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Initial teacher training: progress and setbacks? Introductory note
Silva, Elisabete Mendes; Vaz, Paula; Pires, Manuel VaraIn the constantly evolving landscape of education, the relevance of initial training for educators and teachers is fundamental and cannot be underestimated. It is essential for laying the foundations for the future of education and teaching, directly influencing the competences, perspectives and methodologies of future education professionals. However, the advances and setbacks in official guidelines and in the...
Introduction
Silva, Elisabete MendesIt is of common sense to acknowledge the important role that languages play in all areas of life, from business and finance to education or cultural frameworks. It is of common sense that learning languages opens many doors, facilitating a myriad of educational and work prospects. In fact, speaking two or more languages proficiently or even in a rather holistic way is a vehicle for an endless world of possibili...
Primary English teacher education in Portugal: an exploratory study
Vieira, Flávia; Mourão, Sandie; Andrade, Ana Isabel; Cruz, Mário; Reis-Jorge, José; Leslie, Carolyn; Orega, Maria Isabel; Pinho, Ana SofiaThe expansion of early language learning has fostered the need to prepare qualified teachers of English to young learners. This paper presents findings from a multi-site case study of initial teacher education programmes created in 2015 in Portugal when English became compulsory in grades 3 and 4. The study investigated intended professional learning competences and tasks as described in curricula, as well as t...
Primary English teacher education in Portugal: an exploratory study
Vieira, Flávia; Mourão, Sandie; Andrade, Ana Isabel; Cruz, Mário; Reis-Jorge, José; Leslie, Carolyn; Orega, Maria Isabel; Pinho, Ana SofiaThe expansion of early language learning has fostered the need to prepare qualified teachers of English to young learners. This paper presents findings from a multi-site case study of initial teacher education programmes created in 2015 in Portugal when English became compulsory in grades 3 and 4. The study investigated intended professional learning competences and tasks as described in curricula, as well as t...
Liberalismo e Opinião Pública. Representações da Imprensa liberal britânica em ...
Couceiro, Pedro; Silva, Elisabete MendesA revolução portuguesa de 1820 coincide com um período de maior radicalização ideológica do liberalismo na Grã-Bretanha que marcou declaradamente o confronto político entre conservadores e liberais. Este debate tornou-se transversal a toda a sociedade que, de uma forma concertada, assumiu formas de protesto mais visíveis e marcantes, chamando a atenção não apenas do governo, mas igualmente da opinião pública. A...
Primary English teacher education in Portugal: an exploratory study
Vieira, Flávia; Mourão, Sandie; Andrade, Ana Isabel; Cruz, Mário; Reis-Jorge, José; Leslie, Carolyn; Orega, Maria Isabel; Pinho, Ana SofiaThe expansion of early language learning has fostered the need to prepare qualified teachers of English to young learners. This paper presents findings from a multi-site case study of initial teacher education programmes created in 2015 in Portugal when English became compulsory in grades 3 and 4. The study investigated intended professional learning competences and tasks as described in curricula, as well as t...
Mapeando abordagens da formação inicial de professores de inglês no 1º Ciclo do...
Vieira, Flávia; Mourão, Sandie; Andrade, Ana Isabel; Cruz, Mário; Leslie, Carolyn; Orega, Maria Isabel; Pinho, Ana Sofia; Jorge, José ReisSem resumo disponível.
Introduction. “Victorians like us”: the Victorian Age revisited
Silva, Elisabete Mendes; Granic, Maria“Victorians Like Us” was a project carried out by the English Culture Research Group of The University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies. The four conferences organised between 2012 and 2018 and held at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities in Lisbon gave visibility to the project. They all promoted discussion on a wide variety of topics pertaining to ideological, social, and cultural settings and encompassing ...
John Stuart Mill on education and progress
Silva, Elisabete MendesJohn Stuart Mill, a supporter of state provision of popular and secular education at a national scale in Victorian England, believed education was a means to foster human mind development, accounting also for the future progress of mankind. Unlike other utilitarian thinkers, like Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill believed that the state, in specific circumstances, should supervise education, therefore guaranteei...
News from Portugal Ecos da Revolução Liberal de 1820 na imprensa inglesa
Couceiro, Pedro; Silva, Elisabete MendesNa Europa pós-napoleónica, a relação da Inglaterra com Portugal assumiu particular relevância, tendo-se afirmado como um sustentáculo para a estratégia continental inglesa, mercantilista e imperialista. Em Portugal, a monarquia portuguesa exilada no Brasil fazia-se representar por um governo inglês, que mais não era do que um conveniente sistema de assegurar a hegemonia inglesa. Por todos estes motivos, a revol...