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- A ação socioeducativa no âmbito dos cuidados gerontológicos profissionaisPublication . Pereira, Fernando A.; Caria, TelmoEsta comunicação enquadrar-se-ia em várias linhas temáticas deste encontro. Isto deve-se ao caráter altamente interdisciplinar das questões relacionados com os idosos e com o envelhecimento. Todavia, pensamos que se enquadra melhor no subtema: “La acción socioeducativa en el ámbito de la salud”. Temos como objetivo discutir o processo de prestação de cuidados gerontológicos profissionais e a forma como estes cuidados se constituem como intervenções socioeducativas. Verificamos que o processo de prestação de cuidados gerontológicos profissionais a idosos configura uma verdadeira ação socioeducativa. O cuidado é co construído na interação cuidador/pessoa cuidada, exige a invocação e mobilização de diferentes áreas do conhecimento científico e do conhecimento empírico. Paralelamente, essa interação é referenciada por princípios fundamentais da gerontologia, traduz-se na execução de competências práticas profissionais específicas as quais estão imbuídas de atitudes e aptidões que configuram situações de saber-ser, saber-estar e de saber-fazer, que são referenciais construtores de uma identidade e de uma cultura profissional. A importância do tema é resultado do processo de envelhecimento populacional verificado nas sociedades ocidentais e muito particularmente na sociedade europeia. Na atualidade a proporção de idosos atinge valores próximos dos 20% em muitos países da EU, incluindo Portugal, sendo igualmente previsível que esses valores se aproximem dos 30% no ano 2050 (Giannakouris, 2008). Esta problemática tem, entre outros, contornos políticos, económicos, culturais, psicossociais, médicos e humanos. Sendo igualmente certo que das culturas que valorizam e respeitam os idosos pela sua sabedoria, às culturas e ritmos de vida ocidentais que reservam aos idosos o estatuto de improdutivos e de inúteis, todas elas enfrentam a necessidade de cuidar dos seus idosos.
- Knowledge use by extension advisers in the context of farmer organisations in Trás-os-Montes and Alto-Douro, Portugal. A new conceptual analysis frameworkPublication . Pereira, Fernando A.; Caria, Telmo; Cristóvão, ArturThe main objective of this paper is to contribute to the discussion, in theoretical terms, on the use of the knowledge, during both the social and the technical encounters between extension advisers and farmers. This reflection result from a research project (interviews and ethnographical observation) about extension advisers of farmer’s organizations (FO). In nowadays, in Trás-os-Montes and Alto-Douro (TMAD), we can find around 150 FO and 300 FO extension advisers. In Portugal, actually, such organizations assume the main part of the technical support to farmers, and private organizations and State services play a minor role. These extension advisers perform a variety of tasks of different categories or types, including: supervision of activities; technical advice (office and field work levels); project planning and monitoring; training; reception and analysis of farm subsidies' applications; administrative work; replacing the Directors in some duties; management of on-going projects; strategy definition; social activities with member farmers. In most cases, the work comprises a mix of tasks involving all of the above categories. The eight (or more) hours of daily work are mostly taken by technical tasks (69% of the time), followed by administrative (15%) and management ones (12%). The social animation activities (1% of the time) are underestimated, as the interviewed people consider that they tend to be combined with other tasks and, in this sense, difficult to measure. Some elements also classify them as "technical", once they require the use of specific abstract knowledge. In our perspective, the daily interaction between extension advisers and farmers leads to the production and sharing of knowledge. This knowledge emerges from the re-definition of the scientific knowledge acquired during the agricultural education and training, as well as trough practice (in the technical-strategic sense). It is shaped by the contribution of the contextual sense, both relational and prudential, and from the interpretative sense. In this paper we will explain more accurately the process of mobilization and transformation of knowledge by extension advisers, in order to make it more useful to farmers.
- Professional work of the gerontologists: a methodological approachPublication . Pereira, Fernando A.; Caria, TelmoThis paper aims to contribute to the discussion of the professional work of the gerontologists. Gerontologists are professionals with a university degree in gerontology, specialized in the care of the elderly. This study is part of a study funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology of Portugal, dedicated to the graduates professional work of social sciences and humanities who work in the social third sector organizations. This research has a mixed character between conventional research and participatory research. The gerontologists and employers of gerontologists actively participated in the definition and redefinition research techniques and the interpretation and analysis of results. Empirical data derived from: (1) ethnographic observation (12 non-consecutive days of work that took place in a month, or about 96 hours of observation) with a gerontologist, whose main objective is to study the interactions of the context of professional gerontologist working in an institution for the elderly, (2) to four interviews with two gerontologists on individual perception on aging issues, workplace and career (3) interviews with five managers employers gerontologists on these skills. The study revealed the existence of sixteen different practical tasks performed by gerontologists. We also identified eight professional attitudes that are important in carrying out the practical tasks. We found that those tasks are complex because they mobilize abstract knowledge and empirical knowledge and require a combination of principles, competencies and attitudes. The professional work of the gerontologist promotes the confidence, self-efficacy and autonomy of the caregiver and the carried person. It leads also to the emancipation because it promotes innovation and excellence in care for the elderly and their families. Keywords: professional work, professional knowledge, professionalism, gerontological care.