http://hdl.handle.net/10362/2476 2013-05-24T14:58:25Z 2013-05-24T14:58:25Z Gonçalves, Maria José http://hdl.handle.net/10362/4930 2011-01-21T11:39:10Z 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Distance continuing education for enterprises in European Universities Authors: Gonçalves, Maria José Abstract: This paper reports findings of a survey conducted in five European universities, concerning the role that university continuing education can play in continuing education specially designed for enterprises. Findings are discussed both according to the experience of these university centres of continuing education, and to our previous research on enterprises training needs. Description: Proceedings of EDEN 10th Anniversary Conference, 10-13 June 2001 Stockholm, Sweden

2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Gonçalves, Maria José http://hdl.handle.net/10362/4637 2010-12-16T12:07:33Z 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Une vision systémique de la formation continue universitaire Authors: Gonçalves, Maria José Abstract: L’article présente des résultats d’une recherche sur la Formation Continue Universitaire (FCU) pour les entreprises. Les universités sont ici considérées comme des systèmes complexes, auto-finalisés, non-prévisibles, en interaction avec leur environnement. Afin d’accéder à une vision de la complexité de la formation, nous avons eu recours à la pensée systémique. La FCU est conçue comme un espace de régulation de l’interaction entre le monde des entreprises et l’université. Nos résultats suggèrent que les interactions qui s’établissent à l’intérieur de l’université et avec l’extérieur, nécessaires à la mise en œuvre de la FC, peuvent se constituer comme de valables inducteurs d’apprentissage organisationnel dans toutes les organisations engagées, l’université devenant, elle aussi, une organisation apprenante. The paper presents some results of a research on Continuing Professional Development for companies. Universities are here considered as complex systems, auto-finalised, non-predictable, in interaction with their environment. In order to access to a vision of the complexity of CPD, we used systems thinking as a tool. CPD is viewed as a space of regulation of the interaction between the enterprise world and university. Our results suggest that the interactions established within the university and with the external world, necessary to implement this education and training, can become valuable inductors of organisational learning for all organisations involved, the university also becoming, itself, a learning organisation. Description: Res-Systemica, Volume N°5, Numéro Spécial

2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Gonçalves, Maria José http://hdl.handle.net/10362/4448 2010-12-09T12:07:06Z 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: A view of Teresa Ambrósio's work and life (1936-2007) Authors: Gonçalves, Maria José Abstract: Teresa Ambrósio was a contemporary Portuguese leading woman scientist in the field of educational science. In this article, following a sociological perspective, an overview of her personal, academic, political and scientific life is presented, trying to insert her main functions and achievements in a wider context of the history of the country and the specific society where she lived. The article seeks to illustrate how her personality, political and social environment, as well as both challenges and supportive colleagues, friends and family shaped the citizen, the politician and the woman scientist who left an outstanding legacy for the Portuguese educational thinking. Thus, selected periods in Ambrósio’s life and work are placed in a broader cultural- historical context. One of the aims of this paper is to provoke a critical reflection on how a mother of four overcame traditional barriers women scientist face, at a time when female percentage at universities, both academics and students, was much lower than it is nowadays. It will also be shown how the interaction with other scientists and personalities she met have contributed to “interlace” a life that she described as a track, zigzagged pathways built up for, by, with the others. Description: Proceedings of the 4th international conference Hands - on Science - Development, Diversity and Inclusion in Science Education, 109-115

2007-01-01T00:00:00Z Gonçalves, Maria José http://hdl.handle.net/10362/4444 2010-12-07T15:50:50Z 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Cities and emerging networks of learning communities Authors: Gonçalves, Maria José Abstract: In the 21st century the majority of people live in urban settings and studies show a trend to the increase of this phenomenon. Globalisation and the concentration of multinational and clusters of firms in certain places are attracting people who seek employment and a better living. Many of those agglomerations are situated in developing countries, representing serious challenges both for public and private sectors. Programmes and initiatives in different countries are taking place and best practices are being exchanged globally. The objective is to transform these urban places into sustainable learning cities/regions where citizens can live with quality. The complexity of urban places, sometimes megacities, opened a new field of research. This paper argues that in order to understand the dynamics of such a complex phenomenon, a multidisciplinary, systemic approach is needed and the creation of learning cities and regions calls for the contribution of a multitude of fields of knowledge, ranging from economy to urbanism, educational science, sociology, environmental psychology and others.

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