Reciclagem

No âmbito da disciplina de Área de Integração, com a docente Eunice Gomes, foi-nos proposto elaborar diferentes trabalhos inseridos no tema-problema “Homem-Natureza: uma relação sustentável.”

 Os trabalhos podiam ter vários tipos de apresentações e deveriam estar enquadrados no nosso Curso Profissional de Animador Sóciocultural.

O nosso grupo decidiu fazer um pequeno vídeo alusivo ao tema da reciclagem. De seguida poderão ver o nosso trabalho.

Primeira Interacção

A primeira interacção que nós tivemos foi com os utentes do CAO ( Centro de Actividades Ocupacionais) de Costa Cabral.

Esta interacção foi preparada nas aulas de Animação Sociocultural pelos nossos colegas do segundo ano de Animação Sociocultural  e estava relacionada com o Halloween.

O nosso público de intervenção era constituído por pessoas portadoras de diversas deficiências (mentais e motoras) o que tornou a actividade num desafio ainda maior.

Foi uma experiência diferente mas divertida e tanto nós como o publico alvo estivemos interessados e muito envolvidos na actividade.

Apesar do nosso interesse por esta interacção, foi um pouco ”assustador” no princípio. Foi a primeira vez que saímos da escola para interagir com outros e não sabíamos o que lá íamos encontrar. Entretanto, conseguimos intervir e divertir-nos com eles.

Nesta também actividade interagimos com os idosos, com quem dançamos em conjunto com os deficientes.

Apesar de tudo, alguns de nós não gostamos muito desta actividade pois sentimos algum receio e desconforto no contacto com o público alvo.

Apresentação / Introduction

We are the English students of the Socio Cultural Animation Vocational Course  2010 -2013, in Escola Secundária Alexandre Herculano, Porto.

This blog is intended to be a place to share information and promote the debate of ideas related to Socio Cultural Animation. Here’s our photo!



Socio Cultural Animation Vocational Course - students of English



The mission  of a Socio Cultural Animator is to promote the socio cultural development of groups or a community, as well as to organize, coordinate and develop activities in the area of Animation.

Types of Animator

• Socio Community Animator
• Cultural Animator
• Social Animator
• Tourist Animator
• Social Education Animator

Types of Intervention

• Prevention of deprivation and inequality, socioeconomic and cultural dependency and social exclusion;
• Amendment of the effects of the previous problems;
• Promotion of social integration.

Target groups

• Community: children, adolescents, adults, seniors, disabled people.

Areas of Intervention:

• Social Exclusion
• Dependency
• Delinquency
• Socioeconomic inequality
• Illiteracy
• Difficulty of access to cultural and leisure activities
• Risk groups*

* we work with :

• disabled individuals
• abused children
• drug addicts
• alcoholics
• prisioners
• bedridden individuals
• homeless individuals
• unemployed individuals
• hospitalized individuals

Halloween Celebration

What is Halloween?

Halloween (or Hallowe'en) is an annual holiday observed on October 31, which commonly includes activities such as trick-or-treating, attending costume parties, carving jack-o'-lanterns, bonfires   apple bobbing  , visiting haunted attractions, playing pranks, telling scary stories, and watching horror films.

History

Historian Nicholas Rogers, exploring the origins of Halloween, notes that while "some folklorists have detected its origins in the Roman feast of Pomona, the goddess of fruits and seeds, or in the festival of the dead called Parentalia, it is more typically linked to the Celtic festival of Samhain, whose original spelling was Samuin (pronounced sow-an

Historian Nicholas Rogers, exploring the origins of Halloween, notes that while "some folklorists have detected its origins in the Roman feast of Pomona, the goddess of fruits and seeds, or in the festival of the dead called Parentalia, it is more typically linked to the Celtic festival of Samhain, whose original spelling was Samuin (pronounced sow-an or sow-in)".
The name is derived from Old Irish and means roughly "summer's end".

 

Origin of the name

The word Halloween first appeared in the 16th century and represents a Scottish variation of the complete expression All-Hallows-Even ("evening"), that is, the night before All Hallows Day. Although the phrase All Hallows is found in old English, the expression All-Hallows-Even is not known until 1556.

 

Symbols  

Artifacts and symbols associated with Halloween developed over time. For instance, the carving of jack-o'-lanterns springs from the custom of carving turnips into lanterns as a way of remembering the souls held in purgatory. The turnip has traditionally been used in Ireland and Scotland at Halloween, but immigrants to North America used the native pumpkin. Pumpkins are both readily available and much larger – making them easier to carve than turnips. The American tradition of carving pumpkins is recorded in 1837 and was originally associated with harvest time in general, and only became specifically associated with Halloween in mid-to-late 19th century.

The imagery of Halloween is derived from many sources, including national customs, works of Gothic and horror literature (such as the novels Frankenstein and Dracula), and classic horror films (such as Frankenstein and The Mummy).

One of the first works on the subject of Halloween is from Scottish poet John Mayne in 1780, who made note of pranks at Halloween; "What fearfu' pranks ensue!", as well as the supernatural associated with the night, "Bogies" (ghosts), influencing Robert Burns' Halloween Elements of the autumn season, such as pumpkins, corn husks, and scarecrows. Homes are often decorated with these types of symbols around Halloween.

Halloween imagery includes themes of death, evil, the occult or mythical monsters. Black and orange are the holiday's traditional colors.