A sociocultural analysis of language learning: New forms of literacy practices in a language and culture awareness programme

This paper reports on a sociocultural study conducted in a Catholic primary school in the Australian outback and provides insights into how policy related to Languages Other Than English (LOTE) programmes is implemented in a specific location and interwoven within the literacy practices of children, parents and teachers. A case study that tracked a Year Four student's learning and development during a Language and Culture Awareness Programme is discussed within a discourse of cultural and linguistic practices. Significant aspects of the student's learning related to a phenomenon called multi-tiered scaffolding temporarily disrupted the established literacy practices in the school community. Implications of the research for second-language teaching and learning in Australian primary schools are elaborated.

A sociocultural analysis of learning to teach

This paper addresses the question of how teachers learn from experience during their pre-service course and early years of teaching. It outlines a theoretical framework that may help us better understand how teachers' professional identities emerge in practice. The framework adapts Vygotsky's Zone of Proximal Development, and Valsiner's Zone of Free Movement and Zone of Promoted Action, to the field of teacher education. The framework is used to analyse the pre-service and initial professional experiences of a novice secondary mathematics teacher in integrating computer and graphics calculator technologies into his classroom practice. (Contains 1 figure.) [For complete proceedings, see ED496848.]

A animação no contexto expositivo das artes visuais

O presente relatório contempla a investigação em torno da Animação como integrante das Artes Plásticas e do seu local de exibição, enfatizando a relação do espectador com a obra através do espaço e das condições que este proporciona, bem como a metodologia para o desenvolvimento da curta-metragem de animação, “Antagonisma”, e do projecto homónimo que engloba quatro loops animados para serem exibidos num espaço galeria. A investigação, aqui apresentada, contribuiu para o desenvolvimento prático do projecto, relacionando constantemente referências da mesma com as características dos filmes animados, das quais, questões conceptuais em torno do tema narrativo e diferenças formais influenciadas pelo espaço de destino, na tentativa de compreender os motivos pelos quais obras de artes plásticas se inserem muito raramente no circuito artístico, e se espaço pode ser sinónimo de legitimação.

Animação em contexto de realidade aumentada: Imagem animada como mediador entre utilizador e espaço

A animação é uma área disciplinar com raízes tradicionalmente sustentadas nos media audiovisuais, mas que tem evoluído para outros contextos e suportes em novos media digitais. Uma das áreas na qual essa evolução é visível, é no contexto da realidade aumentada. Este documento descreve o desenvolvimento de um protótipo de animação interativa tridimensional para ser visionado através de realidade aumentada, e para ser implementado na Sala VIP da Casa da Música, no Porto. O protótipo permite, através de interação com personagens virtuais, obter informação específica sobre o espaço e os seus conteúdos. Simultaneamente o utilizador pode interagir de um modo lúdico com as personagens animadas na interface. Foram investigadas características da animação para uma plataforma móvel através de interfaces em realidade aumentada bem como as suas vantagens tecnológicas, e possíveis restrições do hardware e software na aplicação desenvolvida.

O Cinema de Animação como Crítica Social: Curta-metragem sobre a dependência das redes sociais

Desde a sua origem que a Animação é utilizada como um meio de espelhar a sociedade através de técnicas e expressões que o cinema tradicional não permite. Ao incorporar a sátira na sua representação social e política está a expor uma crítica a características negativas com o intuito de alterar percepções e estereótipos, motivando a sua vulgarização ou correção. O projeto #LINGO consiste na realização de uma curta-metragem de animação com recurso à sátira, pretendendo incidir sobre um dos problemas em expansão no século XXI, a dependência nos dispositivos digitais e redes sociais.

Sociocultural complexities of ecosystem restoration: Remaking identity, landscape and belonging in the Florida Everglades

The Florida Everglades is a highly diverse socionatural landscape that historically spanned much of the south Florida peninsula. Today, the Florida Everglades is an iconic but highly contested conservation landscape. It is the site of one of the world's largest publicly funded ecological restoration programs, estimated to cost over $8 billion (U.S. GAO 2007), and it is home to over two million acres of federally protected lands, including the Big Cypress National Preserve and Everglades National Park. However, local people's values, practices and histories overlap and often conflict with the global and eco-centric values linked to Everglades environmental conservation efforts, sparking environmental conflict. My dissertation research examined the cultural politics of nature associated with two Everglades conservation and ecological restoration projects: 1) the creation and stewardship of the Big Cypress National Preserve, and 2) the Tamiami Trail project at the northern boundary of Everglades National Park. Using multiple research methods including ethnographic fieldwork, archival research, participant observation, surveys and semi-structured interviews, I documented how these two projects have shaped environmental claims-making strategies to Everglades nature on the part of environmental NGOs, the National Park Service and local white outdoorsmen. In particular, I examined the emergence of an oppositional white identity called the Gladesmen Culture. My findings include the following: 1) just as different forms of nature are historically produced, contingent and power-laden, so too are different claims to Everglades nature; 2) identity politics are an integral dimension of Everglades environmental conflicts; and 3) the Big Cypress region's history and contemporary conflicts are shaped by the broader political economy of development in south Florida. My dissertation concluded that identity politics, class and property relations have played a key, although not always obvious, role in shaping Everglades history and environmental claims-making, and that they continue to influence contemporary Everglades environmental conflicts.

Narratividade e estruturas cognitivas: o encontro entre a linguagem, a cognição e a experiência sociocultural

This work is within the framework of Cognitive Linguistics, which, as opposed to generative modular approach posits that language is not autonomous but part of human cognition manifest mental processing, socio-cultural and bodily experiences. Our goal is to describe and analyze cognitive mechanisms of understanding who work in the formal and meaningful organization of the narrative. In order to study and verification of this phenomenon, this project was based in the theoretical framework of Rapaport et al (1994) with the treatment of deictic center, Zwaan (1999) and Zwaan and Radvansky (1998) with situation models, Minsky (1974) with the concept frame, Johnson (1987) and Duke and Costa (2012) with pictorial schemes. To this end, we focused on the deictic perspective (WHERE, WHEN, WHO), social cognitive structures (frames) and body (pictorial diagrams) and the situation of models built by compreendedor from these cognitive structures. Methodologically, it is a qualitative research (BAUER and GASKELL, 2002), of interpretive base (MOITA LOPES, 1994), based on introspection (Talmy, 2005). The corpus selected is a sample of twelve texts written by 8th grade students, whose production consists of fictional narrative, the production of diary pages. The analyses were conducted by cognitive structures known as constructional blocks (BCs)(SANTOS, 2011), which guid the discussion about how we build understanding and creation of meanings in narratives. The result shows that the narrative events are mentally represented by the understander that conceives a deictic center and that, guided by it, has access to understanding and construction of meaning in narrative by means of cognitive domains established by bodily and socio-cultural experiences.

Simulation-based education : Understanding the sociocultural complexity of a surgical training “Boot Camp”

Acknowledgements We acknowledge, with thanks the contributions, of the following people who co-designed Boot Camp: Angus JM Watson (Highland Surgical Research Unit, NHSH & UoS), Morag E Hogg (NHSH Raigmore Hospital) and Ailsa Armstrong (NHSH). We also thank Angus JM Watson and Morag E Hogg for helping with the preparation of the funding application which supported this work. Funding Our thanks to the Clinical Skills Managed Educational Network (CSMEN) of Scotland for funding this research.