'Small places like St Helena have big questions to ask': the inaugural lecture of a Professor of Island Geography

This publication takes the form of a written version of my inaugural lecture, which was presented at Queen’s University Belfast on 10 March 2010. It is more personal and considerably more self-indulgent than would normally be acceptable in an article, with more of my own experiences and also my own references than would usually be considered proper. However, the bestowal of such a title as Professor of Island Geography is something of a marker of the maturity not just of myself but maybe also for island studies. After a section describing my path into island geography, the lecture deals with the negativities of islands and the seeming futility of studying them only then to identify a new or at least enhanced regard for islands as places with which to interact and to examine. Reference is made to islands throughout the world, but with some focus on the small islands off Ireland. The development of island studies as a discipline is then briefly described before the lecture concludes with reference to its title quotation on St Helena by considering that place’s islandness and how this affected/affects it in both the 17th and 21st centuries.

‘Papers from ‘A Symposium with Professor Roger Brownsword: Super-stewardship in the Context of Public Health’’

This special issue seeks to engage the term 'stewardship' and the practical and theoretical work around it, both of which are destined to remain items of unfinished business as governance struggles to keep up and connect with its fast moving technological and societal targets. While this special issue is testament to that observation, it also helps to foster much needed scholarly discussion and critique – and to ensure this field is not unwittingly formed and deployed by and as a legitimating support for governance, but rather opened up, elaborated and contested. The articles provide innovative insights and food for thought on the conception and legal-political practice and potential of stewardship and ‘super-stewardship’ in national, supranational and international settings.

An Introduction to 'A Symposium with Professor Roger Brownsword: Super-stewardship in the Context of Public Health'

Introduces the articles in the special issue.

Geologia 11.º ano - guia do professor

Na primeira parte, são fundamentalmente as orientações metodologicas, as quais incluem referências à educação para o desenvolvimento sustentável, algumas sugestões didáticas e observações relativas à avalliação das aprendizagens. Pretende-se que os professores desenvolvam um quadro de referência, o qual será importante para justificar algumas das decisões que terão de tomar na preparação das suas aulas e, depois, em situação de ato de ensino. Na segunda parte, são apresentados para cada uma das quatro Unidades Temáticas que integram o programa de Geologia do 11.º ano, mapas de conceitos, propostas de planificação, sugestões diversas, recursos e recomendações de avaliação. Tudo isto visa proporcionar aos professores elementos que lhes permitam vir a reunir um conjunto de condições necessárias a uma abordagem sustentada e atual do programa, em íntima articulação com o manual, de modo que os alunos procedam a uma aprendizagem que conduza a uma cidadania ativa.