Papers by Manuela Lorenzo
Sustainability
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the importance for countries to preserve a sustainable health s... more The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the importance for countries to preserve a sustainable health system. Unfortunately, the emergency nature of the COVID-19 pandemic has led to economic and social disasters, putting global health at risk. Thus, through the Social Representation Theory, our aim is to replicate a previous study carried out in Brazil in mid-2020 on how Brazilian society has perceived the significance of the COVID-19 pandemic in order to investigate whether this perception changed almost a year after the publication of the former study. The results show that the perception of Brazilian society about the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil was, at the end of 2021, mainly shaped by the political polarization that existed at the time in the country. Thus, politics and government, social distancing, death, and fear were the categories that composed the central nucleus of the social representation of the COVID-19 pandemic. On the other hand, categories such as economy and employment ...
Sustainability
On 11 March 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 to be a pandemic to be confront... more On 11 March 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 to be a pandemic to be confronted by humanity. As a result, social isolation has become the norm in most countries, with the consequent replacement of face-to-face classes by classes mediated by information and communication technology. Within this context, this work sets out to investigate the factors necessary for courses mediated by technology to attain their pedagogical objectives. Additionally, the study examines how subjects that develop hard and soft skills differ in a technology-mediated setting. The results show that the teacher’s digital competence on the technological platform and the metacognitive support available in the digital environment are significant factors for a course to attain its pedagogical objectives successfully. Lastly, the study revealed that hard skill disciplines, when they migrate to technology-mediated environments, are more likely to fail to achieve their educational goals than soft s...
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Papers by Manuela Lorenzo