From illiteracy to literacy in adult- hood: A microlongitudinal study

Little is known about literacy acquisition in adults. Yet, our former studies suggest that the majority of the changes induced by literacy in children also occur in adulthood. Based on this observation as well as on what we know from developmental studies on reading acquisition, we designed an intensive literacy course in which each difficulty (either phono- logical or visual) of the alphabetic code is introduced in turn in lessons dedicated to overcoming it. We applied this course for 3 1∕2 months to 9 adult Portuguese illiterates. They were tested five times: two before starting the course (pre-tests), two during the course, and just after they completed the course. We tracked their evolution in reading and writing, metaphonology, memory for spoken nonwords, speech in noise perception, and visual abilities, including mirror-image discrimination. Most participants learned to read and write and showed associated enhancements in several domains, in particular in phonological skills.

The Experience of Adult Literacy as a Learning Process in the Formation of Future Educators

Learning is constructed when it is significant, therefore, promoting experiences that can make sense and joy, which constitutes a challenge in the formation of future educators. In this article, we share the considerations emanated from an investigation that gathers the experience of alphabetizing adults, carried out by college students as part of their formation. As a result, this creates a learning process that favors the respect to diversity and the value of reading and writing as the liberation of mankind. The work displays the learnings constructed, the ways of respecting diversity that emerge from the alphabetizing experience, and the value that the students give to reading and writing as a liberating way of expression.

Construction of the Cognitive Dimension of the Scientific Literacy in the Students through the Costa Rican Biological Sciences Olympics

This research recognizes the cognitive contributions to the students participating in the Third Costa Rican Biological Sciences Olympics that will define the advancement and strengthening in the construction of its conceptual dimension in the scientific literacy.  This paper is based, mainly, on qualitative approach techniques (ethnographic design:  case study); however, some data are interpreted through quantitative methodologies (descriptive design with an explanatory and exploratory touch) for the analysis of a sample of 54 high school students, finalists in the category A of the Olympics, through the use of tools such as a documentary study and a survey, in July 2009.  The information generated was analyzed using elements of inferential and descriptive statistics, figures and histograms.  It was proved that there is a better cognitive management in the topics assessed, an increase in the students’ academic performance as the tests are applied, a commitment for the academic update supported by the development of several tasks for previous preparation, curriculum contributions unprecedented based on our sample, a consent to optimize student’s knowledge about Biology, which will allow the application of scientific notions to diversify and renew the knowledge, according to what is established in the principles of scientific literacy.

Artistic Expression: Another Challenge for Rural Education

This paper identifies the parameters required to create opportunities that would strengthen the social fabric and would promote a comprehensive development through the artistic expression as a method for expressing feelings and constructing –cultural and social– identities as individuals, which, in our global context have been eroded by the homogenization of experiences.

Per una semiotica evolutiva dell'apprendimento. Produzione segnica, abduzione ed exaptation nell'accesso alla literacy

Con questa ricerca si intende costruire una semiotica specifica che sia in grado di fare luce sui processi di apprendimento della lettoscrittura durante l’età evolutiva. È un campo di ricerca a cui hanno contribuito numerose discipline: la psicologia e le neuroscienze trattano la lettoscrittura come uno stato cognitivo a cui l’essere umano accede nel corso dello sviluppo individuale, mentre l’archeologia cognitiva e la linguistica considerano lo stesso fenomeno dal punto di vista della filogenesi culturale. Queste stesse discipline possono essere distinte in due categorie a seconda dell’adozione di una prospettiva internalista, in cui lettura e scrittura sono rappresentate come attività compiute dal cervello e dai neuroni, o di una prospettiva distribuita, in cui si tratta di studiare l’evoluzione e la presa in carico delle forme materiali della lingua scritta. Gli strumenti di una semiotica interpretativa e cognitiva consentono di mediare e tradurre tra queste prospettive differenti e rendere ragione del modo in cui l’apprendimento di una pratica culturale socialmente regolata e costruita a partire da forme materiali disponibili, produce profonde modificazioni a livello neurofisiologico, nei vincoli di un’architettura cerebrale che - per quanto plastica - pone divieti e passaggi obbligati. Questa ricerca propone un ruolo centrale della produzione segnica e dell’inferenza abduttiva nei processi di apprendimento, nel processo di acquisizione delle competenze fondamentali dell’emergent literacy (la scoperta del fonema e la phonemic awareness) e, conseguentemente, nei processi di riciclaggio ed exaptation che si danno a livello neurofisiologico.

Enhanced financial literacy through financial education and its impact on financial behaviour

This dissertation aims to contribute to the ongoing discourse on the effect an enhanced financial literacy, through financial education, has on financial behaviour. We posit that financial literacy is enhanced through financial education courses, but it also significantly impacts the financial behaviour of individuals. Moreover, we argue that improved financial literacy plays a significant role in mitigating behavioural biases and an asset price bubble. Chapter 1 analyzes the impact of a financial education course in enhancing financial literacy in a high- school context. Students at specific schools in Tirana, Albania, are delivered a financial education course, which lasts one academic year. To understand the impact of this financial education course in enhancing financial literacy, PISA (2012) questionnaire on financial literacy is delivered to the students before and after the course is delivered. Chapter 2 analysis the impact of financial literacy in mitigating behavioural biases. We focus on the impact that enhanced financial literacy through the financial education course and financial education plays in reducing the propensity to mental accounting bias. Chapter 3 investigates how financial literacy affects the propensity to an asset price bubble occurrence. We posit that enhanced financial literacy through financial education reduces the probability of an asset price bubble occurrence. We find that financial literacy enhanced through financial education has a significant impact in the financial behaviour of the individuals.

La sfida di educare alla financial literacy: realizzazione e analisi di un percorso didattico, rivolto a studenti della scuola di II grado, attraverso gli strumenti della didattica della matematica

La financial literacy viene definita dall’Ocse come il processo per mezzo del quale i cittadini migliorano la loro comprensione su prodotti finanziari, i concetti ad essi correlati e i rischi associati e, attraverso l’informazione, l’istruzione e consigli oggettivi, sviluppano le capacità e la fiducia nella propria consapevolezza dei rischi e delle opportunità finanziarie, di sapere dove chiedere aiuto, e intraprendere altre azioni efficaci per migliorare il proprio benessere economico. Attraverso una contestualizzazione sociale, scolastica e metodologica, il lavoro di tesi si propone di indagare i livelli di financial literacy tra gli studenti di quattro classi superiori di diverso grado. Una prima indagine avviene attraverso un pre-test sulle conoscenze finanziarie, cultura e rapporto affettivo con il mondo finanziario. Successivamente viene proposto un percorso composto da tre attività originali riguardanti il “gioco in borsa”, la pianificazione e il futuro, e le leggi finanziarie. Si analizzano: l’applicazione di conoscenze matematiche, i ragionamenti e gli atteggiamenti degli studenti nelle quattro classi.

As vozes da sociedade: letramento, consciência e poder

The dialectic tension between the phenomenon of illiteracy and the remedial efforts of the literate to provide a voice for those who don t have one, reflects at the same time the difficulties that the emerging discourses have to struggle with, and highlights the importance of this struggle as one that belongs to the opressed, not the well-meaning educators and political activists. It also informs the latter s efforts on behalf of the uneducated. Naturally these issues have attracted a good deal of attention of some specialists in South America. There is now a movement afoot there that aims at placing illiterate discourse inside the societal discourse proper without letting the latter manipulate the former for its own ends. I will address the typical exigencies and limitations inherent in such efforts, but at the same time point to new ways of understanding and handling the problem of literacy in a developing country.

Programas de educação de jovens e adultos e pesquisa acadêmica: a contribuição dos estudos do letramento

The purpose of this article is to introduce elements that allow building an interface between the academic research and the programs of basic education for youngsters and adults. It discusses contributions to these programs that can be found in the results of qualitative research studies. To this end, results of a five-year long project on teacher education are used, which aim was that of analyzing the interaction between teacher and student in youngster and adult literacy classes. The research project was conducted in natural contexts with the purpose of understanding a given social reality, and not of establishing general laws. Therefore, the credibility of its results was built through the observation of multiple contexts, and the gathering of data was made through various methods, from the perspective of several participants observed during a prolonged period of time. This empirical basis was used to evaluate recommendations contained in the report commissioned by Unesco to the International Literacy Institute for presentation at the World Forum on Education held in 2000 in Dakar. This report proposed that the continuous attendance of students to basic education programs is one of the great challenges of the new millennium. With respect to the problem of adult evasion from courses and programs, the article discusses the motivation and accessibility factors, pointed out in official documents as relevant factors to the success or failure of the programs.

O panorama da ginastica artistica masculina brasileira : um estudo historico-critico do periodo 2005-2008

Universidade Estadual de Campinas . Faculdade de Educação Física

Ginastica artistica feminina e historia oral : a formação desportiva de ginastas brasileiras participantes de jogos olimpicos (1980-2004)

Universidade Estadual de Campinas . Faculdade de Educação Física

Estudo das lesões agudas da ginastica artistica feminina na infancia, a partir da população em treinamento em Campinas, S.P

Universidade Estadual de Campinas. Faculdade de Educação Física

O clown visitador no tratamento de crianças hospitalizadas

Universidade Estadual de Campinas. Faculdade de Educação Física

A ginastica vivenciada na escola e analisada na perspectiva da criança

Universidade Estadual de Campinas . Faculdade de Educação Física

O carater objetivo e o subjetivo da ginastica artistica

Universidade Estadual de Campinas . Faculdade de Educação Física