Esboço de Leonardos: a experiência da forma integrada de ensino profissional do CEFET - PA

Ao investigar a interação curricular entre ensinos médio e técnico na forma integrada do curso de Mecânica do Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica do Pará (CEFET-PA) tem como pressuposto que adotar a forma integrada legislada pelo Decreto n°. 5.15412004 apresenta potencialidade, mas não garantia do desenvolvimento do Ensino Integrado (EI). Por meio do aprofundamento das origens e significados dos termos integração, articulação e integralidade demonstra as diferenças entre essas palavras geralmente usadas como sinônimas para definir a relação entre ensino médio e técnico e que, na verdade, defendem projetos diferentes de formação. Desenvolve concepções de educação integrada e/ou integral ao identificá-Ia em vários períodos da educação brasileira como bandeira de formações distintas e com elementos curriculares díspares para enfatizar a necessidade de clareza na educação adjetivada de integrada. Opta pelo termo integrado (a) para qualificar ensino e formação que buscam superar dicotomia trabalho manual/trabalho intelectual pelo princípio do trabalho, ciência e cultura fundamentados pela filosofia da práxis. Trata brevemente da dualidade histórica das políticas públicas para a educação detendo-se na construção da Lei de Diretrizes e Bases da Educação (LDB) n° 9.394/1996 e suas regulamentações para a educação profissional em especial nas condições de legitimação da forma integrada. Identifica na legislação, em textos orientadores e no Documento Base da Educação Profissional de nível médio integrada ao Ensino Médio as orientações curriculares para a forma integrada na perspectiva do Ensino Integrado. Dessas orientações destaca: o princípio educativo do trabalho, a ciência e a cultura, desdobrados em trabalho de pesquisa, tecnologia e arte, a participação dos atores da educação na elaboração do currículo e a coerência com o projeto político pedagógico da escola. Estes destaques subsidiam a pesquisa em documentos e entrevistas com gestores, pedagogos e professores do Ensino Médio e técnico de Mecânica na forma integrada do CEFET -PA. O curso de Mecânica, cuja implantação ocorreu sob a Lei n°. 5.692/1971, posteriormente reformulado na Reforma da Educação Profissional de 1997, elaborou o projeto piloto da forma integrada do Centro, portanto, apresentava as melhores condições para a pesquisa. A pesquisa evidencia na recepção e oferta de turma elementos de construção curricular da forma integrada, em especial o plano de curso piloto de Mecânica integrada ao ensino médio, que esse curso estruturou-se pela visão da forma integrada como retomo do ensino profissionalizante da Lei n°. 5.692/1971. Essa impressão tendenciou o curso integrado de Mecânica ao pragmatismo e distanciou educação profissional (EP) e ensino médio (EM) ao dar mais importância às disciplinas técnicas e buscar utilizar certas disciplinas do ensino médio como instrumentalizadoras para formação técnica enquanto outras, tidas como distantes dessa, foram isoladas. Tal situação adveio do pouco referencial legal e teórico do campo, desconhecimento entre áreas, devido a pouca participação da comunidade, e planejamento dos professores isolado e formalista, todos frutos e sementes das dificuldades de planejamento pedagógico e administrativo em uma instituição fragmentada. Portanto, o curso integrado de Mecânica/2005, baseado em um projeto dual e pragmatista, forma trabalhadores sem o desenvolvimento e envolvimento do Ensino Integrado.

A (DES)CONSTRUÇÃO DO ENSINO PROFISSIONALIZANTE NAS ESCOLAS TÉCNICAS DO ESTADO DE SÃO PAULO A PARTIR DA LDB E DECRETO-LEI 2208/97.

Este Trabalho tem a finalidade de estudar e apontar as mudanças ocorridas no currículo e na estrutura dos cursos modulares ofertados pelo Centro Paula Souza, então autarquia da Secretaria de Administração do Estado de São Paulo, analisando os enfoques pedagógicos e profissionalizantes, a partir da promulgação da Lei de Diretrizes e Bases da Educação Nacional (1.996) e Decreto-Lei 2208/97. A pesquisa de campo desenvolvida neste Trabalho deu subsídios para se traçar um paralelo da prática docente e da concepção docente antes e depois de 1.996, na visão dos professores que atuam no ensino técnico e que vivenciaram, de alguma maneira, o período estudado.

Professionalizing school governance: the disciplinary effects of school autonomy and inspection on the changing role of school governors

Since the 1980s, state schools in England have been required to ensure transparency and accountability through the use of indicators and templates derived from the private sector and, more recently, globally circulating discourses of ‘good governance’ (an appeal to professional standards, technical expertise, and performance evaluation as mechanisms for improving public service delivery). The rise of academies and free schools (‘state-funded independent schools’) has increased demand for good governance, notably as a means by which to discipline schools, in particular school governors – those tasked with the legal responsibility of holding senior leadership to account for the financial and educational performance of schools. A condition and effect of school autonomy, therefore, is increased monitoring and surveillance of all school governing bodies. In this paper, I demonstrate how these twin processes combine to produce a new modality of state power and intervention; a dominant or organizing principle by which government steer the performance of governors through disciplinary tools of professionalization and inspection, with the aim of achieving the ‘control of control’. To explain these trends, I explore how various established and emerging school governing bodies are (re)constituting themselves to meet demands for good governance.

Distance Education in the Professionalization of People with Disability and Prison Inmates

This paper illustrates the impact of the Universidad Estatal a Distancia  (UNED, by its Spanish acronym) in supporting and professionalizing the vulnerable groups of the Costa Rican society, including prison inmates, persons with physical disability, individuals from remote areas, among others.  This study attempts to answer this type of questions: What kind of support has been provided to these sectors?  What are the challenges faced by distance education universities to succeed?  How does UNED have solved these challenges?  What is the impact of the Universidad Estatal a Distancia on the Costa Rican society for the professionalization of its population?  Documentation and statistics have been used in the study; in addition, two people who graduated from UNED were selected to illustrate the type of cases the University serves.(1) Translator’s note: It refers to the “Costa Rican Distance Education State University”.

Patient education in glaucoma: what do patients know about glaucoma?

PURPOSE: To evaluate the knowledge glaucoma patients have about their disease and its treatment. METHODS: One hundred and eighty-three patients were interviewed at the Glaucoma Service of Wills Eye Hospital (Philadelphia, USA, Group 1) and 100 at the Glaucoma Service of University of Campinas (Campinas, Brazil, Group 2). An informal, relaxed atmosphere was created by the interviewer before asking a list of 18 open-ended questions. RESULTS: In Group 1, 44% of the 183 patients did not have an acceptable idea about what glaucoma is, 30% did not know the purpose of the medications they were taking, 47% were not aware of what was an average intraocular pressure, and 45% did not understand why visual fields were examined. In Group 2, 54% gave unsatisfactory answers to the question What is glaucoma?, 54% did not know the purpose of the medications they were taking, 80% were not aware of what was an average intraocular pressure, and 94% did not understand why visual fields were examined (p<0.001). Linear regression analysis demonstrated that level of education was positively correlated to knowledge about glaucoma in both groups (r=0.65, p=0.001). CONCLUSION: This study showed that patients' knowledge about glaucoma varies greatly, and that in an urban, American setting, around one third of the patients have minimal understanding, whereas in an urban setting in Brazil around two thirds of patients were lacking basic information about glaucoma. Innovative and effective methods are needed to correct this situation.

Educação física e inclusão educacional : entender para atender = Physical education and educational inclusion : understanding to attend

Universidade Estadual de Campinas . Faculdade de Educação Física

Pedagogia do esporte : organização, sistematização, aplicação e avaliação de conteúdos esportivos na educação não formal = Sport pedagogy : organization, systematization and application of sports content in non-formal education

Universidade Estadual de Campinas . Faculdade de Educação Física

Cidadania e educação física : matrizes históricas e políticas, contradições e perspectivas = Citizenship and physical education : historical and political matrices, perspectives and contradictions

Universidade Estadual de Campinas . Faculdade de Educação Física

O esporte paralímpico na formação do profissional em educação física : percepção de professores e acadêmicos = The paralympic sport in physical education professional forming: perceptions of teachers and students

Universidade Estadual de Campinas . Faculdade de Educação Física

Trajetórias de vida : lembranças, caminhos e constituições dos saberes docentes de professores de Educação Física = Paths and trajectories of life : memories, paths and establishment of teaching knowledge of Physical Education Professors

Universidade Estadual de Campinas . Faculdade de Educação Física

Corpos na escola : (des)compassos entre a educação física e a religião = Bodies in school: (un)measures between physical education and religion

Universidade Estadual de Campinas . Faculdade de Educação Física

The right to the screen: from media education to educommunication in Brazil

Nowadays in Brazil, some social organizations, governments and mass media are discussing the need to establish an oversight committee to guarantee the quality of television programmes, as well as the need to set a system to determine what kind of pro, gram is appropriate for every television time slot. Across Brazil, a representative body of children and young people have come to the conclusion that the right to receive quality television programmes is not enough. The children of the new generations think they have the right to access new technologies and the production of their own messages, in accordance with their own creativity, interests and lifestyle projects within society.

The right to screens: from media education to educommunication in Brazil

Social organizations, local governments and the media in Brazil are confronting them, selves over the need for an oversight board to guarantee quality television programming, and establishing a system to determine which television programs are appropriate for which television time slots. Across Brazil, a representative body of children and young adults have determined that the right to receive quality programming is not currently being met. Children of the new generation see themselves as having a right to access new technologies which enable them to produce their own messages according to their own creativity, interests, and social participation. This new generation wants to go beyond education in order to watch and conquer their ""right to screens"".

The characteristics of depressive symptoms in medical students during medical education and training: a cross-sectional study

Background: Medical education and training can contribute to the development of depressive symptoms that might lead to possible academic and professional consequences. We aimed to investigate the characteristics of depressive symptoms among 481 medical students (79.8% of the total who matriculated). Methods: The Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) and cluster analyses were used in order to better describe the characteristics of depressive symptoms. Medical education and training in Brazil is divided into basic (1(st) and 2(nd) years), intermediate (3(rd) and 4(th) years), and internship (5(th) and 6(th) years) periods. The study organized each item from the BDI into the following three clusters: affective, cognitive, and somatic. Statistical analyses were performed using analysis of variance (ANOVA) with post-hoc Tukey corrected for multiple comparisons. Results: There were 184 (38.2%) students with depressive symptoms (BDI > 9). The internship period resulted in the highest BDI scores in comparison to both the basic (p < .001) and intermediate (p < .001) periods. Affective, cognitive, and somatic clusters were significantly higher in the internship period. An exploratory analysis of possible risk factors showed that females (p = .020) not having a parent who practiced medicine (p = .016), and the internship period (p = .001) were factors for the development of depressive symptoms. Conclusion: There is a high prevalence towards depressive symptoms among medical students, particularly females, in the internship level, mainly involving the somatic and affective clusters, and not having a parent who practiced medicine. The active assessment of these students in evaluating their depressive symptoms is important in order to prevent the development of co-morbidities and suicide risk.

Short Cognitive Performance Test: Diagnostic Accuracy and Education Bias in Older Brazilian Adults

The ""Short Cognitive Performance Test"" (Syndrom Kurztest, SKT) is a cognitive screening battery designed to detect memory and attention deficits. The aim of this study was to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of the SKT as a screening tool for mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and dementia. A total of 46 patients with Alzheimer`s disease (AD), 82 with MCI, and 56 healthy controls were included in the study. Patients and controls were allocated into two groups according to educational level (< 8 years or > 8 years). ROC analyses suggested that the SKT adequately discriminates AD from non-demented subjects (MCI and controls), irrespective of the education group. The test had good sensitivity to discriminate MCI from unimpaired controls in the sub-sample of individuals with more than 8 years of schooling. Our findings suggest that the SKT is a good screening test for cognitive impairment and dementia. However, test results must be interpreted with caution when administered to less-educated individuals.