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(Des)encontros Paralelos: Percursos Escolares e de Vida de Jovens em Situação de Vulnerabilidade
Get PDFPortuguese education policies have been guided by indicators of social justice, such as equity and inclusion, recognition of diversity, learning opportunities, and the distribution of resources. Although there appears to be a broad consensus regarding the relevance of these guidelines, implementation challenges persist, particularly in relation to the (dis)connections within the school trajectories of young people in situations of greater social vulnerability. Based on these premises, the article presents a study whose main objectives were to characterise and understand the school trajectories of young people marked by absenteeism, dropout, and resistance. The research adopted a qualitative approach, using interviews with 21 young people experiencing school fragmentation and transitioning to other socio-educational contexts, seeking a late reconstruction of meaning in relation to school life. Data were analysed using thematic analysis in order to identify recurring patterns and themes in the young people’s narratives. The findings show that many have faced resistance and exclusion since childhood, living in contexts of familial, economic, and social vulnerability, and expressing disillusionment and mistrust towards school and the educational system. This is evident in the cycles of school leaving and return, and the resulting tendency towards marginalisation and dropout.
Keywords: Young people; Early school leaving; Exclusion and resistance; Citizenship and social justiceLas políticas educativas portuguesas han estado orientadas por indicadores de justicia social, comola equidad y la inclusión, el reconocimiento de la diversidad, las oportunidades de aprendizaje y la distribuciónde los recursos. Aunque existe un aparente consenso sobre la relevancia de estas orientaciones, persistendesafíos en su implementación, especialmente en lo que respecta a los (des)encuentros en los trayectos escolaresde jóvenes en situación de mayor vulnerabilidad social. Partiendo de estos supuestos, el artículo se basaen un estudio cuyo objetivo central fue caracterizar y comprender trayectorias escolares de jóvenes marcadaspor el absentismo, el abandono y la resistencia. La investigación adoptó un enfoque cualitativo, recurriendo aentrevistas con 21 jóvenes en situación de fragmentación escolar y en transición hacia otros contextos socioeducativos,en un proceso de construcción tardía de un sentido para la vida escolar. Para el tratamiento de losdatos, se utilizó el análisis temático, con el fin de identificar patrones y temas recurrentes en las narrativas delos jóvenes. Los resultados muestran que muchos enfrentan resistencia y exclusión desde la infancia, viviendoen contextos de vulnerabilidad familiar, económica y social, y manifestando desconfianza y desilusión con laescuela y el sistema educativo. Esto se evidencia en los movimientos de salida y regreso a la escuela, y en laconsiguiente tendencia hacia la marginación y el abandono escolar.
Palabras clave: Jóvenes; Abandono escolar; Exclusión y resistencia; Ciudadanía y justicia social.Les politiques éducatives portugaises ont été guidées par des indicateurs de justice sociale, tels quel’équité et l’inclusion, la reconnaissance de la diversité, les opportunités d’apprentissage et la répartition desressources. Bien qu’il semble y avoir un consensus apparent quant à la pertinence de ces orientations, desdéfis subsistent au niveau de leur mise en oeuvre, notamment en ce qui concerne les (dé)connexions dans lesparcours scolaires des jeunes en situation de grande vulnérabilité sociale. C’est sur ces postulats que s’appuiel’article proposé, fondé sur une étude dont les objectifs principaux étaient de caractériser et de comprendre lesparcours scolaires de jeunes marqués par l’absentéisme, le décrochage et la résistance. La recherche a adoptéune approche qualitative, reposant sur des entretiens menés auprès de 21 jeunes en situation de fragmentationscolaire et de transition vers d’autres contextes socio-éducatifs, dans une tentative de construction tardive d’unsens à la vie scolaire. Le traitement des données s’est appuyé sur l’analyse thématique afin d’identifier desmotifs et thèmes récurrents dans les récits des jeunes. Les résultats montrent que beaucoup sont confrontés àla résistance et à l’exclusion depuis l’enfance, vivant dans des contextes de vulnérabilité familiale, économiqueet sociale, et manifestant un désenchantement et une perte de confiance envers l’école et le système éducatif.Cela se traduit par des allers-retours à l’école et une tendance à la marginalisation et à l’abandon scolaire.
Mots-clés : Jeunes ; Décrochage scolaire ; Exclusion et résistance ; Citoyenneté et justice sociale.Políticas educativas portuguesas têm sido orientadas por indicadores de justiça social como a equidade e inclusão, o reconhecimento da diversidade, oportunidades de aprendizagem e distribuição dos recursos. Embora haja um aparente consenso acerca da relevância destas orientações, persistem desafios de implementação, sobretudo no que se refere a (des)encontros nos percursos escolares de jovens em situação de maior vulnerabilidade social. É assente nestes pressupostos que o artigo aqui proposto toma como base um estudo que teve como objetivos centrais caracterizar e compreender percursos escolares de jovens marcados por absentismo, abandono e resistência. A investigação assumiu uma abordagem qualitativa, recorrendo a entrevistas a 21 jovens que se encontram em situação de fragmentação escolar e de transição para outros contextos socioeducativos de construçãotardia de um sentido para a vida na escola. Para o tratamento de dados, recorreu-se à análise temática, de modo a identificar padrões e temas recorrentes nas narrativas dos jovens. Os resultados mostram que muitos enfrentam resistência e exclusão desde a infância, vivendo em contextos de vulnerabilidade familiar, económica e social, manifestandodescrença e desilusão com a escola e com o sistema educativo. Isso é evidente nos movimentos de saídas e regressos à escola e na consequente tendência de marginalização e de abandono escolar
The Sisters B.: Collaborative Film Practice Using Embodied Montage Strategies
Get PDFThis article is an invitation into an artistic research project on team-based filmmaking. Its format takes a montage approach congenial with the research ambitions: writings on a film process are interspersed by texts on research methods, script scenes, historical images and facts, while loosely traced by comic strips in the intended film’s chronology.
The Sisters B. project responds to a lack of research on and through collaborative film practice. We situate the project in our time’s flood of media-based storytelling and ecological crises. This project’s multifaceted and exploratory approaches are informed by the complexity and entanglement of consequences – to environment, people and otherwise, directly and ideologically – of both cinematic production and its narratives. Our methodological framework draws from several academic fields and artistic disciplines, manifested through the article’s exposition of a filming week on the Bergman Estate.
The Sisters B. explores loss and conditions for creativity through an embodied conversation with the composers Lili (1893-1918) and Nadia (1887-1979) Boulanger. The article proposes a range of embodied montage strategies; intertwining narrative levels, connecting times, activating audience imagination, embracing friction, responding to circumstances, producing by re-using; porously overlapping fact and fiction, theory and practice by relating biography, ecology and rhythmic gestures to script, performance and film editing
'Everyone Felt Like They Owned It': Collaboration and Empathy in Video Game Acting
Get PDFPerformance capture (pecap) acting for videogames blends acting practices for traditional film, television, and theatre into a distinct form of screen performance. Veteran film actors must learn to adjust their creative cognitive work to accommodate the intensely collaborative industrial logistics of the pecap volume. This article analyzes pecap acting practices for videogames as examples of distributed cognition, wherein actors learn how to think with and through the volume’s technological apparatus in order to collaborate with directors, animators, and more in the articulation of their characters. The article draws on interviews with AAA game pecap actors, game directors, animation directors, and acting instructors, and on observations from a pecap acting for videogames workshop at Toronto’s MoCapU in October 2023
Participatory Authoring: Film Directing as Participatory Sense-Making
Get PDFIt is commonplace in the film industry to describe a film director’s responsibility as being to have a ‘vision’ and communicate it effectively to cast, crew, and ultimately, audiences. A ‘vision’ in this sense is shorthand for the source of a director’s signature or authorial style. But what, from a cognitive perspective, is meant by vision? This article will argue that a director’s vision, far from being wholly contained in their brain, is developed through enaction. It is contingent, subject to responsive development throughout process, and manifests through participatory sensemaking with key collaborators. By doing a close reading of two director’s decision-making processes, this paper will demonstrate that film directors are, among other things, central nodes of complex and dynamic processes of ‘social cognising’ and ‘participatory sense-making’, leading configurations of multiple experts whose efforts must both coordinate and achieve excellence individually to generate and realise ideas
Sobre as Câmaras Escuras Primitivas, ou Paleo-Câmaras: Contributos para uma História dos Dispositivos Óticos
Get PDFTerá a câmara escura uma história mais antiga do que se imagina? Estudos recentes em arqueologia sugerem que certos monumentos megalíticos terão sido utilizados como câmaras escuras. Indiciando a existência de paleo-câmaras, estes estudos mostram como, desde tempos ancestrais, o fenómeno óptico da câmara escura poderá ter sido empregue para fins simbólicos, revelando uma história mais antiga do que aquela que se supunha. Como terá decorrido o processo de apreensão deste fenómeno? Terá alguma contingência possibilitado o seu surgimento? Este ensaio propõe trazer uma proto-história da câmara escura para os estudos dos media. Analisado à luz da arqueologia dos media, o objetivo será perceber e considerar de que forma o fenómeno óptico que funda a câmara escura mediou desde tempos arcaicos uma experiência com a natureza.
Palavras chave: câmara escura; arqueologia dos media; pré-história; técnica; imagem
Panoramas as Memory of the World: An Immersive Media Art Form as Documentary Heritage
No full textCoined in the 1790s, the term “panorama” originally described a purpose-built rotunda containing a circular painting that immersed viewers in a depicted place or event. Though presently understood as fixed in their locations, panoramas were typically designed to be circulated. This was accomplished either by transporting the canvas between rotundas, or by moving the entire structure, either way subjecting them to wear and tear. Surviving heritage examples endured in part because they became stationary exhibits; but whether mobile or fixed, the geographic location of display was—and, importantly, remains—intrinsic to their meaning. Panoramas are geographic documents that combine painting, architecture, lighting, and visitor movement to create an illusion of scale, aligning—or productively misaligning—subject and site in space and time. Recognition in UNESCO’s Memory of the World Program would bring attention to an archive that is geographically distributed rather than institutionally centralized. The International Panorama Council is uniquely qualified to define and interpret a dispersed archive that invites critical engagement with place-based histories of visitation, visualization, political formation, and the built environment
Money Issues in Foster Care: Practitioners and Carers' Insights: https://doi.org/10.60543/ts_iss.vi9.10828
No full textIn Portugal there is an increasing demand for child foster care placements, however there is a shortage of carers within a solidary nature. Carers receive compensation for their service and professionalization is not considered. In light of the lack of knowledge in this area, our aim is to provide insights into financial matters, focused on remuneration’s impact on motivation levels to foster, and the evaluation of fostering experiences in relation to expenses. Thematic analysis of interviews with foster carers and practitioners (n=13) was informed by the Grounded Theory. The findings indicated financial considerations influence the motivation of specific applicant groups, namely unemployed. The financial strain associated with the direct and indirect costs of fostering was outweighed by the benefits of providing a family environment for foster children. Given the economic constraints, adequate compensation could be a form of recognition. To increase foster carers’ recruitment and retention it was advocated reimbursement of healthcare costs. Finally, we discuss implications for policy and practice and how the legal framework has evolved to carers’ dignified remuneration, tax and employment status.Em Portugal, regista-se um aumento da procura de respostas de acolhimento familiar de crianças; contudo, existe uma escassez de famílias de acolhimento de natureza solidária. Os cuidadores recebem uma compensação pelo serviço prestado, não sendo considerada a sua profissionalização. Face à falta de conhecimento nesta área, o presente estudo tem como objetivo fornecer contributos sobre as questões financeiras, com enfoque no impacto da remuneração nos níveis de motivação para o acolhimento e na avaliação das experiências de acolhimento em relação às despesas associadas. A análise temática das entrevistas realizadas a cuidadores de acolhimento e a profissionais (n=13) foi informada pela Grounded Theory. Os resultados indicam que as considerações financeiras influenciam a motivação de grupos específicos de candidatos, nomeadamente pessoas desempregadas. A pressão financeira associada aos custos diretos e indiretos do acolhimento foi superada pelos benefícios de proporcionar um ambiente familiar às crianças acolhidas. Tendo em conta as restrições económicas, uma compensação adequada poderá constituir uma forma de reconhecimento. Para aumentar o recrutamento e a retenção de famílias de acolhimento, foi defendido o reembolso das despesas de saúde. Por fim, discutem-se as implicações para as políticas públicas e para a prática profissional, bem como a forma como o enquadramento legal tem evoluído no sentido de garantir uma remuneração digna, o estatuto fiscal e o enquadramento laboral dos cuidadores
Lippmann Stereo
Get PDFThe Lippmann process is a unique method for capturing and reproducing colour, and it stands as one of the first colour photographic processes ever invented (1891). This extraordinary achievement earned its inventor, Gabriel Lippmann, the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1908. It records the standing waves formed when light reflects off a surface, such as the interface between air and the photosensitive emulsion. These standing waves are “imprinted” within the emulsion, which contains crystals small enough to capture the details of these waves, ranging from 170 nm to 350 nm
