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The Open Repository is the institutional repository of Universidade Aberta and was built with the aim of storing, preserving, disseminating, and providing access to UAb's intellectual production in digital format. The goal is to gather, in one place, the entirety of UAb's scientific publications, thereby contributing to the increase of its visibility and impact while ensuring the preservation of its intellectual memory.

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Empowering (e)ducators, inspiring learners: a cross-cultural exploration for interprofessional development through the lens of the capability approach
Publication . Gómez-Rey, Pilar; Chirinos, Jorge Raúl Maradiaga; Fernández-Navarro, Francisco; Teixeira, António; Barroso-Tristán, Jose María
The development of interprofessional capabilities has become a crucial strategy for addressing the multifaceted challenges of today’s increasingly interconnected and volatile workplace environment. This study examines Martha Nussbaum’s Capability Approach (CA) as a framework for cultivating key tangible outcomes - such as communication, critical reasoning, empathy, and collaboration - that are vital in the interprofessional context. Methodologically, the research adopts a quantitative approach to validate a life skills evaluation instrument and assess its effectiveness in diverse cultural settings. To achieve this, a Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) was conducted on a dataset comprising 138 online instructors, complemented by statistical tests to identify significant cross-cultural differences in the prioritization and implementation of key skills. The main findings underscore the potential of e-learning practices, grounded in the CA framework, as a powerful tool for fostering the development of crucial capabilities essential for cultivating competent and well-rounded professional human beings. The findings of this study provided information on how to design teaching and learning for interprofessional development in the context of Pakistan, Portugal, Spain, and the United Kingdom.
2025-05Journal article Open access Show more
Empowering (e)ducators, inspiring learners: a cross-cultural exploration for interprofessional development through the lens of the Capability Approach
Publication . Gómez-Rey, P.; Maradiaga, J. R.; Fernández-Navarro, F.; Moreira Teixeira, A.; Barroso-Tristán, J. M.
The development of interprofessional capabilities has become a crucial strategy for addressing the multifaceted challenges of today’s increasingly interconnected and volatile workplace environment. This study examines Martha Nussbaum’s Capability Approach (CA) as a framework for cultivating key tangible outcomes - such as communication, critical reasoning, empathy, and collaboration - that are vital in the interprofessional context. Methodologically, the research adopts a quantitative approach to validate a life skills evaluation instrument and assess its effectiveness in diverse cultural settings. To achieve this, a Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) was conducted on a dataset comprising 138 online instructors, complemented by statistical tests to identify significant cross-cultural differences in the prioritization and implementation of key skills. The main findings underscore the potential of e-learning practices, grounded in the CA framework, as a powerful tool for fostering the development of crucial capabilities essential for cultivating competent and well-rounded professional human beings. The findings of this study provided information on how to design teaching and learning for interprofessional development in the context of Pakistan, Portugal, Spain, and the United Kingdom.
2025-05-28Text Open access Show more
Cyberbullying: da consciencialização à prevenção
Publication . Morgado, Lina; Afonso, Ana Paula
O cyberbullying é uma realidade que afecta milhares de jovens e crianças em todo o mundo. Este vídeo pretende divulgar a ação de formação sobre esta temática. Apresentamos o curso de formação contínua: ‘Cyberbullying: da Consciencialização à Prevenção’. Uma oferta formativa da Universidade Aberta, em regime de ensino e aprendizagem a distância, totalmente online. Neste curso, irá aprender a identificar sinais de cyberbullying, compreender o seu impacto emocional e social e, ainda, a aplicar estratégias eficazes de prevenção em contexto escolar. Com um conteúdo atualizado e orientado por especialistas, este curso oferece ferramentas práticas para lidar com o cyberbullying em ambiente escolar. No final, estará mais preparado para criar um ambiente seguro e inclusivo para os seus alunos.
2025Video Open access Show more
Filming the soul?: from Robert Bresson to Manoel de Oliveira
Publication . Bello, Maria do Rosário Lupi; Dias Branco, Sérgio; Benis, Rita
"This collection of essays explores new ways of examining the connections between film and Christianity. It aims to think more deeply about this relationship and inspect more closely how films express and depict Christian faith and spirituality and provide experiences associated with them".
2025Book part Open access Show more
How music–video metaphors build destination brand resonance: dyadic affect, meaning access, and cultural cues
Publication . Gary, Joston; Gu, Yang; Wang, Hannah; Zhou, Xixing; Feng, Yan; Moreira, Antonio
Short-form destination videos often rely on music to carry cultural meaning. This paper links Cognitive Metaphor Theory with the circumplex dyad of pleasure and arousal to explain how music–image pairings build destination brand resonance (DBR). Three experiments show that pleasure is the stable route to DBR, arousal helps only under favorable tone, and their effects are additive. A Meaning-Access Prime (MAP) raises both emotions under identical clips and, in Bayesian structural models, also exerts a direct path to DBR, strongest when pleasant tone is low. DBR then predicts destination brand identification and destination consumption intention. We also show a useful state view: Resonant versus Emergent DBR. The framework provides design rules for co-tuning tone, activation, and cultural cues in creator-made clips that improve resonance, identification, and intention.
2026-02Journal article Open access Show more