Cosmin Nada

Cosmin Nada
University of Porto | UP · Centre for Research and Intervention in Education

PhD

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Over the past two decades, young people have faced increasing social and economic instability. Before the world had fully recovered from the tremendous effects of the global financial crisis of 2007-08, it was hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. With the effects of such crises being felt unevenly, what are the implications of these challenging times for...
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Erasmus mobility has become an important feature of higher education in Europe and beyond, with the potential to generate significant changes at individual, institutional and systemic levels. More than three decades after the foundation of this successful programme, evaluations reveal that, despite notable progress, several aspects of the Erasmus s...
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Mobility experiences in higher education are usually met with great enthusiasm and are often described as sources of (transformative) learning. At the same time, less optimistic perspectives are brought forward by scholars who question the intrinsic value of international mobility in terms of encouraging personal growth and the acquisition of an in...
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What leads young people to disengage and leave school early? This paper focuses on young adults’ educational trajectories, with the objective of identifying useful insights for improving school measures and strategies against early school leaving and school disengagement. Specifically, it draws upon an empirical study with young adults from the nor...
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Whilst the presence of international students from so-called ‘developing’ or ‘newly industrialised’ countries has become a ubiquitous phenomenon in European higher education, few scholars have explored the underlying postcolonial trajectories that facilitate student migration to many European countries today. In this article, we seek to narrow this...
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Este artículo se centra en la participación de jóvenes, como dimensión crucial de su ciudadanía, en el contexto educativo, después de casi veinte años del reconocimiento de la juventud como grupo social distinto de los niños, en la Unión Europea. Las y los jóvenes son ahora reconocidos por sus especificidades y derechos como ciudadanas y ciudadanos...
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In the last 20 years, Early School Leaving (ESL) in Portugal has registered a significant decrease. In order to understand the reasons for this trend towards improvement, this paper conducts an analysis of anti-ESL measures implemented in diverse educational institutions. The main objective is to understand how mainstream and alternative education...
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Non-English-speaking countries are attracting burgeoning numbers of foreign students, yet research regarding these students' experiences remains rather scarce. In line with global tendencies, Portuguese universities are seeing substantial growth in foreign student enrolment. This paper addresses the lived experiences of foreign students in the peri...
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Compared to other major players in the global market of international education, internationalisation of higher education has only recently become a relevant topic in Portugal. In line with the worldwide increase of international students, Portuguese universities are also experiencing a growing in-flow of students willing to obtain a foreign tertia...
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Despite the increase of research on international students, the complexity of their learning experiences is yet to be fully understood. This study seeks to provide an expanded vision of their learning by considering students' experiences beyond formal educational spaces, focusing especially on their out-of-classroom experiences. To achieve this, th...
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Purpose The aim of this paper is to explore qualitatively and holistically the experience of international students in the context of Portuguese higher education. This paper interrogates the potential that an experience abroad provides for multicultural learning and for enhancing interaction between students with different cultural backgrounds. De...

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I am asking because I have submitted an article more than 3 months ago and it is still with the editor.
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I got a R&R with insightful reviews which I carefully followed and improved the paper exponentially. When re-submitting, the paper was denied publication on the grounds of inappropriateness, without even being sent to the same/or other  peer-reviewers.

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Este estudo pretende compreender de que forma a participação em contextos desportivos está associada ao desenvolvimento dos jovens atletas como cidadãos empenhados na construção de sociedades mais inclusivas. Procura-se: a) explorar o potencial do desporto para promover resultados socioeducativos ligados ao desenvolvimento de competências cívicas/políticas e cidadania democrática; b) instigar a participação de atletas no desenvolvimento de ações na/com a comunidade aumentando o sentido de pertença e os níveis de participação em ações individuais e coletivas. // This study aims to understand how participation in sports contexts is associated with the development of young athletes as citizens committed to building more inclusive societies. It seeks to: a) explore the potential of sport to promote socio-educational outcomes linked to the development of civic/political skills and democratic citizenship; b) instigate the participation of athletes in the development of actions in/with the community by increasing the sense of belonging and the levels of participation in individual and collective actions.
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Over the past decades, international student mobility (ISM) in higher education has expanded rapidly. This growth has sparked a considerable interest in ISM within different disciplines, research communities, and circles of practitioners and policy makers. However, there is surprisingly little connection and exchange among researchers across these spheres. In addition, ISM scholarship remains strongly restricted to scientific circles, despite the relevance that scientific knowledge on ISM has for policy and daily practice. This COST Action responds to the pressing need for systematic interdisciplinary and international exchange of knowledge on theoretical frameworks, research methodologies, findings, and best practice examples, and for translating scientific findings into recommendations for ISM practice. It is organised around five working groups, four of them addressing themes in need of scientific development, and a fifth one bringing together recommendations for practice: (1) Global ISM flows and trends at the macro-level; (2) Social inequalities in access to and during ISM; (3) The social and cultural integration of international students in their host countries; (4) The impact of ISM on graduates’ careers; (5) Connecting research and practice. The COST Action brings together established researchers, early-career investigators (ECIs) and PhD students from different scientific disciplines, countries, and research communities as well as stakeholders from international offices, international student and study abroad organizations, and different policy levels. It will offer comparative and practical insights into ISM dynamics by bringing together fragmented knowledge. Its main aim is to generate new interdisciplinary and innovative empirical insights on ISM and to translate these insights into tangible recommendations for stakeholders.
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This project proposes to carry out a study on democratic and the plurality of Portuguese public universities. For this, it intends to mobilize, as an analyzer, the processes of inclusion/exclusion of migrants from the Global South in academic careers. Highlights the Global South as a guiding concept because of the allusion and centrality that this term evokes in the issues of colonial heritage and coloniality, arguing the pertinence of this discussion to reflect on contemporary issues related to public universities. The research strategy consists conducting of a national case study, the Portuguese case, given the nature and the goals of understanding in depth the dimension of democracy and plurality of universities. Different data collection techniques will be used: semi-structured interviews, historical and documentary analysis, direct observation, and participating and conducting two workshops (as a technique inheriting from the traditional focus group discussion). Finally, this project intends to contribute to an updated portrait on the access to academic careers associated with the present the realization of this discussion intertwined with the reflection in relation to migratory flows as well as the increasingly strong call for decolonization of the University.