Blearning no ensino superior politécnico: estudo de avaliação do Mestrado em Turismo, Inovação e Desenvolvimento na ESTG de Viana do Castelo

As transformações tecnológicas e a crescente heterogeneidade dos alunos que frequentam o Ensino Superior, bem como a premente necessidade de financiamento num universo cada vez mais competitivo têm tornado necessária a implementação de mudanças ao nível das instituições que, cada vez mais têm de diversificar e flexibilizar a sua oferta pedagógica sem comprometer a qualidade de ensino aprendizagem. Encarado por muitos como uma solução viável e prática, o blearning tem vindo a assumir uma importância crescente neste contexto. No entanto, subsistem algumas dúvidas relativamente à forma como os cursos nesta modalidade estão a ser implementados e o seu impacto real nas aprendizagens dos alunos. Neste sentido torna-se necessário proceder à sua avaliação, aferindo a sua qualidade, validade e identificando vantagens e áreas problemáticas. Com uma vertente interventiva, uma vez que se desenvolveu um plano de atuação e se apresentou uma lista de recomendações, e assumindo a forma de um estudo de avaliação, esta investigação pretendeu cumprir esse desígnio. Envolvendo alunos, docentes e responsáveis institucionais procurou caracterizar-se e analisar-se a componente online do Mestrado em Turismo, Inovação e Desenvolvimento a funcionar na Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão de Viana do Castelo, partindo dessa análise para a reflexão conjunta e trabalho de campo. Globalmente, concluiu-se que, muito embora os intervenientes assumam um posicionamento favorável à adoção do blearning, subsistem algumas reservas e desconhecimento por parte dos docentes e responsáveis relativamente à sua implementação na prática, verificando-se ainda uma grande discrepância entre as expectativas iniciais dos alunos e as suas perceções após um ano de frequência do mestrado. A lista final de recomendações a apresentar à instituição refletiu todo este processo, sendo o corolário de todo um trabalho que se pretende ver continuado e alargado a outros cursos e instituições.

A Democratic Opening? The AKP and the Kurdish Left

Since its foundation, militant democratic arguments have underpinned an enforced secularism in Turkey. The 2002 election of the AKP, described as a “moderate Islamist party”, has challenged Turkey’s secular identity. In the more than twelve years since the AKP has been in power, Turkey’s political landscape has experienced significant changes, with periods of extensive democratic reforms punctuated by regression in certain areas, notably freedom of expression and the right to protest. State repressive measures coupled with Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s reluctance to exit the political stage have been the focus of much commentary and analysis. This article argues, however, that under AKP rule the Kurdish issue – critical to ensuring the normalization of politics and democratization in Turkey – has been brought in from the political cold and assesses the creation and role of the HDP (Halkların Demokratik Partisi), a Kurdish political party that is endeavoring to situate itself in the mainstream of Turkey’s political landscape. We posit that the HDP can be viewed as the offspring of this “democratic opening,” a project that was meant to ensure a radical transformation of the Kurdish issue in Turkey. Through analysing the historical trajectory of both AKP and HDP and the militant democratic arguments that led to their predecessors’ exclusion from the public sphere, this article engages with the key question of the extent to which the AKP’s treatment of the Kurdish issue has provided a vehicle for broader democratisation and facilitated a reconsideration of the Kurdish question in Turkey.

The Trembling Line

The Trembling Line is a film and multi-channel sound installation exploring the visual and acoustic echoes between decipherable musical gestures and abstract patterning, orchestral swells and extreme high-speed slow-motion close-ups of strings and percussion. It features a score by Leo Grant and a newly devised multichannel audio system by the Institute of Sound and Vibration Research, University of Southampton. The multi-channel speaker array is devised as an intimate sound spatialisation system in which each element of sound can be pried apart and reconfigured, to create a dynamically disorienting sonic experience. It becomes the inside of a musical instrument, an acoustic envelope or cage of sorts, through which viewers are invited to experience the film and generate cross-sensory connections and counterpoints between the sound and the visuals. Funded by a Leverhulme Artist-in-Residence Award and John Hansard Gallery, with support from ISVR and the Music Department, University of Southampton. The project provided a rare opportunity to work creatively with new cutting edge developments in sound distribution devised by ISVR, devising a new speaker array, a multi- channel surround listening sphere which spatialises the auditory experience. The sphere is currently used by ISVR for outreach and teaching purposes, and has enables future collaborations between music staff and students at Southampton University and staff and ISVR. Exhibitions: Solo exhibition at John Hansard Gallery, Southampton (Dec 2015-Jan 2016), across 5 rooms, including a retrospective of five previous film-works and a new series of photographic stills. Public lectures: two within the gallery. Reviews and interviews: Art Monthly, Studio International, The Quietus, The Wire Magazine.

Exploring the linguistic landscape: the case of the ‘Golden Triangle’ in the Algarve, Portugal

Studies of the linguistic landscape (LL) are concerned with language in its written form, in the public sphere; language that is visible to all through texts such as billboards and other public signs. The LL is such a taken-for-granted part of our everyday experience that its importance as a form of social practice is often overlooked. Taking a mixed methods approach to the case of the linguistic landscape of the ‘Golden Triangle’, an area of tourist resorts which is gradually becoming a residential area in the Algarve, Portugal, I suggest that the discursive construction of a place is partly achieved through the highly visible texts of the LL which may also impact upon the discursive construction of the collective identities of those who inhabit the place.

Exploring the micro-politics of place: lifestyle migrants, collective identities and modes of belonging

Taking up Hopkins and Dixon’s (2006) call to attend to the micro-politics of everyday constructions of space and place, which necessarily involves psychological concepts such as identity, belonging and attachment, this paper aims to show how a critical socio-cognitive approach to discourse analysis is an effective means of unpacking the ways in which versions of place are (re)produced and negotiated through discursive practices, and in particular the ways in which ‘legitimate’ collective identities are constructed in relation to place. I focus on the contemporary social phenomenon of lifestyle migration. Within Europe, this typically involves relatively affluent northern Europeans moving to destinations in southern Europe that are strongly linked to tourism. Although lifestyle migrants are generally viewed by their hosts as ‘desirable’ migrants due to their perceived economic and socio-cultural capital, their integration into destination communities is often minimal. The question arises as to how these migrants construct modes of belonging in relation to their adopted home-place and how they relate to the other social groups with whom they share it. Using texts from a variety of sources, including in-depth interviews with British migrants in Portugal, I explore not only how migrants position themselves (and others) discursively in relation to places, but also how they are already positioned by discursive practices in the public sphere. I also examine to what extent the construction of a ‘legitimate’ mode of belonging involves the construction of intergroup cooperation within that place.

The discursive construction of Portuguese national identity in the media thirty years after the 1974 revolution

Tese dout., Philosophy, Lancaster University, 2010

A ética como criação de qualidade de vida : o apreço pela vida como pilar de sustentação da acção humana

Relatório da Prática de Ensino Supervisionada, Mestrado em Ensino da Filosofia, Universidade de Lisboa, 2011

Projeto 12-15 : dinâmicas e desafios

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

A institucionalização do ensino da náutica em Portugal (1779-1807)

Tese de doutoramento, História (História dos Descobrimentos e da Expansão), Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Letras, 2014

A pureza perdida do desporto : futebol no Estado Novo

Tese de doutoramento, Sociologia (Teorias e Métodos de Sociologia), Universidade de Lisboa, Instituto de Ciências Sociais, 2014

Avaliação para as aprendizagens de alunos com necessidades educativas especiais no 1º ciclo de ensino básico : da diversidade da avaliação à avaliação da diversidade

Tese de doutoramento, Educação (Avaliação em Educação), Universidade de Lisboa, Instituto de Educação, 2014

Rhetorical Topographies of Post-Earthquake L'Aquila: Locality, Activism, and Citizenship Engagement

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

Complexity theory and tourism policy research

This paper investigates applications of complexity theory in the social sphere and considers its potential contribution to enhance understanding of tourism policy making. Five concepts are identified to explore complex social circumstances and human interactions that influence policy. Social applications of complexity suggest a move towards localised and deeper studies to explore the dynamics of policy enactment in context. It suggests complexity theory might be used as a thinking tool to enable a more holistic approach to policy analysis and investigate policy in its context, considering interactions between different policies/programmes, and the implications of human agency.

Infotainment - interesse público vs interesse do público: estudo de caso das médias e grandes reportagens da SIC

Relatório de estágio apresentado à Escola Superior de Comunicação Social como parte dos requisitos para obtenção de grau de mestre em Jornalismo.

Nanotech thin film photovoltaics

Trabalho Final de Mestrado para obtenção do grau de Mestre em Engenharia de Electrónica e Telecomunicações