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The impact of Covid-19 on university education In Portugal: insights from students and teachers
Publication . Reis, Felipa; Pinho, Carlos; Rodrigues, Rosa; Paideia
The COVID-19 pandemic become a critical challenge for the higher education sector worldwide and in Portugal. Under such a circumstance, the exploration of the capacity of this sector to react and adapt to such a state of uncertainty has become more of huge importance. In this investigation, we critically reflect on the Portuguese teaching experience during the early COVID-19 lockdown in this country. This is an exploratory study based on a qualitative approach with an aim to reflect about new practices of teaching under a pandemic emergency.
Based on such experience in Portugal regarding online teaching, we explored perspectives from two different groups (a) 188 teachers and (b) 1.859 students who experienced such online environment teaching, the challenges arising from online teaching, and, in fact, if online methods influenced or not the results obtained by students. Results show a consistency between the two previous samples, clearly demonstrating that the online experience implemented during the pandemic was satisfactory both to teachers and students. The main pit fall on online environment was the lack of socialization and evaluation system while the main strength of such teaching method was the saved time on travelling. Finally, there was no evidence that online evaluation had a significative influence on the final results by students.
Online teaching during pandemic In Portugal: university teachers' perspective and consequences
Publication . Pinho, Carlos; Reis, Felipa; Roba, Elbawab
The COVID-19 pandemic has become a critical challenge for the higher education sector worldwide. Under such a circumstance, the exploration of the capacity of this sector to adapt to such a state of uncertainty has become more of huge importance. In this investigation, we critically reflect on the Portuguese teaching experience during the early COVID-19 lockdown in this country. This is an exploratory study based on a qualitative approach with an aim to reflect about new practices of teaching under a pandemic emergency. Based on the teaching experience in Portugal, we explore the evaluation process conducted throughout the pandemic period in Portugal, namely, the perspectives that teachers have about the online learning method, the challenges arising from online teaching, and, in fact, what evaluation methods were used during the pandemic period, and related implications.
These conclusions point to the fact that teachers had a fairly good experience with online teaching during the pandemic, although they struggle with interaction and socialization problems with that regime. Furthermore, teacher tend to reject clearly the fact that online teaching will take over presential learning, thus the interaction between students and teacher is extremely difficult to manage. Furthermore, this study points out the fact that professors clearly prefer presential evaluation systems, although younger and less experienced professors tend to be more flexible, and that evaluation methods that teachers tend to value more online are written tests and exercises as well as group and individual work presentations.
Interrogações sobre uma h(H)istória de Portugal... de John Dos Passos ou a construções de um discurso historiográfico...
Publication . Avelar, Ana Paula; Guerra, Amílcar; Fernandes, Hermenegildo; Rodrigues, Nuno Simões; Horta, Martim Aires
Usando os conceitos de reminiscência e memória aborda-se o modo como John dos Passos escreveu a sua The Portugal story: Three Centuries of Exploration and Discoveries, partindo do propósito enunciado por José Augusto Ramos de que a escrita executa como que uma “anatomia cultural”. É tendo em atenção essa mesma anatomia, que neste artigo para além de brevemente se contextualizar o conjunto da produção de Dos Passos, se analisa o tecer de uma escrita da História, onde a memória do sujeito participa como um instrumento de desocultação de um domínio imperial ao longo dos séculos.
O Oriente na cronística portuguesa do século XVI: do encontro e da conquista
Publication . Avelar, Ana Paula
A partir da análise da cronística portuguesa da Expansão, redigida na primeira metade do século XVI, analisa-se o modo como se descreveu o contacto com os espaços asiáticos. Assim a par da desocultação do conceito de Oriente reflecte-se sobre como se construiu uma presença portuguesa extra-europeia e como o domínio em mares e terras do Oriente se constituiu como o tópico narrativo de uma História que se escreve em Quinhentos.
Interrogando os registos historiográficos sobre o império, a denominada cronística da expansão, expõe-se o «desenho» de uma permanência, a de um tempo longo, que se inaugura a partir do século XV, marcado pela conquista (domínio territorial) onde o encontro forja signos identitários, sendo força agregadora de uma influência formal, expressa pelo domínio da coroa portuguesa, ou informal, o denominado “império sombra”. Assim, o objecto matricial deste ensaio é entender como se entrecruzam as modalidades de permanência/ influência portuguesa nos espaços asiáticos e como as mesmas foram sendo transmitidas nestes alvores da Modernidade.
O mercado de capitais é o músculo da economia
Publication . Brochado, Ana