Multiperspectivity in the national History A exams (Portugal | 2018-2024): a critical analysis

This study analyzes the presence and operationalization of multiperspectivity in the national History A exams in Portugal, applied between 2018 and 2024, across both phases. Using a qualitative approach, the study examines the questions that explicitly require the comparison of contrasting perspectives, assessing the level of cognitive complexity demanded in student responses. The findings indicate that, although multiperspectivity is a consistent feature of the exams, the depth of engagement...

Assessing Soil Erosion Susceptibility in a Tropical Landscape: Insights from a Brazilian Case Study

Soil is a strategic resource essential for maintaining ecosystem services, an initiative closely linked to a country's stage of development. In this sense, urgent strategies are required to mitigate the impacts of climate change on soil systems. This study aimed to assess the susceptibility to soil erosion as a means to support sustainable land-use planning in the municipality of Anapolis, presenting a highly disturbed landscape in Brazil. To achieve this, we applied the Information Value (IV...

Chemistry in early childhood: storytelling and hands-on water-based activities to foster scientific concepts and ideas

In a societal context where chemistry is often perceived negatively, it is essential to promote educational approaches that foster meaningful and engaging learning experiences from an early age. This study aimed to explore how the integration of storytelling and hands-on activities can contribute to primary school children's engagement and understanding of scientific concepts, leading to a more meaningful chemistry learning. The research was conducted in four primary schools in the northern r...

Limiares de originalidade autoral em experiências literárias de composição algorítmica

Literary experiments with algorithmic writing, which characterise the contemporary digital discourse, descend from a long line of generative retroactions between reading and writing acts, whose distant origins date back to the medieval and the early modern period, with more direct origins in twentieth-century avant-garde movements of the 1920s and the beat generation of William Burroughs, for whom all writing was in fact cut-ups; a collage of words read, (over)heard. This collaborative sense ...