João Amado

Cyberbullying – do diagnóstico de necesidades à construçao de um manual de formaçao.

O impacto do cyberbullying na sociedade e junto das criancas e jovens, tao mais complexo quanto mais sofisticadas as ferramentas tecnologicas disponiveis, tem chamado a atencao para a importância, a nivel internacional, da definicao de estrategias de prevencao e intervencao junto de potenciais agentes educativos, isto e, para o desenvolvimento de uma proposta, com dimensao europeia, de Cyber- Training. Neste trabalho apos uma breve apresentacao do projectoCyberTraining: A Researchbased Training Manual On Cyberbullying1 dar-se-a a conhecer o processo de desenvolvimento de um manual de formacao baseado numa investigacao a nivel europeu suportada na plataforma Moodle e, nesta, pela ferramenta Forum. Atraves de uma analise de necesidades junto de formadores e do estudo, junto de especialistas, do estado de arte no dominio a nivel de diferentes paises, e mostrado todo um percurso inovador de construcao colaborativa de conhecimento relativamente ao conceito cyberbullying assim como relativamente ao desenvolvimento de praticas de formacao ou cybertraining. ---------------------------------------------------------------- The impact of the cyberbullying on society and among children and young people, revealed as ever more complex as more sophisticated technological tools become available, has called attention to the importance, at the international level, of a definition of strategies for prevention and intervention among potential educational agents, i.e. to develop a proposal for Cyber-Training, with a European dimension. In this paper, after a brief presentation of the European project CyberTraining: A Researchbased Training Manual on Cyberbullying, an account will be given of the process of developing a training manual based on research at European level supported in the Moodle platform, and within this, by the Forum tool. By means of a needs analysis among trainers and analysis by experts of the state of the art in the area in different countries, innovative paths to collaborative knowledge building are demonstrated, relating to the cyberbullying concept as well as to the development of training practices or cybertraining.

Cyberbullying in Portuguese Schools: Prevalence and Characteristics

ABSTRACT This study examined the extent and nature of cyberbullying in 23 Portuguese schools. A sample of 3,525 sixth-, eighth-, and eleventh-grade students completed a self-response questionnaire assessing their perceptions and experiences of cyberbullying. The findings showed that 7.6% of students have been victimized, and 3.9% have bullied others at least once over the last year. The incidences of victimization were higher for females and for the older students. In contrast, more boys reported having bullied others in the eleventh grade. The most frequent medium of cyberbullying was via websites, whilst sending offensive messages was the most widely reported type of behavior. Telling someone about cyberbullying is among the most frequent coping strategies used by cybervictims, who usually chose to tell their friends rather than adults. Implications of these findings for students, schools, and parents are discussed.

Ensinar e aprender a investigar: reflexões a pretexto de um programa de iniciação à pesquisa qualitativa

Neste artigo, centrado sobre a fundamentacao teorica e curricular de um programa de investigacao qualitativa, comecaremos por invocar o papel da pesquisa como estrategia de ensino e como competencia que se espera venha a ser adquirida pelos formandos. Seguidamente daremos conta dos objectivos que nos movem nesta iniciacao, da estrutura geral e fundamentacao do programa e, muito sinteticamente, das estrategias e metodos de ensino. Terminaremos expondo a nossa definicao de investigacao qualitativa, tal como gostariamos que ela viesse a ser interiorizada e praticada pelos nossos formandos.