Educação para o desenvolvimento sustentável: o papel da Universidade

The University is responsible for the stablishment of citizens with critical thinking, based on current concepts, capable of a dynamic and participative attitude in the community in which these professinals will be inserted. Education at environmental sustainability, permeated by the articulation among knowledge, social, and cultural phenomena, brings the challenge of incorporating skills, providing essential values not only for understanding the historical relations between human beings and the environment, but also to improving the quality of life. The “World Conference on Higher Education in the Twenty-first Century: Vision and Action" guides the educational process by its mission to train citizens professionals, highly informed, motivated, integrated and able to create a society based on love of humanity and wisdom. The balancing among the basic functions of teaching, research and extension within the University contributes to the student to take ownership of the construction of his own knowledge in a perspective of integral formation of the human being, aware of his social responsibility and policy for a society environmentally sound. This paper aims to, guided by literature review, present some considerations on the role of the University in education for environmental sustainability.

Intoxicação crônica por chumbo e implicação no desenvolvimento escolar

To understand the implications of lead contamination contributes to more effective public politics to eliminate exposure to the metal and orientation of interventions that minimize their effects. In this paper we intended to evaluate the effects of lead contamination in children, with the Teste de Desempenho Escolar (TDE). In Study 1, transversal, aimed to evaluate the influence of blood lead levels in 28 participants of both sexes, of seven to fifteen years, divided into two groups according to the level of contamination. In Study 2, longitudinal study aimed to evaluate the effects of contamination on the school ,performance of 10 children at an interval of four years. Results showed significant underperformance for children with higher levels of contamination and that the level of academic performance remains significantly lower than expected for the series in which they find themselves. The data seem to indicate the deleterious effects of lead contamination in school performance.

Histórias em quadrinhos como recurso didático para o ensino do corpo humano em anos iniciais do Ensino Fundamental

Teaching resources involve different elements used to support the organization of teaching and learning. Among these are the comic books, involving visual aspects, both cognitive and creative, that provide an alternative way to complement the lectures. The aim of this study was to develop and evaluate a comic book entitled “Human Body”, focusing on the circulatory, digestive, nervous and respiratory systems, to provide an alternative resource for the teaching of the content in the initial years. The material was evaluated with students of the 5th year of elementary education at a public school in the state of São Paulo, through the use of questionnaires. The comic book proved to be valid as a complementary teaching resource for learning in students, enabling reflection on the relevance of the development and use of comics to science education in the initial years.

Ética, justiça e democracia em sala de aula: o desenvolvimento e a experiência de um novo método de discussão de dilemas morais para a educação

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Estudo do peptídeo lítico Hecate e sua conjugação com ácido gálico: atividade contra o carcinoma cervical humano, mecanismo de ação e toxicidade

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

Desenvolvimento de um embutido cárneo fermentado, com teores reduzidos de gordura e sais de cura, através da utilização de culturas probióticas

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Desenvolvimento e validação de método bioanalítico para quantificação de tiazolilhidrazona-9 (TZH-9) e determinação da estabilidade em plasma ex vivo

A doença de Chagas é uma doença parasitária causada pelo protozoário Trypanosoma cruzi (T. cruzi), que acomete o sistema digestivo e, principalmente, o cardíaco. É uma doença endêmica principalmente nos países da América Latina. A busca por novos fármacos para o tratamento dessa doença é de suma importância já que os existentes podem causar severos efeitos adversos e são efetivos somente na fase aguda. A molécula tiazolilhidrazona-9 (TZH-9) tem se destacado como uma excelente candidata a fármaco para tratamento da doença de Chagas e a continuidade de seu desenvolvimento deve envolver estudos de farmacocinética e metabolismo. Para a realização destes estudos é necessário o desenvolvimento e validação de um método bioanalítico para a determinação do composto em plasma, assim como avaliar a estabilidade do fármaco nesta matriz biológica com o intuito de verificar a ação de enzimas plasmáticas. Neste trabalho, foi desenvolvido e validado o método bioanalítico para quantificar o TZH-9 em plasma de ratos e humano que apresentou limites de confiança adequados. Também, avaliou-se a estabilidade do TZH-9 nessas matrizes biológicas, em plasma de ratos, o composto apresentou instabilidade após 2 horas na concentração inferior, sugerindo ação de enzimas plasmáticas no seu metabolismo; e em plasma de humanos, apresentou instabilidade após 15 minutos em ambas concentrações, sugerindo a susceptibilidade a ação das enzimas plasmáticas

O uso da atividade guia (brincar) como catalisadora do desenvolvimento do pensamento e da linguagem

To select pedagogical practices that allow the development of psychic function thinking and psychic function language. It's necessary understanding the whole psyche human, postulated by Vygotsky. The action of playing, the main activity of the children in the childhood education, can enhance the resilience of the psychic functions, once it provides stimulus and may include teacher's intervention during its deployment. For a better intervention, this planning in light of a theory is primordial, as well as the reflection on this practice. This research aimed to find the moment of the activities that took place the development of these functions, language and thought, in children who are in the early years of the childhood education. The survey was conducted through a qualitative interpretation approach, as action research. Data analysis allowed us to observe planned teaching practices in which enabled the development of language and thought and consequently a qualitative leap in the other psychic functions