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Background/purpose: This study aims at identifying differences in the level of critical thinking dispositions according to the sociodemographic (gender, age) and academic characteristics (study field) of undergraduate students in Portugal. Materials/methods: We conducted a cross-sectional, descriptive correlational study with a convenience random sample of 1017 students. Most of the participants were female (76.8%) and the average age of respondents was 21.8 ± 4.22. For data collection, we used the Critical Thinking Dispositions Scale (CTDS), consisting of 35 questions, validated for the Portuguese population. In the statistical analysis, we used the T-student, ANOVA and hierarchical multiple regression model. Results: The students showed an average positive disposition for critical thinking (the average score in the CTDS was 279.1 ± 27.1). The results demonstrated that gender, age and field of study influenced the dispositions for critical thinking. Older girls, attending courses in the field of Biomedicine were the ones with higher disposition to think critically. Conclusion: Female students generally show higher critical thinking scores dispositions regardless the study field.

Critical thinking skills are essential for success in life and work, and it is essential that learning strategies enable the development of critical thinking skills from the early years of schooling. The objective of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of cooperative learning using the RoundTable and Think-Pair-Share methods in the development of critical thinking skills such as observation, inference making, interpretation, analysis, and argumentation, in 4th graders students. The study employed a quasi-experimental design with a pretest and posttest using equivalent experimental and control groups. Results show that the use of cooperative learning, compared to a more traditional teaching methodology, was more effective in developing the critical thinking skills under study.

This study investigated the effects of lecturing, cooperative learning and concept maps on the development of critical and creative thinking skills. A quasi-experimental non-randomized study involved a class of students from the 3rd year of Psychology and two classes from the 3rd year of Pre-service Elementary Teachers. The study ran for 15 weeks, one semester. In one of the Primary School Teaching classes, cooperative learning and concept maps were used and in the other only cooperative learning. The Critical and Creative Thinking test was applied to assess pre and post critical and creative thinking skills. The results show that students from the two classes that used cooperative learning and cooperative learning + concept maps improved further critical and creative thinking skills in relation to the lecturing class, with no significant differences between the first two. Pedagogical recommendations are made according to these results.

O artigo analisa algumas correspondências estabelecidas entre as experiências devocionais no ciberespaço, com foco nos altares virtuais, e o imaginário religioso contemporâneo, considerando os registros das novas devoções e a introdução de práticas e linguagens rituais em espaços novos para mediações devocionais; a propriedade de o cristianismo devocional conferir rosto e materialidade à fé, como de criar raízes onde existam outras religiões, e a chr(38)quot;vocação para o públicochr(38)quot; própria dessas devoções. A análise das correspondências estabelecidas explicita a necessidade de aprofundar o estudo dessas combinações, visando a melhor compreender o universo dinâmico e rico de religiosidade que se produz no ciberespaço

A redemocratização brasileira nos anos 80 culminou com a convocação de um Congresso Constituinte em 1986, instalado em 1987 e que terminou por promulgar a Constituição de 1988. Os anos que antecederam a reconstitucionalização conheceram um movimento original de associacionismo na sociedade brasileira. Já que os mecanismos tradicionais de participação política haviam sido seriamente mutilados durante as décadas do Estado de Segurança Nacional (tais como os partidos políticos), as muitas reivindicações populares foram canalizadas para movimentos sociais de diversa natureza. Durante o processo constituinte, tais movimentos apresentaram-se como atores políticos relevantes e conseguiram, entre conseguiram, entre outras coisas, incluir no texto constitucional a ideia da participação popular no Estado por meio dos referendos, plebiscitos e iniciativa popular das leis.

While there is a strong consensus on the importance of Critical and Creative Thinking (CCT) skills for the rise of participatory citizens and work-ready professionals, the extent to which university attendance by itself supports their development and acquisition remains controversial. This research presents a cohort, longitudinal follow-up study aimed at investigating the impact of university attendance by itself on the CCT skills development of 41 higher education students from two, 3-year Bachelor's programmes at a northeastern Portuguese university, namely Pre-Service Teaching and Psychology. Using Lopes et al.'s Critical and Creative Thinking Test, an open-access CCT assessment instrument validated for the Portuguese higher education population, data were collected at the beginning of the first and of the third academic years: 2016-2017 and 2018-2019, respectively. Non statistically significant differences were found for both cohorts, suggesting that the domain-specific training of these study programmes per se are not a sufficient condition to enhance students' domain-general CCT skills. Therefore, further research is still needed to better identify the moderating variables influencing the development of students' CCT skills during their attendance in undergraduate higher education.

Purpose: This study aims to analyze the situation of Federal Universities (FUs) regarding compliance with the Sustainable Logistics Management Plan (PLS) Normative Instruction (NI) 10/2012, the adoption of which is compulsory for all agencies and entities of direct, autarchic and foundational public administration and dependent state-owned enterprises, including FUs. PLS is an instrument intended to establish sustainability practices in the management of public organizations. Design/methodology/approach: The data were collected through searches on the websites of the 68 Brazilian FUs that constitute the study population, along with their plans of action (PAs) and monitoring reports. Findings: The collected data revealed that only 25% of the FUs had a current PA and 15% published a report for the years 2020 or 2021. Furthermore, the most commonly found mandatory issue to be addressed in PAs was electricity, and the least frequent was sustainable procurement and contracting. Research limitations/implications: Future research should be conducted with the Management Committee of the PLS to understand the reason for the discontinuity of this work in some universities and the rationale behind the mandatory issues. Originality/value: Some studies address FUs' implementation of PLS, which promotes sustainable management systems. However, each of the identified studies investigated only one of the seven mandatory issues set down in NI 10/2012, which did not allow a complete assessment of the FUs' situation exclusively in respect of compliance with the PLS.