Diseño e implementación de un taller de teatro musical en Educación Primaria

[SPA] Las disciplinas artísticas siempre han sido un campo tan beneficioso como poco utilizado en educación. En esta propuesta de taller de teatro musical en educación primaria se ha indagado en el mundo de la pedagogía teatral y su relación con la música y el juego como técnicas de transmisión de valores y desarrollo de aprendizajes. La puesta en práctica mediante el diseño e implementación de un taller por parte del mediador ha logrado que los alumnos muestren avances significativos en diversos campos como el autoconocimiento corporal o el descubrimiento de nuevos géneros musicales, además de favorecer a la dinámica grupal dentro y fuera del taller. De cara al futuro, este proceso ha abierto las puertas a nuevas propuestas en el ámbito de la dramatización infantil así como al interés formativo del propio educador.

O Pré-Figurativo: diferenciações de um liame musical

A questão que move esta dissertação é a noção do liame composto a partir do encontro entre duas redes conceituais: o método de ensino musical Pré-Figurativo, de Hans-Joachim Koellreutter, e o pensamento sem imagem, de Gilles Deleuze. Tais conceitos são tomados, aqui, como Multiplicidades em que um é constituído pelo outro, e vice-versa. Trata-se, no caso do ensino musical pré-figurativo, de um método que não se utiliza de modelos prévios e por isso coloca o pensamento em devir e, do pensamento sem imagem, a maneira como tal movimento da produção desse devir-pensar se desterritorializa sendo capaz de delinear algo que ainda não existe, mas que pode existir. Isso caracteriza uma zona de vizinhança, uma espécie de telhagem (tuilage), ou timbragem (no sentido musical do termo), como num telhado mesmo, em que as telhas se recobrem apenas em partes o existir no outro e pelo outro simultaneamente, o que permite que se diga de um devir-outro. O que é um quase outro, mas que não se efetiva no outro ou como outro. Contudo, é com o advento desse liame, ou desse fazer borda, como diria Deleuze, que a música, como ato de criação, acontece, se produz, se autoproduz.

Rhythms of division of some algae in situ and in laboratory culture. [Translation from: Studii Cerc.Biol.(Bot.) 21, 61-65, 1969. ]

The rhythm of division of 9 species belonging to different groups of algae were analysed in situ and in the laboratory. The research which developed in different environmental conditions attempted to establish the capacity for multiplication and assimilation of chlorophyll on the part of the algae under study with a view to placing them in a culture. The results obtained showed that the green multicellular algae (eg. Ulothrix) and the blue algae (eg. Lyngbya, Oscillatoria) are able to produce an appreciable quantity of dry matter, just as the unicellular algae. At the same time it arises that amongst the numerous factors of the environment, temperature plays one of the most important roles in the process of multiplication.

The Regulation of Sleep and Circadian Rhythms: The Role of Melatonin and Adenosine in Zebrafish

Sleep is a highly conserved behavioral state whose regulation is still unclear. In this thesis I initially briefly introduce the known sleep circuitry and regulation in vertebrates, and why zebrafish is seen as a good model to study sleep-regulation. I describe the existing two-process model of sleep regulation, which posits that the two processes C (circadian) and S (homeostatic) control timing of sleep-wake behavior. I then study the role melatonin plays in the circadian regulation of sleep using zebrafish. Firstly, we find that the absence of melatonin results in a reduction of sleep at night, establishing that endogenous melatonin is required for sleep at night. Secondly, melatonin mutants show a reduction in sleep in animals with no functional behavioral rhythms suggesting that melatonin does not require intact circadian rhythms for its effect on sleep. Thirdly, melatonin mutants do not exhibit any changes in circadian rhythms, suggesting that the circadian clock does not require melatonin for its function. Fourthly, we find that in the absence of melatonin, there is no rhythmic expression of sleep, suggesting that melatonin is the output molecule of process C. Lastly, we describe a connection between adenosine signaling (output molecules of process S), and melatonin. Following this we proceed to study the role adenosine signaling plays in sleep-wake behavior. We find that firstly, adenosine receptor A1 and A2 are involved in sleep- wake behavior in zebrafish, based on agonist/antagonist behavioral results. Secondly, we find that several brain regions such as PACAP cells in the rostral midbrain, GABAergic cells in the forebrain and hindbrain, Dopamine and serotonin cells in the caudal hypothalamus and sox2 cells lining the hindbrain ventricle are activated in response to the A1 antagonist and VMAT positive cells are activated in response to the A2A agonist, suggesting these areas are involved in adenosine signaling in zebrafish. Thirdly, we find that knocking out the zebrafish adenosine receptors has no effect on sleep architecture. Lastly, we find that while the A1 agonist phenotype requires the zfAdora1a receptor, the antagonist and the A2A agonist behavioral phenotypes are not mediated by the zfAdora1a, zfAdora1b and zfAdoraA2Aa, zfAdora2Ab receptors respectively.