What a victory it might have been”: C. E. Montague and the First World War.

Discusses Montague's post-war prose work in terms of peace and silence.

Le développement du schème de règle et l'utilisation du jeu, en tant que situation d'observation et que contexte d'intervention corrective auprès des élèves du premier cycle du primaire présentant des troubles de la conduite en regard du respect d'un règlement scolaire

À l'origine de ce projet de recherche se trouve le constat, effectué tant par le directeur que par les enseignantes et les enseignants de l'école Le Jardin-des-Lacs, des limites d'efficacité d'un système de type behavioral "opérant" dans la gestion des comportements sociaux des enfants hors de la salle de classe. Face aux confins d'efficacité de ce système, au début de l'année scolaire 1994-95, la Direction de l'école ainsi que le personnel enseignant du milieu nous demandaient d'élaborer un programme d'intervention "sur le fait". Ce programme est destiné à faciliter l'apprentissage et le maintien de comportements respectueux du système de règles en vigueur lorsque les élèves utilisent les aires de circulation et de détente de l'école. Donc, lorsqu'ils sont hors de la salle de classe. Les interventions se situent en contexte ludique, afin de faciliter la prise de conscience de l'intérêt et des avantages qu'il y a à respecter le règlement en vigueur. Par ailleurs, le contexte ludique fournit à l'intervenante une situation privilégiée d'observation des mécanismes sous-tendant chez l'enfant la motivation au respect de règles sociales qui lui sont externes ou, au contraire, à la formulation, la négociation ou l'application de règles lorsqu'il est en situation d'interaction avec des pairs. Pour des raisons d'efficacité, nous avons centré notre intervention sur le développement de conduites adéquates en regard du respect d'un règlement scolaire particulier : le règlement du silence dans les aires de circulation dans la mesure où les infractions à ce dernier forme la source principale d'accumulation de points de démérite chez les élèves de premier cycle à l'école Le-Jardin-des-Lacs.

A simple but efficient voice activity detection algorithm through Hilbert transform and dynamic threshold for speech pathologies

A simple but efficient voice activity detector based on the Hilbert transform and a dynamic threshold is presented to be used on the pre-processing of audio signals -- The algorithm to define the dynamic threshold is a modification of a convex combination found in literature -- This scheme allows the detection of prosodic and silence segments on a speech in presence of non-ideal conditions like a spectral overlapped noise -- The present work shows preliminary results over a database built with some political speech -- The tests were performed adding artificial noise to natural noises over the audio signals, and some algorithms are compared -- Results will be extrapolated to the field of adaptive filtering on monophonic signals and the analysis of speech pathologies on futures works

Conflitos ambientais no Pontal da Barra - Pelotas/RS - desde uma perspectiva etnográfica na educação ambiental

Este trabalho tem como propósito explicitar a relação de injustiça ambiental e as controvérsias entre atores sociais com distintos modos de significação e apropriação territorial no contexto de um conflito ambiental na localidade do Pontal da Barra, praia do Laranjal, Pelotas - RS. Desde uma perspectiva etnográfica, objetiva-se incorporar a dimensão do conflito enquanto elemento central de análise. Para isso, partiu-se da proposta analítica de explicitação do conflito como forma de mapeamento dos diferentes atores sociais em interação, contemplando suas visões, posições, interesses, discursos e estratégias de disputa e legitimação no campo ambiental. Consiste em um conflito ambiental que insurgiu a partir da proposta de implantação de um loteamento residencial no contexto de urbanização do balneário do Laranjal durante a década de 1980, envolvendo os seguintes atores sociais: moradores removidos e os que permanecem no Pontal da Barra; membros da comunidade científica e movimento ambientalista local; empresário do ramo imobiliário e turístico no Pontal da Barra e a intervenção de instâncias públicas. Destaca-se a posição dos moradores, vistos em situação de marginalidade, que passaram a representar obstáculos e entraves, tanto para os interesses imobiliários e turísticos na localidade como para uma parcela significativa de ambientalistas que visam à preservação integral da área do Pontal da Barra. Em conjunto a essas iniciativas de grupos organizados sobressai a posição do Estado enquanto mediador desses conflitos e agente que procura executar estratégias de controle e planejamento do espaço, envolvendo as disputas territoriais e os discursos ambientais em questão. Perante esses órgãos do Estado e setores da iniciativa privada, a situação desses moradores caracteriza-se pela irregularidade fundiária, no qual seu espaço habitado não é reconhecido como deles. Dessa forma, este trabalho foi desenvolvido a partir da seguinte questão: tendo em vista os diferentes atores sociais envolvidos, como tem se configurado, desde a década de 1980, o conflito ambiental em torno da disputa territorial pelo Pontal da Barra, Pelotas/RS. Nessa perspectiva, busca-se desconstruir a retórica hegemônica e dominante que escamoteia as diferenças e naturaliza as desigualdades entre os atores sociais envolvidos procurando silenciar e despolitizar a participação pública no debate dos conflitos ambientais, para, através desse entendimento, corroborar com a discussão de uma Educação Ambiental crítica que tenha nos conflitos existentes a sua pauta de pesquisa e de ação.

'Yes, the century is an ashen sun': poem and subject in the philosophy of Alain Badiou

This thesis examines the relation between philosophy, the poem and the subject in the mature philosophy of Alain Badiou. It investigates Badiou’s decisive contribution to these questions primarily by means of comparison, especially to Martin Heidegger, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe and Theodor Adorno, as well as by analysing Badiou’s readings of poems and prose by Paul Celan and Samuel Beckett respectively as sites of potential dialogue with his immediate predecessors. The thesis stresses the importance of French philosophy’s German heritage, emphasising not only Badiou’s radical departure from Heidegger and his legacy, but also the former’s wholesale rejection of philosophies that would, in the wake of twentieth-century violence and beyond, proclaim their own end or completion. The thesis argues Badiou’s innovative readings of Celan and Beckett to be crucial to understanding this endeavour: for Badiou, both writers use the poem to affirm novel conceptions of subjectivity capable of transcending the historical conditions of their presentation. The title quotation from Badiou’s The Century, ‘Yes, the century is an ashen sun’, anticipates both the affirmative nature of these subjective figures, and their presience, beyond the bounds of a twentieth-century ‘ashen sun’ pervaded by melancholy, for the ‘new suns’ of the twenty-first. The thesis is in four chapters. The first chapter unfolds the central concepts of Badiou’s departure from Heidegger using Paul Celan’s poems to focus the enquiry. It is guided by two of Badiou’s most condensed declarations about the poem, that, firstly, ‘the modern poem harbours a central silence’, and secondly, that ‘Celan completes Heidegger’. The second chapter exposes the political implications of Heidegger’s writings on Friedrich Hölderlin and the role of the subject therein, offering at its close some thoughts about what Badiou calls, following Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, the poem’s ‘becoming-prose’. It concludes by drawing the poem and politics into relation by way of the philosophical category of the subject. The third chapter reads Badiou’s concept of ‘anabasis’ against Heidegger’s ‘homecoming’ in order to think the possibility of a collective political subject’s formation in the wake of Auschwitz. The final chapter examines the imbrication of the Two of love and the ‘latent poem’ in Badiou’s reading of Samuel Beckett’s late prose, contrasting this ‘affirmative’ reading of Beckett to Theodor Adorno’s earlier emphases on negation. Following its investigations of subjectivity, poem and prose throughout, the thesis concludes by returning to the title quotation in order to unfold the particular relations between subject, affirmation and negation Badiou’s philosophy enacts, and to offer further routes forward for research regarding Badiou’s philosophy and aesthetic figuration.

Dramaturgia do aqui e agora: presença, recepção e sentido no corpo do ator

The actor is an actor during all the phases of creation and development of his character. (S) He goes beyond the moment of interpreting. In this sense, in her (his) daily life, the actor may use her (his) potential to extract from reality the necessary elements for the work of creation. This is a theoretical research which focus on the concept of presence in the actor s work, stretching the concept beyond the scene, encompassing different components such as the body, the word, the silence, the technique and the acting as the actor s stance in regards to his own reality. The objective of such stance is to integrate him (her) self in the environment, balancing his (hers) inner life with the outside life flow. To reach this objective, the research drew theoretical resources from the concept of presence in the actor s work according to BROOK, BARBA, GROTOWSKI and MNOUCHKINE and the studies on reception theory in ISER, 1996; GUMBRECHT, 2010. Thus, the dialogue between reader and actor high lights both as receivers in this work. A practical description of a street theater Kamchàtka show, featured by the Kamchàtka Company is used as an example of the research on the presence. The elements localized in this show are: play, listening, word, silence, meaning, relationship with here and now and the effects of the said presence

Scrapbook

The poems in Scrapbook are rooted in memory and the act of remembering. While the poems explore different personas and landscapes, they continually return to the poet’s childhood home: a falling apart 50s rancher, where the domestic and mundane are always accompanied by the bizarre. While the mother tries to make order out of these experiences, the poet becomes the quiet observer, journaling and collecting memories her mother would prefer to silence. Influenced by Elizabeth Bishop, Patricia Smith and Shuntaro Tanikawa, these poems tell stories through colloquial language that understates the strange details of everyday life.

Pytanie o pamięć. Relacje autobiograficzne więźniów obozów koncentracyjnych

This book consists of two main parts. The first part offers a basic methodological introduction, presenting a concise but multifaceted overview of current problems of collective memory. The second part contains a set of interviews with former prisoners of concentration camps carried out by the authors. The research was conducted by Paweł Greń and Łukasz Posłuszny and focuses on issues of collective and cultural memory illustrated by individual life experiences of concentration camps prisoners. The field of oral history serves as the framework of analysis and narrative inquiry as its research tool. Interviews and additional research materials were collected by the authors and are not available in previous publications, making this work a precious supplement to the current scholarly body of knowledge and achievements in the discipline of memory studies. According to the authors, current historical and literary publications provide an incomplete picture of the WWII and its aftermaths for survivors, because descriptions of the war and imprisonment in the camp play still a dominate role in narratives. The importance of these issues in autobiographies is unquestionable and highly needed to create a common identity among generation of prisoners, though authors often wanted to perceive the fate of individuals in a broader perspective – including the periods before and after the war. Hence, interviews stressed personal experiences and their understanding over time by former prisoners. The interviews covered many topics on life before, during and after the camp – among them daily and neutral routines, but also difficult matters. The latter were connected on the one hand with traumatic events or harsh memories and emotions, and on the other hand with less extensively highlighted threads of prisoners’ lives - such as issues of the body and sexuality – and their dependence on particular representation or narrative. The authors are convinced that the book serves not only as a record of past remembered by eyewitnesses, but it also depicts their accounts in wider contexts and discourses, which expose specific dimensions of told and written stories. In the book Questions for Memory one examine the approach proposed by young scholars. Interviews were conducted from 2009-2011, seventy years after the end of the second world war, and this initiative was the result of questions and doubts of the authors from the existing literature. They also wanted to use the unique opportunity to meet with eyewitnesses and record their stories, because when they pass away we will irretrievably lose the possibility to listen to them and to pose sensitive questions. The majority of the interviewees were prisoners of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, and their experiences differed greatly from each other based on social background and specific experience in the camps as well as their post-camp and postwar life. Aside from persons whose stories are already well known and open, readers will hear the stories of those who spoke only reluctantly and very rarely, or who had remained silent until the present author’s research. Qualitative differences between interviews occurred on the level of established relationship and atmosphere of trust, which varied according to circumstances and individual character and personality. For P. Greń and Ł. Posłuszny, each interviewed person is equally and highly valued due to the collected material and the personal experience of the meetings. Among the ten interviews placed in the book, seven of them are the stories told by women. Their testimonies exemplify realities of everyday prisoners’ existence and gravitate towards mirroring specifically feminine perspectives of imprisonment. For women, crucial problems stemmed from experiences of body that intertwine with suffering, feeling of shame and humiliation. Early discussions on holocaust literature and issues of representation that shaped the Polish narrative and collective memory imposed imperatives of silence on certain topics. A solution for reconciling heroic and inhuman deeds in stories with completely human physiology was impossible and improper for many years. There were also questions about life after, ways of dealing with a trauma or reflections on the present time. During conversations the authors attempted to come closer to something distant and incomprehensible for their generation and for people who did not experience the camps. Despite the fact that there have been seventy years of dealing with these events in literature, art, drama, film, memoirs and scientific works, the past still breeds more questions than answers. The book Questions for Memory serves as an example of this phenomenon.

Análisis del nivel de aceptación del diario vespertino La Tarde en la ciudad de Cuenca

La propuesta del presente trabajo es conocer el resultado del nivel de aceptación del público del medio de comunicación cuencano vespertino, diario La Tarde. Con este motivo, en el primer capítulo se presentan los antecedentes del nacimiento de la prensa y su incorporación en Cuenca alrededor de 1822. Previo a entrar en el análisis propio de los medios, se hace un recorrido por las principales teorías del periodismo: teoría del espejo, newsmaking, gatekeeper, agenda setting, instrumentalista, espiral del silencio; entre otras. En el segundo capítulo se analiza diario La Tarde, su logotipo, estudios de mercado, perfil de los lectores, análisis de la competencia, FODA; así como su análisis estructural detallando el proceso de impresión, técnico, valorativo y noticioso. El tercer capítulo se enfoca al análisis de la preferencia de los lectores, la frecuencia de lectura y horas preferidas, usos de medios digitales, secciones que más le gustan, secciones que implementaría y otros aspectos que permiten medir el grado de satisfacción ante la presencia de este diario cuencano. Para ello se aplicó una encuesta en las parroquias: Gil Ramírez Dávalos, El Sagrario y San Blas, en la cual se recaudaron datos por medio de un cuestionario prediseñado aplicado en un universo de 147 personas. Entre los resultados del estudio a pesar de los pocos años de creación de La Tarde, se evidenció que su presencia en el mercado no es del todo sólida, lo que impide ampliar su mercado.

Aportes críticos para a cooperação internacional em saúde : uma perspectiva bioética

Dissertação (mestrado)—Universidade de Brasília, Faculdade de Ciências da Saúde, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Bioética, 2015.

El maestro: un artesano del lenguaje. Escritura y experiencia estética de la palabra

 La identidad de una obra expresada a través de la escritura se teje en las voces y esfuerzos que se encarnan en memoria y dejan huella en el relato. El maestro es acción de este lenguaje movido por el his­torial social y cultural que permite hacer de la escritura un oficio ético y estético donde la mano construye y nombra las emociones que atraviesan al cuerpo. La escritura es el testimonio vital del maestro como artesa­no; es el arte del lenguaje que sale de su silencio con la lectura del relato, pero es, además, la potencia del pensamiento pues­to en pretexto estético donde se pregunta y se reflexiona por el tiempo y por el espacio de la palabra, es decir, las cronologías, kairologías, territorialidades y escenarios de las esferas educativas.Sobre estos presupuestos se propone una discusión pedagógica en torno a la necesidad de pensar la escritura artesanal como intención estética y política donde se plasma el testimonio del compromiso ético del maestro, pero también la perspectiva de los nuevos retos que la educación debe asu­mir para reencontrar el lenguaje con la vida y con las herencias socioculturales que dan cuenta del sujeto y de las subjetividades que confluyen en los procesos de formación, y que tienen despliegue y búsqueda en el escenario creativo y productivo de la escri­tura. Se intentará, entonces, reivindicar una pedagogía de la posibilidad en el lenguaje, una narratividad donde la memoria traza un puente para el encuentro de épocas, de rostros, de acontecimientos, de silencios y de saberes, donde el maestro está llamado a tejer, tallar, dibujar, componer y comu­nicar las artesanías que la educación ha olvidado, es decir, recuperar la memoria estética, lo cual también implica un olvido de las formas hegemónicas del arte.

Análisis comparativo del tratamiento de la noticia, entre los diarios "El Universo" y "El Telégrafo" durante y después de los sucesos del 30 de septiembre de 2010

Esta investigación se centra en un análisis comparativo de dos medios de circulación nacional, Diario El Telégrafo y Diario El Universo, con el fin de determinar el tratamiento de la noticia que cada rotativo le dio a un tema de interés general: el 30 de Septiembre de 2010. En el capítulo I realizamos un acercamiento a la relación entre la Prensa y el Gobierno. Se pudo evidenciar quehistóricamente en nuestro país, Ecuador, han existido roces entre ambos;por lo que creímos pertinente consultar autores y diarios de distintas épocas, que expongan esta situación y contextualicen nuestro trabajo. En el capítulo II, parasustentar la investigación, se revisaron varios teóricos; entre ellos, JürgenHabermas, con sus teorías de la Acción Comunicativa y de la de Opinión Pública, así como Elizabeth Noelle Neumann con la Espiral del Silencio. Nuestra tesis se apoya también en las teorías de la Aguja Hipodérmica y de la Semiótica. En el capítulo III, se inicia el análisis comparativo del tratamiento de la noticia entre Diario “El Universo” y Diario “El Telégrafo”, tomando como herramienta metodológica principal elanálisis de contenido, que sirve de base para el estudio de cada una de las ediciones de los periódicos revisados. En el capítulo IV se realizó el análisis de contenido desde lo cuantitativo en base a tablas estadísticas.Durante el tiempo investigado (30 de septiembre al 31 de octubre de 2010) se tomaron en cuenta todas las notas relacionadas a los acontecimientos que nos atañen. Finalmente, las conclusiones nos remiten a los siguientes conceptos después de la investigación: Diario El Universo y Diario El Telégrafo, son medios ideológicamente opuestos, aunque su agenda mediática ante una situación de tal magnitud se parece mucho. En el tratamiento que le da cada rotativo a las noticias, se evidenció en general mayor contundencia y análisis de los hechos en Diario El Universo, por la cantidad de información presentada, así como por el contraste de fuentes; sin que esto signifique el desmerecimiento al trabajo periodístico llevado a cabo por Diario El Telégrafo.

Maan korvessa kulkevi – Evakkolasten kasvukokemusten tunnemuistot ja hyvinvointi

Tutkimus tarkastelee luovutetusta Karjalasta lähtöisin olevien evakkolasten tunnemuistoja ja niiden yhteyttä myöhempään hyvinvointiin. Keskiössä ovat koti- ja koulukasvatusta muistelevien ikäihmisten kokemukset. Tutkimus on kasvatushistoriallinen ja tieteidenvälinen. Se liikkuu historian sekä yhteiskunta- ja käyttäytymistieteiden rajapinnoilla. Aineiston 631 kyselyvastausta ja 11 haastattelua on analysoitu monimetodisesti tilastollisen ja sisällön analyysin avulla. Tulosten mukaan ikääntyvät evakkolapset voivat pääsääntöisesti hyvin. He ovat kotikasvatuksessaan omaksuneet vahvat selviytymis- ja sopeutumistaidot sekä sisukkuuden. Kodin kasvatusilmapiiri on menetyksistä huolimatta koettu turvalliseksi. Kasvatuksessa omaksutuissa sananlaskuissa korostuu vahvimmin tulevaisuuden toivosta kiinni pitäminen. Kasvatusmetodit myötäilevät suomalaista kasvatustraditiota, jossa lapsia on enimmäkseen palkittu hyvästä työstä sanallisesti ja rangaistu tottelemattomuudesta ruumiillisesti. Surua ja menetyksiä on käsitelty vaikenemalla. Yhdeksi elämää kannattelevaksi voimaksi ovat osoittautuneet laulut, joista suosituin oli Maan korvessa kulkevi lapsosen tie. Kasvatusperintönä evakkolapset haluavat jättää mallin työteliäästä, rehellisestä, toiset huomioivasta ja juuristaan tietoisesta kansalaisesta. Koulukokemusten osalta tutkimus osoittaa kantaväestöstä poikkeavan uskonnollisen ja kielellisen taustan olleen merkittävin syrjityksi tulemisen syy. Ortodoksitaustaisilla lapsilla oli muita evakkolapsia enemmän kiusaamiskokemuksia. Metaforien avulla kuvatuista tunnemuistoista löytyi kuusi erilaista selviytyjätyyppiä: selviytyjäsankarit, identiteetin etsijät, optimistiset toimijat, trauman työstäjät, kohtalonsa hyväksyjät ja menetysten kantajat. Valtaosa evakkolapsista kuuluu positiivista tunnemuistoa kantavien ryhmään. Kielteisillä tunnemuistoilla on tilastollisesti merkitsevä negatiivinen yhteys ikääntyvän hyvinvointiin. Tutkimus lisää ymmärrystä evakkolasten kasvukokemuksista ja tarjoaa uutta tietoa heidän selviytymisestään ja hyvinvoinnistaan. Tutkimus osoittaa evakkolasten tasapainoisen kotikasvatuksen, vastavuoroisten vertaissuhteiden ja suositun oppilaan aseman vahvistavan yhteisöön kuulumista ja sosiaalista pystyvyyttä sekä olevan hyvinvoinnin positiivisia tekijöitä. Kodin melankolisuudella, eristyneisyydellä ja koulukiusaamisella on negatiivinen yhteys hyvinvointiin. Tuloksia voidaan soveltaa nykypäivän pakolaislasten kotouttamiseen, jossa ensiarvoisen tärkeää on perheiden osallisuuden ja integroitumisen tukeminen uudessa ympäristössä. Tämän onnistumiseksi on tärkeää huomioida lasten yksilölliset selviytymisstrategiat ja käsitellä kodin menetystraumaa.

Obligation des États de coopérer en droit international des cours d’eau transfrontaliers : état du droit et étude du cas Chinois

Le principe de coopération est considéré depuis longtemps comme l’une des pierres angulaires du droit international, toutefois, l’existence d’une obligation de coopérer en droit international reste encore controversée. Les ressources en eau, à cause de leur fluidité et de leurs multiples usages, démontrent toujours l’interdépendance humaine. En matière de cours d’eau transfrontaliers, la Convention de New York inclut explicitement dans son texte l’obligation générale de coopérer comme l’un de ses trois principes fondamentaux. Il nous incombe alors de voir quelle obligation de coopérer les États souverains s’imposent dans leurs pratiques ? Pour répondre à cette question, nous procédons tout d’abord à une étude positiviste du contenu normatif de l’obligation de coopérer. Nous constatons que l’incorporation de la notion de l’obligation de coopérer dans le principe de la souveraineté est une tendance manifeste du droit international qui a évolué du droit de coexistence composé principalement des règles d’abstention, au droit de coopération qui comporte essentiellement des obligations positives de facere, dont la plus représentative est l’obligation de coopérer. Néanmoins, il n’existe pas de modèle unique d’application pour tous les États, chaque bassin disposant de son propre régime coopératif. Pour mesurer l’ampleur des régimes coopératifs, nous étudions cinq paramètres : le champ d’application, les règles substantielles, les règles procédurales, les arrangements institutionnels et le règlement des différends. Quatres modèles de coopération ressortent : le mécanisme consultatif (l’Indus), le mécanisme communicateur (le Mékong), le mécanisme de coordination (le Rhin) et le mécanisme d’action conjointe (le fleuve Sénégal). Pour ce qui est de la Chine, il s’agit de l’État d’amont en voie de développement le plus important dans le monde qui a longtemps été critiqué pour son approche unilatérale dans le développement des eaux transfrontières. Nous ne pouvons pas cependant passer sous silence les pratiques de coopération qu’elle a développées avec ses voisins. Quelle est son interprétation de cette obligation générale de coopérer ? Notre étude des pratiques de la Chine nous aide, en prenant du recul, à mieux comprendre tous les aspects de cette obligation de coopérer en droit international. Afin d’expliquer les raisons qui se cachent derrière son choix de mode de coopération, nous introduisons une analyse constructiviste qui est plus explicative que descriptive. Nous soutenons que ce sont les identités de la Chine qui ont déterminé son choix de coopération en matière de cours d’eau transfrontaliers. Notre étude en vient à la conclusion que même s’il y a des règles généralement reconnues, l’obligation de coopérer reste une règle émergente en droit international coutumier. Ses modes d’application sont en réalité une construction sociale qui évolue et qui peut varier énormément selon les facteurs culturels, historiques ou économiques des États riverains, en d’autres mots, selon les identités de ces États. La Chine est un État d’amont en voie de développement qui continue à insister sur le principe de la souveraineté. Par conséquent, elle opte pour son propre mécanisme consultatif de coopération pour l’utilisation des ressources en eau transfrontalières. Néanmoins, avec l’évolution de ses identités en tant que superpuissance émergente, nous pouvons probablement espérer qu’au lieu de rechercher un pouvoir hégémonique et d’appliquer une stratégie unilatérale sur l’utilisation des ressources en eau transfrontalières, la Chine adoptera une stratégie plus coopérative et plus participative dans l’avenir.

O fim sob o olhar da inocência : Representações da morte na infância

A morte suscita-nos grande inquietação (e.g., Oliveira, 2008). Especialmente entre as crianças, perdidas na incompreensão, silêncio e repressão psicológica por parte dos adultos. Nesta investigação averiguamos as representações sociais, da morte e da vida, entre crianças dos 8 aos 11 anos, escolarizadas de ambos os sexos. As meninas representam a morte pelo medo que suscita, e pela sua dimensão ritualista, enquanto que os meninos a percecionam sobretudo por sentimento de mal-estar e impotência. Sobre a vida, os meninos evidenciam uma visão mais hedonista do que elas, que salientam a interação com o outro e as questões afetivo-emocionais. As representações das raparigas aproximam-se mais das dos sujeitos de 10-11 anos, enquanto que as dos rapazes se aproximam das dos participantes de 8-9 anos. Esperamos contribuir para o modo como as crianças representam a morte e, para uma educação para a morte e para a vida. ABSTRACT; Death rouses great uneasiness (e.g., Oliveira, 2008). Especially among children who are lost amid the incomprehension, silence and psychological repression of adults. This research examines social representations of life and death among school attending children of both sexes, between the ages of 8 and 11 years old. Girls represent death for both the fear it rouses and its ritualistic dimension, while boys mostly perceive it as a feeling of uneasiness and impotence. Regarding life, boys show a more hedonistic vision than girls, who give relevance to interacting with. others, and to affective and emotional issues. The representations of girls are closer to those of the 10-11-year-old subjects, while the representations of boys are closer to those of the 8-9-year-old participants. We hope to contribute to the way children represent death, and to an education on death and life.