Helena C Araújo
Biographic Data
| ID | 1502591 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Helena C Araújo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Helena C |
| FAMILY NAME | Araújo |
| SIGNATURE | ARAÚJO H C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidade do Porto |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2988-3209 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Sex education and the views of young people on gender and sexuality in Portuguese schools
This paper draws upon the recognition of sex education as an educational space for the development of youth sexual citizenship and gender equality. Despite the more open political and public debates in Portugal during the last three decades, around the implementation of sex education in schools, the relationship between education and sexuality is still seen as a «problem» and not as a citizenship right. Going beyond the health centred approaches,…
Dancing Dialogues: Mapping and Discussing Access to Dance in Portuguese Upper-Secondary Schools
This article analyzes the role of dance and the arts in European and national educational policy agendas and maps the provision of dance in upper-secondary schools in the district of Porto, Portugal. To understand the role of dance in educational policies, we conducted a document analysis of regulations and decree-laws inspired by Stephen Ball’s policy cycle approach. To explore how these policies materialize in educational contexts, a mapping ap…
Going beyond the ‘typical’ student? Voicing diversity of experience through biographical encounters with migrant students in Portugal
Research on international student migration has been burgeoning, leading to a more nuanced understanding of international students whose experiences were, for many years, conceptualised in a rather limited way. In this paper, we aim to advance understanding of the diversity and complexity of student migrants’ experiences, by proposing a new interpretive framework, developed through narrative enquiry. Based on an in-depth narrative analysis of 41 …
Explorando a renovação da pedagogia: Problem Based Learning Como Espaço De Cidadania Educacional Jovem
Este artigo explora como a Aprendizagem Baseada na Resolução de Problemas (PBL) pode contribuir para renovar a pedagogia, colocando as e os jovens no centro da relação pedagógica de construção do saber, com realização de direitos. Parte-se da preocupação com a falta de espaço para a escuta das pessoas jovens em diferentes contextos educativos e reconhece-se os membros deste grupo social enquanto sujeitos autores e autoras da construção da sua cid…
Exploring the renewal of pedagogy: Problem-Based Learning as a Space for Young Peoples' Educational Citizenship
This article explores how problem-based learning (PBL) can contribute to renewing pedagogy by placing young people at the center of the pedagogical relationship of knowledge construction, and enabling them to realize their rights. The starting point is the concern about the lack of space for listening to young people in different educational contexts and the recognition of the members of this social group as subjects of the construction of their …
Growing up in a never-ending crisis: Youth transitions and aspirations in Portugal
Over the past two decades, young people have faced increasing social and economic instability. Before the world had fully recovered from the tremendous effects of the global financial crisis of 2007-08, it was hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. With the effects of such crises being felt unevenly, what are the implications of these challenging times for the educational and professional aspirations of young people in vulnerable situations? To investigat…
What do young adults’ educational experiences tell us about Early School Leaving processes
What leads young people to disengage and leave school early? This paper focuses on young adults’ educational trajectories, with the objective of identifying useful insights for improving school measures and strategies against early school leaving and school disengagement. Specifically, it draws upon an empirical study with young adults from the north of Portugal. Longitudinal bio-interviews took place with young men and women, aged 17 to 24, who …
Drawing lessons from early school leavers in a social justice context: Introductory comments
This special issue focuses on the trajectories of early school leavers and includes corresponding papers from six countries in Europe. It presents a cross-national view on interrelated issues that facilitate understanding of the lessons that can be learned from these trajectories to promote a more socially just approach to education. In this introductory article, the authors present early school leaving (ESL) as a key issue in Europe, discuss rel…
Tirando o máximo partido da educação privada: Construção de laços e significados em uma escola de elite em Portugal
Este artigo parte da sociologia da educação para documentar e teorizar dimensões sociais, culturais e políticas da educação de jovens adultos da elite econômica em uma escola privada, que foi criada em reação à educação em massa e como forma de garantir às elites a distinção anteriormente fornecida pelo acesso em exclusivo à educação pública. O artigo traz à colação contextos e consequências associadas à ascensão da privatização, com base em uma …
When you welcome students without borders, you need a mentality without borders' internationalisation of higher education: Evidence from Portugal
Compared to other major players in the global market of international education, internationalisation of higher education has only recently become a relevant topic in Portugal. In line with the worldwide increase of international students, Portuguese universities are also experiencing a growing in-flow of students willing to obtain a foreign tertiary degree. Anchored in international students' perceptions, this paper aims to understand how Portug…
The multicultural experience of international students in Portugal: A narrative approach
Purpose The aim of this paper is to explore qualitatively and holistically the experience of international students in the context of Portuguese higher education. This paper interrogates the potential that an experience abroad provides for multicultural learning and for enhancing interaction between students with different cultural backgrounds. Design/methodology/approach To provide depth to the understanding of their experiences abroad, the narr…
Women in the driving seat: Eastern European immigrant women's citizenship, participation and educational inclusion in Portugal
This paper is a case study of Eastern European immigrant women's social inclusion in Portugal through civic participation. An analysis of interviews conducted with women leaders and members of two ethnic associations provides a unique insight into their migrant pathways as highly educated women and the ways in which these women are constructing their citizenship in new contexts in Northern Portugal. These women's accounts of their immigrant exper…
Young Portuguese construction of educational citizenship: Commitments and conflicts in semi-disadvantaged secondary schools
This paper represents a contribution to ongoing debates in the Journal of Youth Studies concerning young adults, in particular, those that address young adult citizenship and ‘voice’ and which take into account the generational political, economic and cultural processes that both frame and shape their citizenship construction. The potential impact of the enactment of citizenship on the daily lives of young adults is at focus as we address the way…
Sexualities, teenage pregnancy and educational life histories in Portugal: Experiencing sexual citizenship
This article focuses on Portuguese working-class teenage girls’ voices and experiences concerning sexuality and pregnancy. Within a sociological, feminist and educational framework, it explores the girls’ perspective on sexual and intimate citizenship as evidence of fairer forms of regulation of teenage sexualities. Through building life histories of three pregnant and teenage mothers, this article aims to understand how girls rehearse and live o…
Stories of Belonging: Ukrainian Immigrant Children's Experiences of Portugal
This article is situated within the literature examining the experiences of inclusion and exclusion by immigrant pupils in relation to the educational and social environment in the receiving country. It draws on data from a small, exploratory qualitative research study conducted in a supplementary school context in Portugal to explore how Ukrainian immigrant children (aged 12–16) negotiate their sense of belonging in Portugal. Specifically, the w…
Jacques Gilard: Dos ponencias feministas
En homenaje al admirado Profesor, Helena Araújo evoca dos ocasiones en que le oyera disertar en la Universidad de Pau durante dos coloquios (1996 y 2004) sobre «el lugar, representaciones, estatuto y papel de la mujer en la historia, la sociedad y la cultura latinoamericanas». Analizando los primeros cuentos de la escritora barranquillera Marvel Moreno, Jacques Gilard se concentraría en «la humillación infligida al cuerpo femenino que es lo propi…
Changing Femininity, Changing Concepts of Citizenship in Public and Private Spheres
This article reports on an EU-funded project conducted in Greece, Portugal, England and Wales. Data were collected from male and female student teachers using surveys, interviews and focus groups. The project investigated their understanding of citizenship and the role of men and women in public and private life. Pateman's (1988) concept of a sexual contractwas used to discover how student teachers understood changing relations between men and wo…
Teachers, Gender and the Discourses of Citizenship
This paper reports the findings of a sociological research project ‘Promoting Equality Awareness: women as citizens’, funded by the European Commission. The first stage of the research explored how a new generation of teachers in Greece, Spain, Portugal, England and Wales understood the concept of ‘citizenship’ and how gender relates to it. Selective current debates on the nature of citizenship within the field of education are reviewed. Argument…
The Emergence of a ‘New Orthodoxy’: Public debates on women's capacities and education in Portugal, 1880‐1910
The paper examines the emergence of the new definitions of women's position which constituted a ‘new orthodoxy’ at the turn of the nineteenth century in Portugal. ‘Women's nature’ and the ‘aims of women's education’ were the most debated issues. Different ideological positions were identified. The examination of these debates and of the emerging ‘new orthodoxy’ illustrates women's transition from ‘private’ forms of patriarchy to ‘public’ forms of…
Feminismo de América Latina en plazas, letras y siglas
Partiendo del libro Mujeres, Des Latino-Américaines publicado por la editorial « Femmes » en 1977, una revista crítica de los argumentos excesivamente políticos y economistas del análisis intentado sobre la condición femenina en América Latina. La autora sugiere otros «temas por despejar sobre la subordinación de la mujer en los países de América Latina a lo largo de las dos últimas décadas y presenta un catálogo de las luchas femeninas en curso.…
Changing Femininity, Changing Concepts of Citizenship in Public and Private Spheres
This article reports on an EU-funded project conducted in Greece, Portugal, England and Wales. Data were collected from male and female student teachers using surveys, interviews and focus groups. The project investigated their understanding of citizenship and the role of men and women in public and private life. Pateman's (1988) concept of a sexual contractwas used to discover how student teachers understood changing relations between men and wo…
Teachers, Gender and the Discourses of Citizenship
This paper reports the findings of a sociological research project ‘Promoting Equality Awareness: women as citizens’, funded by the European Commission. The first stage of the research explored how a new generation of teachers in Greece, Spain, Portugal, England and Wales understood the concept of ‘citizenship’ and how gender relates to it. Selective current debates on the nature of citizenship within the field of education are reviewed. Argument…
Young Portuguese construction of educational citizenship: Commitments and conflicts in semi-disadvantaged secondary schools
This paper represents a contribution to ongoing debates in the Journal of Youth Studies concerning young adults, in particular, those that address young adult citizenship and ‘voice’ and which take into account the generational political, economic and cultural processes that both frame and shape their citizenship construction. The potential impact of the enactment of citizenship on the daily lives of young adults is at focus as we address the way…
When you welcome students without borders, you need a mentality without borders' internationalisation of higher education: Evidence from Portugal
Compared to other major players in the global market of international education, internationalisation of higher education has only recently become a relevant topic in Portugal. In line with the worldwide increase of international students, Portuguese universities are also experiencing a growing in-flow of students willing to obtain a foreign tertiary degree. Anchored in international students' perceptions, this paper aims to understand how Portug…
Stories of Belonging: Ukrainian Immigrant Children's Experiences of Portugal
This article is situated within the literature examining the experiences of inclusion and exclusion by immigrant pupils in relation to the educational and social environment in the receiving country. It draws on data from a small, exploratory qualitative research study conducted in a supplementary school context in Portugal to explore how Ukrainian immigrant children (aged 12–16) negotiate their sense of belonging in Portugal. Specifically, the w…
The multicultural experience of international students in Portugal: A narrative approach
Purpose The aim of this paper is to explore qualitatively and holistically the experience of international students in the context of Portuguese higher education. This paper interrogates the potential that an experience abroad provides for multicultural learning and for enhancing interaction between students with different cultural backgrounds. Design/methodology/approach To provide depth to the understanding of their experiences abroad, the narr…
Sexualities, teenage pregnancy and educational life histories in Portugal: Experiencing sexual citizenship
This article focuses on Portuguese working-class teenage girls’ voices and experiences concerning sexuality and pregnancy. Within a sociological, feminist and educational framework, it explores the girls’ perspective on sexual and intimate citizenship as evidence of fairer forms of regulation of teenage sexualities. Through building life histories of three pregnant and teenage mothers, this article aims to understand how girls rehearse and live o…
Going beyond the ‘typical’ student? Voicing diversity of experience through biographical encounters with migrant students in Portugal
Research on international student migration has been burgeoning, leading to a more nuanced understanding of international students whose experiences were, for many years, conceptualised in a rather limited way. In this paper, we aim to advance understanding of the diversity and complexity of student migrants’ experiences, by proposing a new interpretive framework, developed through narrative enquiry. Based on an in-depth narrative analysis of 41 …
Feminismo de América Latina en plazas, letras y siglas
Partiendo del libro Mujeres, Des Latino-Américaines publicado por la editorial « Femmes » en 1977, una revista crítica de los argumentos excesivamente políticos y economistas del análisis intentado sobre la condición femenina en América Latina. La autora sugiere otros «temas por despejar sobre la subordinación de la mujer en los países de América Latina a lo largo de las dos últimas décadas y presenta un catálogo de las luchas femeninas en curso.…
The Emergence of a ‘New Orthodoxy’: Public debates on women's capacities and education in Portugal, 1880‐1910
The paper examines the emergence of the new definitions of women's position which constituted a ‘new orthodoxy’ at the turn of the nineteenth century in Portugal. ‘Women's nature’ and the ‘aims of women's education’ were the most debated issues. Different ideological positions were identified. The examination of these debates and of the emerging ‘new orthodoxy’ illustrates women's transition from ‘private’ forms of patriarchy to ‘public’ forms of…
Teachers, Gender and the Discourses of Citizenship
This paper reports the findings of a sociological research project ‘Promoting Equality Awareness: women as citizens’, funded by the European Commission. The first stage of the research explored how a new generation of teachers in Greece, Spain, Portugal, England and Wales understood the concept of ‘citizenship’ and how gender relates to it. Selective current debates on the nature of citizenship within the field of education are reviewed. Argument…
Changing Femininity, Changing Concepts of Citizenship in Public and Private Spheres
This article reports on an EU-funded project conducted in Greece, Portugal, England and Wales. Data were collected from male and female student teachers using surveys, interviews and focus groups. The project investigated their understanding of citizenship and the role of men and women in public and private life. Pateman's (1988) concept of a sexual contractwas used to discover how student teachers understood changing relations between men and wo…
Jacques Gilard: Dos ponencias feministas
En homenaje al admirado Profesor, Helena Araújo evoca dos ocasiones en que le oyera disertar en la Universidad de Pau durante dos coloquios (1996 y 2004) sobre «el lugar, representaciones, estatuto y papel de la mujer en la historia, la sociedad y la cultura latinoamericanas». Analizando los primeros cuentos de la escritora barranquillera Marvel Moreno, Jacques Gilard se concentraría en «la humillación infligida al cuerpo femenino que es lo propi…
Stories of Belonging: Ukrainian Immigrant Children's Experiences of Portugal
This article is situated within the literature examining the experiences of inclusion and exclusion by immigrant pupils in relation to the educational and social environment in the receiving country. It draws on data from a small, exploratory qualitative research study conducted in a supplementary school context in Portugal to explore how Ukrainian immigrant children (aged 12–16) negotiate their sense of belonging in Portugal. Specifically, the w…
Sexualities, teenage pregnancy and educational life histories in Portugal: Experiencing sexual citizenship
This article focuses on Portuguese working-class teenage girls’ voices and experiences concerning sexuality and pregnancy. Within a sociological, feminist and educational framework, it explores the girls’ perspective on sexual and intimate citizenship as evidence of fairer forms of regulation of teenage sexualities. Through building life histories of three pregnant and teenage mothers, this article aims to understand how girls rehearse and live o…
Young Portuguese construction of educational citizenship: Commitments and conflicts in semi-disadvantaged secondary schools
This paper represents a contribution to ongoing debates in the Journal of Youth Studies concerning young adults, in particular, those that address young adult citizenship and ‘voice’ and which take into account the generational political, economic and cultural processes that both frame and shape their citizenship construction. The potential impact of the enactment of citizenship on the daily lives of young adults is at focus as we address the way…
Women in the driving seat: Eastern European immigrant women's citizenship, participation and educational inclusion in Portugal
This paper is a case study of Eastern European immigrant women's social inclusion in Portugal through civic participation. An analysis of interviews conducted with women leaders and members of two ethnic associations provides a unique insight into their migrant pathways as highly educated women and the ways in which these women are constructing their citizenship in new contexts in Northern Portugal. These women's accounts of their immigrant exper…
The multicultural experience of international students in Portugal: A narrative approach
Purpose The aim of this paper is to explore qualitatively and holistically the experience of international students in the context of Portuguese higher education. This paper interrogates the potential that an experience abroad provides for multicultural learning and for enhancing interaction between students with different cultural backgrounds. Design/methodology/approach To provide depth to the understanding of their experiences abroad, the narr…
When you welcome students without borders, you need a mentality without borders' internationalisation of higher education: Evidence from Portugal
Compared to other major players in the global market of international education, internationalisation of higher education has only recently become a relevant topic in Portugal. In line with the worldwide increase of international students, Portuguese universities are also experiencing a growing in-flow of students willing to obtain a foreign tertiary degree. Anchored in international students' perceptions, this paper aims to understand how Portug…
What do young adults’ educational experiences tell us about Early School Leaving processes
What leads young people to disengage and leave school early? This paper focuses on young adults’ educational trajectories, with the objective of identifying useful insights for improving school measures and strategies against early school leaving and school disengagement. Specifically, it draws upon an empirical study with young adults from the north of Portugal. Longitudinal bio-interviews took place with young men and women, aged 17 to 24, who …
Drawing lessons from early school leavers in a social justice context: Introductory comments
This special issue focuses on the trajectories of early school leavers and includes corresponding papers from six countries in Europe. It presents a cross-national view on interrelated issues that facilitate understanding of the lessons that can be learned from these trajectories to promote a more socially just approach to education. In this introductory article, the authors present early school leaving (ESL) as a key issue in Europe, discuss rel…
Tirando o máximo partido da educação privada: Construção de laços e significados em uma escola de elite em Portugal
Este artigo parte da sociologia da educação para documentar e teorizar dimensões sociais, culturais e políticas da educação de jovens adultos da elite econômica em uma escola privada, que foi criada em reação à educação em massa e como forma de garantir às elites a distinção anteriormente fornecida pelo acesso em exclusivo à educação pública. O artigo traz à colação contextos e consequências associadas à ascensão da privatização, com base em uma …
Growing up in a never-ending crisis: Youth transitions and aspirations in Portugal
Over the past two decades, young people have faced increasing social and economic instability. Before the world had fully recovered from the tremendous effects of the global financial crisis of 2007-08, it was hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. With the effects of such crises being felt unevenly, what are the implications of these challenging times for the educational and professional aspirations of young people in vulnerable situations? To investigat…
Going beyond the ‘typical’ student? Voicing diversity of experience through biographical encounters with migrant students in Portugal
Research on international student migration has been burgeoning, leading to a more nuanced understanding of international students whose experiences were, for many years, conceptualised in a rather limited way. In this paper, we aim to advance understanding of the diversity and complexity of student migrants’ experiences, by proposing a new interpretive framework, developed through narrative enquiry. Based on an in-depth narrative analysis of 41 …
Explorando a renovação da pedagogia: Problem Based Learning Como Espaço De Cidadania Educacional Jovem
Este artigo explora como a Aprendizagem Baseada na Resolução de Problemas (PBL) pode contribuir para renovar a pedagogia, colocando as e os jovens no centro da relação pedagógica de construção do saber, com realização de direitos. Parte-se da preocupação com a falta de espaço para a escuta das pessoas jovens em diferentes contextos educativos e reconhece-se os membros deste grupo social enquanto sujeitos autores e autoras da construção da sua cid…
Exploring the renewal of pedagogy: Problem-Based Learning as a Space for Young Peoples' Educational Citizenship
This article explores how problem-based learning (PBL) can contribute to renewing pedagogy by placing young people at the center of the pedagogical relationship of knowledge construction, and enabling them to realize their rights. The starting point is the concern about the lack of space for listening to young people in different educational contexts and the recognition of the members of this social group as subjects of the construction of their …
Dancing Dialogues: Mapping and Discussing Access to Dance in Portuguese Upper-Secondary Schools
This article analyzes the role of dance and the arts in European and national educational policy agendas and maps the provision of dance in upper-secondary schools in the district of Porto, Portugal. To understand the role of dance in educational policies, we conducted a document analysis of regulations and decree-laws inspired by Stephen Ball’s policy cycle approach. To explore how these policies materialize in educational contexts, a mapping ap…
Sex education and the views of young people on gender and sexuality in Portuguese schools
This paper draws upon the recognition of sex education as an educational space for the development of youth sexual citizenship and gender equality. Despite the more open political and public debates in Portugal during the last three decades, around the implementation of sex education in schools, the relationship between education and sexuality is still seen as a «problem» and not as a citizenship right. Going beyond the health centred approaches,…
Sociology (16 works) · Political science (13 works) · Pedagogy (9 works) · Politics (9 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Portuguese (8 works) · Social science (7 works) · Citizenship (6 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Law (6 works)