Health education: the role and functions of the specialist and the generalist

Education for health is a process in which all public health and medical care personnel are involved. People learn both formally (planned learning experiences) and informally (unplanned learning experiences). Since the patient, the client, the consummer and the community expect public health and medical care personnel to assist them with health and disease issues and problems, the response of the professional "educates" the customer whether the professional intends to educate or not. Therefore, it is incumbent on all public health and medical care professionals to understand their educational functions and their role in health education. It is also important that the role of the specialist in education be clear. The specialist, as to all other specialists, has an in-depth knowledge of his area of expertise, i.e., the teaching/learning process; s/he may function as a consultant to others to enhance the educational potential of their role or s/he may work with a team or with communities or groups of patients. Specific competencies and knowledge are required of the health education specialist; and there is a body of learning and social change theory which provides a frame of reference for planning, implementing and evaluating educational programs. Working with others to enhance their potential to learn and to make informed decisions about health/disease issues is the hallmark of the health education specialist.

Policies for decentralization and development of health education

How the policy of action and professional standards have influenced the development and decentralization of health education is discussed. It is concluded that a review of policies both of developing as well as of developed countries could help to put some observations into a perspective that is closer to the Brazilian reality.

Overview of the tuning template for radiography in Europe

HENRE II (Higher Education Network for Radiography in Europe)

O uso das TIC em salas de aula inclusivas : atitudes e práticas de professores do 1º ciclo

Numa escola para todos, o grande desafio, passa pela qualidade educativa, sendo necessária uma adaptação do ensino às características pessoais dos alunos, num ambiente o menos restritivo possível. Uma abordagem inclusiva do aluno com NEE assenta em soluções exequíveis, emergindo, entre outras a utilização de estratégias diversificadas e a rentabilização de recursos disponíveis, como práticas de diferenciação pedagógica positiva. Neste sentido, o problema central deste estudo prende-se com o tipo de uso que fazem das TIC os professores e alunos de salas de aula do 1º CEB, quando nessas salas de aula existem alunos com NEE que necessitam das tecnologias para aprender e para comunicar. Assim, o estudo visa conhecer as concepções e práticas dos professores do 1º CEB sobre o uso das TIC em salas de aula inclusivas, procurando saber: i) as percepções dos professores sobre as necessidades educativas especiais dos alunos em turmas inclusivas e as suas expectativas relativamente às aprendizagens destes alunos; ii) o papel atribuído pelos professores às TIC no processo de aprendizagem dos alunos em geral e dos alunos NEE em particular; assim como identificar: iii) o uso das TIC que os professores planeiam e desenvolvem efectivamente em sala de aula com a turma e, em particular com os alunos com NEE. O trabalho desenvolveu-se através de um estudo de caso de uma escola do 1º CEB, centrando-se em oito professores, responsáveis por turmas inclusivas. Como processo de recolha de dados utilizámos as técnicas da entrevista e da observação directa naturalista em sala de aula. Concluímos que os professores aceitam a inclusão, por razões diversas, mas sobretudo por a considerarem benéfica para o aluno com NEE. Consideram que os alunos com NEE têm necessidade de um bom clima sócio-emocional na sala de aula e assumem a necessidade de adequar actividades diferenciadas ao perfil de funcionalidade desses alunos, evidenciando a preocupação de fazer aprender estes alunos no sentido de os tornarem competentes. Quanto à abordagem curricular para os alunos com NEE, os professores revelam atenção à evolução dos alunos e diferenciam o currículo de forma a corresponder às suas necessidades. As inquietações dos professores vão, em parte, para factores de ordem estrutural e/ou ambiental, exteriores ao aluno, manifestando preocupações ligadas à falta de recursos humanos e materiais. A articulação com o professor de Educação Especial pressupõe uma díade cooperativa, que ao regular o percurso do aluno com NEE, promove também uma educação inclusiva. Quanto ao papel atribuído às TIC os professores, recorrem ao seu uso quando sentem necessidade de motivar os alunos, pois as mesmas permitem a obtenção de resultados mais positivos na aprendizagem, adaptando-se às exigências dos alunos em geral, assim como à especificidade dos alunos com NEE. Quanto à prática no uso das TIC, em dinâmicas de ensino e de aprendizagem, foi possível observar, que o recurso a equipamentos e programas adequados às necessidades dos alunos com NEE, não apenas promove a motivação e a aprendizagem destes alunos, como ajuda o professor a assegurar um clima de estabilidade e trabalho na sala de aula inclusiva.

Utilization of Interactive Internet in High Education

The present work reports on the practical cooperation between two Universities from Hungary and Portugal. Students from Portugal are remotely accessing an experimental facility, which is physically in Hungary. The cooperation among these Higher Education establishments allowed the development and testing of a Remote Laboratory at the BME. This paper reports on the characteristics and initial testing of the Thermocouples Rise Time Measurement System and provides information on development and students' feedback.

Learning management systems usage on higher education institutions

Learning Management Systems (LMS) are used all over Higher Education Institutions (HEI) and the need to know and understand its adoption and usage arises. However, there is a lack of information about how LMSs are being used, which are the most adopted, whether there is a country adoption standard and which countries use more LMSs. A research team is developing a project that tries to fill this lack of information and provide the needed answers. With this purpose, on a first phase, it a survey was taken place. The results of this survey are presented in this paper. Another purpose of this paper is to disseminate the ongoing project.

Accounting education in an action-based learning environment: lessons learned

In the context of the Bologna Declaration a change is taking place in the teaching/learning paradigm. From teaching-centered education, which emphasizes the acquisition and transmission of knowledge, we now speak of learning-centered education, which is more demanding for students. This paradigm promotes a continuum of lifelong learning, where the individual needs to be able to handle knowledge, to select what is appropriate for a particular context, to learn permanently and to understand how to learn in new and rapidly changing situations. One attempt to face these challenges has been the experience of ISCAP regarding the teaching/learning of accounting in the course Managerial Simulation. This paper describes the process of teaching, learning and assessment in an action-based learning environment. After a brief general framework that focuses on education objectives, we report the strengths and limitations of this teaching/learning tool. We conclude with some lessons from the implementation of the project.

Challenges for e-learning and adult students in higher education

This article examines Lifelong Learning, from the perspective of the adult learner in higher education, by presenting some of the results of a project, funded by the European Commission's Socrates Programme, LIHE, Learning in Higher Education. It is structured as follows: first, the background of the project is described, then the experiences of the adult student, concerning their induction and tuition, are presented. Some future trends concerning adults in higher education and lifelong learning are outlined and conclusions drawn.

Adult learners in higher education

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Environmental sustainability in superior education: case study of Lisbon College of Health Technology

Over the centuries there has been a growing trend of societies and it is possible to verify their economic growth. This growth has provided an increased pressure on natural resources, often over-reaching the boundaries of each country, which has called into question the level of environmental sustainability in different countries. Sustainability is understood as a complex concept involving ecological, social, economic dimensions and temporal urban processes. Therefore, Firmino (2009) suggests that the ecological footprint (EF) allows people to establish dependency relations between human activities and the natural resources required for such activities and for the absorption of waste generated. According to Bergh & Verbruggen (1999) the EF is an objective, impartial and one-dimensional indicator that enables people to assess the sustainability. The Superior Schools have a crucial role in building the vision of a sustainable future as a reality, because in transmitting values and environmental principles to his students, are providing that they, in exercising his professional activity, make decisions weighing the environmental values. This ensures improved quality of life. The present study aims to determine the level of environmental sustainability of the Academic Community of Lisbon College of Health Technology (ESTeSL), by calculating the EF, and describe whether a relation between Footprint and various socio-demographic characteristics of the subjects.

Building a knowledge and learning society in Portugal: adult students in technological schools and higher education institutions

Lifelong learning (LLL) has received increasing attention in recent years. It implies that learning should take place at all stages of the “life cycle and it should be life-wide, that is embedded in all life contexts from the school to the work place, the home and the community” (Green, 2002, p.613). The ‘learning society’, is the vision of a society where there are recognized opportunities for learning for every person, wherever they are and however old they happen to be. Globalization and the rise of new information technologies are some of the driving forces that cause depreciation of specialised competences. This happens very quickly in terms of economic value; consequently, workers of all skills levels, during their working life, must have the opportunity to update “their technical skills and enhance general skills to keep pace with continuous technological change and new job requirements” (Fahr, 2005, p. 75). It is in this context that LLL tops the policy agenda of international bodies, national governments and non-governmental organizations, in the field of education and training, to justify the need for LLL opportunities for the population as they face contemporary employability challenges. It is in this context that the requirement and interest to analyse the behaviour patterns of adult learners has developed over the last few years

Learning in higher education: the ISEGI case

Comunicação apresentada na IRMA Information Resources Management Association International Conference, San Diego, CA, 15 19 May

Knowledge sharing and learning processes: case study of portuguese technological schools and higher education institutions

Paper to be presented at the ESREA Conference Learning to Change? The Role of Identity and Learning Careers in Adult Education, 7-8 December, 2006, Université Catholique Louvain, Louvain–la-Neuve, Belgium

Lifelong learning: case study of adult students in portuguese technological schools and higher education institutions

Paper to be presented in ESREA 2007 ADC Network Seminar - Changing Relationships between the State, Civil Society and the Citizen: Implications for adult education and adult learning, 14 -16 June 2007 - University of Minho - Campus de Gualtar, Braga (Portugal).

Learning in higher education: strategies to overcome challenges faced by adult students - lessons drawn from two studies in portugal

Int’l J. of Information and Communication Technology Education, 3(2), 1-14, April-June 2007