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- AduLeT project: the community of practice platformPublication . Gonçalves, Vitor; Chumbo, Isabel; Silva, Elisabete Mendes; Patrício, Maria RaquelThe innovation of Europe’s Higher Education systems results mainly from the use of emerging technologies for education and training. Higher education teachers should be prepared to have adequate knowledge, skills or abilities to deal with it in the most suitable way. Technology enhanced learning is the broad approach to using technology to support teaching and learning processes more effectively. In this sense, Advanced use of Learning Technologies in higher education (AduLeT) project has been set up, a collaborative research project funded by the European Commission, involving seven partner countries, running from November 2016 to August 2019. AduLeT aims to improve the teaching quality of lecturers by enhancing their skills regarding the use of technologies in an advanced way. It also aims at training the lecturer on how a specific teaching method can be combined with a certain technology in addition to providing guidelines, best practice and strategy concepts for lecturers and universities. This support system is being implemented as a community of practice (CoP) with all the results of the project and driven by pedagogical aspects. The CoP should also provide the possibility to get into contact with other lecturers and share experiences about teaching with Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL). The present paper intends to expose the system of CoP as well as its usage, explaining methods and tools, looking for a problem, user experiences and barriers. The platform consists in an application developed with an author programming tool which makes navigation and interaction flexible, visual, easy and coherent. The platform has been developed to provide users with a useful experience and to ensure inspired teaching and equipped with the skills required to enhance lectures’ current practice. Our experience shows that a CoP could facilitate the adaptation process and allow a faster and more effective transferability of teaching innovations between different countries as well as between lecturers and universities at a national level.
- VII Encontro Internacional de Formação na Docência (INCTE): livro de resumosPublication . Mesquita, Cristina (Ed.); Silva, Elisabete Mendes (Ed.); Pires, Manuel Vara (Ed.); Lopes, Rui Pedro (Ed.); Vaz, Paula Marisa Fortunato (Ed.)Vivemos num mundo interconectado confrontado com diversos desafios, para os quais se têm de preparar todos os cidadãos, os mais adultos, os mais jovens e as crianças. Enfrentamos o constante aumento da população mundial, com todas as consequências que ele tem trazido: a ocupação de espaços geográfi- cos menos favoráveis, a concentração de grandes massas populacion- ais nas cidades, bem como o esgotamento de recursos naturais e as alterações climáticas. Acresce a estes fenómenos, que atingem o mundo em diferentes escalas e dimensões, as assimetrias entre povos, que intensificam os olhares sobre a diversidade cultural, social e económica, mas também, fruto dos fluxos migratórios, conduzem à miscigenação. As questões políticas, económicas e sociais, cada vez mais interdependentes, fazem com que uma variação numa delas tenha vibrações nas restantes. O desenvolvimento tecnológico constitui outra das áreas que tem despoletado alguns desafios na vivência societal mas, ao mesmo tempo, se tem constituído como uma oportunidade de interação científica, cultural, social e de abertura à criatividade e à inovação. Testemunhamos cenários de volatilidade, de complexidade e de incerteza, onde as pandemias, as guerras, as ameaças climáticas, entre outros fenómenos, interligam as comunidades e criam a necessidade de definir estratégias mundiais concertadas. As palavras equidade, sustentabilidade, transformação e inclusão, assumidas nos discursos políticos, económicos e sociais, deverão ser realizações efetivas na construção da cidadania global. Todo este cenário requer esforços deliberados e contínuos de partilha de experiências, de ideias e de criatividade, no sentido de criar um entendimento que permita aumentar a confiança das pessoas e das comunidades. O INCTE’23, já na sua 7.a edição, como Encontro com afirmação nacional e internacional, está empenhado, mais uma vez, na reflexão sobre esta realidade e os seus impactos em contexto educativo, bem como na prossecução dos seus principais objetivos: • Problematizar as estruturas curriculares da formação de educadores e professores; • Debater propostas didáticas inovadoras no âmbito da formação para a docência; • Refletir sobre as práticas formativas nos diversos contextos; • Analisar o contributo da formação na dinamização das instituições; • Promover o diálogo entre os diferentes intervenientes na formação numa perspetiva de educação para o desenvolvimento; • Debater práticas de formação no ensino superior. Além disso, a temática “Desafios na Formação de Professores e nas Escolas num Mundo Interconectado” constitui-se como um meio de estimular a partilha entre professores e educadores, formadores de formadores e investigadores sobre outras formas de educar, no respeito pela pluralidade, pela natureza, o desenvolvimento do pensamento crítico e informado, a flexibilidade e adequação a novas realidades, em situações incertas e cenários instáveis. Por todos estes desafios lançados, endereçamos o convite a todos os interessados em contribuir para a discussão destas temáticas, que continuam a revelar-se tão oportunas e pertinentes no mundo em que vivemos.
- Night-owls and larks: shedding light on cultural competence in translator trainingPublication . Chumbo, Isabel; Silva, Elisabete MendesTranslator training is viewed as highly practical. However, future translators are also trained through theoretical approaches and with a strong focus on the acquisition of a set of competences which will make their future as professionals uncomplicated. One of these competences includes cultural knowledge. Cultural competence is a fundamental skill of communication in a multicultural world, revealing itself paramount in the understanding of any type of text the translator has to deal with. Therefore, developing and consolidating this competence should be a major concern when training future translators. The aim of this article is to shed light on the acquisition, use and practice of cultural competence. Based on the Task-based learning teaching (TBLT) methodology and taking into account the different learning styles of our students, several text types and genres were analysed in the English language course of a master’s degree in Translation in Portugal, namely through literary texts and the language of headlines. We shall then present some diagnosed and identified problems students felt during hands-on work focusing on this competence, convey some examples that have been worked upon and finally give recommendations on how to overcome this constraint in both learning and teaching perspectives.
- Uses and misuses of liberty over time: Isaiah Berlin on political libertyPublication . Silva, Elisabete MendesLiberty has always been the connecting value across centuries, ever since the struggle between liberty and authority was noticed, paving thus the way for discus- sion and quarrels on what liberty meant. Despite its abstract features, natural liberty and liberty under the law had differentiated implications that shackled societies and triggered ideological debate. Thomas Hobbes in the seventeenth century defined li- berty as the absence of obstacles for the fulfillment of desires. As such, total indivi- dual liberty would lead to a condition of war. To avoid the destruction of individuals, it was crucial to transfer man’s rights into a Sovereign in the form of a social contract. John Locke would later claim that a civil society ensured the preservation of rights. Liberty under the law meant protection against the tyranny of the political rulers. The Enlightenment movement, an intellectual and political reaction to religious bigo- try (Hamilton, 1992), praised, first and foremost, individual liberty, reason, and auto- nomy. The Enlightenment, cosmopolitan and rationally-driven, put aside the idea of custom and tradition, starting anew against the slumbers of Middle-Age superstition. Autonomy and individual liberty motivated the liberal theory to sustain its principles in important documents such as Magna Carta (1215), Bill of Rights (1689), Virginia Bill of Rights (1776) and Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (1789). Setting the context for the discussion of (political) liberty considering the Enlighten- ment movement and the liberal tradition in Britain, this paper focuses more specifi- cally on the interpretation that Isaiah Berlin, a 20th century British liberal, made on the Enlightenment and how it influenced the purposes and outcomes of the French Revolution under the banner of abstract and, alas, contending values like liberty and equality. By delving into Berlin’s conception of liberty, we aim therefore to unveil some misconceptions about the use and appropriation of the word liberty over time.
- Adulet project and educational technologies: updates to the state of the artPublication . Gonçalves, Vitor; Chumbo, Isabel; Silva, Elisabete Mendes; Patrício, Maria RaquelHigher education teachers are now facing bigger challenges than ever before regarding students’ motivation and effective learning. The teaching model paradigm has been rapidly changing over the last decades due to the wide array of technological tools available to every student, namely smartphones, social networks, new platforms and devices which cater for new teaching/learning methods and tools. Technology can either represent an added-value in the learning/teaching process or it can be a major failure if teachers do not have enough knowledge or skills to deal with it in the most adequate way. It is in this context that the “AduLeT - Advanced use of Learning Technologies in higher education” project emerged in 2016 and will operate until 2019. This seven partner-consortium international project aims at creating a Community of Practice to improve the teaching quality of lecturers by enhancing their skills concerning the use of technologies in an advanced way. The aims of this paper are as follows: 1. to describe the project design, focusing on its different stages, namely the research methods applied, known barriers and how to overcome them; and highlighting the guidelines for the effective use of “Technology-Enhanced Learning” tools (TEL tools); 2. to anticipate some known and expected results of the survey conducted in each country by the consortium partners; 3. to demonstrate how the CoP shall work by setting forth some examples of possible and already pinpointed teaching methods and tools for TEL. It is our belief that this project could present good practices for the use of appropriate educational technologies and properly conformed with teaching/learning methods applicable to the resolution of problems, difficulties, requisites of common teaching, providing a structured and meaningful model within the TEL area. Therefore, it will most certainly contribute to the modernization of Europe’s Higher Education systems for education and training. We do hope that, in the long run, this community of practice grows as a whole in order to become self-sufficient.
- Transnational networks: (imagined) representations of the Portuguese liberal revolution by the British pressPublication . Silva, Elisabete Mendes; Couceiro, PedroThe Oxford Journal, on 23 September 1820, subjoined part of the Proclamation of the Provisional Junta to the Portuguese nation citing “The Extraordinary” Gazette of Lisbon, news which had also been previously communicated by the Moniteur de Paris. Other newspapers, such as The Morning Chronicle, devoted more lines to the event as they published the complete Proclamation text. News of the revolution in Portugal only reached Britain a couple of weeks after the event via the European press, namely the abovementioned Portuguese periodical and the French papers. Liberal winds of change were spreading throughout Europe and Britain was not an exception. Despite its consolidated constitutional tradition, Britain still struggled with the political and social injustice of an underrepresented Parliament. It is no surprise then the promotion of a discourse sustaining Parliamentary Reform so to change the current political status quo. This discourse found also resonance in the British Press which, in 1820, enjoyed some reasonable freedom. However, it was not only exempt from the influence of “specific political conditions” (Bantman, 2018), which swayed the editorial line of the newspapers and periodicals, but it was also dependent on the political party the papers were associated with, either Tory or Whig supported, or adopting a more radical stance. The purpose of this paper is thus two-fold. On the one hand, we shall identify the type of discourse disseminated by the British newspapers concerning the Portuguese Liberal revolution, analysing the representations constructed around this specific event. On the other, we shall analyse the impact of transnational networks, discernible in the press field, in regards the accuracy of the news conveyed to reading communities and the circulation of liberal ideals.
- Power, cosmopolitanism and socio-spatial division in the commercial arena in Victorian and Edwardian LondonPublication . Silva, Elisabete MendesThe developments of the English Revolution and of the British Empire expedited commerce and transformed the social and cultural status quo of Britain and the world. More specifically in London, the metropolis of the country, in the eighteenth century, there were already a sheer number of retail shops that would set forth an urban world of commerce and consumerism. Magnificent and wide-ranging shops served householders with commodities that mesmerized consumers, giving way to new traditions within the commercial and social fabric of London. Therefore, going shopping during the Victorian Age became mandatory in the middle and upper classes’ social agendas. Harrod’s Department store opens in 1864, adding new elements to retailing by providing a sole space with a myriad of different commodities. In 1909, Gordon Selfridge opens Selfridge’s, transforming the concept of urban commerce by imposing a more cosmopolitan outlook in the commercial arena. Within this context, I intend to focus primarily on two of the largest department stores, Harrods and Selfridge’s, drawing attention to the way these two spaces were perceived when they first opened to the public and the effect they had in the city of London and in its people. I shall discuss how these department stores rendered space for social inclusion and exclusion, gender and race under the spell of the Victorian ethos, national conservatism and imperialism. I shall also argue that they brought about new social, cultural and work space opportunities, transforming social and cultural dynamics and power, being nowadays considered undeniable heritage icons, as they became popular tourist attractions, of the Londoner culture and of the commercial sphere. Lastly, my research will concurrently provide insight into the social history of the Victorian age and the early decades of the twentieth century.
- The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: a timeless influence on films and artworks in popular culturePublication . Silva, Elisabete MendesThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint Exupéry, published in New York in 1943, has left a deep-seated imprint on popular culture, particularly in the domain of films and other artistic manifestations, such as paintings, ballet, sculpture and theatre. Relevant for both children and adults, its timeless influence inspired creativity in various art forms, enriching the collective cultural landscape for generations to come. Its inventiveness and iconic input can still be seen in numerous cinematic adaptations and in the myriad of paintings that pay homage, and keep the work alive, to its profound philosophical insights. This paper intends to explore the impact of The Little Prince on a sample of artistic expressions, and how its enduring values, such as love and the nature of human existence, resonated across different cultures. We will hence showcase how the many artists worldwide captured and celebrated the essence of the novella, transferring its universal values and philosophical depth to the realm of popular culture, visible in: the many film sequels, The Little Prince Museum in Japan, the countless sculptures worldwide (Terrassa; Girona, Spain; Abakan, Russia), museum exhibitions, or anime (The adventures of The Little Prince), just to name a few.
- Liberalismo e os Preceitos da Ética Cosmopolita em Isaiah BerlinPublication . Silva, Elisabete MendesIsaiah Berlin, considerado um dos grandes nomes da História das Ideias do séc. XX, destacou-se entre os seus pares pela teoria dos dois conceitos da liberdade – a liberdade positiva e a liberdade negativa – e pelas ideias inovadoras do seu pluralismo de valores que veio conferir novo fôlego ao liberalismo. O liberalismo de Berlin questionou alguns preceitos liberais como a universalidade de valores que considerou incomensuráveis e incompatíveis. No presente estudo pretendemos contextualizar Berlin no espaço e no tempo de modo a analisar e compreender a relevância do seu liberalismo e pluralismo de valores. Reflectiremos e analisaremos como os acontecimentos do seu tempo o influenciaram na escrita e na vida. Além disso, destacaremos a influência das três culturas – a judia, a russa e a inglesa – que o marcaram determinantemente na forma de ver e de se relacionar com o mundo. Um dos desafios deste estudo consiste em mostrar que Isaiah Berlin, para além de se assumir como um pluralista, liberal e humanista, se guiou igualmente por valores morais cosmopolitas no sentido em que acreditava no valor do ser humano enquanto indivíduo e no respeito da dignidade e decência humanas. Apesar de considerar o cosmopolitismo vazio de lealdade e de ideias, além de constituir a privação dos seres humanos do sentimento de pertença, Berlin, a nosso ver, demonstrou atitudes cosmopolitas na forma de estar e interagir com os outros, pelo menos dentro de uma concepção de cosmopolitismo moral e de cosmopolitismo enraizado. O reconhecimento de valores éticos universais ou quase universais comuns ao ser humano, ainda que incompatíveis e incomensuráveis, sustenta a sua teoria do pluralismo de valores na compreensão cosmopolita de outras culturas. Isaiah Berlin, considered one of the great names in the field of the History of Ideas, became popular for his theory on the two concepts of liberty – positive liberty and negative liberty – and for his innovative ideas on value pluralism which gave new impulse to liberalism. Berlin’s liberalism questioned some liberal principles such as the universality of values which he considered incommensurable and incompatible. The present study aims at contextualising Berlin in space and time so that we can analyse and understand how his liberalism and value pluralism became relevant. A reflection and analysis will be made on how the political, social and cultural events of his time influenced his life and his writing. In addition, this work focuses on the influence of the three cultures – Jewish, Russian and English – that shaped his identity and remained crucial in the way he saw and connected with the world around him. One of the most challenging objectives of this study is to demonstrate that Berlin, besides seeing himself as a pluralist, liberal and humanist, was also guided by cosmopolitan moral values, as he believed in the human being as an individual worthy of dignity and decency. Even though he loathed the political implications of cosmopolitanism since it represented the absence of roots, he made evident some cosmopolitan attitudes towards life and the others around him, grounded on some principles of moral and rooted cosmopolitanism. The recognition of universal or quasi-universal moral values shared by every human being, even if incompatible and incommensurable, upholds his value-pluralism once it is based on the cosmopolitan understanding of other cultures.
- Irregular plurals: an ingenious way of teaching grammarPublication . Martins, Cláudia; Silva, Elisabete MendesThe main purpose of our paper is to focus on the intrinsic nature of irregular plurals in order to understand the evolution of English throughout the centuries. We intend to show how teaching and learning the irregular plurals can be not only of the utmost importance, but also good fun. By presenting creative activities, we wish to make teachers aware of these issues in the teaching of English as a foreign language.