Compte rendu: Romain Colonna (dir.), (2015), Des paroles, des langues et des pouvoirs, Paris, L’Harmattan, coll. « Espaces discursifs », 252 p. [ISBN : 978-2-343-04951-9]

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Recensione: Giuseppe Antonelli (2014), Comunque anche Leopardi diceva le parolacce. L’italiano come non ve l’hanno mai raccontato, Milano, Mondadori, 184 p. [ISBN: 978-8-804-63476-8]

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Reseña: Elvira Narvaja de Arnoux y Susana Nothstein (eds.) (2014), Temas de glotopolítica: integración regional sudamericana y panhispanismo, Buenos Aires, Biblos, coll. “Investigaciones y ensayos”, 376 p. [ISBN: 978-9-876-91257-0]

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Compte rendu: Jannis Androutsopoulos (dir.) (2014), Mediatization and sociolinguistic change, Berlin/Boston, De Gruyter, coll. « Linguae & litterae. Publications of the School of Language & Literature Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, 36 », vii-557 p. [ISBN : 978-3-11-034357-1]

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Jusqu’à épuisement des stocks

Ce mémoire est le fruit d’une réflexion portant sur la pulsion qui m’habite de sans cesse créer de nouveaux objets, ainsi que sur les rapports que j’entretiens avec mes objets d’art et les objets manufacturés qui nous entourent. Elle s’est construite peu à peu, dans un aller-retour entre production à l’atelier et retour critique. Au cours des deux dernières années, j’ai cherché, par l’entremise de sculptures et d’œuvres installatives, à comprendre ma fascination pour le fait de vivre dans une société dont l’activité fondamentale semble être une transformation constante d’énergie et de matière. Dans un premier temps, j’y dresse plusieurs constats relatifs à mon positionnement comme artiste face aux différents discours sur l’art. Essentiellement, je développe l’idée que je n’ai pas besoin de régler le cas de l’art, d’un point de vue théorique, pour faire de l’art. Dans la seconde partie, je réfléchis sur différentes caractéristiques de ma démarche : le fait que je cherche à créer des objets qui s’insèrent et se comportent dans le réel comme des anomalies, que ma démarche est perméable à tout ce qui constitue mon expérience de vie, ou encore que j’active en manipulant de façon intuitive du matériel chargé de significations multiples. Dans un troisième temps, je présente la nature de l’imaginaire qui m’habite et explique la façon dont ce dernier influence ma manière de faire de l’art et la morphologie de mes œuvres. Vient ensuite un chapitre dans lequel je me penche sur mon passé de designer industriel et de musicien, dans lequel j’illustre la façon dont ces deux expériences de création, bien que fort différentes de l’art contemporain, influencent ma pratique actuelle. Finalement, je ferai une représentation schématisée des concepts, des méthodes et des dynamiques à l’œuvre dans mon processus créatif. Cette multitude de regards différents sur ma pratique permettra de faire ressortir, tout au long de ce mémoire, que ma démarche est nourrie par une série de tensions que je cherche à réconcilier, sans vraiment y parvenir, et que c’est cette impossibilité qui me pousse constamment à créer des nouvelles œuvres. Bien que mes œuvres soient souvent interprétées comme des commentaires sur l’actualité, le présent mémoire n’a pas comme point central l’actualité, mais bien mon travail de création, la façon dont il fonctionne, ce à quoi il est relié, etc. Je ne me pose pas la question « pourquoi et comment transformons-nous l’énergie et la matière? », mais plutôt « comment puis-je transformer le monde en transformant autrement l’énergie et la matière? »

O sofrimento profissional nos educadores de jovens e adultos

Trabalho de projecto de mestrado, Ciências da Educação (Formação de Adultos), Universidade de Lisboa, Instituto de Educação, 2011

O quotidiano do diretor e a concretização do seu projeto

Tese de mestrado, Ciências da Educação (Administração Educacional), Universidade de Lisboa, Instituto de Educação, 2012

Das ciências naturais à genética : a divulgação científica na revista brotéria (1902-2002) e o ensino científico da companhia de Jesus nos séculos XIX e XX em Portugal

Tese de doutoramento, História e Filosofia das Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciências, 2014

The Personal and Professional Selves of Teachers: Stable and Unstable Identities

In much educational literature it is recognised that the broader social conditions in which teachers live and work, and the personal and professional elements of teachers' lives, experiences, beliefs and practices are integral to one another, and that there are often tensions between these which impact to a greater or lesser extent upon teachers' sense of self or identity. If identity is a key influencing factor on teachers' sense of purpose, self‐efficacy, motivation, commitment, job satisfaction and effectiveness, then investigation of those factors which influence positively and negatively, the contexts in which these occur and the consequences for practice, is essential. Surprisingly, although notions of ‘self’ and personal identity are much used in educational research and theory, critical engagement with individual teachers' cognitive and emotional ‘selves’ has been relatively rare. Yet such engagement is important to all with an interest in raising and sustaining standards of teaching, particularly in centralist reform contexts which threaten to destabilise long‐held beliefs and practices. This article addresses the issue of teacher identities by drawing together research which examines the nature of the relationships between social structures and individual agency; between notions of a socially constructed, and therefore contingent and ever‐remade, ‘self’, and a ‘self’ with dispositions, attitudes and behavioural responses which are durable and relatively stable; and between cognitive and emotional identities. Drawing upon existing research literature and findings from a four‐year Department for Education and Skills funded project with 300 teachers in 100 schools which investigated variations in teachers' work and lives and their effects on pupils (VITAE), it finds that identities are neither intrinsically stable nor intrinsically fragmented, as earlier literature suggests. Rather, teacher identities may be more, or less, stable and more or less fragmented at different times and in different ways according to a number of life, career and situational factors.

O livro encenado: escrita e representação na obra de Ana Teresa Pereira

Esta dissertação propõe uma leitura de um conjunto de obras de Ana Teresa Pereira centrada nas relações entre escrita e representação. Estas obras são: O Fim de Lizzie e outras histórias (2008), O Verão Selvagem dos Teus Olhos (2008), Inverness (2010), A Outra (2010), A Pantera (2011) e O Lago (2011). Partindo da hipótese de que aquele binómio constitui um problema teórico importante na abordagem a estas obras, interroga-se as diversas instâncias em que ele se manifesta nos textos, tendo em conta a encenação do acto de escrita e de outros actos de criação, bem como o recurso a um campo semântico do domínio do teatro, com o qual a narrativa se confunde, pondo em evidência e em diálogo diferentes acepções do conceito de “representação”. A reflexão atenta essencialmente em três eixos: o pensamento sobre arte que atravessa estas narrativas, a figuração auto-reflexiva do texto e a forma como Ana Teresa Pereira desenvolve uma noção de teatralidade na articulação entre escrever e representar. Esta noção é também a que une ideias de livro, de palco e de mundo, gerando tensões consequentes entre ficção, realidade e literatura.

Senior Managers’ Perspectives of Leading and Managing Effective, Sustainable and Successful Partnerships

Formal and informal partnerships have become key features of education policy and practice in many countries and managing such collaborative arrangements is an important dimension of the role(s) of leaders of educational organizations. Recent research has shown both the tensions and conflict that can develop in partnerships as well as the opportunities and benefits of partnership working for organizations and individuals. This article focuses on the characteristics of partnerships that contribute to their effectiveness, sustainability and success, filling a gap in the literature on educational partnerships. The research data emanate from a qualitative study of partnership working in England. The study used a grounded approach and inductively linked characteristics of partnerships found in the partnership literature with empirical data from a case study of a subregional partnership of education and training organizations. This combined evidence is used to conceptualize partnership as a continuum of weak to strong forms of partnership and to develop a table of characteristics which underpin such partnerships. The findings reveal the extent to which trust, networks, norms and values support effective, sustained and successful partnerships. These characteristics are differentiated and may fluctuate during the lifecourse of a partnership but remain fundamental features of partnership working and significantly contribute to the strength and effectiveness of partnerships.

Teaching Toward Utopia: Promise, Provocation, and Pain in Pedagogies of Radical Imagination

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2014

The green economy and sustainable development: an uneasy balance?

The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (or Rio+20) was conceived at a time of great concern for the health of the world economy. In this atmosphere ‘green economy’ was chosen as one of two central themes for the conference, building on a burgeoning body of literature on the green economy and growth. This research examines the relationship and influence between the double crisis and the rise of ‘greening’ as part of the solution. The aim is to understand what defines and distinguishes the proposals contained in twenty-four sources on the green economy (including policy documents by international agencies and think tanks, and research papers), and what is the meaning and implication of the rising greening agenda for sustainable development as it enters the 21st century. Through a systematic qualitative analysis of textual material, three categories of discourse that can illuminate the meaning and implication of greening are identified: ‘almost business as usual’, ‘greening’, and ‘all change’. An analysis of their relationship with Dryzek's classification of environmental discourse leads to the identification of three interrelated patterns: (1) scarcity and limits, (2) means and ends, and (3) reductionism and unity—which deepen our understanding of the tensions between emerging propositions. The patterns help explain the meaning and implications of greening for sustainable development, revealing an economisation and polarisation of discourses, the persisting weak interpretation of sustainable development, and a tension between the fixing or shifting of dominant socioeconomic paradigms that underpin its conceptualisation.

The complexities of tourism and regeneration: the case of the 2012 Olympic Games

Regeneration proposals typically seek to use a range of physical, economic and social initiatives to tackle inequality and improve areas. Often they attempt to change the image of places, making them more attractive to tourists, investors, and residents. The role of tourism in these regeneration processes is complex and contested. Tourism elements are often not well understood by decision-makers and sometimes create tensions with wider social regeneration aspirations. Using concepts from complexity theory, this paper interrogates the relationship between tourism and wider regeneration aspirations connected with the 2012 Olympic Games. It uses complexity theory to explore the context within which policies are developed, and the relationships between different policy initiatives. Both are highly complex, constantly evolving and sometimes ambiguous. It argues complexity concepts might be used to help to develop deeper understanding of the relationships between tourism and regeneration.

The resilience of democratic institutions in Britain, Australia and the United States under conditions of total war

To what extent are democratic institutions resilient when nation states mobilise for war? Normative and empirical political theorists have long argued that wars strengthen the executive and threaten constitutional politics. In modern democracies, national assemblies are supposed to hold the executive to account by demanding explanations for events and policies; and by scrutinising, reviewing and, if necessary, revising legislative proposals intended to be binding on the host society or policies that have been implemented already. This article examines the extent to which the British and Australian parliaments and the United States Congress held their wartime executives to account during World War II. The research finds that under conditions approaching those of total war, these democratic institutions not only continued to exist, but also proved to be resilient in representing public concerns and holding their executives to account, however imperfectly and notwithstanding delegating huge powers. In consequence, executives—more so British and Australian ministers than President Roosevelt—were required to be placatory as institutional and political tensions within national assemblies and between assemblies and executives continued, and assemblies often asserted themselves. In short, even under the most onerous wartime conditions, democratic politics mattered and democratic institutions were resilient.