Sofia Castanheira Pai
Biographic Data
| ID | 1962674 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sofia Castanheira Pai |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sofia Castanheira |
| FAMILY NAME | Pai |
| SIGNATURE | PAI S C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidade do Porto |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2841-9922 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Young athletes as sports activists: Empowerment as a fundamental element of the process
The involvement in activism provides an excellent context for developing knowledge, skills, values and attitudes, empowering young citizens and transforming them into catalysts of change, transitioning from a learning phase to active citizenship. Since leveraging sport's potential in fostering citizenship can amplify the cultivation of these capacities, the main aim of this study is to ascertain the role of sport as a catalyst for activism, contr…
Becoming Experts: Life Changes, Adaptation, and Learning of Stroke Survivors’ Informal Caregivers
Background: Social and health trends (e.g., the aging population and growth of chronic diseases) place stroke and informal care as global concerns. After a stroke, most survivors return home relying primarily on informal caregivers, who ensure essential daily support. Although informal care’s adaptive and learning dimensions are evident, it has rarely been problematized. Understanding what and how learning processes emerge in the context of infor…
Educação, liberdade e democracia: Celebrar 50 anos do 25 de Abril
Celebrar 50 anos é escrever de memória vários pontos de interrogação aos caminhos feitos: social, político, económico, cultural. Faz meio século que Portugal colocou um ponto final em quatro décadas de ditadura fascista. As transformações ocorreram nos diferentes setores da nossa sociedade e, em alguns deles, como no da educação, procurámos compensar em poucas décadas séculos de atraso e de desinvestimento intencional. Consolidou-se uma escola pú…
Becoming activists: How young athletes use visual tools for civic action and meaning-making within participatory research
How can participatory research, combined with visual methods, enable young people to grow as engaged citizens in their communities? This article introduces an innovative methodological design that draws on a Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) approach with 33 young athletes aged 11 to 16 from two different educational settings. Based on both observation notes from the community profiling process and visual materials produced by the young …
Connecting Higher Education to the Labour Market: The Experience of Service Learning in a Portuguese University
The mission of higher education institutions (HEI) includes fostering conditions that enable student participation, and a commitment to their professional success. Pedagogical strategies which combine learning that goes beyond the university and involves a service-learning (SL) course carried out in the context of a pedagogical innovation programme of the University of Porto were examined. This examination included interviews with teachers, a foc…
Professores em tempos de ensino remoto de emergência: Um foco no ensino e nas relações
O fecho de escolas durante a primeira onda de pandemia de COVID-19 desafiou os/as professores/as a reorganizarem rapidamente as suas atividades educativas. Essa mudança exigiu uma maior integração das tecnologias no ensino e levou a transformações repentinas nas relações sociais e pedagógicas. Se o acentuar de desigualdades pré-existentes entre os alunos se tornou imediatamente evidente, ficou menos claro como as desigualdades entre os/as profess…
How do we live with chronic disease? A rights-based approach promoting the wellbeing of children with chronic disease
This paper focuses on the life experiences of children with chronic disease, a group whose invisibility involves particular challenges in their relationship with professionals in important life contexts, such as family, school and hospital. The study includes two complementary phases: i) Phase 1, composed of 15 interviews with parents, education and health professionals and two focus group discussions with children, and children and their mothers…
Saúde e escola: Reflexões Em Torno Da Medicalização Da Educação
É sabido que à escola chegam crianças e jovens com diferentes pontos de partida. O que não se sabe ao certo é até onde chegam essas crianças e jovens, e que percurso a escola lhes reserva, particularmente numa altura em que os profissionais de educação se veem divididos entre inúmeras tarefas (algumas meramente administrativas) e parece cada vez mais comum atribuir-se ao comportamento "pouco adequado" dos alunos explicações de natureza tendencial…
The Values of Empowerment and Citizenship and the Experience of Children and Adolescents with a Chronic Disease
In spite of becoming progressively common, chronic diseases are quite invisible in modern societies, as these silent diseases are relatively absent from public socio-political debates. As a consequence, social agents and institutions seem to reveal significant difficulties in coping with the singularities of children and adolescents with a chronic disease and their parents. This article stresses the importance of recognising children and adolesce…
The Values of Empowerment and Citizenship and the Experience of Children and Adolescents with a Chronic Disease
In spite of becoming progressively common, chronic diseases are quite invisible in modern societies, as these silent diseases are relatively absent from public socio-political debates. As a consequence, social agents and institutions seem to reveal significant difficulties in coping with the singularities of children and adolescents with a chronic disease and their parents. This article stresses the importance of recognising children and adolesce…
Becoming activists: How young athletes use visual tools for civic action and meaning-making within participatory research
How can participatory research, combined with visual methods, enable young people to grow as engaged citizens in their communities? This article introduces an innovative methodological design that draws on a Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) approach with 33 young athletes aged 11 to 16 from two different educational settings. Based on both observation notes from the community profiling process and visual materials produced by the young …
The Values of Empowerment and Citizenship and the Experience of Children and Adolescents with a Chronic Disease
In spite of becoming progressively common, chronic diseases are quite invisible in modern societies, as these silent diseases are relatively absent from public socio-political debates. As a consequence, social agents and institutions seem to reveal significant difficulties in coping with the singularities of children and adolescents with a chronic disease and their parents. This article stresses the importance of recognising children and adolesce…
Saúde e escola: Reflexões Em Torno Da Medicalização Da Educação
É sabido que à escola chegam crianças e jovens com diferentes pontos de partida. O que não se sabe ao certo é até onde chegam essas crianças e jovens, e que percurso a escola lhes reserva, particularmente numa altura em que os profissionais de educação se veem divididos entre inúmeras tarefas (algumas meramente administrativas) e parece cada vez mais comum atribuir-se ao comportamento "pouco adequado" dos alunos explicações de natureza tendencial…
How do we live with chronic disease? A rights-based approach promoting the wellbeing of children with chronic disease
This paper focuses on the life experiences of children with chronic disease, a group whose invisibility involves particular challenges in their relationship with professionals in important life contexts, such as family, school and hospital. The study includes two complementary phases: i) Phase 1, composed of 15 interviews with parents, education and health professionals and two focus group discussions with children, and children and their mothers…
Professores em tempos de ensino remoto de emergência: Um foco no ensino e nas relações
O fecho de escolas durante a primeira onda de pandemia de COVID-19 desafiou os/as professores/as a reorganizarem rapidamente as suas atividades educativas. Essa mudança exigiu uma maior integração das tecnologias no ensino e levou a transformações repentinas nas relações sociais e pedagógicas. Se o acentuar de desigualdades pré-existentes entre os alunos se tornou imediatamente evidente, ficou menos claro como as desigualdades entre os/as profess…
Connecting Higher Education to the Labour Market: The Experience of Service Learning in a Portuguese University
The mission of higher education institutions (HEI) includes fostering conditions that enable student participation, and a commitment to their professional success. Pedagogical strategies which combine learning that goes beyond the university and involves a service-learning (SL) course carried out in the context of a pedagogical innovation programme of the University of Porto were examined. This examination included interviews with teachers, a foc…
Educação, liberdade e democracia: Celebrar 50 anos do 25 de Abril
Celebrar 50 anos é escrever de memória vários pontos de interrogação aos caminhos feitos: social, político, económico, cultural. Faz meio século que Portugal colocou um ponto final em quatro décadas de ditadura fascista. As transformações ocorreram nos diferentes setores da nossa sociedade e, em alguns deles, como no da educação, procurámos compensar em poucas décadas séculos de atraso e de desinvestimento intencional. Consolidou-se uma escola pú…
Becoming activists: How young athletes use visual tools for civic action and meaning-making within participatory research
How can participatory research, combined with visual methods, enable young people to grow as engaged citizens in their communities? This article introduces an innovative methodological design that draws on a Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) approach with 33 young athletes aged 11 to 16 from two different educational settings. Based on both observation notes from the community profiling process and visual materials produced by the young …
Young athletes as sports activists: Empowerment as a fundamental element of the process
The involvement in activism provides an excellent context for developing knowledge, skills, values and attitudes, empowering young citizens and transforming them into catalysts of change, transitioning from a learning phase to active citizenship. Since leveraging sport's potential in fostering citizenship can amplify the cultivation of these capacities, the main aim of this study is to ascertain the role of sport as a catalyst for activism, contr…
Becoming Experts: Life Changes, Adaptation, and Learning of Stroke Survivors’ Informal Caregivers
Background: Social and health trends (e.g., the aging population and growth of chronic diseases) place stroke and informal care as global concerns. After a stroke, most survivors return home relying primarily on informal caregivers, who ensure essential daily support. Although informal care’s adaptive and learning dimensions are evident, it has rarely been problematized. Understanding what and how learning processes emerge in the context of infor…
Psychology (8 works) · Political science (6 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Humanities (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare (2 works) · Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life (2 works) · Children's Rights and Participation (2 works) · Chronic disease (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works)