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The Future As Imagined By the Past. Flying machine by Ayers, 1885 The genre of steampunk is often inspired by the nineteenth century, the Victorians, and futurism. It’s about alternate futures or futuristic ideas of times past. But how did the Victorians view the future? The nineteenth century was a time of many rapid changes. Professores portugueses no limite do stress. Projeto Stressless apalpou o pulso a nove países europeus e verificou que os docentes portugueses andam stressados e próximos do burnout.

Professores portugueses no limite do stress

No próximo ano, será lançado um guia prático para aumentar a resistência de quem ensina. O Projeto StressLess - Promovendo a Resiliência dos Educadores ao Stress envolve nove países europeus com o grande objetivo de lançar um guia prático de intervenção que intensifique a resistência dos profissionais do sistema educativo ao stress e, ao mesmo tempo, reforce competências de quem ensina. Os primeiros passos foram dados em novembro de 2010 e o projeto estará concluído em outubro de 2012. Uma iniciativa promovida pela Sociedade Portuguesa de Inovação (SPI), ao abrigo do Programa Aprendizagem ao Longo da Vida.

Antes de elaborar o guia, o Stressless quer saber o que se passa nos países que tem debaixo de olho e perceber quais as reais necessidades de quem trabalha no ensino e na formação. Perguntas feitas, questionários preenchidos, entrevistas realizadas. Lyudmila Pavlichenko. Lyudmila Mykhailivna Pavlichenko (Ukrainian: Людмила Михайлівна Павліченко; Russian: Людмила Михайловна Павличенко; Lyudmila Mikhailovna Pavlichenko; July 12, 1916 – October 10, 1974) was a Soviet sniper during World War II.

Lyudmila Pavlichenko

Credited with 309 kills, she is regarded as the most successful female sniper in history.[1][2] Early life and education[edit] Career[edit] World War II[edit] Fred Rogers. Initially educated to be a minister, Rogers was displeased with the way television addressed children and made an effort to change this when he began to write for and perform on local Pittsburgh-area shows dedicated to youth.

Fred Rogers

WQED developed his own show in 1968 and it was distributed nationwide by Eastern Educational Television Network. Over the course of three decades on television, Fred Rogers became an indelible American icon of children's entertainment and education, as well as a symbol of compassion, patience, and morality.[2] He was also known for his advocacy of various public causes. His testimony before a lower court in favor of fair use recording of television shows to play at another time (now known as time shifting) was cited in a U.S. Supreme Court decision on the Betamax case, and he gave now-famous testimony to a U.S. Senate committee, advocating government funding for children's television.[3] Personal life Television career Early work. Portugal. If we explore the Portuguese culture through the lens of the 6-D Model, we can get a good overview of the deep drivers of Portuguese culture relative to other world cultures.

Portugal

Power distanceThis dimension deals with the fact that all individuals in societies are not equal – it expresses the attitude of the culture towards these inequalities amongst us. Power distance is defined as the extent to which the less powerful members of institutions and organisations within a country expect and accept that power is distributed unequally. Watch American Psycho online. Neil deGrasse Tyson Lists 8 (Free) Books Every Intelligent Person Should...

A Reddit.com user posed the question to Neil deGrasse Tyson: "Which books should be read by every single intelligent person on the planet?

Neil deGrasse Tyson Lists 8 (Free) Books Every Intelligent Person Should...

" Below, you will find the book list offered up by the astrophysicist, director of the Hayden Planetarium, and popularizer of science. Where possible, we have included links to free versions of the books, all taken from our Free Audio Books and Free eBooks collections. Or you can always download a professionally-narrated book for free from Audible.com. Details here. If you're looking for a more extensive list of essential works, don't miss The Harvard Classics, a 51 volume series that you can now download online. 1.) 2.) 3.) 4.) 5.) 6.) 7.) 8.) 8 Reasons Young Americans Dont Fight Back: How the US Crushed... - StumbleUpon. The ruling elite has created social institutions that have subdued young Americans and broken their spirit of resistance.Bruce E.

8 Reasons Young Americans Dont Fight Back: How the US Crushed... - StumbleUpon

Geração André. Where No Child Left Behind Went Wrong - Adam Richardson - Harvard Business... By Adam Richardson | 8:27 AM October 17, 2011 Recently President Obama started talking about the first substantive changes to the No Child Left Behind Act in its 10-year history.

Where No Child Left Behind Went Wrong - Adam Richardson - Harvard Business...

He argued that while the goal of closing the achievement gap between students of different ethnicities and income levels is a laudatory one, the levers and incentives that the program has in place are not working. I couldn’t agree more, but I still have a fundamental disagreement with the narrow focus of No Child Left Behind. It has a retrograde emphasis on teaching children “the basics” (followed by annual testing on the same) using subjects and methods more relevant to the past mass-production era, rather than the creative, global, innovation- and information-driven economy that we are in.

Less of the Three R’s, More of the Four C’s Creativity. Entrevista_a_carlos_neto.