Henrique Vaz

Brain drain and the disenchantment of being a higher education student in Portugal

ABSTRACT The efforts made by most countries to accelerate economic development have included a significant investment in education. It has been argued that investment in education, particularly higher education, was itself a potential factor in economic development. Education has become a relatively easy means of improving access to the labour market. However, in Portugal, the recent trend has been reversed, and the country now faces a growing number of university graduates in several fields of education and training that do not have a job based on their formal qualifications. Despite the differences of unemployment by area of education and training, unemployment of the young skilled has been a problem in recent years. Therefore, following this unemployment trend, there has been growing the exodus of highly skilled professionals from the Portuguese economy, leaving it with a reduced supply of skilled people. This article discusses the employability of graduates from several academic areas and discusses the educational and economic policies that generate a real brain drain.

The Development of Relational Competences in High School Students by Means of Sociometric Methods.

This article reports results of an analysis of the relationship of young people in school, and their individual and group attitudes based on sociometric theory. This study adopted a mixed methodological approach with an intervention conducted with 60 youths over 3 years in Portugal and was based on the question “Is sociometry capable of giving support for the development of relational skills in young people within a school setting?” The results showed that sociometry can be a powerful tool to reduce conflicts and improve communication and a solid knowledge base for group counseling aimed at the development of identity of youth in a school setting.

Políticas educativas e modos de subjectivação da profissão docente.

Com este texto, pretende analisar-se a influencia das politicas educativas nos contextos e no trabalho do professor. A partir de um conjunto de informacoes empiricas, recolhidas no decurso de dois projectos de investigacao, foi possivel descrever as modalidades atraves das quais os professores gerem o seu sofrimento profissional. Por outro lado, estes mesmos dados tambem permitiram caracterizar um conjunto de “ideologias profissionais defensivas”, discernindo-se, igualmente, as tensoes existentes entre as figuras dos jovens e dos alunos que frequentavam um determinado conjunto de escolas secundarias em Portugal. Com base na reinterpretacao dessa mesma informacao empirica, serao ainda analisados os efeitos que assumem as actuais politicas educativas no reforco da alienacao e da exploracao do trabalho docente.

Políticas educativas e modos de subjectivação da profissão docente = Educational policies and ways of subjectivizing the teaching profession

Com este texto, pretende analisar-se a influencia das politicas educativas nos contextos e no trabalho do professor. A partir de um conjunto de informacoes empiricas, recolhidas no decurso de dois projectos de investigacao, foi possivel descrever as modalidades atraves das quais os professores gerem o seu sofrimento profissional. Por outro lado, estes mesmos dados tambem permitiram caracterizar um conjunto de “ideologias profissionais defensivas”, discernindo-se, igualmente, as tensoes existentes entre as figuras dos jovens e dos alunos que frequentavam um determinado conjunto de escolas secundarias em Portugal. Com base na reinterpretacao dessa mesma informacao empirica, serao ainda analisados os efeitos que assumem as actuais politicas educativas no reforco da alienacao e da exploracao do trabalho docente.

Children’s play events as improvisational choreographies

ABSTRACT This paper views children’s play events as improvisational choreographies. The contributions of dance studies to research on children’s play allows the opportunity to understand the kinesics communication intrinsic to their peer culture interactions and, therefore, socialisation. Based on an ethnography with Portuguese preschoolers, this work exposes the kindergarten as an institutional arena, where they deal with governance issues and, simultaneously, as a socio-cultural context, where they physically engage in collective play routines. Ethnographic data analysis suggests that, when children play freely together, they collaboratively use processes that can be seen as analogous to those from dance choreography. Both creative activities embrace body, space-time, energy, relationships, meanings, and three analytical concepts – improvisation, choreography and performance. Therefore, a choreographic framework will be intertwined with sociological perspectives of childhood and used as a device for understanding the children’s body language during interactive play episodes.

L’émigration portugaise qualifiée dans le contexte européen

Devant le renouvellement de l’emigration portugaise en Europe, une enquete realisee en 2014 fait le point sur les representations que les migrants portent sur leur propre parcours. La distinction de differents facteurs de repulsion pour leur pays d’origine et d’attraction pour le pays de destination permet d’esquisser les nouveaux visages des migrants portugais, plus qualifies que leurs predecesseurs, tres informes sur les perspectives professionnelles de mobilite. Envisageant leur depart davantage comme une experience de vie qu’une situation d’emigration, ils contribuent a redefinir les contours transnationaux de l’Europe contemporaine.

The decision to emigrate: a study from the perspective of dispositional plurality

This paper analyses the Portuguese high-skilled emigration, focusing on the emigration decision-making process. This article aims to understand the dispositions leading to this decision, and the social processes that explain its origin, sedimentation and activation. To this end, and using the theoretical and methodological approach of Bernard Lahire, 53 sociological portraits of skilled Portuguese who emigrated to other European countries are cross-sectional analyzed. This analysis is supplemented by data from a survey previously administered. Thus, we will address how the migratory dispositions are built through the individual biographies, highlighting the heuristic potential of the individual observation scale.Este artigo analisa a emigracao portuguesa qualificada, focando-se sobre a producao da decisao de emigrar. E seu objetivo compreender as disposicoes que conduzem a essa decisao, bem como os processos sociais que explicam a sua genese, sedimentacao e ativacao. Para isso, e recorrendo a proposta teorica e metodologica de Bernard Lahire, procede-se a analise transversal de 53 retratos sociologicos de portugueses qualificados que emigraram para outros paises europeus, complementada pelos dados de um inquerito administrado previamente. Deste modo, daremos conta da forma como as disposicoes migratorias se constroem atraves dos percursos biograficos, ressaltando as potencialidades heuristicas da escala individual de observacao.

A decisão de emigrar : um estudo a partir da perspetiva da pluralidade

This paper analyses the Portuguese high-skilled emigration, focusing on the emigration decision-making process. This article aims to understand the dispositions leading to this decision, and the social processes that explain its origin, sedimentation and activation. To this end, and using the theoretical and methodological approach of Bernard Lahire, 53 sociological portraits of skilled Portuguese who emigrated to other European countries are cross-sectional analyzed. This analysis is supplemented by data from a survey previously administered. Thus, we will address how the migratory dispositions are built through the individual biographies, highlighting the heuristic potential of the individual observation scale.Este artigo analisa a emigracao portuguesa qualificada, focando-se sobre a producao da decisao de emigrar. E seu objetivo compreender as disposicoes que conduzem a essa decisao, bem como os processos sociais que explicam a sua genese, sedimentacao e ativacao. Para isso, e recorrendo a proposta teorica e metodologica de Bernard Lahire, procede-se a analise transversal de 53 retratos sociologicos de portugueses qualificados que emigraram para outros paises europeus, complementada pelos dados de um inquerito administrado previamente. Deste modo, daremos conta da forma como as disposicoes migratorias se constroem atraves dos percursos biograficos, ressaltando as potencialidades heuristicas da escala individual de observacao.

A decisão de emigrar: um estudo a partir da perspetiva da pluralidade disposicional

This paper analyses the Portuguese high-skilled emigration, focusing on the emigration decision-making process. This article aims to understand the dispositions leading to this decision, and the social processes that explain its origin, sedimentation and activation. To this end, and using the theoretical and methodological approach of Bernard Lahire, 53 sociological portraits of skilled Portuguese who emigrated to other European countries are cross-sectional analyzed. This analysis is supplemented by data from a survey previously administered. Thus, we will address how the migratory dispositions are built through the individual biographies, highlighting the heuristic potential of the individual observation scale.Este artigo analisa a emigracao portuguesa qualificada, focando-se sobre a producao da decisao de emigrar. E seu objetivo compreender as disposicoes que conduzem a essa decisao, bem como os processos sociais que explicam a sua genese, sedimentacao e ativacao. Para isso, e recorrendo a proposta teorica e metodologica de Bernard Lahire, procede-se a analise transversal de 53 retratos sociologicos de portugueses qualificados que emigraram para outros paises europeus, complementada pelos dados de um inquerito administrado previamente. Deste modo, daremos conta da forma como as disposicoes migratorias se constroem atraves dos percursos biograficos, ressaltando as potencialidades heuristicas da escala individual de observacao.