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- Collaborative uses of ICT in education: Practices and representations of preservice elementary school teachersPublication . Ferreira, Eduarda; Silva, Maria João; Valente, BianorSchools and teachers have a key role to bridge the gap between the digital practices of everyday life and school, helping students to develop digital literacies. In this paper, we will explore the practices and representations of ICT in education of preservice elementary school teachers and kindergarten educators of a higher education institution in Lisbon and their expectations regarding the future use of collaborative technology for learning purposes. The research is based on an online survey and a group meeting on the expectations regarding the future use of collaborative technology for learning purposes. The research explores the importance and the influence of teachers' training in the future adoption of ICT in education. Preservice elementary teachers and kindergarten educators clearly identified the advantages of using ICT in education, in particular the potentialities to improve the educational process. Using ICT for collaborative work in the classroom was considered a good support for learning new topics and to motivate students.
- Conceção e Desenvolvimento de uma Plataforma para a Participação das Crianças na Saúde Ambiental das suas EscolasPublication . Silva, Maria João; Ferreira, Eduarda; Souza, Alexandra; Alves, Ana Rita; Rito, Pedro; Gomes, CristinaA investigação apresentada neste artigo está centrada no processo de conceção e desenvolvimento de uma plataforma, que permite a participação das crianças na saúde ambiental das suas escolas. O processo de conceção e desenvolvimento integrou-se num processo de investigação baseada em design (design-based research), foi colaborativo, iterativo e situou-se no contexto das escolas de 1º ciclo do ensino básico (primárias) portuguesas e dos seus problemas de saúde ambiental, bem como nas suas atividades curriculares de educação em ciências. A plataforma foi concebida e desenvolvida para permitir a monitorização de variáveis de saúde ambiental, as intervenções na saúde ambiental, e para incluir uma base de dados que integra os dados de saúde ambiental adquiridos, registados e introduzidos pelas crianças na plataforma, com as respetivas anotações, os blogues e documentos colaborativos das escolas. Desta forma, a estrutura da plataforma permite o registo do processo de participação (pesquisa e intervenção) realizado por cada turma, produzindo conhecimento sobre os problemas de saúde ambiental das escolas
- Embodied education: Senses, emotions, and technologyPublication . Silva, Maria João; Ferreira, Eduarda; Andrade, Vania; Nunes, Olinda; Carvalho, Maria da LuzThe theme of this paper is the importance of educational embodied approaches, aiming at developing children's sensory awareness, emotional competences and abstract thinking. The case studies presented in this paper explored the joint use of human senses and electronic sensors in embodied educational activities, related to mathematics and science education, situated in schools and in the schools' neighbourhood, and grounded in children's everyday practices. In all the three case studies, the children enhanced sensory and emotional awareness, body literacy and developed abstract thinking, grounded on their own embodied experiences.
- Embodied education: Senses, emotions, and technologyPublication . Silva, Maria João; Ferreira, Eduarda; Andrade, Vania; Nunes, Olinda; Carvalho, Maria da LuzThe theme of this paper is the importance of educational embodied approaches, aiming at developing children's sensory awareness, emotional competences and abstract thinking. The case studies presented in this paper explored the joint use of human senses and electronic sensors in embodied educational activities, related to mathematics and science education, situated in schools and in the schools' neighbourhood, and grounded in children's everyday practices. In all the three case studies, the children enhanced sensory and emotional awareness, body literacy and developed abstract thinking, grounded on their own embodied experiences.
- Espaço escolar e gênero: a (re)produção do binarismo de gêneroPublication . Cicconetti, Josefina; Ferreira, Eduarda; Silva, Maria JoãoEm agosto de 2018, em Portugal, entrou em vigor a lei de autodeterminação da identidade de gênero, expressão de gênero e proteção das características sexuais de cada pessoa (Lei no 38, de 7 de agosto, 2018). Essa lei, que constitui um avanço significativo no direito à autodeterminação de gênero, ficou conhecida como a “lei das casas de banho”1 já que a mesma estabeleceu, através do Despacho nº 7247/2019 (que regulamenta o nº 1 do artigo 12º da Lei no 38), uma série de medidas administrativas que as instituições de ensino deveriam adotar, incluindo nas casas de banho e nos balneários, para garantir assim o exercício do direito das crianças e jovens à autodeterminação de gênero (Despacho no 7247, 2019, art. 5º, inc. 3).
- Gender and ICT: school and gender stereotypesPublication . Ferreira, EduardaInformation and communication technologies (ICT) are intertwined with almost every aspect of our daily lives, they have become central to the way we communicate, work and socialize. ICT are increasingly a structural aspect of societies, however, ICT continue to be a highly gendered area of life in all socioeconomic and educational backgrounds, and a source of significant social inequality in enduring ways. This paper reports on an ongoing research project ‘Gender@ICT’ which explores the interrelations of gender and technologies in an educational context in Portugal, based on focus groups and group activities (games with images related to ICT and gender) with preschool children and 9th grade students. The results bring evidence that ICT is highly related to gender stereotypes which affect boys and girls representations and practices, including their educational and career choices.
- ICT and gender: parental mediation strategiesPublication . Ferreira, Eduarda; Ponte, Cristina; Castro, Teresa SofiaInformation and communication technologies (ICT) continues to be a highly gendered area of life in all socioeconomic and educational backgrounds, and a source of significant social inequality in enduring ways. Parental mediation strategies can regulate the benefits and risks of the ICT for children, and have a significant and lifelong impact on children’s self-confidence and positive attitudes toward digital technologies. This paper aims to explore how does gender, of both parents and children, affects parent mediation strategies of children’s media use, adopting a critical discourse perspective in which gender differences in ICT use are understood as a result of gendertechnology and power-knowledge relations. We present a gender perspective on the results of the research ‘Growing Up with Screens’, conducted in Portugal which aims to explore the mediation practices of parents including the first generation of digital native parents with children aged 3 to 8 years old.
- Livros Viajantes Inclusivos: falar sobre questões LGBT nos jardins de infância e escolas do 1.º cicloPublication . Ferreira, EduardaEste artigo apresenta o projeto 'Livros Viajantes Inclusivos', desenvolvido pela SEIES - Sociedade de Estudos e Intervenção em Engenharia Social, em parceria com as bibliotecas escolares, nas escolas do ensino básico do concelho de Setúbal. O projeto ‘Livros Viajantes Inclusivos’ tem como objetivo promover atividades em contexto escolar sobre a não discriminação com base na orientação sexual e na identidade de género. O foco central do projeto é o potencial da literatura infantojuvenil para a promoção de uma sociedade inclusiva e baseada no respeito pela diversidade. Ao longo dos anos letivos em que foi implementado, de 2015 a 2019, o projeto 'Livros Viajantes Inclusivos' teve como principais resultados, nos cinco agrupamentos de escolas envolvidos, o desenvolvimento de atividades de exploração de livros infantis com 20 grupos de crianças do pré-escolar e 156 turmas do 1.º ciclo do ensino básico, num total de cerca de 4000 crianças. No âmbito deste projeto foi realizada a oficina de formação LER PARA A IGUALDADE, em parceria com a Escola Superior de Educação de Setúbal, com o objetivo de dar resposta às necessidades de formação das/os docentes envolvidas/os. São apresentadas e analisadas as atividades realizadas no contexto da formação e os impactos na prática profissional das/os participantes.
- Portuguese research on Gender and ICT: The place of educationPublication . Ferreira, Eduarda; Silva, Maria JoãoICT/technologies are increasingly pervasive and embedded in everyday things and objects, constituting a relevant aspect of social identities. Furthermore ICT use continues to be a highly gendered area of life in all socio-economic and educational backgrounds, and a source of significant social inequality in enduring ways. Gender and ICT/technologies is an international growing field of research that explores diverse research issues, and the main objective of this paper is to characterize the Portuguese research on this topic, identifying the main areas of study and possible gaps. By analyzing institutional repositories of Higher Education in Portugal, conferences and journals on ICT and Education, this paper concludes that research on gender and ICT/technologies in Portugal is very limited and mainly on subjects related with education and occupation/jobs. To finalize the paper presents future research topics to foster knowledge on gender and ICT/technologies in Portugal.
- Using electronic sensors to support gender neutral STEM activities in primary schoolPublication . Silva, Maria João; Ferreira, Eduarda; Batista, SusanaThe Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) gender divide is still a nowadays multidimensional problem. During the last decades, research has been studying the factors that can contribute to close the gender gap in what concerns participation, achievement and progression in STEM education. The empirical study presented in this paper assessed, with a gender perspective, the results of the use of electronic sensors to explore and solve environmental health problems by children of four primary school classes. The developed experiment was designed to promote gender inclusion. The results evidenced that children acquired knowledge linked to the use of the sensors, and were able to produce suggestions to solve the explored problems. Nonetheless, gender differences were not promoted by the experiment didactic activities, evidencing affordances of such activities to narrow gender gaps.