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Family involvement in early childhood education and care: insights from portugu...
Dardanou, Maria; Brito, RitaThe significance of family involvement in Early Childhood Education and Care has gained considerable attention within national reforms and regulations across various countries. This study aims to examine the early childhood education curriculum frameworks pertaining to family participation in Portugal and Norway. By analysing the national curriculum frameworks of these two countries, this study explores the dis...
Physical and mental wellbeing, teaching efficacy and school connectedness - a s...
Ferreira, Marco; Barqueira, Ana; Reis-Jorge, José; Pacheco, Patrícia; Brito, Rita; Baltazar, IsabelThis article aims to investigate correlations between physical and mental wellbeing, teaching efficacy and school connectedness and to explore the relationship between those dimensions and sociodemographic variables such as age, teaching experience, academic qualifications, education sector, and geographical regions. For this purpose, an online questionnaire was applied to 450 preschool teachers. To assess phys...
Pathway analysis of the dynamics of teacher educators’ professional digital com...
Madsen, Siri Sollied; Saure, Heidi I.; Lie, Marit H.; Janeš, Aleksander; Klančar, Andreja; Brito, Rita; Thorvaldsen, SteinarInstitutions offering teacher education have generally been criticized for giving pre-service teachers an insufficient education regarding the pedagogical use of digital technology. In this study we investigate the dynamics of professional digital competence (PDC) among teacher educators (in primary, secondary and early childhood teacher education programmes) in Norway, Slovenia, and Portugal. A survey was cons...
Preliminary results from Norway, Slovenia, Portugal, Turkey, Ukraine, and Jorda...
Janeš, Aleksander; Madsen, Siri Sollied; Saure, Heidi Iren; Lie, Marit Helene; Gjesdal, Beate; Thorvaldsen, Steinar; Brito, Rita; Krasin, SerhiiDigital technology has become an important part of society and deserves attention and in-depth research, which is still lacking. The study presented in this paper includes international perspectives from six countries and examines which factors influence the use of digital technologies in future pedagogical work in primary schools. Specifically, we investigated how pre-service teachers assess their attitudes, k...
The digital practices of Portuguese children (6-18) during Covid-19 lockdown
Dias, Patrícia; Brito, RitaThe Covid-19 pandemic was addressed, in most European countries, with a mandatory lockdown period, during which the use of digital technologies was intensified, for remote working, communication, entertainment, consumption and learning. Our research aims to map the digital practices of Portuguese children (6-18) during lockdown (between March 19th and May 2nd, 2020), focusing on their experience of formal Educa...
Understanding the meaning of a digital school from the perspective of primary s...
Cruz, Elisabete; Sousa, Emily; Brito, Rita; Costa, Fernando AlbuquerqueThe Escol@s Digitais Project, under development in all public primary schools of Amadora Municipality (Portugal), aims to support the process of digital transformation in school dynamics. In this article, we examine the meaning that the teachers who participate in this project attribute to the “digital school” concept. For this purpose, we mobilized a corpus of qualitative data obtained through an online questi...
International perspectives on the dynamics of pre-service early childhood teach...
Madsen, Siri S.; O’Connor, Jane; Janeš, Aleksander; Klančar, Andreja; Brito, Rita; Demeshkant, Nataliia; Konca, Ahmet S.; Krasin, SerhiiResearchers and society in general seem to be conflicted regarding the use of digital technology in early childhood education (ECE). Some are focusing on the positive aspects of using digital technology, while others are critical and position it as an enemy of early childhood practice. It has been argued that digital technology is not appropriate for young children’s cognitive, physical, social and emotional de...
Projeto piloto de desmaterialização de manuais escolares e de outros recursos e...
Lagarto, José Reis; Marques, Herminia; Viana, Joana; Brito, Rita; Fradão, SandraA investigação que se levou a cabo no conjunto de oito Agrupamentos de Escolas e uma Escola não agrupada envolvidos no Projeto-Piloto Manuais Digitais (PPMD) teve como objetivo fazer a monitorização e avaliação do impacto da capacitação de docentes na integração do digital nas dinâmicas de ensino e aprendizagem. Para tal, foi utilizada uma tipologia de estudo de caso – casos múltiplos. Para a elaboração do prot...
Projeto piloto de desmaterialização de manuais escolares e de outros recursos e...
Lagarto, José Reis; Marques, Herminia; Viana, Joana; Brito, Rita; Fradão, SandraA investigação que se levou a cabo no conjunto de oito Agrupamentos de Escolas e uma Escola não agrupada envolvidos no Projeto-Piloto Manuais Digitais (PPMD) teve como objetivo fazer a monitorização e avaliação do impacto da capacitação de docentes na integração do digital nas dinâmicas de ensino e aprendizagem. Para tal, foi utilizada uma tipologia de estudo de caso – casos múltiplos. Para a elaboração do prot...
The new words kids hear from translated picturebooks
Araújo, Luísa; Leite, Sara; Brito, Rita; Esteves, SandrinaThis study shows how the language in translated picturebooks is enriched by the use of rare words. We document how the translation of picturebooks from English to Portuguese results in the use of rare words in Portuguese. Evidence indicates that children learn new vocabulary through readings of picturebooks (Noble et al., 2019) and that translators make choices that contribute to the use of rare words (Ketola, ...