Utilização de recurso digital (internet) e utilização de recurso analógico (manual escolar) no 1ºCEB : implicações no processo de ensino/aprendizagem

Relatório de Estágio apresentado à Escola Superior de Educação do Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco para cumprimento dos requisitos necessários à obtenção do grau de Mestre em Educação Pré-Escolar e Ensino do 1º Ciclo do Ensino Básico.

A critical approach to reading comprehension in english: teaching intervention with group of teenagers at a non-formal education institution [recurso electr?nico]

The following paper is an action research made with a group of 6 teenagers aged 11-13 from the city of Cali. The project was carried out at a non-formal education institution and basically describes the process of a teaching intervention in which the concepts of Critical Pedagogy and Task-Based Learning were the protagonists. The results show first, that students really need to feel motivated in order to accept a critical approach; second, that the role of the teacher in the achievement of the objectives is extremely relevant; it is necessary for them to have a critical perspective before working on this field besides the constant seeking of information in order to innovate in their classes; third, that the TBL (Task Based Learning) and the critical pedagogy are processes that need some time in order to bear fruits; and fourth, that a needs analysis is essential for the quality of the intervention.

Transformation into Platform - How can an organisation move from a single-sided business to platforms? A case study at Lyyti

The research studies the transformation from a single-sided offering to a multi-sided platform. The study aims to define platforms and their benefits, creating a theoretical framework by applying change management models with the platform theory, and by finding critical change points of the transformation. The empirical research was done by utilizing action research. The researcher worked as project manager in the case company, and studied the transformation project by working actively and leading the project team. The result of the project was a study of how the company would be able to manage the transformation. The results clearly showed that the company didn’t have the capabilities to finish the transformation. As a conclusion, the study showed that the critical change points that led to the project failure were, that the project was managed with insufficient change managerial efforts, which later resulted as lack of commitment to re-allocating the resources to complete the transformation. Many of the critical change points were results of combined change managerial and platform-related issues.

Fez-se Luz na VOTS Intervenção psicossocial num lar e residência de idosos

O presente trabalho tem como objetivo apresentar o desenvolvimento de um projeto de intervenção psicossocial num Lar e Residência de idosos. Foi um projeto sustentado na metodologia de Investigação-Ação Participativa, com a finalidade de promover o bem-estar e o desenvolvimento pessoal e social dos idosos, melhorando as relações interpessoais e aumentando a participação ativa em atividades. Após utilizadas diversas técnicas e métodos para analisar a realidade percebeu-se a existência de alguns problemas. Os problemas e as necessidades foram priorizados pelos participantes face ao grau de importância e urgência. Assim, foi desenhado e desenvolvido o projeto intitulado pelos idosos “Fez-se luz na VOTS”, com três ações que incorporaram conversas intencionais frequentes e regulares, encontros nos quais se desenvolveram atividades diversas e exercícios de dinâmica de grupo. Cada ação visava combater ou atenuar os problemas existentes, de acordo com os objetivos gerais e específicos desenhados. Ao longo de todo o processo de análise da realidade, desenho e desenvolvimento do projeto, incluindo a sua avaliação, tentou-se dar sempre voz aos idosos desde a consciencialização acerca dos problemas à participação ativa na sua resolução. Este projeto alcançou resultados positivos, na medida em que possibilitou o envolvimento ativo dos idosos, a melhoria de relações interpessoais e a consciencialização dos participantes para o processo de mudança, contribuindo para o seu bem-estar, desenvolvimento e empoderamento.

External school evaluation : teachers’ perspectives : two case studies from Northern Portugal

The external evaluation of non-higher education schools in Portugal has been developed by the General Inspectorate of Education since 2006. A first cycle of evaluation was completed, covering all educational units in continental Portugal up to 2011. The model of evaluation has since been subject to alterations, and a second cycle of evaluation is now coming to an end. The current model of evaluation is based on documental analysis, analysis of students’ results, and panel interviews with a variety of representatives of the school community, and addresses three domains: results, provision of educational service and management. This paper is part of an ongoing research project, developed by 6 universities and supported by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (PTDC/CPE-CED/116674/2010) which intends to analyse the impacts and effects this process of external evaluation has had on Portuguese schools. This project includes a variety of perspectives and methodologies. In particular, we will focus on two case studies undertaken in two schools from the northern region of Portugal, and more specifically on the perspectives expressed by the teachers of those schools. These particular schools were chosen because they have been evaluated twice and represent different educational levels (basic and secondary), contexts and results. These case studies included the analysis of documental data, interviews to key informants and a questionnaire directed to teachers (n = 141) – the latter will be the main focus of this paper. Teachers are essential elements of the school community when considering the impacts of external evaluation, as any changes directed at teaching practices, student evaluation, among others are only possible through their direct action and implication. Therefore, their perceptions on the process and its impacts are crucial to the understanding of what does and does not change in schools as a consequence of external evaluation. Although teachers’ opinions are not homogenous and each school reveals a number of differences when it comes to teachers’ perceptions of School Evaluation, it was possible to stress some areas as the most and as the least consensual. Teachers in both schools agree External School Evaluation (ESE) is useful for the identification of the schools’ strengths and weaknesses, values students’ external evaluation results, imposes a model for schools internal evaluation (and in fact contributes to the very existence of internal evaluation practices), and contributes to schools improvement. However teachers in both schools do not believe ESE contributes to teachers’ autonomy produces changes in how curriculum is managed, or leads to innovative teaching practices. These results point to a greater emphasis on change at the levels of school management, self-evaluation and particularly internal evaluation, but little impact on the teaching practices. We believe the classroom is at the core of school practices and teaching processes are essential to any measure of school quality and to their impacts on student learning.

Prática de ensino supervisionada em educação pré-escolar e 1º ciclo do ensino básico: a vida na escola e na família. Que conexões?

O presente relatório de estágio desenvolveu-se no âmbito da unidade curricular de Prática de Ensino Supervisionada, tendo por finalidade a obtenção de grau de mestre em Educação Pré-Escolar e Ensino do 1º Ciclo do Ensino Básico. Corresponde à descrição e análise de um trabalho desenvolvido em dois contextos, jardim-de-infância e 1º ciclo, inseridos num meio urbano, com grupos de crianças de três, quatro, cinco e seis anos e de seis e sete anos (respetivamente). Este trabalho procurou compreender de que forma ocorriam as conexões entre a vida na escola e na família em contexto. Começando por compreender como poderiam ser promovidas e ampliadas as relações entre ambos, de forma a envolver os familiares nas aprendizagens das crianças. No entanto criando sempre um espaço de troca de aprendizagens onde as diferenças sejam valorizadas. O enquadramento teórico foi construído de forma focada em três áreas de pesquisa: as conexões entre a escola e a família, e sua relevância; as tipologias de relação escola-família; e os problemas e estratégias de intervenção no âmbito da relação escola-família. Este relatório foi sustentado na metodologia de investigação-ação, utilizando diferentes instrumentos de recolha de dados de modo a responder às questões e objetivos propostos: observações, notas de campo e reflexões; revisão de literatura e questionário. Os resultados que emergiram deste relatório, sustentados nos instrumentos de recolha de dados, realçam a importância das conexões entre a vida na escola e na família. Apesar da existência de alguns obstáculos nesta relação, torna-se necessário encontrar estratégias que os eliminem por forma a compreender ambas as partes e um melhor rendimento escolar das crianças; Supervised Teaching Practice in Preschool and Primary Education : Life at School and in the Family, which connections? Abstract: This is an action-reseach project research developed within the Supervised Teaching Practice, part of the master in Preschool Education and Primary Teaching. It entails the description and analysis of the work developed in one pre-school and one and primary school, inserted in an urban environment, with children from three to six and from six to seven years (respectively). This work sought to understand how occurred the connections between life at school and in the family context. Starting to understand how they could be promoted and expanded relations between the two context, in order to involve family members in the learning of children. However creating always a swap space of learning where the differences are valued. The theoretical framework focused on three subjects: the importance of the connections between the school and the family,; the types of school-family relationship; and problems and intervention strategies within the school-family relationship. This report adopted an action research methodology, using different data collection instruments in order to reach the objectives proposed: observations field notes and reflections; literature review and a questionnaire. The results that emerged from this report, supported by data, highlight the importance of the connections between life at school and in the family. Despite some obstacles in this relationship, it is necessary to find strategies to eliminate them in order to understand both parts and a better school performance of children.

Relatório de Estágio

Este relatório assenta em três pilares essenciais relativos ao trabalho desenvolvido pela mestranda: a exploração teórica de temáticas educativas; a prática educativa supervisionada e o projeto de investigação em educação. No primeiro, analisam-se alguns temas relacionados com a ação docente: o professor enquanto profissional que reflete e investiga; e a indisciplina na sala de aula. No segundo, descreve-se a experiência de estágio da mestranda com a caracterização do contexto do Território Educativo de Intervenção Prioritário, onde a mesma lecionou, e com a reflexão das suas aulas supervisionadas. A sua intervenção educativa seguiu uma metodologia de cariz de investigação-ação, onde a reflexão serviu, destacadamente, para a alteração e o melhoramento das práticas educativas seguintes. O terceiro pilar apresenta o projeto de investigação desenvolvido pela formanda – Semáforo Nutricional: Pare, Olhe e Escolha. Este, inserido na área das Ciências Naturais, procurou potenciar a alteração de hábitos alimentares saudáveis, nos alunos do 1.º e 2.º Ciclo. Assim, fizeram-se sessões de sensibilização em dois contextos educativos e aplicaram-se questionários-testes, antes e depois dessas sessões. Os resultados deste projeto indiciam uma possível alteração dos seus hábitos alimentares. A formanda procurou estabelecer uma constante relação entre a teoria e a prática, fazendo uso dos saberes adquiridos, ao longo da licenciatura e do presente mestrado. Em suma, o relatório constitui uma síntese de todo o seu percurso formativo, no qual se retrata a evolução, a preparação e a superação de desafios, que um professor do 1.º e 2.º Ciclo do Ensino Básico deverá fazer face a cada momento.

EasyInterface: a toolkit for the rapid development of GUIs for research prototype tools

During the lifetime of a research project, different partners develop several research prototype tools that share many common aspects. This is equally true for researchers as individuals and as groups: during a period of time they often develop several related tools to pursue a specific research line. Making research prototype tools easily accessible to the community is of utmost importance to promote the corresponding research, get feedback, and increase the tools’ lifetime beyond the duration of a specific project. One way to achieve this is to build graphical user interfaces (GUIs) that facilitate trying tools; in particular, with web-interfaces one avoids the overhead of downloading and installing the tools. Building GUIs from scratch is a tedious task, in particular for web-interfaces, and thus it typically gets low priority when developing a research prototype. Often we opt for copying the GUI of one tool and modifying it to fit the needs of a new related tool. Apart from code duplication, these tools will “live” separately, even though we might benefit from having them all in a common environment since they are related. This work aims at simplifying the process of building GUIs for research prototypes tools. In particular, we present EasyInterface, a toolkit that is based on novel methodology that provides an easy way to make research prototype tools available via common different environments such as a web-interface, within Eclipse, etc. It includes a novel text-based output language that allows to present results graphically without requiring any knowledge in GUI/Web programming. For example, an output of a tool could be (a structured version of) “highlight line number 10 of file ex.c” and “when the user clicks on line 10, open a dialog box with the text ...”. The environment will interpret this output and converts it to corresponding visual e_ects. The advantage of using this approach is that it will be interpreted equally by all environments of EasyInterface, e.g., the web-interface, the Eclipse plugin, etc. EasyInterface has been developed in the context of the Envisage [5] project, and has been evaluated on tools developed in this project, which include static analyzers, test-case generators, compilers, simulators, etc. EasyInterface is open source and available at GitHub2.

Selection of ionic liquids to be used as separation agents for terpenes and terpenoids

In this work, ionic liquids are evaluated for the first time as solvents for extraction and entrainers in separation processes involving terpenes and terpenoids. For that purpose, activity coefficients at infinite dilution, γ13 ∞, of terpenes and terpenoids, in the ionic liquids [C4mim]Cl, [C4mim][CH3SO3], [C4mim][(CH3)2PO4] and [C4mim][CF3SO3] were determined by gas−liquid chromatography at six temperatures in the range 398.15 to 448.15 K. On the basis of the experimental values, a correlation of γ13 ∞ with an increase of the solubility parameters is proposed. The infinite dilution thermodynamic functions were calculated showing the entropic effect is dominant over the enthalpic. Gas−liquid partition coefficients give indications about the recovery and purification of terpenes and terpenoids from ionic liquid solutions. Presenting a strong innovative character, COSMO-RS was evaluated for the description of the selectivities and capacities, showing to be a useful tool for the screening of ionic liquids in order to find suitable candidates for terpenes and terpenoids extraction, and separation. COSMO-RS predictions show that in order to achieve the maximum separation efficiency, polar anions should be used such as bis(2,4,4-trimethylpentyl)phosphinate or acetate, whereas high capacities require nonpolar cations such as phosphonium.

Augmented Dissent: The Affordances of ICTs for Citizen Protest (A Case Study of the Ukraine Euromaidan Protests of 2013-2014).

This dissertation research project uses the Euromaidan protests in Ukraine to inform and shape a theory of augmented dissent to help explain the complex ways in which protest participants guided by the political, social, and cultural contexts engage in dissent augmented by ICTs in a reality where both the physical and the digital are used in concert. The purpose of this research is to conceptualize the use and perception of ICTs in protest activity using the communicative affordances framework. Through a mixed-method research approach involving interviews with protest participants, as well as qualitative and thematic analysis of online content from social media pages of several key Euromaidan protest communities, the research project examines the role ICTs played in the information and media landscape during the Euromaidan protest. The findings of the online content analysis were used to inform the questions for the 59 semi-structured, open-ended interviews with Euromaidan protest participants in Ukraine and abroad. The research findings provide in-depth insights about how ICTs were used and perceived by protest participants, and their role as vehicles for information and civic media content. The study employs the theoretical framework of social media affordances to interpret the data gathered during the interviews and content analysis to better understand how digital media augmented citizens’ protest activity through affording them new possibilities for dissent, and how they made meaning of said protest activity as augmented by ICTs. The findings contribute towards shaping a theory of digitally augmented dissent that conceptualizes the complex relationship between citizens and ICTs during protest activity as an affordance-driven one, where online and offline tools and activity merge into a unified dissent space and extend or augment the possibilities for action in interesting, and sometimes unexpected ways. Such a conceptual model could inform broader theories about civic participation and digital activism in the post-Soviet world and beyond, as ICTs become an inseparable part of civic life.

Planeamento em social media : elaboração de um plano de social media marketing para a empresa The Bakery Crossfit

Mestrado em Marketing

Sucesso e insucesso no licenciamento: uma perspectiva integrada.

Doutoramento em Gestão.

Do modelo geométrico ao modelo físico: o tridimensional na educação do arquiteto e urbanista

In the teaching practice of architecture and urbanism in Brazil, educational legislation views modeling laboratories and workshops as an indispensable component of the infrastructure required for the good functioning of any architectural course of study. Although the development of information technology at the international level has created new possibilities for digital production of architectural models, research in this field being underway since the early 1990s, it is only from 2007 onwards that such technologies started to be incorporated into the teaching activity of architecture and urbanism in Brazil, through the pioneering experience at LAPAC/FEC/UNICAMP. It is therefore a recent experiment whose challenges can be highlighted through the following examples: (i) The implementation of digital prototyping laboratories in undergraduate courses of architecture and urbanism is still rare in Brazil; (ii) As a new developing field with few references and application to undergraduate programs, it is hard to define methodological procedures suitable for the pedagogical curricula already implemented or which have already been consolidated over the years; (iii) The new digital ways for producing tridimensional models are marked with specificities which make it difficult to fit them within the existing structures of model laboratories and workshops. Considering the above, the present thesis discusses the tridimensional model as a tool which may contribute to the development of students skills in perceiving, understanding and representing tridimensional space. Analysis is made of the relation between different forms of models and the teaching of architectural project, with emphasis on the design process. Starting from the conceptualization of the word model as it is used in architecture and urbanism, an attempt is made to identify types of tridimensional models used in the process of project conception, both through the traditional, manual way of model construction as well as through the digital ones. There is also an explanation on how new technologies for digital production of models through prototyping are being introduced in undergraduate academic programs of architecture and urbanism in Brazil, as well as a review of recent academic publications in this area. Based on the paradigm of reflective practice in teaching as designed by Schön (2000), the experiment applied in the research was undertaken in the integrated workshop courses of architectural project in the undergraduate program of architecture and urbanism at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte. Along the experiment, physical modeling, geometric modeling and digital prototyping are used in distinct moments of the design process with the purpose of observing the suitability of each model to the project s phases. The procedures used in the experiments are very close to the Action Research methodology in which the main purpose is the production of theoretical knowledge by improving the practice. The process was repeated during three consecutive semesters and reflection on the results which were achieved in each cycle helped enhancing the next one. As a result, a methodological procedure is proposed which consists of the definition of the Tridimensional Model as the integrating element for the contents studied in a specific academic period or semester. The teaching of Architectural Project as it is developed along the fifth academic period of the Architecture and Urbanism undergraduate program of UFRN is taken as a reference

Plano de marketing para a loja "Banana Chiclete"

Mestrado em Marketing

A relação entre as famílias e os adultos institucionalizados: um projeto no centro de dia “O Pontão”

Dissertação de Mestrado, Educação Social, Escola Superior de Educação e Comunicação, Universidade do Algarve, 2015