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Authors: Adélia Maria Pires

Are there different types of democratic regimes or the model is the same for all countries? Following this issue we analyze some concepts, in particular the concept of ‘democracy’ and of ‘separation of powers’. In addition, we proceed to the exemplification of this conceptualization through the analysis of the Constitution of the Republic of Angola. The results confirmed the importance of the University’s role in the consolidation of the democratic process showing, in this case, the educational policy followed by the new cycle of Oscar Ribas University.

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Authors: Brigitte Detry

In this paper, we begin by discussing the notion of project and to place it in the context of developmental psychology and education studies; our starting point is as follows: how to succeed a certain stage of life? To answer this question, the proposition we develop today uses a precondition, that of developmental tasks and concerns the devising of a project. Not to remain vague, we substantiate this idea in the area of education and of a particular stage of life: adolescence. Different examples concern this stage of life. We begin by asking about the fact that certain people appear to present a harmonious growth when others are demotivated, are bored, don’t seem to progress in anything(Galand & Bourgeois, 2006). School climates are particularly suitable to this type of findings. That is why we turn first to schooling. One thing is clear: without wanting it, we don’t learn. How educators, teachers can they stimulate the wish to learn without taking the place of the student? Our proposal joins that of Pernoud (2001) and concerns the student’s project and more globally the training project. It is enriched by a synthesis of research on the concept of project in the contemporary scientific literature. In the last section of this paper we also show that it not enough to question the academic project, the socio-emotional project and the development of identity are the foundation on which the training project establishes itself.

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Authors: Jesús Gracia Sanz

This article describes the logical and epistemological bases that allow to design a logical-mathematical model to analyze graphical representations of space (urban and social environment). Overcoming the most common concepts that attempt to systematize an integrative model of perception and behavior, beyond an anthropocentric vision and that one in which man is seen as a reactive system. You arrive as well, from a formal point of view, to consider the urban and social environment as “medium” through which is established a mediation that “solves” the contradiction between technology and culture. Finally, genetic epistemology allows us to understand the relationship between representation and perception-appropriation. According to the representation space becomes a person, so it can be appropriated; ownership shares as well be influenced the following representation; in the middle of both processes, conditioned and conditioning to both, the perception that partakes of the nature of both. They are, in short, a dialectical relationship. We can conclude, then, that the cognitive formal structures of the appropriation of space are nothing but the topogenesis, where interactions take place between the psycho and sociogenesis.

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Authors: Luis Miguel Lopes Barreiros

This article presents a research proposal based on a theoretical model sustained in several decades of clinical, psychiatric and psychoanalytic practice. The model is referred to as “Freitas’s Memory” (FM). By FM we try to make sense of the transmission of psychic contents between generations of descendants. It is used a case of Freud (1901/1996) for general explanation of the application of this model and, after explained the basic constitution, summarized the model of FM and its relations with the freudian psychic apparatus providing some suggestions on key issues that cross the current Angolan reality and that can serve as empirical anchorage to theorization. However we also suggest authors and essential works to be consulted as a permanent support of any research carried out in this area. The indicated themes and authors are not exhaustive.

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Authors: Carla Olivia Lima Sousa

This epistemological analysis of learning strategies that favour the teaching-learning process in higher education students, targets the whole university educational concept and the changes seen in recent times, in a significant period of scientific and technological development. The concept of education in its definition, learning and knowledge are no longer the main objective of higher education. New aspects have become important, such as learning to know one’s self and learning that the process of knowledge acquisition is a complex one, with methodologies and pedagogies associated to education, psychology and to all the changes part of transformations that arise in higher education. Teaching methods are ways in which teachers work strategic actions and procedures, with the aim of organizing activities that enable students to achieve the objectives of a particular subject. They result in the establishment of knowledge, as well as the development of students’ cognitive abilities. Therefore, teaching strategies are the key components of the method, where there is planning and the definition of a work plan.