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Introductory note to the special issue: teaching as an intergenerational profession: how generational diversity contributes to teacher education and professional development
Publication . Sousa, Rita Tavares de; Joana, Luciana; Kowalczuk-Walędziak, Marta
Health profiles of families with young children: observational study
Publication . Fonseca, Inês; Monteiro, Vanessa; Madureira, Jóni; Dantas, Jacinta; Reduto, José; Charepe, Zaida; Figueiredo, Henriqueta
Introduction: Family health, influenced by sociodemographic determinants and health status, plays a crucial role in the well-being and quality of life of its members, making it essential to understand the health profiles of families with young children for the development of effective interventions. Objective: To characterize the health profiles of families with young children and analyze the relationship between these profiles and sociodemographic and health determinants. Methods: A quantitative, observational, descriptive, and cross-sectional study was conducted with 474 families attending Child and Youth Health consultations. Participants were selected by convenience, and data were collected through a self-administered questionnaire. The analysis included cluster formation based on the "Total Family Functioning Ratio" and employed descriptive and inferential statistical techniques. Results: Five clusters of families were identified, ranging from a more balanced family functioning in cluster 1 to a less balanced functioning in cluster 4, which exhibited the poorest health outcomes, including lower education levels, higher unemployment rates, and worse health perceptions. Conclusion: The study revealed that single-parent families and those with lower educational qualifications experience poorer health outcomes. Perceived social support and family functioning are significant determinants. It is recommended to implement intervention strategies aimed at improving the well-being and health of families based on the identified profiles.
Generative AI and the quest for sustainability: affordances and trade-offs across the triple bottom line
Publication . Trocin, Cristina; Palese, Biagio
Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) is increasingly deployed to create new content rapidly, with emerging affordances that may support Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) (Seidel et al., 2013). The overarching aim of SDGs is to harmonize people, planet, and profit through more informed and adaptive organizational practices. While GenAI is often framed as a tool for efficiency, for enhancing cost savings and productivity (Ooi et al., 2025), this view neglects its potential to enable systemic transformations at the nexus of sustainability and advanced technologies (Kotlarsky et al., 2023). Currently, little is known about how organizations can leverage GenAI in ways that simultaneously address the economic, social, and environmental pillars of the Triple Bottom Line. Moreover, research has largely emphasized GenAI’s automation potential, with limited attention to its affordances for human–GenAI collaboration (Volkoff & Strong, 2013), such as judgment enhancement, supervisory functions, and adaptive decision- making. Our study addresses this gap by asking: how are international organizations leveraging GenAI to achieve sustainability goals? We conducted an exploratory case study involving 21 semi- structured interviews with professionals applying GenAI for sustainability across industries and countries, complemented by archival data, and analyzed using the Gioia methodology. Our findings show that GenAI is predominantly applied to advance economic and social sustainability through automation and enhanced human-GenAI collaboration. However, environmental considerations remain secondary, despite being a primary organizational motivation for pursuing sustainability initiatives. This study contributes to the literature on sustainability and human–GenAI collaboration by highlighting both opportunities and trade-offs in using GenAI for sustainability. We emphasize the need for more integrated and context-sensitive research to better understand how GenAI can address all three pillars of the Triple Bottom Line.
Relação entre vinculação e assertividade em estudantes universitários
Publication . Inácio, Marina Campelo; Maia, Berta Maria Marinho Rodrigues
A Teoria da Vinculação constitui um referencial central para a compreensão do funcionamento emocional e relacional na vida adulta, podendo influenciar a forma como os indivíduos expressam sentimentos, necessidades e limites nas relações interpessoais. A assertividade, enquanto competência social fundamental, pode estar associada aos padrões de vinculação. O presente estudo teve como objetivo analisar a relação entre a vinculação e a assertividade em estudantes universitários, bem como explorar o papel de variáveis sociodemográficas. Participaram neste estudo 208 estudantes universitários portugueses, com idades compreendidas entre os 18 e os 60 anos, que responderam a um questionário sociodemográfico, à Escala de Vinculação do Adulto (EVA) e à Escala de Comportamento Interpessoal – versão reduzida (ECI-r). Foram realizadas análises descritivas, testes de diferenças e análises de correlação. Os resultados indicaram associações significativas entre vinculação e assertividade. A vinculação ansiosa associou-se a maior desconforto na expressão assertiva, enquanto o conforto com a proximidade se relacionou positivamente com a frequência de comportamentos de assertividade positiva e de tomada de iniciativa. A idade associou-se a maior frequência de comportamentos assertivos e a indicadores de maior segurança na vinculação. A situação profissional revelou associações específicas, enquanto o estado civil não se mostrou diferenciador.
AYA : theater and empowerment practices by those who learned to trick death through art
Publication . Chagas, Lorena de Oliveira; Bines, Rosana Kohl; Sá, Cristina; Baltazar, André
This dissertation investigates where and how empowerment emerges within theatrical practice, examining the processes through which both artists and spectators construct agency in contemporary conditions shaped by digital technologies, postcolonial tensions, and biopolitical and necropolitical structures. The study examines how artistic practices produce, negotiate, or inhibit empowerment. Grounded in a transformative paradigm that rejects claims to neutrality, the thesis draws from the author's situated perspective as a mixed-race Brazilian woman from the Global South, mobilizing decolonial epistemologies, which Home Bhabha calls the "third space of enunciation," and Afro-Diasporic symbolism such as AYA to frame empowerment as a contextual, historically informed, and culturally embodied process and artistically workable. The transformative paradigm was chosen because, while ethical and scientific procedural constraints protect the research, they also limit access to information that could reveal the participants' identities. Adding a layer of depth, the researcher's self-reflection on how the experiments influence or alter her provides additional insight into the collective experience, albeit not a complete representation. This approach respects ethical considerations and data protection. This dissertation examines five artistic projects developed during the PhD—three original plays and two theater workshops—through a cyclical, spiral structure inspired by Afro Diasporic concepts. This research investigates how artists and spectators experience, articulate, and negotiate empowerment within specific theatrical contexts, using these artistic works as its primary field of inquiry. Through mixed methods that include quantitative and qualitative feedback, audience observation, and experimental tools informed by neuroscience, the study analyzes the conditions that shape agency and spectatorship in each project. It also reflects on how artistic creation can function as a space for resistance, reinvention, and self-determination within these practices. Rather than establishing universal conclusions, the dissertation draws insights directly from these artistic experiences, contributing to broader discussions about how theater may incite agency in the present and in the future, it helps imagine. Ultimately, the thesis argues that empowerment in theater arises not from interactivity alone, but from ethical, aesthetic, and relational practices that cultivate autonomy, critical imagination, and collective possibility. Through the symbolic lenses of Ubuntu (to start) and Iroko (to end), the work affirms a cyclical and communal understanding of artistic research, where new futures sprout from ancestral knowledge and from the shared responsibility of artists and spectators in making meaning together.