem como objetivo principal caracterizar as competências sociais em contexto de carreira e o autoconceito em alunos do 8º ano, bem como, analisar possíveis diferenças nos resultados em função de variáveis sociodemográficas. Além disso, pretende-se, ainda, analisar a influência do autoconceito nas competências sociais em contexto de carreira e vice-versa. Para o efeito, participaram neste estudo 306 estudantes de ambos os sexos, 163 raparigas (53,3%) e 143 rapazes (46,7%), com idades compreendidas entre 12 e 16 anos (M=13,28; DP=0,590). Estes jovens encontram-se a frequentar o 8º ano de escolaridade, em três estabelecimentos de ensino público da zona norte do país. Foram administrados dois questionários de auto relato, a Prova de Avaliação de Competência Social em contexto de Carreira (PACS-Car, Candeias, 2005 adaptada por Araújo & Taveira, 2009) para avaliar as competências sociais de carreira e, o Piers-Harris Children’s Self Concept Scale-2 (PHCSCS-2 – Piers & Herzberg, 2002, adaptado por Veiga, 2006), para avaliar o autoconceito. Os resultados indicam que os rapazes apresentam níveis mais elevados de desempenho pobre, ansiedade e popularidade, quando comparados com as raparigas e que os alunos mais novos apresentam níveis de desempenho excelente, aspeto comportamental e ansiedade superiores aos adolescentes mais velhos. Verificou-se, ainda, que as competências sociais em contexto de carreira parecem influenciar positivamente o autoconceito e vice-versa. São retiradas implicações para o processo de intervenção na carreira com jovens.

A new concept for museum training in Germany

To talk about a new concept for museum training seems perhaps, to be a little bit exaggerated. For long time you have all been talking about concepts and contents for museum training and as I figured out the debate on the topic in Germany is as old as the appearance of national museums in the 19th century. Men like Theodor Mommsen, Rudolph Virchow, Alfred Lichtwark, all well known historians and supporters of the museum idea, spoke and wrote not only about the importance of museums as cultural and educational institutions but also supported the idea of professionalisation of museums work. Some of the ideas of our ancestors are still part of an ongoing discussion. The topic of my talk today will be what king of personnel a museum of our time needs to cope with the growing demand for internal and external organization. I shall present to you a new training program for museum workers in Germany which aims not to produce a new group of researchers but to prepare students for the practical work in the museum field.

On the concept of the public: the local museums’ case

Globally, the public is understood as the whole of a service’s users. In the specific case of the museums, the users are all those who make use of the service offered by the museum institution. Thus, the museum’s public corresponds not only to the visitors (people who enter or have entered the museum), but also to the part of those who, in some way, with no relationship of presence within the museum, have enjoyed the services or property made available by it (for instance the ordering of books or other material by catalogue, visit to travelling exhibitions, end users of pedagogical actions carried out in schools…) On the other hand, when we refer to the public, it is necessary to make another distinction: between the real or effective public and the potential public. The former is the group of individuals who have visited or have used the museum, while in the second case are included all the people who, due to their specific characteristics, are susceptible to become the real or effective public.

Museums and quality, from the concept of the museum that carries out functions to the museum that provides services

Quality management Self-evaluation of the organisation Citizens/customers satisfaction Impact on society evaluation Key performance evaluation Good practices comparison (Benchmarking) Continuous improvement In professional environments, when quality assessment of museums is discussed, one immediately thinks of the honourableness of the directors and curators, the erudition and specialisation of knowledge, the diversity of the gathered material and study of the collections, the collections conservation methods and environmental control, the regularity and notoriety of the exhibitions and artists, the building’s architecture and site, the recreation of environments, the museographic equipment design. We admit that the roles and attributes listed above can contribute to the definition of a specificity of museological good practice within a hierarchised functional perspective (the museum functions) and for the classification of museums according to a scale, validated between peers, based on “installed” appreciation criteria, enforced from above downwards, according to the “prestige” of the products and of those who conceive them, but that say nothing about the effective satisfaction of the citizen/customers and the real impact on society. There is a lack of evaluation instruments that would give us a return of all that the museum is and represents in contemporary society, focused on being and on the relation with the other, in detriment of the ostentatious possession and of the doing in order to meet one’s duties. But it is only possible to evaluate something by measurement and comparison, on the basis of well defined criteria, from a common grid, implicating all of the actors in the self-evaluation, in the definition of the aims to fulfil and in the obtaining of results.

Essais de terminologie de la nouvelle muséologie sociale, libérons le concept

ous présenterons en premier lieu la nomenclature du processus expositionnel, puis, en second lieu, une sélection de termes de la muséologie propre ou de termes associés qualifiant la muséologie sociale. Certains parleront de détournement. Nous préférons mettre au compte de l’enrichissement de l’expérience muséologique une terminologie qui puisse faire corps avec celle-ci, exprimant sa formulation comme son esprit. Il est à souhaiter que l’ensemble de la muséologie en tienne compte, favorisant les passages entre les orientations idéologiques.

A test of concept formation of hearing-impaired children

This paper discusses a study to determine whether a hearing impaired child acquires concept formation and if their acquisition is related to reading grade level.

Activities to develop a positive self-concept in hearing-impaired children

This paper reviews the importance of self-esteem for hearing impaired children.

Efraín Jara Hidrovo: la eufonía y el sentido en la poesía (Entrevista)

El 4 de octubre de 2012, la profesora Cecilia Mafla Bustamante entrevistó al conocido poeta cuencano Efraín Jara Idrovo. En este diálogo el escritor narra su trayectoria poética, su ideología política y sus influencias literarias nacionales e internacionales. También hace reflexiones, conjuntamente con su hijo Johnny Jara, sobre el poema Sollozo por Pedro Jara, considerado su mejor obra. Además, examina la estructura semiótica del signo lingüístico y su carácter biplano que mira hacia el sentido y hacia la materialidad del signo, según la teoría de Jan Mukařovský. Profundiza su pensamiento existencial en el concepto “el mundo es la configuración de la conciencia”, y finalmente medita sobre el proceso de la escritura y la producción poética en el Ecuador.

Reflections on the concept of the central executive

Notes that the central executive lies at the heart of A. D. Baddeley's theory of working memory, but that what it does has been characterized in several different ways. This chapter reviews and brings together various interpretations of central executive functioning. The authors describe an experiment involving a novel cognitive task to point out the restrictive nature of the term 'executive capacity.' The chapter concludes by commenting briefly on the implications of a working memory model in which the executive does not play a major part.