Ana Patrícia Almeida
Biographic Data
| ID | 3896741 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ana Patrícia Almeida |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ana Patrícia |
| FAMILY NAME | Almeida |
| SIGNATURE | ALMEIDA A P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidade Aberta |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5242-8285 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Democracy-as-becoming in early years and primary education
In a context of growing democratic fragility, education is increasingly called upon to cultivate democratic participation, relational responsibility, and civic engagement. However, dominant approaches to education for democracy continue to privilege cognitive knowledge and procedural participation, often overlooking the embodied, affective, and relational dimensions through which democracy is first encountered and lived. This paper advances the c…
Teachers’ Negotiation of Democratic Risk and Professional Agency in Early Years and Primary Education
This article examines how teachers in Early Years and Primary Education experience and negotiate democratic risk when enacting democratic pedagogy. Drawing on qualitative data generated through participatory research in Portugal and Croatia within the Horizon Europe AECED project, the study analyses reflections, dialogical exchanges, and collaborative inquiry processes from 33 participants across four cases. Democratic risk is conceptualised as s…
School leadership engagement
The Utrecht Work Engagement Scale (UWES) is a widely used self-report scale with the original twenty-three items and its abbreviated version of nine items to assess workers’ engagement. This paper reports a validation study of the UWES-17 and UWES-9 using confirmatory factor analysis, its convergent validity and invariance across gender in a sample of 921 Portuguese school leaders. The main findings support a bidimensional conceptualization of wo…
Headteachers and Inclusion
Inclusion is an unavoidable dimension of education and the school’s mission. Educational organisations must therefore seek approaches and practices that materialise in the effective management of diversity, equity and inclusion, since these are conditions for the involvement of the whole community to achieve the goals of education for all. This study sought to answer (i) How do school leaders conceptualize equity and inclusion? (ii) What guidance…
O envolvimento parental durante a pandemia covid-19
O papel dos pais na educação dos filhos é crucial para o sucesso educativo das crianças e tem benefícios para todos os intervenientes (pais, professores, profissionais, crianças).O contexto atual da pandemia covid-19 mudou a forma como os pais se envolvem e participam na escola, revelando uma diversidade de práticas. Estas são orientadas pelas perceções e crenças que os pais têm sobre a sua participação e sobre as suas competências, bem como pela…
O envolvimento parental durante a pandemia covid-19
O papel dos pais na educação dos filhos é crucial para o sucesso educativo das crianças e tem benefícios para todos os intervenientes (pais, professores, profissionais, crianças).O contexto atual da pandemia covid-19 mudou a forma como os pais se envolvem e participam na escola, revelando uma diversidade de práticas. Estas são orientadas pelas perceções e crenças que os pais têm sobre a sua participação e sobre as suas competências, bem como pela…
School leadership engagement
The Utrecht Work Engagement Scale (UWES) is a widely used self-report scale with the original twenty-three items and its abbreviated version of nine items to assess workers’ engagement. This paper reports a validation study of the UWES-17 and UWES-9 using confirmatory factor analysis, its convergent validity and invariance across gender in a sample of 921 Portuguese school leaders. The main findings support a bidimensional conceptualization of wo…
Headteachers and Inclusion
Inclusion is an unavoidable dimension of education and the school’s mission. Educational organisations must therefore seek approaches and practices that materialise in the effective management of diversity, equity and inclusion, since these are conditions for the involvement of the whole community to achieve the goals of education for all. This study sought to answer (i) How do school leaders conceptualize equity and inclusion? (ii) What guidance…
O envolvimento parental durante a pandemia covid-19
O papel dos pais na educação dos filhos é crucial para o sucesso educativo das crianças e tem benefícios para todos os intervenientes (pais, professores, profissionais, crianças).O contexto atual da pandemia covid-19 mudou a forma como os pais se envolvem e participam na escola, revelando uma diversidade de práticas. Estas são orientadas pelas perceções e crenças que os pais têm sobre a sua participação e sobre as suas competências, bem como pela…
Democracy-as-becoming in early years and primary education
In a context of growing democratic fragility, education is increasingly called upon to cultivate democratic participation, relational responsibility, and civic engagement. However, dominant approaches to education for democracy continue to privilege cognitive knowledge and procedural participation, often overlooking the embodied, affective, and relational dimensions through which democracy is first encountered and lived. This paper advances the c…
Teachers’ Negotiation of Democratic Risk and Professional Agency in Early Years and Primary Education
This article examines how teachers in Early Years and Primary Education experience and negotiate democratic risk when enacting democratic pedagogy. Drawing on qualitative data generated through participatory research in Portugal and Croatia within the Horizon Europe AECED project, the study analyses reflections, dialogical exchanges, and collaborative inquiry processes from 33 participants across four cases. Democratic risk is conceptualised as s…
Children's Rights and Participation (2 works) · Citizen journalism (2 works) · Democracy (2 works) · Global Educational Policies and Reforms (2 works) · Participatory action research (2 works) · Portuguese (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Qualitative research (2 works) · 2019-20 coronavirus outbreak (1 work) · Action research (1 work)