El área de gestión de la información y del conocimiento como frente de investigación en la Ciencia de la Información brasileña: análisis de la producción científica en el período 2000-2009

The management of information and knowledge has been one of the areas of expertise of the fastest growing Brazilian information science. The purpose of this work is to observe how this research front structure from the point of view of the subjects that compose and intellectual frameworks which supports. For this we have analyzed the content of scientific production published in four majo r national journals of the discipline: Ciência da Informação, DataGramaZero, Perspectivas em Ciência da Informação and Transinformação over 2000-2009. The methodology is based on co-occurrence analysis of keywords of articles and co-citation analysis of authors. For the representation and interpretation of the results are used to social network analysis (SNA). We conclude that both information management and knowledge management are closely linked areas within topics including approaches but no consensus answer from the point of view of intellectual frameworks referenced.

La cuestión sociocientífica del Diagnóstico preimplantación genética (DPG) como posibilidad para una comprensión social de la ciencia por parte de futuros profesores

El presente trabajo hace parte de una investigación más amplia y para efectos de este artículo se consideró la pregunta problema ¿Cuáles comprensiones sobre ciencia se van construyendo por parte de los licenciandos al abordar la polémica del Diagnóstico preimplantación genética (DPG)? Y como objetivo se planteó analizar dichas comprensiones en la perspectiva de la formación de profesores. El grupo participante correspondió a 14 estudiantes de licenciatura de una universidad colombiana que participaron de un seminario sobre la polémica del DPG, a través de lecturas de noticias de periódicos nacionales, presentaciones y debates. Algunos resultados indican comprensiones tales como la relación del desarrollo científico con aspectos éticos y la comprensión sobre la ciencia como factor de poder; las cuales posibilitan mayor entendimiento de la NdC con aspectos políticos y éticos necesarios para pensar la formación de profesores.

Diferentes percepciones de un mismo ambiente: la cuestión del género en la enseñanza de la ciência

This paper relates some considerations resulting from a thesis study in Biological Sciences held at Universidade Estadual Paulista - Unesp, Bauru Campus. Considering the perceptual act endowed with simultaneous actions of the cognitive apparatus and the individual's life history as the merleau-pontyana phenmomenon tells us, the work aimed to identify how boys and girls in elementary school realize a natural savanna. The study was realized with the extension project "Walking and learning at the cerrado” in the Center for Memory and Dissemination of Science and Technology (CDMCT) of Postgraduate Education for Science in the same institution. Classes were held in these practical activities, monitored by undergraduate and graduate students, and, the project focuses on students from public and private schools in Bauru and region, and other visiting groups. Data collection was performed using the representations in the form of free drawings of students of their environment after the activity. Through qualitative and quantitative analysis, the results allowed us to highlight differences in the way in which genders perceived and thus represented the fragment of cerrado vegetation. The male drawings contained a larger amount of non-living elements, whereas the representations by women, besides their botanical details, often drew on animals and people. The framework of the drawings by the boys took the nearest way, whereas by the girls more often considered the representations and the entire context of the site visited. So, we emphasize the need for further discussions within the perception of the environment to consider differences in the representations of boys and girls within the context of the teaching of natural sciences, seeking, however, to avoid unsubstantiated preconceptions that may cause any degree of discrimination.