A qualidade das salas de berçários nos concelhos de Setubal e de Palmela

Tendo por principal objetivo contribuir para o estudo da qualidade das creches dos Concelhos de Setúbal e de Palmela, com este trabalho pretende-se (1) avaliar e descrever a qualidade de 30 salas de berçário através da aplicação da Escala de Avaliação do Ambiente de Creche – Edição Revista (Infant/Toddler Environment Rating Scale – Revised Edition [ITERS-R], Harms, Cryer, & Clifford, 2006), (2) avaliar e descrever as práticas de socialização dos prestadores de cuidados responsáveis pelas 30 salas de berçário através da aplicação da Escala de Interação do Prestador de Cuidados (Caregiver Interaction Scale [CIS], Arnett, 1989), (3) estudar a associação entre as práticas de socialização dos profissionais e a qualidade das salas de berçário, (4) estudar associações entre a qualidade das salas de berçário e as práticas de socialização dos profissionais e algumas variáveis de estrutura (rácio adulto/criança, tamanho do grupo, educação, formação e experiência dos prestadores de cuidados). Tendo em conta que os estudos efetuados em Portugal revelam qualidade inadequada e mínima nas salas de creche, os resultados obtidos no presente estudo sugerem que as salas observadas possuem qualidade entre o mínimo e o bom. Embora o presente estudo apresente resultados superiores, verificou-se que os itens que apresentam maiores fragilidades (áreas deficitárias), assim como os itens que expressam maior qualidade (áreas fortes) parecem convergir com os resultados das investigações já efetuadas, com efeito os itens relacionados com as subescalas Atividades e Rotinas de cuidados pessoais são os que apresentam os resultados mais preocupantes. A subescala Interação foi a que apresentou resultados superiores e as práticas de socialização dos prestadores de cuidados revelaram ser excelentes. Verificou-se, igualmente, que as salas orientadas por educadores de infância, assim como, as salas em que o principal prestador de cuidados era educador de infância revelaram qualidade superior do que salas orientadas por assistentes operacionais (auxiliares de ação educativa). Este efeito chama a atenção para a importância da formação e qualificação dos profissionais de educação, assim como, para a necessidade de se alterarem as políticas educativas, nomeadamente no que diz respeito à obrigatoriedade de existirem educadores de infância nas salas de berçário. - ABSTRACT With the main objective of contributing to the study of quality of infant/toddler center-based child care in the Counties of Setúbal and Palmela, this work aims to (1) assess and describe the quality of 30 infant classrooms by applying the Infant/Toddler Environment Rating Scale-Revised Edition ([ITERS-R], Harms, Cryer, & Clifford, 2006), (2) assess and describe the socialization practices of caregivers responsible for 30 infant classrooms by applying the Caregiver Interaction Scale ([CIS], Arnett, 1989), (3) study the association between the socialization practices of professionals and the quality of infant classrooms, (4) to study associations between the quality of infant classrooms and the socialization practices of professionals and some structure variables (ratio adult/child group size, education, training, and experience of carers). Considering that the studies carried out in Portugal reveal minimum or inadequate quality in infant/toddler center-based child care, the results of this study suggest that, in accordance with ITERS-R, the quality of the infant classrooms observed varies between minimum and good. Although the present study reports higher quality scores, it was found that items which present the biggest weaknesses (deficit areas) as well as the items which express higher quality (strengths) appear to converge with the results of the investigations already carried out, since the items related with subscales Activities and Personal Care Routines are those with the most worrisome results. The Interaction subscale from ITERS-R proved to be the one with higher scores, and socialization practices of caregivers proved to be excellent. It was also found that the rooms oriented by early childhood teachers, as well as the rooms in which the primary care provider was also guided by childhood teachers showed higher quality than when guided by operational assistants (educational activities assistants). This effect draws attention to the importance of the education professionals training and qualification, as well as the need for altering the educational policies, in particular as regards the obligation to ensure the existence of early childhood teachers in infant classrooms.

Synthesis of the Piacenzian onshore record between the Aveiro and Setubal parallels (Western portuguese margin)

Onshore, the Piacenzianof the Mondego and Lower Tagus Tertiary basins comprises siliciclastic sediments deposited in shallow marine to continental environments. The outcrops of the deposits are relatively widespread in the Aveiro and Seuibal region. A lithostratigraphic synthesis based on the correlation of geological sections, is presented for the two basins. In general, the Piacenzian sediments display a regressive sucession. The Late Tortonian-Zanclean (?) confined drainage pattern changed at the beginning of Piazencian, to fluvial systems draining to the Atlantic, and capturing the drainage of the inner parts of the Hesperic Meseta. The Piacenzian sedimentary sequence post-dates one of the uprising phases during Neogene compression, recorded by a strong regional unconformity. Some local active faulting - as in Lousa, Rio Maior and Senibal- Pinhal Novo - allowed the local thickening of the sedimentary record. Later compressive tectonism continues to generate reverse faulting and diapiric reactivation, affecting those sediments. Currently, the Piacenzian deposits culminates the marginal piedmonts, widely eroded by the Quaternary fluvial dissection.

Urban land use change analysis and modelling: a case study of Setubal-Sesimbra, Portugal

Dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Science in Geospatial Technologies

Problématique du xiie atelier international, lisbonne - setubal 2007

Le thème proposé “ Musées et Société “ n’est pas nouveau. Il a déjà été traité ad noseam en d’innombrables circonstances, sauf, peut-être, sous l’angle explicite de l’engagement :Quelles actions ? L’ambition de “ saisir la mudance “ répond à une nécessité de tous les moments dans un monde où tout et rien évoluent à un rythme diabolique. Comment donc, dans ces circonstances, ajuster l’action du musée, une institution culturelle relativement lourde, si on la compare aux autres medias de communication, très attachée encore à ses traditions séculaires dont elle s’enorgueillit, soumise, par ailleurs aux changements qui bouleversent tous les aspects de son fonctionnement , voire de sa mission, fortement attirée qu’elle est par la société du spectacle, tentée, par ailleurs, d’y réagir en se rapprochant de la vie quotidienne des populations par l’action communautaire fondue dans le travail muséologique ? Le MINOM, dont la vocation est de questionner tout en agissant, est à la recherché du point de vue à partir duquel il peut interroger et agir. Quel est exactement son champ d’action, le dénominateur commun qui rassemble, mobilise, attire ses adhérents, issus de cultures, d’origines et d’idéologies diverses ? On a souvent campé l’organisation dans les alternatives, soit dans des positions qui puissant faire contrepoids aux systèmes dominants, étouffant la créativité, la maîtrise d’oeuvre individuelle: La liberté d’être et d’exprimer par soi-même. Serait-ce donc que, globalement, le MINOM aurait rejoint, sans tout à fait s’en rendre compte, la plateforme altermondiste, dans tout ce qu’elle représente d’expérimentations sociaux et d’utopies, d’ un nouvel humanisme fondé sur le partage, le dialogue ? Le XIIe Atelier devrait nous amener à préciser, par l´échange et la prospectrice (ambition partagée par le dernier Atelier ) , là où nous nous situons, comme groupe ( noyau central et périphérique ) à l’intérieur de la mouvance, à l’échelle locale et mondiale. Les actions les plus appropriées pour traduire, dans le cadre de l’action muséologique nos représentations de l’être humain se débattant à ‘intérieur de la biosphère, seront nécessairement, il faut l’espérer, à l’ordre du jour de nos résolutions. Le MUSÉE – FORUM –SOCIAL ns serait-il pas, en fin de compte, le modèle à partager, dans les prochaines années, par l’ensemble de la communauté Minomienne? Lieu d’appropriation continue de la mouvance, il est, croyons-nous, le laboratoire de l’expérimentation citoyenne, un lieu de représentations interdisciplinaires résultant de la convivialité et des interactions globales des inter-changes sociétaires.