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- Planning forest recreation: environmental economic instruments and the public participationPublication . Oliveira, F.; Pintassilgo, P.; Mendes, I.; Silva, J. A.In Portugal there is a growing demand for natural areas that provide a wide range of outdoor recreation. This paper focuses on the particular case of the Mata Nacional de Leiria (Leiria National Forest). This is a pine tree forest with 11,000 hectares and eight centuries of history. It has always been a public forest with open access to everyone, a fact that contributes to different kinds of use and benefits (walking, cycling, picnics, collecting firewood, fruits and berries, and other recreation activities). The proximity to a major urban and industrial centre, on one hand, and to a very popular beach coast, on the other, makes this a resource that is widely used by both residents and visitors. In the future there is the possibility of implementing a set of actions to improve forest amenities and recreation, and later the emergence of environmental tourism activities and equipment. In this context, we want to know the economic valuation that actual users attach to these recreation improvements, but also realize their preferences and opinions regarding this project. For this purpose we designed, tested and applied a double bounded dichotomous choice contingent valuation questionnaire. The results presented in this paper focus on responses to attitudinal and follow-up questions. More than 70% of respondents have positively assessed the proposed improvements to the study area and about 40% enhanced their personal opinion on the type of interventions that they consider most appropriate. Answers focus the priority areas of intervention in the Mata Nacional de Leiria, the main concerns in its development, the type of actions that should (and should not) be implemented, respondents willingness to actively take part and, also, what the public authorities' role should be. At this stage, where Mata Nacional de Leiria is being considered in terms of future recreation and tourism offers, the results obtained provide important contributions and enhance the contingent valuation survey as a tool to support recreation planning, promoting public participation and the political decision-making process.
- Tourism as a tool of community development: an ecotourism project in Cantanhez, Guinea-BissauPublication . Oliveira, F.; Silva, F.In recent decades the scientific community and various international organizations have provided a range of guidelines towards the development of more sustainable tourism. The responsible use of natural and cultural resources and the participation of local communities - with the involvement of the different actors in the development process - are inseparable aspects of sustainability's concept. However, when we try to put it into practice it appears that this is a very slow process, with many aspects that must be considered, especially in the case of underdeveloped regions. This paper focuses precisely on one of these regions - Cantanhez National Park, Guinea Bissau. This region has natural and cultural resources that are real treasures, which enhance the environmental and green forms of tourism; however, the structural problems of the country can be a real challenge to any type of initiative. The purpose of this communication is to present the ecotourism project in Cantanhez National Park, identifying the objectives, the first stages of the project implementation, the difficulties arising from the social, economic and political situation of the country and finally, its relevance in promoting community development. The realities that will be shared in this paper resulted from an initial visit to identify the needs of tourism planning, management and training in the communities directly involved.
- Ciência, teoria social contemporânea e educaçãoPublication . Vieira, Ricardo; Vieira, Ana MariaOs modelos científicos vigentes acabam por refletirem sempre nas práticas escolares, nas pedagogias dominantes, na educação. O objetivo principal deste ensaio é correlacionar os paradigmas científicos com os paradigmas pedagógicos e mostrar como, em parte, “somos filhos de Descartes”. Foi com ele que aprendemos o que era a ciência, o método científico, no singular, e a objetividade como valor sagrado da ciência. Foi o seu Discurso do Método que marcou a ciência do século XX e, também, a pedagogia escolar e a educação em geral. Aprendemos a pensar com a cabeça e não com o coração; desumanizamos, desantropomorfizamos a ciência, o que teve efeitos diretos na educação, essencialmente durante toda a primeira metade do século XX. As Ciências da Educação são assim, a nosso ver, no seu início, mais filhas das ciências experimentais e naturais do que das próprias ciências humanas e sociais. De resto, também elas buscavam para si o estatuto de ciências, procurando generalizar o por vezes não generalizável; procurando leis em que imperam a especificidade e a idiossincrasia do humano. Então, o positivismo do século XIX e do início do século XX, que marca as Ciências Sociais e as Ciências da Educação, que se recusam a ser subjetivas, a serem simplesmente humanas, e, logo, não científicas, vigorou e vigora, ainda, na ciência e na educação.
- Identidades, aprendizagem e mediação intercultural: uma análise antropológicaPublication . Vieira, Ana Maria; Vieira, Ricardo
- Usos e abusos do formal e não formal em educaçãoPublication . Vieira, Ana Maria; Vieira, Ricardo
- La educación intercultural bilingüe en la educación superior Argentina: identidades juveniles, diversidad cultural y políticas públicasPublication . Macarena Ossola, María; Vieira, Ricardo
- The inclusion of the other in ourselves: reception and comprehension of refugees in PortugalPublication . Vieira, Ana Maria; Marques, José Carlos; Gomes, Miguel Prata; Vieira, Ricardo
- Migrants’ chances or choices in a sub-protective welfare regime?Publication . Valadas, Carla; Góis, Pedro; Marques, José Carlos LaranjoEven more intensely since the recession, employment conditions deteriorated, and welfare systems continued their reforming processes. Southern European countries saw their labour market situation worsened. Immigrants were one of the social groups more affected by high unemployment, informal and precarious working conditions. The article focuses on the main groups of immigrants in Portugal (Brazilians, Ukrainians and Cape Verdeans). It aims to test if and how, depending on their different forms of insertion into the labour market and relationship with the social protection system, these groups of immigrants coped with massive unemployment and precarious working conditions in different ways. According to the country of origin, weak/strong networks, secure/insecure position at work or personal circumstances, they could either choose to stay, re-emigrate or return to their origin countries. Empirical analysis is based on focus groups with unemployed immigrants, an online survey, and statistical data analysis. Findings suggest that, in a highly segmented labour market, under a weak and fragmented social protection system, the migrants’ individual decision is induced by the social structure, and not so much by individual agency.
- Seleções de leituras extensivas em português feitas por estudantes asiáticosPublication . Nobre, CristinaQuais os livros selecionados pelos estudantes chineses da UC de Leitura Extensiva em Português I, da licenciatura em TIPC-CP, quando as suas competências linguísticas se aproximam do nível A2 de proficiência? Síntese sobre a importância de elementos intertextuais e iconográficos nos contextos multiculturais da educação literária e abertura para uma estética da multidisciplinaridade.
- Children’s use of ICT, family mediation, and social inequalitiesPublication . Diogo, Ana Matias; de Carvalho da Silva, Pedro; Viana, JoanaChildren have increasing access, and at younger ages, to ICT. This results from state policy measures, or from families having progressively provided ICT access to their children, or both of these influences. As a critical approach to the impact of technology in the construction of social change, this paper seeks to understand how children's relationships are built with ICT, and how family background and mediation affects this relationship, within the context of socialisation and a certain position in social space. From two case studies we present results of a multivariate analysis as well as qualitative data. The data suggest that the democratisation of access to ICT, amplified by the wide distribution of a laptop computer to children in elementary schools, has resulted in distinct profiles of use by children. These profiles appear linked to different (academic and digital) family resources and diverse parental involvement concerning these uses (regulation and support).