Pedro Ribeiro MucharreiraUniversity of Lisbon | UL · Institute of Education
Pedro Ribeiro Mucharreira
Ph.D. in Education
Assistant Professor | Researcher
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Introduction
Invited Assistant Professor (University of Lisbon) and Adjunct Professor (ISCE). He has a PhD in Education from the Institute of Education, University of Lisbon, and a degree in Management. He has published several articles in indexed scientific journals, book chapters and conference proceedings. Researcher in several research projects. Reviewer, member of scientific committees in conferences and international journals. Research Interests: Education, Economics of Education, Management.
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September 2017 - present
Instituto Superior de Ciências Educativas
Position
- Research Associate
Description
- CI-ISCE – Centro de Investigação do Instituto Superior de Ciências Educativas
June 2017 - June 2018
Universidade de Granada
Position
- Researcher
Education
September 2013 - June 2017
October 2011 - October 2012
Publications
Publications (102)
JEL classifications: F230 L250 L830
The macroeconomic context is an extremely important factor for the growth and development of companies , and for the hotel sector, being expected that the performance of hotel companies should be strongly dependent on the conditions and the macroeconomic environment where they are inserted. Using a panel data me...
The aim of this research is to analyze the effects of innovation strategies, Total Quality Management (TQM) dimensions, and internationalization strategies that Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) might adopt, and their effects on their organizational performance. Due to globalization and the constant changes and demands that have taken place toda...
De entre as inúmeras alterações que Portugal conheceu decorrentes da Revolução de Abril, as educativas foram avassaladoras. Desde 1974 assistiu-se a mudanças significativas em todo o edifício educativo, nomeadamente o estabelecimento de uma escolaridade obrigatória e um ensino básico e secundário unificado, a explosão da procura de educação, a cria...
This article aims to promote further reflection on the benefits derived from class-size reduction, seeking to demonstrate that the expenditures resulting from this are usually overestimated when they are determined on the basis of gross employee cost to the State, and not taking into account the corresponding net costs. This scholarly exercise anal...
Surveys are one of the most important tasks to be executed to get valued information. One of the main problems is how the data about many different persons can be processed to give good information about their environment. Modelling environments through Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) is highly common because ANN’s are excellent to model predicta...
Nowadays, inquiries are one of the most important tasks to be executed in order to get valued information. When an inquiry is done to gather information about a human behavior there are some problems inherent to it. One of the main problems is how the information about many different persons can be processed to give good information about their env...
Nowadays, the dynamism caused by constant changes to strategic decisions in markets poses an additional difficulty in an organization’s management. The strategic decisions made by managers can easily become obsolete. One of the major difficulties in managing a commercial organization is predicting, with some precision, the impact some strategic dec...
Nowadays the dynamism induced by the constant change of strategic decisions on the markets produces an extra difficulty in the management of an organization. The strategic decisions made by managers can become obsolete in a short period of time. One of the major difficulties in managing a commercial organization is to predict, with some precision d...
O presente artigo agrega a reflexão de académicos de Angola, Moçambique e Portugal em torno dos impactos da pandemia da COVID-19 no ensino superior. Angola, Moçambique e Portugal são três dos países constituintes da CPLP – Comunidade dos Países de Língua Oficial Portuguesa, ligados por laços históricos que, ao longo de cinco séculos, se foram const...
Background: Teacher Training has needed new possibilities to make teaching practice more flexible and less boring. Therefore, using school-centred training is essential, so there is a need to investigate in loco the profile and needs of teachers. Objective: Identify the professional profile, the teaching know-how, the difficulties and needs in the...
Background: Teacher Training has needed new possibilities to make teaching practice more flexible and less boring. Therefore, using school-centred training is essential, so there is a need to investigate in loco the profile and needs of teachers. Objective: Identify the professional profile, the teaching know-how, the difficulties and needs in the...
No presente artigo, os autores refletem sobre o subfinanciamento crónico do ensino superior público em Portugal e alguns dos seus efeitos na privatização deste segmento educativo e na crescente precarização da profissão docente. Num contexto de significativos avanços no ensino superior nas últimas décadas, cujos números de matriculados confirmam, d...
Resumo: O papel do ensino superior no desenvolvimento exige políticas públicas educativas que impactam nos indivíduos e na sociedade. Neste artigo, analisa-se a evolução da procura de ensino superior, no período 2000-2020 em Portugal, à luz de políticas públicas conduzidas em contextos diferentes: períodos de crescimento económico e de austeridade;...
Our empirical study compares the responses provided by certified and non-certified companies using multivariate predictive models. Conceptually, there is a subtle difference between comparing questionnaire responses with T-tests and multivariate predictive models. The former should be employed when we conjecture that certification conducts to diffe...
O presente artigo pretende debater a situação do ensino superior em Portugal em diversas dimensões, particularmente os efeitos da nova governação pública (NGP) na crescente precarização da profissão docente. Pese embora os significativos avanços no ensino superior nas últimas décadas, decorrentes do crescimento explosivo da procura é também de dest...
Se algumas décadas atrás existia a ideia generalizada de que a educação, nomeadamente de nível superior, desempenhava um papel fundamental no desenvolvimento económico e social de um país, hoje, a investigação científica provou que essa ideia se encontrava certa: o desenvolvimento de um país encontra-se dependente do desenvolvimento da educação. Em...
This research study aims to study and identify which dimensions of TQM have influence on and support innovation strategies within the Portuguese small and medium enterprises (SMEs), in the context of products or services’ innovation and process innovation, as well as to analyze the extent to which this relationship occurs. To examine the linkage be...
Neste artigo apresenta-se o caminho da expansão do ensino superior em Portugal, através da distribuição regional da rede de estabelecimentos de ensino superior e do impacte percebido do investimento na educação superior, procurando-se identificar, ao longo das últimas décadas a distribuição regional das instituições de ensino superior (IES), bem co...
This research aims to highlight the evolution of the Portuguese and Romanian scientific system in the recent decades. This article presents the process of expansion of higher education in both countries, particularly at the level of the scientific system, trying to understand how scientific research in Portugal and Romania has evolved, as well as t...
Higher education institutions (HEIs) contribute substantially to the quality of life (QoL) of the regions where they operate and to the progress and sustainable development of a country. This research intends to have an innovative approach in the study of the HEIs' impact on the QoL of regions by taking into consideration both qualitative and quant...
As Instituições de Ensino Superior (IES) assumem um papel importante no crescimento económico e desenvolvimento regional com um contributo ao nível da melhoria do capital humano, inovação e transferência de conhecimento, que se repercute consequentemente na qualidade de vida da população. Este trabalho insere-se no projeto de investigação U-Value (...
Nowadays, companies and their managers are increasingly pressured to achieve certain results and levels of performance in order to ensure the financial sustainability of their companies and to remain competitive in the markets. Sometimes these goals are somewhat ambitious and difficult to achieve, which means that decision-makers must have certain...
O presente artigo apresenta o processo de expansão e de democratização da educação superior em Portugal, que ocorreu após a Revolução Democrática de 25 de Abril de 1974 pondo fim a uma ditadura de 48 anos, alertando, todavia, para alguns dos problemas que se vêm colocando a esse processo nos últimos anos. Até 1974, a frequência da educação superior...
This research aims to analyze the relationship and the effects of the implementation of Total Quality Management (TQM) practices on quality certification in services corporations and to analyze the impact of TQM and quality certification (ISO 9000) on the organizational performance. A model of structural equations was used to evaluate the relations...
O presente artigo (re)afirma a importância da valorização da Educação Social, enquanto espaço de desenvolvimento pessoal e social, na sua dimensão positiva, promotora e preventiva. Começámos por estabelecer a articulação entre os conceitos de educação, pedagogia social e educação social para depois refletirmos e fundamentarmos sobre a construção pr...
This research aims to study the role that some variables might have for the improvement of student learning. The following variables were considered for the research, namely, students' engagement, school educational projects and some educational policies, such as the national curriculum, a class-size reduction or the commitment to continuous teache...
This research aims to study the role that managers' personality traits have in the decision-making process and their relationship on the performance outcomes of Portuguese higher education institutions (HEIs), through a literature review that supports the presentation of a research model proposed by the authors. Nowadays, companies and their manage...
A presente investigação tem como objetivo investigar o papel que algumas variáveis podem ter no incremento das aprendizagens dos alunos, tais como o envolvimento dos alunos, os projetos educativos de escola e algumas políticas educativas, como o currículo nacional, a redução do número de alunos por turma ou a formação contínua de professores. A inv...
Relatório Técnico relativo aos Resultados da Intervenção Municipal 2017-2019 do PEMO – Plano Educativo Municipal de Odivelas, no âmbito de contrato adjudicado ao ISCE - Instituto Superior de Ciências Educativas. O relatório técnico pretendeu agregar os resultados da intervenção municipal entre 1 de janeiro de 2017 e 31 de dezembro de 2019, com enfo...
Elsevier - European Research on Management and Business Economics
This research aims to study the role that learning organizations may have on Portuguese higher education institutions (HEIs), through a literature review that supports the presentation of a conceptual model proposed by the authors, which aims to study the possible relationships between learning organizations and Total Quality Management (TQM) pract...
O presente artigo pretende promover a reflexão em torno dos benefícios decorrentes da diminuição do número de alunos por turma procurando, neste sentido, demonstrar que as despesas daqui resultantes são habitualmente sobrevalorizadas ao serem determinadas em função dos custos brutos de um trabalhador para o Estado e não tendo em conta os custos líq...
In today's era of globalization, higher education institutions (HEIs) face constant challenges. More and more competitive environments are emerging in the various markets and one of the main objectives that has assumed relevance in the scope of their activities is the creation of value for the institutions and their financial sustainability. HEIs p...
This research aims to study the role that learning organizations may have on organizational performance in Portuguese higher education institutions (HEIs), through a literature review that supports the presentation of a conceptual model proposed by the authors. The survival of HEIs depends on how these institutions accept change, improve their prac...
One of the most visible and striking changes in contemporary Portugal is certainly what has been happening in education, namely in higher education. In this communication, based on the official data, the authors analyze the course of higher education in Portugal, regarding the expansion and diversification of the supply and demand of higher educati...
O presente artigo apresenta resultados parciais de uma investigação em torno do papel da formação contínua centrada na escola, no desenvolvimento profissional docente. A investigação decorreu numa escola privada nos arredores de Lisboa, em Portugal. Neste trabalho são apresentados os resultados da recolha e análise documental que permitiu caracteri...
This research aims to study the role that the implementation of Total Quality Management (TQM) may have on organizational performance of Portuguese university and polytechnic higher education institutions, through a literature review that supports the presentation of a conceptual model proposed by the authors. This research is justified by the obse...
O presente artigo apresenta resultados parciais de uma investigação em torno do papel da formação contínua, centrada na escola, na (re)construção do projeto educativo. A investigação decorreu numa escola privada nos arredores de Lisboa, em Portugal. O objetivo central foi o de analisar o papel da formação contínua de professores, centrada no contex...
This paper aims to present a research model proposal that can contribute to the reinforcement of the understanding of how some variables related to tourism activity may influence the financial performance of hotel enterprises in Portugal. The study, still under development, intends to assess the impacts on the indebtedness of enterprises that opera...
Resumo O presente artigo apresenta resultados parciais de uma investigação em torno do papel da formação contínua, centrada na escola, no desenvolvimento profissional docente. A investigação decorreu numa escola privada nos arredores de Lisboa, em Portugal. Em termos metodológicos, recorreu-se a entrevistas semiestruturadas a 20 indivíduos que se c...