Colombia vs la basura electrónica, un partido que va empatado

Este reportaje aborda el desarrollo de la política colombiana para la gestión de residuos de teléfonos celulares, tabletas y computadores, desde la perspectiva de los actores implicados en el proceso y el impacto social de la problemática.

Informality in the City: a Theoretical Analysis

This thesis theoretically studies the relationship between the informal sector (both in the labor and the housing market) and the city structure.

La educación informal del siglo XX.

Resumen basado en el que aporta la revista.

Socio-Cultural Transformation and the Promotion of Learning

The main premise of Vygotsky’s cultural-historical theory is that to promote learning, and thus development, educators must intervene in, and change, the students’ socio-cultural context. Vygotsky’s theory, however, has been misinterpreted and the opposite approach has been accepted: the teaching is adapted, according to the context. The result is widespread failure in schools. This article reclaims the true transformative meaning of Vygotskian theory and shows how successful schools in several countries implement various actions to transform their social and cultural environment. Data is presented from six case studies of successful schools conducted in five European countries. The analysis shows that these actions improve instrumental learning and, consequently, cognitive development. All these efforts focus on teaching methods that aim to increase the amount that students learn

A utilização da biblioterapia em contexto de biblioteca escolar no apoio a crianças com perturbações físicas e emocionais : criação de um modelo aplicacional

Este trabalho de investigação resulta de uma preocupação pedagógica que nos acompanha, a de proporcionar aos alunos ambientes propiciadores de experiências vicárias, promotoras da autonomia pessoal, apoiadas na leitura e no diálogo interpretativo. Parte-se de uma exaustiva revisão de literatura sobre a história da Biblioterapia, a evolução do conceito e as suas potencialidades na promoção da inteligência emocional de crianças saudáveis e/ou portadoras de perturbações físicas ou emocionais e no desenvolvimento de mecanismos de coping2 e empowerment3 a mobilizar no enfrentamento das suas narrativas problemáticas, aproveitando os recursos biblioteconómicos, o espaço físico e o ambiente informal de aprendizagem na Biblioteca Escolar. A investigação realizada levou-nos a uma análise da arquitetura de diversos modelos de aplicação e, subsequentemente, a uma proposta de um modelo aplicacional, eclético, de matriz educacional, para implementação de programas de intervenção biblioterapêutica, em contexto de Biblioteca Escolar, explicativo das fases que concorrem para a sua corporeidade.

Educação física e conhecimentos na promoção de estilos de vida ativos

A atividade física e desportiva é fundamental para o desenvolvimento equilibrado dos adolescentes, devendo os hábitos de prática serem adquiridos precocemente, para que façam parte integrante do seu estilo de vida. O estudo teve como objetivo geral caracterizar o estilo de vida dos alunos da Escola Secundária de Silves, relacionando-o com os seus conhecimentos de aptidão física e condição física. A população é composta por 89 alunos que frequentavam o 12º ano da Escola Secundária de Silves, 21 rapazes e 68 raparigas. Os resultados revelam que a maioria dos alunos apresenta uma atitude favorável face às aulas de educação física. Estudando a prática da atividade física e desportiva formal e informal, verificámos que maioritariamente os alunos não acumulam a quantidade de prática diária recomendada, considerando-se pouco ativos ou sedentários, sendo os rapazes mais ativos do que as raparigas. Verificámos grande debilidade dos conhecimentos nas questões relacionadas com as recomendações de prática, benefícios para a saúde associados a um estilo de vida ativo e perigos associados à inatividade física. Não há diferenças significativas entre os conhecimentos dos rapazes e os das raparigas. Não há diferenças significativas entre conhecimentos e estilo de vida. Há uma correlação fraca entre prática da atividade física formal e conhecimentos.

Uma análise das práticas pedagógicas na educação inclusiva : um estudo de caso

O presente trabalho procura, inicialmente, fazer um breve momento da história da Educação Especial no Brasil, com o interesse de ressaltar a sua evolução. Em seguida, iremos dar ênfase ao perfil do professor na educação inclusiva e às políticas públicas voltadas para esta modalidade de educação. Para dar suporte metodológico à temática, fundamentamos-nos em Mantoan (2002); Carvalho (2008); Mazzota (2005); Mittler (2003); Stainback & Stainback (1999). No que se refere ao método histórico da pesquisa fundamentamos-nos em Minayo (2009), para a utilização das fontes e das técnicas para a realização deste trabalho. Sendo este um estudo de caso, fomos a campo, observamos e registramos fatos de um grupo social, utilizamos entrevistas semiestruturadas com o gestor da escola, professores e pais dos alunos. Consultamos livros, revistas e documentos, além das observações informais, tudo isso com a intenção de esclarecer e fundamentar o nosso trabalho. A instituição onde realizamos esta pesquisa é a Escola Caminho do Saber, que faz parte da rede particular de ensino e atua na perspectiva da educação inclusiva. O seu trabalho de inclusão deu início em 1991, quando pela primeira vez recebeu um aluno com deficiência e desde então vem criando expectativas para a educação inclusiva em Sergipe. Quanto à aprendizagem, a escola trabalha com a exploração das potencialidades dos alunos, de certo que para a perspectiva da inclusão, a instituição precisa fazer algumas adequações para atender a todos os alunos. Quanto ao convívio com as diversidades, a escola se mostra capaz de favorecer um cotidiano saudável, mesmo tendo que enfrentar desafios. O nosso interesse em relação a este trabalho é contribuir para que esta temática possa criar novas expectativas à sociedade e que outras pessoas possam se interessar por este assunto, dando continuidade no que se refere a iniciativas e lutas civis em busca de conquistas de direitos das pessoas com deficiências. Contudo, entendemos que toda mudança provoca anseios e inquietações, mas os desafios na educação são diários, e isto faz com que os professores reflitam e busquem novas estratégias para, juntamente com os alunos, desenvolver um processo de aprendizagem proveitoso. Por fim, mostraremos os resultados da pesquisa e as considerações finais.

Effective e-learning integration with traditional learning in a blended learning environment

E-Learning is an emerging tool that uses advanced technology to provide training and development in higher education and within industry. Its rapid growth has been facilitated by the Internet and the massive opportunities in global education. The aim of this study is to consider how effective and efficient e-learning is when integrated with traditional learning in a blended learning environment. The study will provide a comparison between purist ELearning and Blended learning environment. The paper will also provide directions for the blended learning environment which can be used by all the three main stakeholder student, tutors and institution to make strategic decision about the learning and teaching initiatives. The paper concludes that blended learning approaches offer the most flexible and scalable route to E-Learning.

Factors mediating the routinisation of e-learning within a traditional university education environment

Technology-enhanced or Computer Aided Learning (e-learning) can be institutionally integrated and supported by learning management systems or Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs) to offer efficiency gains, effectiveness and scalability of the e-leaning paradigm. However this can only be achieved through integration of pedagogically intelligent approaches and lesson preparation tools environment and VLE that is well accepted by both the students and teachers. This paper critically explores some of the issues relevant to scalable routinisation of e-learning at the tertiary level, typically first year university undergraduates, with the teaching of Relational Data Analysis (RDA), as supported by multimedia authoring, as a case study. The paper concludes that blended learning approaches which balance the deployment of e-learning with other modalities of learning delivery such as instructor–mediated group learning etc offer the most flexible and scalable route to e-learning but that this requires the graceful integration of platforms for multimedia production, distribution and delivery through advanced interactive spaces that provoke learner engagement and promote learning autonomy and group learning facilitated by a cooperative-creative learning environment that remains open to personal exploration of constructivist-constructionist pathways to learning.

General care of the older cancer patient.

With increasing age, there are greater numbers of older people who will be diagnosed with cancer. It must be remembered that such individuals have increased frailty and have a number of geriatric syndromes and conditions particularly pertinent to older age, including incontinence, poor cognition and impaired nutrition. It is often difficult to define the effects of cancer and its treatment or complications, and separate these from the effects of normal ageing and geriatric syndromes. The documentation of poor nutrition and its management must combine knowledge from both geriatric medicine and oncology. Nutrition serves to identify key healthcare professionals who are all essential in any patient at risk or suffering from malnutrition. Incontinence must be actively sought, its cause identified and efforts made to either 'cure' it or, in certain circumstances, 'manage' it. Older patients with cancer are cared for predominantly by older relations and informal care mechanisms and special consideration of their physical and practical needs are paramount. In this area, nurses, doctors, therapists and social workers should work to identify formal and informal mechanisms to support particularly the older carer.

Political economy of state-building: power after peace

The purpose of this volume is to examine and evaluate the impact of international state-building interventions on the political economy of post-conflict countries over the last 20 years. It analyses how international interventions have shaped political and economic dynamics and structures – both formal and informal – and what kind of state, and what kind of state-society relations have been created as a result, through three different lenses: first, through the approaches taken by different international actors like the UN, the International Financial Institutions, or the European Union, to state-building; second, through detailed analysis of key state-building policies; and third, through a wide range of country case studies. Amongst the recurring themes that are highlighted by the book’s focus on the political economy of state-building, and that help to explain why international state-building interventions have tended to fall short of the visions of interveners and local populations alike are evidence of important continuities between war-time and “post-conflict” economies and authority structures, which are often consolidated as a consequence of international involvement; tensions arising from what are often the competing interests and values held by different interveners and local actors; and, finally, the continuing salience of economic and political violence in state-building processes and war-to-peace transitions. The book aims to offer a more nuanced understanding of the complex impact of state-building practices on post-conflict societies, and of the political economy of post-conflict state-building.

Alverata: Latin, Greek and Cyrillic typeface

Alverata: a typeface design for Europe This typeface is a response to the extraordinarily diverse forms of letters of the Latin alphabet in manuscripts and inscriptions in the Romanesque period (c. 1000–1200). While the Romanesque did provide inspiration for architectural lettering in the nineteenth century, these letterforms have not until now been systematically considered and redrawn as a working typeface. The defining characteristic of the Romanesque letterform is variety: within an individual inscription or written text, letters such as A, C, E and G might appear with different forms at each appearance. Some of these forms relate to earlier Roman inscriptional forms and are therefore familiar to us, but others are highly geometric and resemble insular and uncial forms. The research underlying the typeface involved the collection of a large number of references for lettering of this period, from library research and direct on-site ivestigation. This investigation traced the wide dispersal of the Romanesque lettering tradition across the whole of Europe. The variety of letter widths and weights encountered, as well as variant shapes for individual letters, offered both direct models and stylistic inspiration for the characters and for the widths and weight variants of the typeface. The ability of the OpenType format to handle multiple stylistic variants of any one character has been exploited to reflect the multiplicity of forms available to stonecutters and scribes of the period. To make a typeface that functions in a contemporary environment, a lower case has been added, and formal and informal variants supported. The pan-European nature of the Romanesque design tradition has inspired an pan-European approach to the character set of the typeface, allowing for text composition in all European languages, and the typeface has been extended into Greek and Cyrillic, so that the broadest representation of European languages can be achieved.

Measuring student perception and actual usage of online learning management system

Online learning management systems are in use to facilitate the face to face learning process in many universities. There are many variables that shape and influence a student’s perception of an online learning management system. This study investigates whether there is a relationship between the perception of a student regarding the learning management system and their actual usage of such system. It is believed to help better understand the student usage of online learning management system. An online questionnaire was published on a course management system for a selected subject and the student participation was voluntary. Results indicate that no significant relationship between the perception students had about the learning management system and the actual use of the system. Interestingly, a significant relationship was found between having internet access away from university and the student perception about the system. Students who had internet access away from university had better perception about the learning management system even though there was no significant difference in the level of online learning management system usage between the groups.

Higher Education: Understanding the impact of distance learning mode on user information assimilation and satisfaction

There is increasing pressure to capture of video within Higher Education. Although much research has looked at how communication technologies enhance information transfer during playback of video, consideration of technical issues seems incongruous if we do not consider how presentation mode affects information assimilated by, and satisfaction of, learners with a range of individual differences, and from a range of different backgrounds. This paper considers whether a relationship exists between the media and presentation mode used in recorded content, and the level of information assimilation and satisfaction perceived by learners with a range of individual differences. Results aim to inform learning practitioners whether generic delivery is justified, or whether tailoring content delivery enhances the experience of specific learner groups.

Children as caregivers

Caregiving is usually associated with adults’ responsibilities. Official statistics and research have demonstrated, however, that many children and young people in the global North and South have substantial, regular caring responsibilities for family members with chronic illnesses, impairments or other care needs. This chapter conceptualises children’s roles as ‘caregivers’ and the care work they do. It then analyses the available evidence on outcomes of children’s caregiving and the factors and processes influencing their involvement. While research reveals that caregiving may have positive as well as negative outcomes for children’s well-being, formal and informal safety nets are needed, especially in resource-limited settings, to alleviate children’s care work. Children’s and families’ experiences suggest that social protection measures and support for those being cared for as well as those providing care would help to ensure that caregiving does not have long-term negative impacts on children’s personal development, education, health, family relations, peer interactions, social participation, employment opportunities and socially expected transitions to adulthood.