Antonino Pereira

• PhD
• Professor at Polytechnic Institute of Viseu - School of Education

The aim of this study was to compare the socio-demographic, sporting characteristics and perceptions of student-athletes with disabilities of perceived barriers according to the state system of dual career support. Two hundred and twelve student-athletes with disabilities from two European countries with state centralisation in dual career-related...

This study investigates the impact of theta-frequency binaural beats (BB) on creativity, mood, and psychological well-being in university students, addressing the growing interest and controversy surrounding this auditory stimulation technique. A quantitative, correlational, quasi-experimental design was employed, involving 26 university students a...

This paper seeks to identify the factors and characteristics that determine the development and maintenance of excellence in orienteering, by examining the life of an athlete who has been a world champion 14 times. "Life Stories" were used as a method to collect data. The data was collected by conducting semi-structured interviews and an analysis o...

Introduction For years, gender inequality has conditioned women’s participation in sport, exposing them to difficult situations and numerous barriers to face. However, no previous research has analyzed the situation of women in sport from the perspective of the athletes themselves, or from the perspective of the coaches, teachers or managers who wo...

Training the potentially creative engineer is a demand on the job market and a challenge for higher education institutions. From a case study and respective qualitative approach, we investigate the role of art in the creative process, in engineering courses at the Federal Technological University of Paraná (UTFPR), as a factor of technological inno...

Introdução: Pessoas com Deficiência Intelectual (DI) apresentam dificuldades no desenvolvimento das habilidades psicomotoras, principalmente na noção de corpo. Objetivo: Identificar se uma intervenção com a capoeira modifica o perfil psicomotor da noção de corpo de pessoas com DI. Metodologia: Participaram 10 alunos com DI (Masculino: n = 7, 70%; F...

El Manual sobre igualdad de género, equidad e inclusión en el deporte es un producto intelectual del proyecto Women in Sport: Relaciones de Género y Perspectivas de Futuro (Women-Up), cofinanciado por la Unión Europea. Esta exhaustiva guía pretende sensibilizar e inspirar la acción en favor de la igualdad de género en el deporte. Involucra a las pa...

School inclusion is based on the need to adopt and implement a holistic view of education, training, and human development embodied in the idea of everyone, for everyone. In the context of Physical Education (PE), there are still several constraints to the realization of this universal desideratum. Among these, teacher training and qualification fo...

Este é o primeiro livro das Edições de Bolso do Panathlon Clube de Lisboa, pretendendo constituir-se como um canal de conhecimento e de transferência de conhecimento de especialistas, pesquisadores e profissionais para o público em geral, e promovendo a identificação, desenvolvimento e promoção dos grandes eixos axiológicos do desporto, com realce...

The Handbook on Gender Equality, Equity, and Inclusion in Sports is an intellectual output of the Women in Sport: Gender Relations and Future Perspectives (Women-Up) project, co-funded by the European Union. This comprehensive guide aims to raise awareness and inspire action for gender equality in sports. It engages stakeholders such as sports oper...

The objective of this study was to analyze the perceived barriers to dual career success and athletic identity of student-athletes according to disability type and level of professionalization. The final sample consisted of 203 student-athletes with disabilities from five European countries. The questionnaires used were ESTPORT, EBBS and AIMS. Depe...

This qualitative study aimed to describe the nature of mistreatment behaviours in the Athlete-coach relationship, in the region of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal. For our study, we interviewed 12 athletes of federated sports. We focused on young athletes, aged 13-18 years old, who practiced a collective, combat, or individual sports discipli...

The objective of this study was to analyse the perceived barriers to dual career success and athletic identity of student-athletes according to sociodemographic, sport, and academic variables. The final sample consisted of 203 student-athletes with disabilities from five European countries. The questionnaires used were ESTPORT, EBBS and AIMS. It wa...

The Interdisciplinary Method of Musical Literacy, Education and Artistic Awareness (MILMESA) is developed and applied essentially in higher education (artistic, cultural and teacher training courses), promoting effective endogenous (interarts) and exogenous interconnection (artistic and other non-artistic areas) of an inter and pluridisciplinary ma...

The Interdisciplinary Method of Musical Literacy, Education and Artistic Awareness (MILMESA) is developed and applied essentially in higher education (artistic, cultural and teacher training courses), promoting effective endogenous (interarts) and exogenous interconnection (artistic and other non-artistic areas) of an inter and pluridisciplinary ma...

Os estudos no âmbito da excelência desportiva desenvolvidos numa perspetiva multidimensional ainda são escassos e as investigações realizadas têm se concentrado maioritariamente na análise isolada de fatores específicos. Assim, o objetivo deste estudo foi identificar os fatores que professores de educação física brasileiros consideram mais determin...

Due to the advances made in terms of socio-educational inclusion, we seek to understand better strategies for the development of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). Objective: To identify the neuropsychomotor impact that a capoeira intervention promotes in people with intellectual and developmental disability (IDD). Metho...

In this research, we intend to study the role of art in the creative process, in engineering courses at the Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná, as a technological innovation factor. This qualitative research is characterised as a method for adopting a naturalistic and descriptive perspective. The sample is composed of students and graduates...

Os estudos no âmbito da excelência desportiva desenvolvidos numa perspetiva multidimensional ainda são escassos. As investigações realizadas até o momento têm se concentrado mais na análise isolada de fatores específicos que contribuem para a excelência. Assim, o objetivo deste estudo foi identificar os fatores que atletas brasileiros de excelência...

Pese embora a crescente literatura em torno da problemática da inclusão em educação física (EF), é ainda pertinente desenvolver abordagens que procurem compreender holisticamente, o ponto de vista de professores EF especialistas em inclusão, sobre as determinantes e barreiras subjacentes à inclusão. Neste sentido, o objetivo deste estudo exploratór...

A diversidade, complexidade e intensidade das situações sociais da atualidade exige da escola, e muito particularmente dos professores, respostas assertivas e diversificadas. Não obstante, reconhece-se alguma unanimidade científica para a existência de constrangimentos vários, sentidos e relatados pelos professores de educação física (EF) no que co...

Esta pesquisa teve como objetivo estudar a função da arte na promoção da criatividade nos processos formativos dos acadêmicos de engenharia da Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná (UTFPR), enquanto fator de inovação tecnológica. Desenvolvida no âmbito do paradigma construtivista, foi utlizado o método qualitativo, nomeadamente o estudo de cas...

O objetivo deste estudo foi conhecer os fatores determinantes na aquisição, desenvolvimento e manutenção da excelência no Vôlei de Praia (VP) a partir da percepção de uma dupla de atletas de elite e seu técnico. Trata-se de um estudo de caso com abordagem qualitativa dos resultados que se utilizou da entrevista e análise documental para recolha dos...

The complexity of the inclusive education paradigm increasingly requires from physical education professionals the ability to indorse, at the same time and in the same space, the promotion of inclusion, participation, and educational success for all students. However, the assertiveness of this answer requires a profile of the physical education tea...

O contexto de crise com o qual temos vindo a ser confrontados é novo, complexo e com consequências imprevisíveis. Nesta conjuntura, alguns problemas éticos que emergem sobre o desporto têm um significado inegável e envolvem interrogações sobre o que é justo ou injusto, correto ou incorreto, uma vez que ele expressa um modo de luta pela excelência,...

O objetivo do estudo foi descrever a natureza dos comportamentos de bullying de atletas do desporto federado na Região Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal. Através da realização de entrevistas semiestruturadas foram inquiridos 13 atletas do desporto federado. Os dados foram analisados através da técnica de análise de conteúdo. Os resultados suger...

This paper aims at describing and comparing bullying behaviours in school sports compared to federated sports. A sample consisting of 642 athletes was used. The prevalence of bullying involvement in the context of school sports was 23.6% overall: as victim (4.9%), bystander (16.3%) and perpetrator (2.4%). There was some overlap of roles as victim a...

This study aims at describing and comparing the prevalence of bullying behaviours and the perspective of victims, bystanders, and aggressors in team, individual, and combat sports. The survey involved 664 athletes of both genders (13-18 years old) from sports school and federated of several sports (team n= 451, individual n= 173, combat n= 40), who...

Paralympic sport has very different realities and in Brazil, adapted sport only emerged at a level of excellence, starting from the Athens Paralympics (2004), where through the media, it showed that people with disabilities were able to overcome the barriers of practice sports. The aim of this study was to identify the main factors underlying the e...

This work possesses the singular importance for the understanding of the fundamental and principle concepts of social inclusion. The institution, FAMFS - Fundação de Apoio ao Cidadão e Mobilização Social, situated in Feira Santana, in the state of Bahia, Brazil, was chosen as the -case study-. The results of this work filled important gaps in relat...

O esporte contribui de forma importante para a coesão econômica e social e uma maior integração na sociedade, promovendo o desenvolvimento das relações sociais estimulando contato entre países e cidadãos (Comissão das Comunidades Europeias, 2007). A Fundação de Apoio ao Cidadão e Mobilização Social (FAMFS) é uma entidade sem fins-lucrativos, ideali...

O entendimento de que o esporte favorece a inclusão social, pode ser visto em um grande número de projetos esportivos. Apesar disso, este constitui um fenômeno multifacetado e complexo, que carece de ser compreendido na sua contribuição real ou potencial para os processos de desenvolvimento da humanidade. Ante ao exposto, a presente investigação ob...

The processes of sports socialization imply the adoption of attitudes, norms and identity behaviours of the contexts where they are developed. Despite the formative potential of sports orienteering, there are still few investigations about values and ethics in this modality. Thus, the purpose of this preliminary study was to explore the association...

O entendimento de que o esporte favorece a inclusão social, pode ser visto em um grande número de projetos esportivos. Apesar disso, este constitui um fenômeno multifacetado e complexo, que carece de ser compreendido na sua contribuição real ou potencial para os processos de desenvolvimento da humanidade. Ante ao exposto, a presente investigação ob...

A compreensão da excelência desportiva tem, desde sempre, proporcionado um intenso debate sobre os fatores que lhe estão subjacentes. Porém, no desporto orientação, a investigação no contexto da excelência tem sido escassa. Este estudo procurou identificar os fatores determinantes na aquisição, desenvolvimento e manutenção da excelência na orientaç...

The evaluation consists of collecting information for a better performance of the students' learning process. The present study had the following objectives: to know the extent to which the teachers of the secondary education resort to the formative evaluation; perceive the importance that physical education teachers attribute to formative evaluati...

Background: Expertise has been extensively studied in several sports over recent years. The specificities of how excellence is achieved in Association Football, a sport practiced worldwide, are being repeatedly investigated by many researchers through a variety of approaches and scientific disciplines. Objective: The aim of this review was to id...

Predicting performance potential at an early age is a difficult process, since the determinants for success in top level football are non-linear and multidimensional. However, frequently some of the most world talented football players were born in specific countries like Brazil, Argentina, Spain or Portugal (e.g., Eusébio, Figo, Cristiano Ronaldo)...

This research examined the experiences of eight Portuguese (former) elite athletes from a social scientific perspective. In so doing it attempted to move away from the tentacles of achievement sport and, in particular, the performance efficiency model that dominates elite sport. Rather, it focused on the subjective and qualitative experiences of sp...

Apesar do elevado potencial para desenvolvimento dos jovens, a Educação Física tem enfrentado diversos constrangimentos em vários países. Nesse sentido, este estudo pretendeu conhecer as representações de professores acerca do estado atual da EF numa cidade da região centro de Portugal. O campo de estudo foi composto por 10 docentes, a lecionar em...

This study aimed to detect and analyse regular patterns of play in fast attack of football teams, through the combination of the sequential analysis technique and semi-structured interviews to experienced first League Portuguese coaches. The sample included 36 games (12 games of the respective national leagues per team) of the F.C. Barcelona, Inter...

O objetivo do estudo foi conhecer as representações, estímulos e constrangimentos de árbitros portugueses de futebol de 11. Através da realização de entrevistas semiestruturadas foram inquiridos 19 árbitros. Os dados foram analisados através da técnica de análise de conteúdo com o software Nvivo 10. A análise dos resultados permitiu concluir que a...

In a society that seeks to be ever more just and egalitarian, sport as a total social fact is an important catalyst for promoting equality and social inclusion of individuals. When adapted, sports readjust their practices and characteristics to suit the ideals of sport for all. This reconfiguration results in credible alternatives for social inclus...

Os alunos com necessidades educativas especiais impõem às escolas a necessidade de terem professores competentes para lhes propiciar uma aprendizagem com qualidade e igualdade de oportunidades. Este estudo teve como objetivo conhecer a preparação dos professores de Educação Física para intervirem com alunos com Perturbações do Espetro do Autismo, q...

Os videojogos ativos, também conhecidos por Exergames, procuram promover uma maior interação e movimento durante a sua prática. Este estudo pretende descrever e compreender as representações e práticas de 40 alunos do concelho de Penalva do Castelo (Portugal) relativamente aos EXG. Recorreu-se à entrevista como instrumento de recolha de dados e à a...

Excellence is the result of a long-term investment and from a successful interaction between a range of contributory factors. Therefore, this study aimed to characterize the journey of a group of world-class elite athletes from the sport of orienteering, in order to identify the important factors and conditions that may influence and determine the...

Esse estudo tem como objetivo refletir sobre a atuação profissional no âmbito da lazer, abordando a intervenção sob ponto de vista da ética. Partimos da premissa que os valores e relações estabelecidos na sociedade moderna, lócus das práticas de lazer, interferem na interpretação e organização de modos de vida. Aproximando a ação do profissional de...

In the sport of orienteering, the studies in the context of sporting excellence are still scarce. Investigations carried out to date have been focused on the isolated analysis of specific factors contributing to excellence. The aim of this study therefore was to identify factors that coaches consider most prevalent in the development and maintenanc...

In the current context the coaches have to be knowledgeable, competent and qualified to meet the demands' athletes (International Council for Excellence & Coaching Association of Summer Olympic International Federations, 2012) and the study of coaches' excellence can provide us a guide to improve coaches' performance (Schempp, Webster, McCullick, B...

A excelência é o resultado da modelação e interação bem-sucedida de uma multiplicidade de fatores de ordem interna e externa. Decorre, pois, de um processo multidimensional, dinâmico e evolutivo (Burguess & Nautgthon, 2010). Deste modo, é de todo conveniente que o estudo da excelência no desporto orientação seja desenvolvido através de uma perspeti...

O presente estudo pretendeu compreender qual foi o papel do Programa “Pintando a Liberdade e Cidadania” na inclusão social em Feira de Santana. O estudo teve caráter etnográfico, e utilizou a técnica de análise de conteúdo para examinar os dados restantes da análise documental, da observação participante e de entrevistas. A maioria dos dados aponta...

The purposes of this study were to characterize the achievement goals and sportsmanlike attitudes in young soccer players and their association with perceived pressure from different significant social agents (parents/family, coaches, teammates and friends). The sample of the study was comprised of 118 young soccer players, aged between 11 and 19 y...

This study aimed to detect and analyse regular patterns of play in football teams during their offensive phase, through the combination of the sequential analysis technique and semi-structured interviews of experienced first League Portuguese coaches. The sample included 36 games (12 per team) of the F.C. Barcelona, Internazionalle Milano, and Manc...

The search for perfection and being excellent is a challenge that has been following in every area of human realisation. This development process has its genesis in childhood and is a consequence of a long-term investment. Considering this, it is necessary to understand excellence as a multidimensional and evolving process. Therefore, this study ai...

This study aimed to detect and analyse regular patterns of play in the counterattack of football teams, through the combination of the sequential analysis technique and interviews to first League Portuguese coaches. A mixed method design (QUAL/QUAL) was used. In a first stage 36 games (12 per team) of the Barcelona (BA), Inter Milan (IM) and Manche...

In the course of the study, the intention was to know the representations, stimulus and constraints of football referees. Nineteen referees were inquired using semi-structured interviews. Data was analyzed by content analysis method, using Nvivo 10 software. Result analysis allowed concluding that referees believe what represents themselves, mostly...

This study aims to understand what the coaches observe in the game, and how they evaluate and make their intervention based on this observation. The participants were 8 experienced First Portuguese League coaches. Semi-structured interviews were carried out and the data were analysed through the technique of content analysis. The software QSR NVivo...

The “Segundo Tempo” program is an attempt by the Federal Government of Brazil, through the Ministry of Sports, to democratize children's and adolescents' access to sports in both public schools and outlying areas. This study seeks to understand the effects of the "Segundo Tempo" program on social inclusion in the city of Feira de Santana, Bahia (Br...

Our study aimed to understand which aspects are most important by coaches in the characterization of the three best European Football Leagues (English Premier League, Spaińs La Liga and Italýs Seriés A). The sample included 8 expert high-performance Portuguese First League football coaches. Semi-structured interviews were carried out and data were...

Our study aimed to understand which aspects are most important by coaches in the characterization of the three best European Football Leagues (English Premier League, Spain's La Liga and Italy's Serie's A). The sample included 8 expert high-performance Portuguese First League football coaches. Semi-structured interviews were carried out and data we...

Este estudo teve como objetivo conhecer o nível de (in)satisfação dos alunos das escolas Básica 2/3 Ciclos Jorge Montemor e Escola Secundária de Montemor em relação às unidades temáticas abordadas. Foi aplicada uma entrevista estruturada a 72 alunos entre os 11 e os 19 anos de idade. A disciplina de EF surgiu como uma das preferidas dos alunos....

The population of disabled people is growing each day, producing social problems that interfere straightly in the capacity of life of this segment. The objective of this inquiry was to investigate the high performance sport as a contribution for social inclusion of blind athletes of the Benjamin Constant Institute. It was observed that the previ...

INTRODUÇÃO Ao longo dos últimos anos, no sentido de ultrapassar as naturais limi-tações das investigações de caráter puramente quantitativo, têm vindo a au-mentar o número de investigações sobre a ação do jogo em futebol, assentes na metodologia observacional, recorrendo a diversos procedimentos meto-dológicos, tais como a análise de coordenadas po...

Existem diversos documentos internacionais e autores de referência que sublinham o papel da Educação Física, Lazer e Desporto na promoção do multiculturalismo. Porém, verifica-se que existem ainda muitas situações onde tais recomendações são ainda ignoradas ou então a sua concretização enfrenta muitos constrangimentos e dificuldades. Por outro lado...

The last decades have been witnessing an increasing on the sport of orienteering practitioner's number and thus, nowadays, it is thought that they overcome a million on more than 58 countries (Eccles, Walsh & Ingledew, 2006). The hereby research aimed to point out the practitioners' representations of several physical and sportive activities have a...

1º Congresso Internacional Sobre Gestão do Esporte

É extensa a literatura que evidencia os benefícios que a actividade física promove ao nível da saúde e do bem-estar dos idosos (Sallis, 1998; Spirduso, Francis & MacRae, 2005). Porém, é importante saber até que ponto a actividade física está a ser promovida e entendida no nosso país, nomeadamente em concelhos rurais do interior centro do país. Ness...

Dissertação de Doutoramento em Ciência do Desporto apresentada à Faculdade de Ciências do Desporto e de Educação Física da Universidade do Porto