À mesa com um estrangeiro: a refeição como elemento organizador e identitário das comunidades lucanas a partir de Lucas 24,13-53.

Nossa pesquisa tem como meta verificar a influência da refeição helênica nos costumes de uma comunidade judaica do Mediterrâneo no primeiro século. Fizemos, então, um levantamento dos contatos em que a comunidade judaica, em geral, teve com a cultura greco-romana, tanto na difusão e troca de seus valores como nos espaços ocupados por ambas as culturas e suas concepções simbólicas. Em seguida, estudamos a influência da refeição grega nos escritos do Evangelho de Lucas e em Atos. Primeiramente, na leitura exegética de Lucas 24,13-53, os discípulos a caminho de Emmaús, percebemos nesta narrativa indícios de que, especialmente na cena da mesa, a refeição foi marcada pela inclusão de um estrangeiro. De certa forma, a constituição da comunidade lucana aponta, principalmente no que diz respeito a refeição, para a formação de sua identidade. Por fim, verificamos nos textos de Lucas-Atos as consequências desse contato. O material de Lucas, tanto o Evangelho quanto os Atos dos Apóstolos, apresenta narrativas que dão ênfase à mesa, portanto constatamos que o ato de Jesus estar à mesa com pessoas desqualificadas, segundo os costumes judaicos e na perspecti-va deste material lucano, mostra a influência da refeição grega na prática dos judeus seguidores de Jesus e que esta prática foi assimilada por essa comunidade nos primeiros anos de sua formação.

SARAH POULTON KALLEY (1825-1907): Professora, Missionária e Poetisa

Sarah Poulton Kalley é conhecida, em quase todos os segmentos do protestantismo do Brasil, devido à organização e compilação d e Salmos e Hinos, o mais antigo hinário protestante editado no vernáculo em nosso país. Seus hinos, ainda em uso em muitas igrejas, marcaram por mais de um século a teologia do protestantismo no Brasil. Apesar desta notoriedade, sua influência na gênese do protestantismo brasileiro nunca foi objeto de estudo. Assim, o objetivo desta pesquisa é resgatar e visibilizar áreas e estratégias de atuação que conferem a esta mulher um perfil de atuação relativamente autônomo. Contudo, centrada no estudo da trajetória intelectual e biográfica de um sujeito histórico, a investigação se defronta com um universo de personagens anônimos, envoltos numa complexa teia de relações, através das quais o protestantismo se insere no Brasil em um contexto especifico: huguenotes, puritanos, luddistas, famílias não-conformistas inglesas, líderes políticos e eclesiásticos, exilados madeirenses, brasileiros, portugueses, imigrantes alemães e, principalmente, a mulher protestante brasileira. A busca por informações sobre este universo relegado ao anonimato pela historiografia do protestantismo no Brasil, reve lou alguns documentos inéditos, inclusive um livro escrito por Sarah Poulton Kalley, em 1866: o A Alegria da Casa. Muito além do papel de esposa de um missionário e médico, Sarah Poulton Kalley emerge de uma rede de relações e práticas como professora, missionária e poetisa. Nestes três campos de atuação e através do desenvolvimento de múltiplos contatos e relacionamentos, procurava transformar e influenciar atitudes e crenças de seus interlocutores. Junto com a nova fé divulgava uma cosmovisão própria da cultura anglo-saxã, protestante e puritana, adaptando-a seletivamente ao universo cultural e social de seus interlocutores.(AU)

OS DESAFIOS DO PROFESSOR COORDENADOR PEDAGÓGICO NA FORMAÇÃO CONTINUADA DOS DOCENTES DO ENSINO FUNDAMENTAL: O CASO DA REGIÃO DO VALE DO RIBEIRA/SP

O presente estudo realiza uma análise sobre as funções de trabalho do Professor Coordenador Pedagógico da Rede Pública Estadual de Ensino, considerando os desafios e as contribuições da ação coordenadora e, principalmente, como esse profissional do ensino articula a formação continuada dos docentes e a sua própria formação como educador. As questões norteadoras da pesquisa são: 1. De que forma o Professor Coordenador Pedagógico consegue dar conta da formação dos docentes, durante as reuniões de HTPC Horário de Trabalho Pedagógico e Coletivo? 2.Como consegue cuidar de sua própria formação continuada, diante dos inúmeros entraves e obstáculos, das múltiplas resistências, dos conflitos, das emergências, dos imediatismos e da sobrecarga de trabalho, tendo em vista as relações interpessoais no seio da Escola? O trabalho analisa os pontos comuns e os diferenciais da ação coordenadora e a forma como ela interfere na construção de um ensino de melhor qualidade, bem como o papel do Professor Coordenador Pedagógico como mediador e articulador desse processo. Os referenciais teóricos que fundamentam esta pesquisa encontram-se no legado de Paulo Freire (1982a/1982b/1983/1991/1997/2000), com a reintegração das dimensões do homem que o fazem humano, pessoal e social, o compromisso do profissional com a Sociedade, a formação continuada; a conscientização e a mudança necessária em Educação; e de outros autores que tratam das temáticas que envolvem a Coordenação Pedagógica, formação de docentes, HTPC e relações interpessoais, como: Placco (2008), Vasconcellos (2010ª/2010b/2010c), Bruno (2008), Libâneo (1993), Rios (2001), Thurler (2002), Sergiovanni (1976), Teixeira (1977), Perrenoud (1999)/ Perrenoud et al. (2002), Nidelcoff (1983), Araújo(2002), entre outros. A pesquisa de campo, de cunho qualitativo e que pretende contribuir para o debate das questões da Educação Pública, foi realizada com Professores Coordenadores Pedagógicos de escolas estaduais da Diretoria de Ensino de Miracatu, região do Vale do Ribeira/SP, especificamente no município de Itariri, com a aplicação de questionário e realização de entrevistas de aprofundamento e os resultados apontam para o fato de que o Professor Coordenador Pedagógico consegue (ou não) exercer as atribuições que lhe são conferidas conforme forem as relações interpessoais estabelecidas no cotidiano escolar.

Conference on Geometry and Mathematical Physics, Bulgaria, Zlatograd, 28.08-01.09.2005

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Knowledge creation in dynamic learning environments

Researchers have extensively discussed using knowledge management to achieve sustainable competitive advantages; however, the successful implementation of knowledge management programs in organizations remains challenging. Problems with knowledge management arise primarily from issues related to inter-subjective creation of meaning by diverse individuals in a dynamic learning environment. ^ The first part of this dissertation examined the concepts of shared interpretive resources referring to background assumptions, shared language, and symbolic resources upon which individuals draw in their interactions in the community. The discussion adopted an interpretive research approach to underscore how community members develop shared interpretive resources over time. The second part examined how learners' behaviors influence knowledge acquisition in the community, emphasizing the associations between learners' learning approaches and learning contexts. An empirical survey of learners provided significant evidence to demonstrate the influences of learners' learning approaches. The third part examined an instructor's strategy—namely, advance organizer—to enhance learners' knowledge assimilation process. Advance organizer is an instructor strategy that refers to a set of inclusive concepts that introduce and sum up new material, and refers to a method of bridging and linking old information with something new. In this part, I underscore the concepts of advance organizer, and the implementations of advance organizer in one learning environment. A study was conducted in one higher educational environment to show the implementation of advance organizer. Additionally, an advance organizer instrument was developed and tested, and results from learners' feedback were analyzed. The significant empirical evidence showed the association between learners' learning outcomes and the implementation of advance organizer strategy. ^

The use of computer graphic organizers for narrative writing by elementary school students with Specific Learning Disabilities

Writing is an academic skill critical to students in today's schools as it serves as a predominant means for demonstrating knowledge during school years (Graham, 2008). However, for many students with Specific Learning Disabilities (SLD), learning to write is a challenging, complex process (Lane, Graham, Harris, & Weisenbach, 2006). Students SLD have substantial writing challenges related to the nature of their disability (Mayes & Calhoun, 2005). ^ This study investigated the effects of computer graphic organizer software on the narrative writing compositions of four, fourth- and fifth-grade, elementary-level boys with SLD. A multiple baseline design across subjects was used to explore the effects of the computer graphic organizer software on four dependent variables: total number of words, total planning time, number of common story elements, and overall organization. ^ Prior to baseline, participants were taught the fundamentals of narrative writing. Throughout baseline and intervention, participants were read a narrative writing prompt and were allowed up to 10 minutes to plan their writing, followed by 15 minutes for writing, and 5 minutes of editing. During baseline, all planning was done using paper and pencil. During intervention, planning was done on the computer using a graphic organizer developed from the software program Kidspiration 3.0 (2011). All compositions were written and editing was done using paper and pencil during baseline and intervention. ^ The results of this study indicated that to varying degrees computer graphic organizers had a positive effect on the narrative writing abilities of elementary aged students with SLD. Participants wrote more words (from 54.74 to 96.60 more), planned for longer periods of time (from 4.50 to 9.50 more minutes), and included more story elements in their compositions (from 2.00 to 5.10 more out of a possible 6). There were nominal to no improvements in overall organization across the 4 participants. ^ The results suggest that teachers of students with SLD should considering use computer graphic organizers in their narrative writing instruction, perhaps in conjunction with remedial writing strategies. Future investigations can include other types of writing genres, other stages of writing, participants with varied demographics and their use combined with remedial writing instruction. ^

Expanding Vocabulary and Improving Comprehension Through the Use of Graphic Organizers

Expanding Vocabulary and Improving Comprehension Through the Use of Graphic Organizers

“É acompanhante ou usuária?” Implicações sobre a posição da família no atendimento a crianças e adolescentes em um Centro de Atenção Psicossocial da Infância e Adolescência - CAPSi

This study emerged and founded itself with the aim to analyze the position taken by the family – and the implications in this subjective area – in attending children and adolescents in a Childhood Psychosocial Care Center (CAPSi). A secondary goal has come up as the comprehension surrounding the institutional representation made about the family and the service offered to children, adolescents and relatives. For such, the historical perspective on the relation between the State (laws and institutions) and the family was resumed, and the understanding of how it was reconciled by the medical knowledge and attended the ideological and political means. The social and ideological transformations of the 20th century culminated in the need of change required by the Psychiatric Reform and the achievement of patients on the right to return home and to their families. This new situation, permeated by the attempt of building an assistance model in Mental Health, presented a peculiarity–the close relationship between family and Mental Health services. The observations and conversations at CAPSi that were the investigation objects in this research, intended to learn on the quotidian of families and the possible treatment alternatives that would take into account the family circumstances. Conceiving the status of the families in Mental Health services is a germinal matter yet to be adjusted among the active knowledge in the post-Reform devices. The discussion about the family bonds, anchored in the theoretical perspective of Binding Psychoanalysis brought up elementary concepts such as psychic heritage, denial pact, unconscious alliances, the familiar psychic set, among other. The concept of family organizer helped to think of the family trajectories and stablishes a sort of identity for the family, as well as interferes in the establishment of its boundaries. The family path within the institution, as well as the status they establish facing the institutional approach, reflect the ghosts and the organizers shared by the group-family. It follows that the family is an important protagonist to be considered in the current therapeutic and political processes and, thus, is key to welcome the family bonds for the alliances act over the affective destinations, as well as try to remain sealed from the proposed changes.

Roles of CTCF and YY1 in T Cell Receptor Gene Rearrangement And T Cell Development

Diversity of T cell receptors (TCR) and immunoglobulins (Ig) is generated by V(D)J recombination of antigen receptor (AgR) loci. The Tcra-Tcrd locus is of particular interest because it displays a nested organization of Tcrd and Tcra gene segments and V(D)J recombination follows an intricate developmental program to assemble both TCRδ and TCRα repertoires. However, the mechanisms that dictate the developmental regulation of V(D)J recombination of the Tcra-Tcrd locus remain unclear.

We have previously shown that CCCTC-binding factor (CTCF) regulates Tcra gene transcription and rearrangement through organizing chromatin looping between CTCF- binding elements (CBEs). This study is one of many showing that CTCF functions as a chromatin organizer and transcriptional regulator genome-wide. However, detailed understanding of the impact of specific CBEs is needed to fully comprehend the biological function of CTCF and how CTCF influences the generation of the TCR repertoire during thymocyte development. Thus, we generated several mouse models with genetically modified CBEs to gain insight into the CTCF-dependent regulation of the Tcra-Tcrd locus. We revealed a CTCF-dependent chromatin interaction network at the Tcra-Tcrd locus in double-negative thymocytes. Disruption of a discrete chromatin loop encompassing Dδ, Jδ and Cδ gene segments allowed a single Vδ segment to frequently contact and rearrange to diversity and joining gene segments and dominate the adult TCRδ repertoire. Disruption of this loop also narrowed the TCRα repertoire, which, we believe, followed as a consequence of the restricted TCRδ repertoire. Hence, a single CTCF-mediated chromatin loop directly regulates TCRδ diversity and indirectly regulates TCRα diversity. In addition, we showed that insertion of an ectopic CBE can modify chromatin interactions and disrupt the rearrangement of particular Vδ gene segments. Finally, we investigated the role of YY1 in early T cell development by conditionally deleting YY1 in developing thymocytes. We found that early ablation of YY1 caused severe developmental defects in the DN compartment due to a dramatic increase in DN thymocyte apoptosis. Furthermore, late ablation of YY1 resulted in increased apoptosis of DP thymocytes and a restricted TCRα repertoire. Mechanistically, we showed that p53 was upregulated in both DN and DP YY1-deficient thymocytes. Eliminating p53 in YY1-deficient thymocytes rescued the survival and developmental defects, indicating that these YY1-dependent defects were p53-mediated. We conclude that YY1 is required to maintain cell viability during thymocyte development by thwarting the accumulation of p53.

Overall, this thesis work has shown that CTCF-dependent looping provides a central framework for lineage- and developmental stage-specific regulation of Tcra-Tcrd gene expression and rearrangements. In addition, we identified YY1 as a novel regulator of thymocyte viability.

Concept maps as a tool to analyze the ideas of teacher training students regarding what to teach on human nutrition in Primary Education

Concept maps are a technique used to obtain a visual representation of a person's ideas about a concept or a set of related concepts. Specifically, in this paper, through a qualitative methodology, we analyze the concept maps proposed by 52 groups of teacher training students in order to find out the characteristics of the maps and the degree of adequacy of the contents with regard to the teaching of human nutrition in the 3rd cycle of primary education. The participants were enrolled in the Teacher Training Degree majoring in Primary Education, and the data collection was carried out through a training activity under the theme of what to teach about Science in Primary School? The results show that the maps are a useful tool for working in teacher education as they allow organizing, synthesizing, and communicating what students know. Moreover, through this work, it has been possible to see that future teachers have acceptable skills for representing the concepts/ideas in a concept map, although the level of adequacy of concepts/ideas about human nutrition and its relations is usually medium or low. These results are a wake-up call for teacher training, both initial and ongoing, because they shows the inability to change priorities as far as the selection of content is concerned.

Étude d'impact des effets d'un programme de formation sur des étudiantes et étudiants universitaires intéressés à développer leur esprit d'entreprise

[…] Notre recherche aura pour principal intérêt ce second mode d'insertion professionnelle, soit; la création de son travail, communément appelée: l'entrepreneurship. Avant de vous présenter la problématique spécifique de notre étude, il faut voir ce que nous entendons par le terme entrepreneurship. La définition la plus souvent rattachée à celle d'entrepreneur fait état de l'aspect d'entreprise, de risque et d'investissement financier. Le Webster's Third New International Dictionary (1961) définit l'entrepreneur comme: "an organizer of an economy venture, especially one who organizes, owns, manages, and assumes risk of a business". Funk and Wagnall's standard Dictionnary (1958) offre une définition similaire: "one who undertakes to start and conduct an entreprise or business, assuming full control and risk." Le dictionnaire Robert (1982) relie l'entrepreneur à "toute personne qui dirige une entreprise pour son propre compte et qui met en oeuvre les divers facteurs de la production en vue de vendre des produits ou des services..." Dans le cadre de cette recherche, nous traiterons de l'insertion professionnelle par la création de son travail dans un sens beaucoup moins restrictif. La création de son travail englobe évidemment l'entrepreneurship mais également l'artisanship, le bénévolat, le travail contractuel, le travail à la pige, le travail en coopération, le travail subventionné, le travail à temps partiel ou régulier (Dodier, 1987). L'on peut même y rattacher le travail permanent en lien avec le concept d'intrapreneurship. […]

O uso de filme como recurso pedagógico no estudo das epidemias: possibilidades na aprendizagem significativa

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The PROSPER school pathways for student wellbeing : policy and practices

This brief defines student wellbeing and outlines seven evidence-informed pathways that schools can take to promote student wellbeing and develop their school as an enabling institution. The acronym PROSPER is applied as an organizer for both the psychological elements of wellbeing and for these Positive Education pathways. These pathways focus on encouraging Positivity, building Relationships, facilitating Outcomes and a sense of competence, focusing on Strengths, fostering a sense of Purpose, enhancing Engagement and teaching Resilience. Each pathway draws on both the principles of positive psychology and the educational research that identifies the impact of each pathway for student learning. The benefits of a school-wide focus on student wellbeing for student engagement in learning and their success in school and in life are outlined. Practical guidelines for the development and implementation of educational policy that has student wellbeing as its central focus are also provided.