How Plankton Swim: An Interdisciplinary Approach for Using Mathematics & Physics to Understand the Biology of the Natural World

The authors have developed and field-tested high school-level curricular materials that guide students to use biology, mathematics, and physics to understand plankton and how these tiny organisms move in a world where their intuition does not apply. The authors chose plankton as the focus of their materials primarily because the challenges faced by plankton are novel problems to most students, forcing adoption of new perspectives and making the study of plankton exciting. Additional reasons that they chose plankton to focus on include their ecological importance, their availability to most teachers and students, the ease with which they can be collected and observed, and the current focus of some scientific researchers on their movement and behavior. These curricular materials include a series of inquiry-based, hands-on exercises designed to be accessible to students with a range of backgrounds. Many of these materials could be adapted for use by middle-school, and/or college-level students. In this article, the authors describe sample lessons, summarize what worked well, and flag obstacles they encountered while integrating mathematics and physics into the biology classroom.

Discurso político en el escenario internacional : Estudio de caso sobre el presidente Néstor Kirchner

A partir de considerar que el análisis interdisciplinario y crítico de las relaciones entre las estructuras y las estrategias del discurso, la cognición social, la interacción y las relaciones de la sociedad habilita al análisis del discurso a hacer aportes serios al estudio de estructuras, conflictos y problemas sociales. El objetivo de este trabajo es abordar el discurso que el ex presidente de la Nación, Néstor Kirchner, ha efectuado en distintos escenarios internacionales para determinar, dentro de los límites del corpus seleccionado, la correlación y la congruencia del mismo dentro y fuera de la región. Para ello, intentaremos descomponer su discurso en: los distintos componentes que articulan el enunciado y la enunciación, abordaremos estas a través de las marcas del hablante en el discurso, ubicaremos a los receptores del discurso e intentaremos explicar cómo estos recursos son utilizados argumentativamente hablando.

Produçao do conhecimento em Educaçao Física : Algumas reflexoes a partir do Brasil

This paper aims to problematize knowledge production in Physical Education (PE) from the Brazilian context. From a hermeneutic perspective, it questions the nature of its knowledge considering the difficulties arising from the objects/subjects diversity, methodological approaches and epistemological perspectives. From historic and controversial theory-practice relationship, it identifies some research problems of the area, since it is heiress of the Western dualism in its different aspects. We understand that overcoming the epistemological classical notion places us before other types of research and knowledge validation. It also recognizes that the autonomy enjoyed by science is a concession of a Democratic and Republican Society (therefore, it is always relative) and that it is constantly threatened by instrumental and political perspectives. With regards to intervention problems, we consider that they should occupy a prominent place inside research concerns, even if it means radicalize this interdisciplinary character of Physical Education. We concludes that in these disciplinary field boundaries, and with an effort to link them with pedagogical challenges, knowledge production can contribute to shape a Physical Education identity.

C. Dué. Homeric Variations on a Lament by Briseis . Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches, Series Editor: G. Nagy, Harvard University, Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc. Lanham, 2002, xi+141 pp.

Fil: Zecchin de Fasano, Graciela Cristina. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación; Argentina.

X. Riu, Dionysism and Comedy, Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches, Series Editor: G. Nagy, Harvard University, Rowman and Litkefield Publishers, Inc. Maryland, 1999, vii+294 pp.

Fil: Zecchin de Fasano, Graciela Cristina. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación; Argentina.

Produçao do conhecimento em Educaçao Física : Algumas reflexoes a partir do Brasil

This paper aims to problematize knowledge production in Physical Education (PE) from the Brazilian context. From a hermeneutic perspective, it questions the nature of its knowledge considering the difficulties arising from the objects/subjects diversity, methodological approaches and epistemological perspectives. From historic and controversial theory-practice relationship, it identifies some research problems of the area, since it is heiress of the Western dualism in its different aspects. We understand that overcoming the epistemological classical notion places us before other types of research and knowledge validation. It also recognizes that the autonomy enjoyed by science is a concession of a Democratic and Republican Society (therefore, it is always relative) and that it is constantly threatened by instrumental and political perspectives. With regards to intervention problems, we consider that they should occupy a prominent place inside research concerns, even if it means radicalize this interdisciplinary character of Physical Education. We concludes that in these disciplinary field boundaries, and with an effort to link them with pedagogical challenges, knowledge production can contribute to shape a Physical Education identity.

C. Dué. Homeric Variations on a Lament by Briseis . Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches, Series Editor: G. Nagy, Harvard University, Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc. Lanham, 2002, xi+141 pp.

Fil: Zecchin de Fasano, Graciela Cristina. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación; Argentina.

X. Riu, Dionysism and Comedy, Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches, Series Editor: G. Nagy, Harvard University, Rowman and Litkefield Publishers, Inc. Maryland, 1999, vii+294 pp.

Fil: Zecchin de Fasano, Graciela Cristina. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación; Argentina.

Discurso político en el escenario internacional : Estudio de caso sobre el presidente Néstor Kirchner

A partir de considerar que el análisis interdisciplinario y crítico de las relaciones entre las estructuras y las estrategias del discurso, la cognición social, la interacción y las relaciones de la sociedad habilita al análisis del discurso a hacer aportes serios al estudio de estructuras, conflictos y problemas sociales. El objetivo de este trabajo es abordar el discurso que el ex presidente de la Nación, Néstor Kirchner, ha efectuado en distintos escenarios internacionales para determinar, dentro de los límites del corpus seleccionado, la correlación y la congruencia del mismo dentro y fuera de la región. Para ello, intentaremos descomponer su discurso en: los distintos componentes que articulan el enunciado y la enunciación, abordaremos estas a través de las marcas del hablante en el discurso, ubicaremos a los receptores del discurso e intentaremos explicar cómo estos recursos son utilizados argumentativamente hablando.

Produçao do conhecimento em Educaçao Física : Algumas reflexoes a partir do Brasil

This paper aims to problematize knowledge production in Physical Education (PE) from the Brazilian context. From a hermeneutic perspective, it questions the nature of its knowledge considering the difficulties arising from the objects/subjects diversity, methodological approaches and epistemological perspectives. From historic and controversial theory-practice relationship, it identifies some research problems of the area, since it is heiress of the Western dualism in its different aspects. We understand that overcoming the epistemological classical notion places us before other types of research and knowledge validation. It also recognizes that the autonomy enjoyed by science is a concession of a Democratic and Republican Society (therefore, it is always relative) and that it is constantly threatened by instrumental and political perspectives. With regards to intervention problems, we consider that they should occupy a prominent place inside research concerns, even if it means radicalize this interdisciplinary character of Physical Education. We concludes that in these disciplinary field boundaries, and with an effort to link them with pedagogical challenges, knowledge production can contribute to shape a Physical Education identity.