Desire for memory, desire for museums: the experience of the Memory Hotspots

Considering the principles of the National Museum Policy, created in 2003, the Brazilian Museums Institute ��� Ibram supports and encourages the development of museum practices and processes aimed at rewriting the history of social groups which were deprived of the right to narrate and exhibit their memories and their heritage. As effective action, in 2008, the Department of Museums and Cultural Centres (Demu/Iphan) ��� which gave rise to Ibram in January 2009 ��� started the Memory Hotspots Programme, with the main goal of fostering wide popular participation in matters related to social memory and museums. The Memory Hotspots Programme was inspired in and directly influenced by the Ministry of Culture/MinC, which created the National Programme for Culture, Education and Citizenship (Living Culture). The purpose of this Programme is to contribute to make society conquer spaces, exchange experiences and develop initiatives that foster culture and citizenship, in a proactive manner. The partnership struck between civil society and the state power gave rise to Culture Hotspots, inspired in the anthropological ���do-in��� concept, idealized by the then Minster Gilberto Gil.

Visual efficiency detection index : a new composite measure of visual search

Visual search is an important component of our interaction with our surroundings, allowing us to successfully identify external cues that impact our spatial navigation. Previous research has established fixation duration, fixation count, saccade velocity, and saccade amplitude as important indices of visual search. We examined the Visual Efficiency Detection Index (VEDI) comprising multiple aspects of visual search performance into a single measure of global visual performance. Forty participants, 10 adults ages 22-48, and children ages 6, 8, and 10, completed tests of working memory and visual search in response to stimuli relevant to pedestrian decision making. Results indicated VEDI statistically relates to established indices of visual search in relation to their interpretability for human performance. The VEDI was also sensitive to developmental differences in visual search performance, suggesting insight to its utility in the developmental psychological literature.

A Pr��tica Pedag��gica da Educa����o F��sica Escolar no Ensino Fundamental da Rede P��blica da Cidade de Mossoró/RN

Esta investiga����o se prop��s a compreender de que forma a pr��tica pedag��gica dos professores de Educa����o F��sica das escolas municipais de Mossoró/RN tem contribu��do para promover o interesse dos alunos a respeito desta disciplina. A partir desse objetivo geral, especificamente procuramos levantar informa����es sobre a forma que as aulas de Educa����o F��sica s��o aplicadas nas escolas p��blicas da rede municipal da cidade de Mossoró-RN, identificamos a percep����o dos professores a respeito do ensino da Educa����o F��sica nas escolas e comparamos com a an��lise dos alunos a respeito da pr��tica pedag��gica dos professores e como esta influencia a vis��o que estes t��m acerca Educa����o F��sica. Metodologicamente, demonstramos a caracteriza����o da pesquisa, que possui uma natureza qualitativa e quantitativa, definimos os sujeitos que foram 04 professores e 259 alunos do Ensino Fundamental e o l��cus da investiga����o que foram 04 escolas da rede municipal de ensino da cidade de Mossoró-RN. Descrevemos tamb��m os instrumentos de coleta de dados, entrevistas realizadas com os professores e um question��rio aplicado aos alunos e os procedimentos de an��lise dos dados. Nas considera����es finais, apontamos que apesar de haver uma consci��ncia por parte dos alunos que a Educa����o F��sica escolar ainda est�� muito enraizada a fun����es tradicionalmente ligadas a essa ��rea do conhecimento, tais como trabalho da parte f��sica dos alunos, contribuir para a sa��de e preparar atletas para as escolas. Os resultados apontam ainda para uma clara falta de estrutura f��sica das escolas para a pr��tica da Educa����o F��sica nas escolas municipais de Mossoró/RN. Esses alunos consideram, a partir da pr��tica pedag��gica dos seus professores, que as aulas de Educa����o F��sica s��o empolgantes, din��micas e se constituem espa��os que contribuem para a intera����o entre eles e o ensino de valores, que por sua vez produzem nesses alunos um constante interesse na participa����o dessas aulas.