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Al-Andalus as it is conceived and as a myth is part of the national narratives of Spain and Portugal, in so many historical societies it is compared with Islam. It is very important in shaping the Spanish national narrative, generating movements of philia and phobia. It has had less importance in Portugal. The current crisis in Spain, mired in territorial tensions, and in Portugal, without British protection, is giving rise to a revision of their role in the formation of the imagined community. Al-Andalus constitutes a transversal narrative, which has been perceived from America, by authors such as Gilberto Freyre and Américo Castro, and which allows us to review the appraisals of the Iberian methodological. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study aims to evaluate the quality of the Portuguese Government's action in the health sector during Troika's intervention period (2011-2015), taking as criterion the concern with the application of Good Governance principles, in terms of degree and diversity. The intention is to understand the extent to which the public action promoted by the Ministry of Health has developed seeking to contribute to the strengthening of Good Governance practices. Fifty measures of the Ministry of Health, distributed by nine intervention areas, were analyzed, based on documental analysis, supported on the law and on other official documents. The principles of Good Governance that demonstrate a more transversal concern are clearly that of "transparency" and of "effectiveness/efficiency", present in eight of the nine intervention areas. The concern with "orientation to consensus" is essentially present in the measures classified as Agreements, "independence" in the Ethics area, the "strengthening of the rule of Law" in the Control area and "equity/inclusion" in the area of the Citizen in the Centre of the NHS. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The work of Matilde Rosa Araújo, a major name in childhood literature in Portugal, whose centenary of birth is celebrated this year, constitutes a hymn to nature and humanity, encompassing multiple potentialities for an integrative approach to the curriculum, serving mainly to the change that the new educational paradigm envisages. Framing our reflection on recent government guidelines, arising mainly from the 2030 Agenda and education for the objectives of sustainable development, and crossing it with the thematic axes emerging from Matilde's work, we present a work proposal, where literary education and written, due to the transversal character of which they are clothed, they appear as means of construction of a humanizing pedagogy, centered on an attentive look at the Other and the House that we inhabit together. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]