Ronel Ferreira
Biographic Data
| ID | 107728 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ronel Ferreira |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ronel |
| FAMILY NAME | Ferreira |
| SIGNATURE | FERREIRA R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pretoria |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2469-6327 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 52 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 51 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
School communities’ expectations of a school-based health promotion intervention in South Africa
Background: School-based health promotion interventions in resource-constrained settings must align with curriculum requirements and the local context to be sustainable and effective. In South Africa, there is a need to integrate support for nutrition, psychosocial well-being, and environmental sustainability within everyday teaching and learning. Aim: This study explored the expectations of school communities regarding Wellness in Lifestyle, Int…
Worlds of Unfreedom
Social connectedness as a pathway to teacher resilience in challenged contexts
Study explored a social connectedness intervention in six peri-urban South African schools. • Teachers showed improved motivation, emotional regulation, and professional efficacy. • Intervention fostered trust, collaboration, and context-specific professional support. • Low-cost, Ubuntu-inspired model helped sustain teacher well-being in under-resourced settings. This study explores the role of social connectedness in fostering teacher resilience…
Rio chamado Atlântico
Homenagem a Alberto Vasconcellos da Costa e Silva
Overcoming the Challenges of Including Learners with Visual Impairments Through Teacher Collaborations
In this article we report on a study undertaken with 255 teachers working with learners with visual impairments. The focus of our discussion is teachers’ implementation of inclusive education policies with learners with visual impairments in full-service schools in South Africa. We foreground the ways in which the teacher participants relied on teacher collaborations to overcome some of the challenges they faced as a result of limited resource pr…
The Cambridge Companion to Latin American Independence
Bringing together experts across Latin America, North America, and Spain, The Cambridge Companion to Latin American Independence innovatively revisits Latin American independence within a larger regional, temporal, and thematic framework to highlight its significance for the Age of Atlantic Revolutions. The volume offers a synthetic yet comprehensive tool for understanding and assessing the most current studies in the field and their analytical c…
Waves of Sedition across the Atlantic
This chapter investigates the reverberations of the Oporto liberal revolution and Brazilian independence on the Portuguese colony of Angola in West Central Africa. Angola was the largest supplier of enslaved labor for recently independent Brazil, yet the ties between the two regions stretched well beyond the transatlantic slave trade. A cultural and social continuum connected the South Atlantic World, and the chapter argues that such ties acquire…
Doing Precolonial African History in Postcolonial Times
This debate article aims to promote a historiographical discussion on the place of Africa in Atlantic and imperial history. The debate revolves around a set of questions: how to bring Africa to the centre of historical research? How close or how distant is the historiography that focuses on the African continent and the one that deals with the African diasporas? What has been the contribution of Portuguese scholarship to the study of precolonial …
Vida e morte de um príncipe do Congo
O artigo toma como fio condutor a trajetória do príncipe Nicolau de Água Rosada para analisar a conjuntura do tráfico de escravos em Angola e Congo. Em 1845, ele foi como emissário para Lisboa depois de um tratado antitráfico firmado entre Portugal e seu pai, o rei Henrique II. Permaneceu cerca de dois anos em Portugal, e no seu retorno a Angola tornou-se funcionário da administração colonial. Água Rosada alcançou notoriedade ao se manifestar pub…
Repensando o tráfico transatlântico de africanos escravizados na era da ilegalidade
Apresentação do dossiê
Teaching Learners with Visual Impairment
This book, Teaching Learners with Visual Impairment, focuses on holistic support to learners with visual impairment in and beyond the classroom and school context. Special attention is given to classroom practice, learning support, curriculum differentiation and assessment practices, to mention but a few areas of focus covered in the book. In this manner, this book makes a significant contribution to the existing body of knowledge on the implemen…
Apagando a Nota Que Diz Escrava
Mediante registros de batismo da freguesia de Nossa Senhora da Conceição de fins do século XVIII, o artigo analisa aspectos da escravidão urbana em Luanda. Salienta que, em um contexto marcadamente impactado pelo tráfico atlântico de cativos, o batismo e o compadrio serviram aos pais, sobretudo às mães, como profilaxia política contra a deportação por meio do comércio de cativos. O simples fato de ser batizado e de receber nome cristão diferencia…
Portugal, Spain, and the transatlantic slave trade
The place of Portugal and Spain in the slave trade was in many ways shaped by the two Iberian powers’ colonisation projects in the Americas and Africa. The early phase of the Iberian slave trade was deeply intertwined with Portugal’s first encounter with African societies in the fifteenth century. Portugal had relied on African enslaved labour from Senegambia to develop sugar production on the Atlantic islands and continental Portugal. The prohib…
Central Africa and the Atlantic World
Central Africa became deeply intertwined in the Atlantic world with the arrival of the Portuguese in 1482, which opened up a new world of connections between African societies and European and American partners. As a region, central Africa stretches from Gabon to Mossamedes, near the border of the present nation of Namibia. Two distinct patterns of interaction marked the region’s integration into the wider Atlantic world. On the Loango coast, Atl…
The Slave Trade to Latin America
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Estudios afrolatinoamericanos
Título original: Afro-Latin American Studies. 1a ed.: Cambridge : Cambridege Uhiversity Press, 2018. Este libro tiene el objetivo de introducir al lector en un campo dinámico y en expansión como es el de los estudios afrolatinoamericanos. Definimos este campo, en primer lugar, como un estudio de la población de ascendencia africana en América Latina y, en segundo lugar, como el estudio de las sociedades en las que vive dicha población. En relació…
Power and Corruption in the Early Modern Portuguese World
This book is a very readable historical narrative of the Portuguese Empire in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The author has effectively rewritten his original thesis on the Portuguese overseas board (Conselho Ultramarino) into an overview that accounts for the several centers of power in the Portuguese Empire. The book is clearly inspired by classic works by Charles Boxer and A. J. Russel Wood that sought to provide a holistic view of …
The Suppression of the Slave Trade and Slave Departures from Angola, 1830s–1860s
"Este artigo trata do processo de abolição do tráfico atlântico de escravos em Angola na primeira metade do século XIX. O artigo considera as diferenças e dinâmicas regionais do tráfico em Luanda, Benguela e o chamado “norte de Angola” (Cabinda e Ambriz). Argumenta que para entender o impacto das políticas abolicionistas em Angola, é preciso primeiro analisar questões como o provimento de escravos para a costa angolana, a participação das elites …
Disquiet Voices Foretelling Hope
South African teachers leave teaching due to factors such as lack of support and adverse working conditions. This study investigated rural teachers' resilience experiences of teaching in a resource-constrained school. A life history design was used to generate data. The research site was visited six times over 20 months. Fifteen interview-conversations were collected and transcribed. The results indicate that the teachers faced chronic poverty as…
Nutrition education practices of primary school teachers in a resource-constrained community in Gauteng, South Africa
We investigated the nutrition education (NE) practices of teachers of grade 4‒7 learners in 11 primary schools (85% of total number) of the Bronkhorstspruit district (Gauteng Province) to identify opportunities for improving NE in these schools. A descriptive cross-sectional survey was carried out among a convenient sample of the teachers (N = 73) using a structured nutrition education practice questionnaire. Descriptive data analysis was done. R…
Imperial Portugal in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions
Journal Article Imperial Portugal in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions: The Luso-Brazilian World, c.1770–1850, by Gabriel Paquette Get access Imperial Portugal in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions: The Luso-Brazilian World, c.1770–1850, by Gabriel Paquette (New York: Cambridge U.P., 2013; pp. 450. £65). Roquinaldo Ferreira Roquinaldo Ferreira 1Brown University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Histor…
Power-sharing Partnerships
Based on these findings, we developed a framework of power sharing partnerships to extend Gaventa's power cube theory. This framework, and its five interrelated elements (leadership as power, identifying vision and mission, synergy, interdependent role of partners, and determination), provide insight into the way coresearchers shared their experiences of participatory research methodology. We theorise power-sharing partnerships as a complimentary…
Power-Sharing Partnerships
Background: This article reports on the experiences of teachers as coresearchers in a long-term partnership with university researchers, who participated in an asset-based intervention project known as Supportive Teachers, Assets and Resilience (STAR). In an attempt to inform participatory research methodology, the study investigated how coresearchers (teachers) experienced power relations. We utilized Gaventa’s power cube as a theoretical framew…
From Brazil to West Africa
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The Legacy of Dutch Brazil
This book argues that Dutch Brazil (1624–54) is an integral part of Atlantic history and that it made an impact well beyond colonial and national narratives in the Netherlands and Brazil. In doing so, this book proposes a radical shift in interpretation. The Dutch Atlantic is widely perceived as an incongruity among more durable European empires, whereas Brazil occupies an exceptional place in the history of Latin America, which leads to a view o…
Biografia, mobilidade e cultura atlântica
A construção das redes de comércio em Benguela se assentavam tanto em laços comerciais quanto familiares, culturais e religiosos. O artigo usa técnicas de prosopografia para reconstruir trajetórias de negociantes e analisar a micro-escala do comércio de Benguela. O artigo mapeia o início dos embarques diretos de escravos em Benguela no século XVIII e privilegia as relações entre Benguela e Rio de Janeiro, mostrando o alto padrão de mobilidade de …
Ilhas Crioulas
This article deals with the cultural interaction between Africans and Europeans in Atlantic Africa - primarily Angola. A comparison is drawn between the cultural interaction in Angola and similar processes in Senegambia, Gold Cost and the Bights of Benin and Biafra. Likewise the Angolan case, these regions were affected by the transatlantic slave trade. In Angola, however, the cultural mixing reached levels more intense than in other regions in A…
Biografia como história social
Este artigo analisa as conexões econômicas e sociais engendradas pelo tráfico de escravos entre Angola e Brasil, assim como o abolicionismo português na primeira metade do século XIX. Neste sentido, o artigo usa como ponto de partida a trajetória pessoal de José Ferreira Gomes, um homem negro, nascido em Benguela, cuja mãe, Florinda José Gaspar, era filha de um chefe africano da Catumbela e cujo pai, Francisco Ferreira Gomes, foi um homem negro n…
Taking note of obstacles research partners negotiate in long-term higher education community engagement partnerships
Slave Flights and Runaway Communities in Angola (17th-19th centuries)
This article explores slave resistance in Angola by focusing on slave flights and the formation of runaway communities during the era of the transatlantic slave trade from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries. It argues that slave flights and runaways communities were integral to societies under Portuguese influence in coastal and internal Angola. It demonstrates that flights occurred due to a wide variety of reasons, including opposition …
Disquiet Voices Foretelling Hope
South African teachers leave teaching due to factors such as lack of support and adverse working conditions. This study investigated rural teachers' resilience experiences of teaching in a resource-constrained school. A life history design was used to generate data. The research site was visited six times over 20 months. Fifteen interview-conversations were collected and transcribed. The results indicate that the teachers faced chronic poverty as…
A miragem da miscigenação
Neste artigo abordamos alguns aspectos da natureza da sociedade escravista - na África e no Brasil - especialmente os significados da liberdade, cor, protesto entre os séculos XVII a XIX. Partimos de um diálogo crítico sobre as perspectivas de miscigenação, políticas de domínio e dinâmicas sociais nas sociedades escravistas e os desdobramentos para o seu funcionamento e mudança
Escravidão e revoltas de escravos em Angola (1830-1860)
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Vida e morte de um príncipe do Congo
O artigo toma como fio condutor a trajetória do príncipe Nicolau de Água Rosada para analisar a conjuntura do tráfico de escravos em Angola e Congo. Em 1845, ele foi como emissário para Lisboa depois de um tratado antitráfico firmado entre Portugal e seu pai, o rei Henrique II. Permaneceu cerca de dois anos em Portugal, e no seu retorno a Angola tornou-se funcionário da administração colonial. Água Rosada alcançou notoriedade ao se manifestar pub…
Repensando o tráfico transatlântico de africanos escravizados na era da ilegalidade
Apresentação do dossiê
Apagando a Nota Que Diz Escrava
Mediante registros de batismo da freguesia de Nossa Senhora da Conceição de fins do século XVIII, o artigo analisa aspectos da escravidão urbana em Luanda. Salienta que, em um contexto marcadamente impactado pelo tráfico atlântico de cativos, o batismo e o compadrio serviram aos pais, sobretudo às mães, como profilaxia política contra a deportação por meio do comércio de cativos. O simples fato de ser batizado e de receber nome cristão diferencia…
Establishing a Reading Culture in a Rural Secondary School
The purpose of this study was to explore and describe the nature of a reading culture in a rural secondary school in South Africa before and after a literacy intervention. The systems theory with interpretivism as the epistemological paradigm was employed. A rural secondary school was selected as part of an on-going Flourishing Learning Youth and Supportive Teachers Assets and Resilience studies on resilience and rural schools. Language teachers …
A primeira partilha da África
Este texto tem como tema geral o declínio do comércio português na costa do Ouro depois da tomada do castelo de Elmina pelos holandeses em 1637. São tratados os seguintes temas: comércio de ouro, aumento da presença européia na região, aumento do tráfico de escravos e retorno português ao comércio da costa do Ouro em fins do século XVII. O texto demonstra que seguindo o fim do semi-monopólio comercial português, em 1637, a Costa do Ouro passou po…
A institucionalização dos estudos Africanos nos Estados Unidos
O artigo analisa o advento, a consolidação e a transformação dos Estudos Africanos nos Estados Unidos entre a década de 1960 e os dias atuais. O artigo tem como propósito discutir o contexto acadêmico, político e geopolítico que lastreou a criação desse campo de estudos. Para tanto, enfatiza as transformações na sociedade americana nos anos 60, sobretudo o movimento pelos direitos civis dos afro-americanos, assim como o contexto internacional, pa…
Escravidão e revoltas de escravos em Angola (1830-1860)
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Ilhas Crioulas
This article deals with the cultural interaction between Africans and Europeans in Atlantic Africa - primarily Angola. A comparison is drawn between the cultural interaction in Angola and similar processes in Senegambia, Gold Cost and the Bights of Benin and Biafra. Likewise the Angolan case, these regions were affected by the transatlantic slave trade. In Angola, however, the cultural mixing reached levels more intense than in other regions in A…
Biografia, mobilidade e cultura atlântica
A construção das redes de comércio em Benguela se assentavam tanto em laços comerciais quanto familiares, culturais e religiosos. O artigo usa técnicas de prosopografia para reconstruir trajetórias de negociantes e analisar a micro-escala do comércio de Benguela. O artigo mapeia o início dos embarques diretos de escravos em Benguela no século XVIII e privilegia as relações entre Benguela e Rio de Janeiro, mostrando o alto padrão de mobilidade de …
A trajetória de um intelectual africano
Atlantic Microhistories
This chapter investigates the microdynamics of the social, cultural, and commercial networks that underpinned slaving in Angola in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. To that end, it uses biographical information on merchants operating out of Luanda and Benguela to explain their commercial strategies, their cultural integration into local communities, and their close commercial links with Brazil.1 It highlights individual mobility as a…
The Suppression of the Slave Trade and Slave Departures from Angola, 1830s–1860s
This chapter outlines the regional variations in Angola, and explores how external and local forces shaped the shipments of slaves between 1830 and 1860. In the early nineteenth century, the introduction of measures to abolish the slave trade changed the dynamic significantly by triggering integration between northern Angola and Luanda. Benguela stood in contrast to the other regions, as it maintained closer ties with Rio de Janeiro than with any…
Teachers' Use of Memory-Box-Making to Provide Psychosocial Support in Their Pastoral Role
This study investigated the use of memory-box-making by teachers in their pastoral role. Ten female teachers participated in the study. The site of the study is in a South African primary school in an urban informal settlement. We used multiple data collection strategies (observation, focus groups, visual data and research diaries), which were documented in various ways (field notes, audio recordings and verbatim transcriptions and photographs). …
Culture at the Heart of Coping with HIV/Aids
This study explored the manner in which a South African informal community coped with living with HIV/AIDS by relying on existing assets and local resources. A case study research design applying participatory reflection and action principles was used. Focus group/workshop sessions were conducted with ten selected female educators from the community. In addition, individual interviews with stakeholders and other members of the community (n=31, ma…
A miragem da miscigenação
Neste artigo abordamos alguns aspectos da natureza da sociedade escravista - na África e no Brasil - especialmente os significados da liberdade, cor, protesto entre os séculos XVII a XIX. Partimos de um diálogo crítico sobre as perspectivas de miscigenação, políticas de domínio e dinâmicas sociais nas sociedades escravistas e os desdobramentos para o seu funcionamento e mudança
A primeira partilha da África
Este texto tem como tema geral o declínio do comércio português na costa do Ouro depois da tomada do castelo de Elmina pelos holandeses em 1637. São tratados os seguintes temas: comércio de ouro, aumento da presença européia na região, aumento do tráfico de escravos e retorno português ao comércio da costa do Ouro em fins do século XVII. O texto demonstra que seguindo o fim do semi-monopólio comercial português, em 1637, a Costa do Ouro passou po…
A institucionalização dos estudos Africanos nos Estados Unidos
O artigo analisa o advento, a consolidação e a transformação dos Estudos Africanos nos Estados Unidos entre a década de 1960 e os dias atuais. O artigo tem como propósito discutir o contexto acadêmico, político e geopolítico que lastreou a criação desse campo de estudos. Para tanto, enfatiza as transformações na sociedade americana nos anos 60, sobretudo o movimento pelos direitos civis dos afro-americanos, assim como o contexto internacional, pa…
Slaving and Resistance to Slaving in West Central Africa
INTRODUCTION Scholars' interpretations of African slavery has ranged from emphasizing the weight of external influences, primarily commerce and contacts with Europeans, to framing slavery as an institution that preceded contacts with Europeans and derived from African systems of forced labor. The focus on proving or discarding these two divergent frameworks, as well as efforts to delineate causes and institutional contours of slavery, have prevai…
Formative evaluation of the STAR intervention
The article describes the pilot phase of a participatory reflection and action (PRA) study. The longitudinal investigation explores teachers' ability to provide psychosocial support within the context of HIV/AIDS following an asset-based intervention. The study ensued from our desire to understand and contribute to knowledge about the changed roles of teachers due to adversity in the community, specifically in relation to HIV/AIDS and education. …
Ways of Relating and Interacting in School Communities
This article reports on the findings of a baseline study on social interaction in schools as experienced by learners, educators and parents. A qualitative phenomenological approach was followed, utilising a cross-sectional descriptive survey design. Participants included 1 170 learners aged between 11 and 18 years, 150 parents, and 85 educators from 12 South African schools. After participants had completed written assignments on their lived expe…
Intervention Groups for HIV-Infected Women
The Kgolo Mmogo study is a randomised controlled intervention trial that examines the effectiveness of a group intervention to enhance resilience in HIV-infected South African mothers ( N = 427) and their young children ( N = 435). We describe here how the severity of psychological and social problems experienced by some of the study participants required referrals for other services and discuss the barriers encountered in facilitating such refer…
Uma virada nos estudos do tráfico de escravos
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Cross-Cultural Exchange in the Atlantic World
This book argues that Angola and Brazil were connected, not separated, by the Atlantic Ocean. Roquinaldo Ferreira focuses on the cultural, religious and social impacts of the slave trade on Angola. Reconstructing biographies of Africans and merchants, he demonstrates how cross-cultural trade, identity formation, religious ties and resistance to slaving were central to the formation of the Atlantic world. By adding to our knowledge of the slaving …
Towards an Understanding of Nurturing and Restraining Relational Patterns in School Communities
This study aimed to understand the nature of nurturing and restraining relationships in a school communiy. The inquiry entailed a single instrumental case study of a selected school community in a semi-urban context in South Africa. Participants were learners (n=720), teachers (n=33) and administrative and terrain staff members (N=8) as well as two parents. Data on participants' perceptions of relationships in the school community were collected …
Chapter 9. Slavery and the Social and Cultural Landscapes of Luanda
Agricultural enterprise and unfree labour in nineteenth-century Angola
Behavior and psychological functioning of young children of HIV-positive mothers in South Africa
Adults with HIV are living longer due to earlier diagnosis and increased access to antiretroviral medications. Therefore, fewer young children are being orphaned and instead, are being cared for by parents who know they are HIV positive, although they may be asymptomatic. Presently, it is unclear whether the psychological functioning of these young children is likely to be affected or, alternatively, whether it is only when a mother is ill, that …
The Role of Parenting in Affecting the Behavior and Adaptive Functioning of Young Children of HIV-Infected Mothers in South Africa
Biografia como história social
Este artigo analisa as conexões econômicas e sociais engendradas pelo tráfico de escravos entre Angola e Brasil, assim como o abolicionismo português na primeira metade do século XIX. Neste sentido, o artigo usa como ponto de partida a trajetória pessoal de José Ferreira Gomes, um homem negro, nascido em Benguela, cuja mãe, Florinda José Gaspar, era filha de um chefe africano da Catumbela e cujo pai, Francisco Ferreira Gomes, foi um homem negro n…
From Brazil to West Africa
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
The Legacy of Dutch Brazil
This book argues that Dutch Brazil (1624–54) is an integral part of Atlantic history and that it made an impact well beyond colonial and national narratives in the Netherlands and Brazil. In doing so, this book proposes a radical shift in interpretation. The Dutch Atlantic is widely perceived as an incongruity among more durable European empires, whereas Brazil occupies an exceptional place in the history of Latin America, which leads to a view o…
Colonialism, slavery, and trade (27 works) · Political science (22 works) · History (19 works) · Psychology (16 works) · Sociology (16 works) · History of Colonial Brazil (15 works) · African history and culture studies (14 works) · Art (13 works) · Geography (13 works) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (12 works)