Origami contempor��neo: um estudo sobre a arte em dobra e sua mutabilidade pr��tica

This article aims to seek new forms of creative and artistic expression origami nowadays. After crossing many generations and countries, we noted that the functions of origami are much broader than simply making folding paper: the folding has promoted a number of new buildings within the hybrid design and creativity. Modularity, the collective, the build conscious, contemporary and innovation are intrinsic relations to artistic praxis that configure an adjacent scenario and subordinate to the main structure that govern this research project. We believe in the essence of origami as a tangible functionality for creative thinking.

As crian��as protagonistas dos contos de fadas dos Irm��os Grimm

The origins of the fairy tales are lost in the past but these tales are, even today, great teaching instruments because they relate to language development, creativity, social relations, and especially with the internalization of values and behavior patterns. According to Bettelheim (1980), fairy tales assure the children that the difficulties can be overcome, no matter how insignificant they feel. In this sense, these tales are power tools. We understand that fairy tales - and their characters - have the power to influence their readers/listeners. Therefore, this study considered four fairy tales in which the protagonists are children and remain as children all though the narratives: Little Red Riding Hood, Hansel and Gretel Snow White and Rose Red and Thumbling, from Grimm Tales, translated into Portuguese by David Jardim Junior and published in 2008 by Itatiaia. We sought investigate how the children characters of these stories act, leveraging a reflection grounded on the image of children that emerge from the selected tales - images that have been registered in the first decades of the nineteenth century by the Brothers Grimm in their Children's and Household Tales - enabling the identification of the kinds of behavior that they perform and the values they embody, thus contributing to a better understanding of the models that these characters offer to the twenty-first century's children. Our research has a qualitative approach of bibliographic nature, mainly grounded in the ideas of Bettelheim (1980) and Ari��s (1981). We found that there is a shortage of studies on the tales collected/maintained by the Brothers Grimm, although these stories have become classics of universal children's literature and continue, cradling the imagination of Western children in the twenty-first century. We also verified that there are very few studies exploring the representation of children in fairy tales and children's literature...

Comportamento, flu��ncia verbal e ritmos circadianos em indiv��duos com o Transtorno do Espectro do Autismo (TEA) antes e ap��s o uso de melatonina

Coordena����o de Aperfei��oamento de Pessoal de N��vel Superior (CAPES)

Integrating Visual and Verbal Literacies in the Early Childhood Classroom

Young children have the strong desire to use all of the communicative tools their cultures and families offer them. They want to be able to do all of the things that the powerful people they admire can do, including talking, writing, drawing, using the computer, and otherwise creating and sharing ideas, memories, solutions, even jokes and feelings. Today, we live in a time when the communicative tools are changing rapidly, practically exploding before our eyes in terms of the formats and media available to us in complex combinations not seen before. What do these technological changes mean for how we can support children's development toward literacy? An integrated arts curriculum has long been favored by many educators, but today there are more reasons than ever to implement such a philosophy. From communications theory comes a new understanding of how modern technologies demand that children learn to "read" and "write" messages involving complex combinations and integrations of visual and verbal formats. From psychology come insights about intelligence being multiple not unitary, as well as ecological perception theory offering a well-accepted framework for analyzing the affordances and expressive possibilities of different media. From education come fresh approaches to integrated curriculum, including a philosophy and pedagogy from Reggio Emilia, Italy, that combines well with current thinking by North Americans. Altogether, we have many rationales and exciting strategies at hand for launching young children toward an integrated visual and verbal literacy that involves substance, challenge, and discipline, as well as innovation, creativity, and freedom.

Showing that Early Childhood Education Works: Lessons from Italy, China, and the USA

Lessons from around the world; What does it matter about early childhood education? Why the controversy about public support for early childhood education? What process or system should be used to determine what works in early education? Can the same process be used to improve services? What is the role of government? Alternatives: 1. Consumers should determine��� (What happens when private choices drive the market for early childhood services?) Observed quality of care in four Midwestern states; Parent data: ���All things considered, how would you grade the quality of the care your child is receiving from his/her current caregiver?��� Role of government What is a Quality Rating System? Ten states have implemented statewide systems (e.g. Colorado, Kentucky, Oklahoma, North Carolina) Findings 2. Objective science should determine��� Firm findings from empirical research 3. Something else is needed: Some differences between Italian and American models. Teacher action research (and documentation) from a Reggio-inspired preschool in South Korea by Misuk Kim. Teacher Action Research at the Ruth Staples CDL. Can we now answer our opening questions? What process or system should be used to determine what is best for young children? Can the same process be used to improve the quality of services? Conclusions: The free market does not work well to determine quality in early education and care; Licensing, accreditation, and quality rating systems can help improve the market; Empirical research is useful for measuring what works; Teacher action research (reflective practice) is necessary for fostering continuous quality improvement. The tower of quality.

In Pursuit of Brain Compatible Intimate Relationships

This session comprises a highly interactive and creative format designed to provide a maximum of information and conceptual integration regarding human relationships. The presentation style embodies creativity and scholarly intent that leads the audience through brain and contextual processes that severely limit or lovingly spiritually enhance male/female relationships.

Sobre a conflu��ncia das linguagens nas m��dias digitais

Neste artigo procuramos mostrar uma natureza h��brida que caracteriza a linguagem e se desdobra nas in��meras linguagens, definidas pelo seu suporte ou pelo aparato sens��rio implicado em sua produ����o e capta����o. Tal natureza se mostra, hoje, com a conflu��ncia de diversas linguagens na dimens��o do ciberespa��o. Visando comprova����o, e at�� um benef��cio obtido dessa conflu��ncia, relatamos experi��ncias did��ticas, desenvolvidas em nossas disciplinas para a gradua����o. Trata-se de nossa ado����o, como espa��o em que os alunos possam realizar seus trabalhos, de ferramentas hipertextuais, como wiki e blogs. Trata-se de um uso do ciberespa��o como instrumento de expans��o de recursos, que funciona como incentivo �� criatividade, �� produ����o colaborativa e �� cria����o de momentos textuais ��mpares

Robert Schumann e a tradu����o: cria����o po��tica, simultaneidade e movimento

Este trabalho examina os Escritos sobre a M��sica e os M��sicos, do compositor alem��o Robert Schumann, em especial as resenhas escritas entre 1834 e 1836, com vistas a identificar ecos das principais ideias sobre linguagem e tradu����o desenvolvidas na Alemanha entre o final do s��c. XVIII e o in��cio do s��c. XIX. Os eixos escolhidos para construir essa ideia s��o os eixos do sujeito e do tempo perpassados pela no����o de movimento. Do primeiro, destaca-se a ancoragem vertical, personal��ssima, operada no interior do sujeito que transita de um sistema s��gnico para outro, que traduz seus pensamentos, ou ainda que empreende a passagem de uma l��ngua para outra. Do segundo, tem-se em conta a configura����o desse mergulho num produto que desmantela as barreiras do tempo e, de um s�� golpe, contemporiza o passado e inclui o futuro.

Expresividad: de la met��fora al grado cero

[ES]Desde la met��fora, en que se encuentra el m��s alto grado de la expresividad y creatividad ling����sticas, a la vaciedad de todo contenido que es el grado cero de la expresi��n, hay todo un recorrido cuyas fases y motivos tratamos de describir en el presente ensayo.

Supramolecular hybrid organic-inorganic multicomponent architectures in solution and on surface

Supramolecular architectures can be built-up from a single molecular component (building block) to obtain a complex of organic or inorganic interactions creating a new emergent condensed phase of matter, such as gels, liquid crystals and solid crystal. Further the generation of multicomponent supramolecular hybrid architecture, a mix of organic and inorganic components, increases the complexity of the condensed aggregate with functional properties useful for important areas of research, like material science, medicine and nanotechnology. One may design a molecule storing a recognition pattern and programming a informed self-organization process enables to grow-up into a hierarchical architecture. From a molecular level to a supramolecular level, in a bottom-up fashion, it is possible to create a new emergent structure-function, where the system, as a whole, is open to its own environment to exchange energy, matter and information. ���The emergent property of the whole assembly is superior to the sum of a singles parts���. In this thesis I present new architectures and functional materials built through the selfassembly of guanosine, in the absence or in the presence of a cation, in solution and on the surface. By appropriate manipulation of intermolecular non-covalent interactions the spatial (structural) and temporal (dynamic) features of these supramolecular architectures are controlled. Guanosine G7 (5',3'-di-decanoil-deoxi-guanosine) is able to interconvert reversibly between a supramolecular polymer and a discrete octameric species by dynamic cation binding and release. Guanosine G16 (2',3'-O-Isopropylidene-5'-O-decylguanosine) shows selectivity binding from a mix of different cation's nature. Remarkably, reversibility, selectivity, adaptability and serendipity are mutual features to appreciate the creativity of a molecular self-organization complex system into a multilevelscale hierarchical growth. The creativity - in general sense, the creation of a new thing, a new thinking, a new functionality or a new structure - emerges from a contamination process of different disciplines such as biology, chemistry, physics, architecture, design, philosophy and science of complexity.

Una danza di parti interagenti. Gregory Bateson pensiero ecologico e educazione

The thesis focuses on the ecological thought of Gregory Bateson and the contributions that such epistemology can offer nowadays to the educational scene, connecting in particular to the problematicistic perspective of Giovanni Maria Bertin with the aim of rethinking and updating it. The writing explicates the meaning of education to an ecological knowledge, that privileges connections, creativity and solidarity with the living world. The work analyzes, moreover, the cultural and epistemological value of relations focusing on ethic commitment as an instrument of promotion of the right to difference. A final part of the work is dedicated to some ecological aspects such as environmental safeguard and development, fundamental topics especially for the educational context.

Creative process in globally distributed teams: a study of new product development in Volvo

With the business environments no longer confined to geographical borders, the new wave of digital technologies has given organizations an enormous opportunity to bring together their distributed workforce and develop the ability to work together despite being apart (Prasad & Akhilesh, 2002). resupposing creativity to be a social process, the way that this phenomenon occurs when the configuration of the team is substantially modified will be questioned. Very little is known about the impact of interpersonal relationships in the creativity (Kurtzberg & Amabile, 2001). In order to analyse the ways in which the creative process may be developed, we ought to be taken into consideration the fact that participants are dealing with a quite an atypical situation. Firstly, in these cases socialization takes place amongst individuals belonging to a geographically dispersed workplace, where interpersonal relationships are mediated by the computer, and where trust must be developed among persons who have never met one another. Participants not only have multiple addresses and locations, but above all different nationalities, and different cultures, attitudes, thoughts, and working patterns, and languages. Therefore, the central research question of this thesis is as follows: ���How does the creative process unfold in globally distributed teams?��� With a qualitative approach, we used the case study of the Business Unit of Volvo 3P, an arm of Volvo Group. Throughout this research, we interviewed seven teams engaged in the development of a new product in the chassis and cab areas, for the brands Volvo and Renault Trucks, teams that were geographically distributed in Brazil, Sweden, France and India. Our research suggests that corporate values, alongside with intrinsic motivation and task which lay down the necessary foundations for the development of the creative process in GDT.

Lexis paidike. L'infanzia in Origene

La tesi considera la trattazione del tema dell���infanzia nell���opera di Origene di Alessandria attraverso l���analisi dei testi trasmessi nell���originale greco e delle traduzioni latine di Rufino e Gerolamo. Il motivo dell���infanzia �� considerato nei suoi molteplici significati, a pi�� livelli: esegetico, antropologico, filosofico, teologico. La ricerca non si limita dunque ad un���analisi di taglio storico, ma ambisce a definire la concezione e la considerazione della prima et�� dal punto di vista di Origene e nel contesto pi�� ampio della letteratura coeva. Attraverso una lettura estensiva del corpus dell���Alessandrino sono stati isolati tutti i passi che si riferiscono all���infanzia a livello letterale e metaforico. Ne emerge una trattazione complessa del tema: il bambino �� per Origene, in linea con le contemporanee dottrine filosofiche, un essere eminentemente irrazionale. Il pieno sviluppo della facolt�� razionale si colloca al termine di questa prima fase dell���esistenza. L���irrazionalit�� infantile previene nei pi�� piccoli l���insorgere delle passioni. A questa dottrina, di matrice stoica, si ricollegano alcuni sviluppi di grande rilievo: la non-imputabilit�� dei minori ed il legame tra razionalit�� e responsabilit�� individuale; la riflessione sulla sofferenza dei bambini e la ricerca di una sua causa, che non intacchi il principio della giustizia divina; l���ipotesi della preesistenza delle anime. Sul piano teologico la ricerca si focalizza sulle nozioni di paternit�� e filiazione e sul tema, centrale nell���orizzonte origeniano, della pedagogia. Origene concepisce la pedagogia umana, sul modello di quella divina, come una rete dinamica di relazioni che ricalca i rapporti parentali. A fianco di questi ambiti d���interesse principali l���analisi considera aspetti ulteriori: risalto �� concesso, in particolare, all���elemento biografico ed all���aspetto linguistico e letterario della prosa origeniana, quest'ultimo spesso trascurato dalla critica. Lo studio mostra inoltre la vitalit�� di alcuni modelli esegetici origeniani nella tradizione successiva.

Poverty and Mental Health. Tangible and Intangible Aspects of Microcredit

Microcredit, a small lending system, invests on an individual's creativity by stimulating the development of their own potential. This process leads to the attainment of various objectives which in turn allow individuals to develop their skill awareness. Consequently, this process also increases an individual���s self-esteem and self-confidence. These factors play an important role in the aetiology of a number of mental disorders. Namely, those characterized by a series of psychological conditions which impede the full development of a person���s personal, relational and social sphere. Furthermore, since Microcredit is thought to produce tangible goods, such as income, and intangible goods, such as self-esteem and mutual trust, it could also represent an innovative socio-economic tool. We therefore also hypothesize that, Microcredit would be valuable in maximizing abilities/skills in those subjects who are financially excluded and rarely perceived as a ���resource��� for the Community The longitudinal study set the impact of the Grameen Bank microcredit program on new borrowers women from Noakhali District at the south Bangladesh. The impact evaluation assessment has been structured to detect individual, family and social changes. Manova Analysis allowed distinguishing from women with positive or negative outcomes related to the loan performance. Data revealed consistent differences in terms of economical outcomes and psychological well being amongst the groups of subject analyzed. The data gathered in relation to the changes arisen in the individuals should be looked into through future, continuous and systematic, monitoring.

Das moderne Buch: Harry Graf Kesslers ��sthetik der Lebenskunst im Spiegel der Gro��herzog Wilhelm Ernst Ausgabe deutscher Klassiker

Die Gro��herzog Wilhelm Ernst Ausgabe deutscher Klassiker wurde seit 1904 bis in die Zwanziger Jahre hinein im Insel Verlag in Leipzig publiziert. Die Buchreihe hat nicht nur f��r den Verlag und die Druckerei Poeschel in der sie gedruckt wurde eine ganze Reihe von Neuerungen nach sich gezogen, auch f��r den deutschen Buchmarkt hat die Klassikerausgabe einen Meilenstein bedeutet. Sie hat einige Eigenschaften des Taschenbuches vorweggenommen. Sie orientierte sich an der Qualit��t bibliophiler Buchpublikationen, aber war dennoch preislich erschwinglich. Zeitgen��ssische Klassikerausgaben erschienen zumeist mit einem Kommentar. Nicht so die Gro��herzog Wilhelm Ernst Ausgabe. Der Text wurde zwar von f��hrenden Wissenschaftlern editiert, aber sie war dennoch unkommentiert. Der Text war in einer Jenson-Antiqua gesetzt obwohl die Debatte um individuell gestaltete K��nstlerschriften und die Diskussion um die als deutsche Schrift begriffene Fraktur unter den wichtigsten Protagonisten des deutschen Buchgewerbes ihren H��hepunkt noch nicht erreicht hatte. Ziel f��r die Klassikerausgabe war dar��ber hinaus, das zur Jahrhundertwende leicht angestaubte Image der Stadt Weimar aufzupolieren. ��ber das Patronat des Gro��herzogs hinaus h��tte man die Gewinne aus dem Verkauf der B��cher der Permanenten Ausstellung f��r die Anschaffung von modernen Kunstobjekten zur Verf��gung stellen wollen, die unter der Leitung von Harry Graf Kessler stand. Sieht man den Inhalt der Werke der in der Klassikerreihe erschienen Dichter Goethe, Schiller und K��rner in einem ��sthetischen Kontext mit dem der Philosophen Schopenhauer und Kant, wird im Spiegel der Formal��sthetik der Klassikerausgabe Graf Kesslers Bildungs- und Kulturbegriff erkennbar, der sich in den Jahren nach der Jahrhundertwende zu seinem Lebenskunstideal verdichtete. Der zerr��tteten Existenz der Zeitgenossen, wie Friedrich Nietzsche sie beschrieben hatte, sollte der Inhalt der Ausgabe in seiner modernen Form eine moderne Wertehaltung entgegensetzen. Die Lekt��re der Klassiker sollte den deutschen Philister ���entkrampfen��� und ihm ein St��ck der verloren geglaubten Lebensfreude wieder zur��ck bringen, in dem dieser auch die Facetten des Lebensleids als normal hinnehmen und akzeptieren lernte. Die Klassikerausgabe repr��sentierte aus diesem Grund auch den kulturellen und politischen Reformwillen und die gesellschaftlichen Vorstellungen die der Graf f��r ein modernes Deutschland als ��berf��llig erachtete. Die Buchreihe war aus diesem Grund auch ein politisches Statement gegen die Beharrungskr��fte im deutschen Kaiserreich. Die Klassikerreihe wurde in der buchhistorischen Forschung zwar als bedeutender Meilenstein charakterisiert und als ���wichtiges��� oder gar ���revolution��res��� Werk der Zeit hervorgehoben, die Ergebnisse der Forschung kann man ��berspitzt aber in der Aussage zusammenfassen, dass es sich bei der Gro��herzog Wilhelm Ernst Ausgabe um einen ���zuf��lligen Gl��ckstreffer��� deutscher Buchgestaltung zu handeln scheint. Zumindest lassen die Aussagen, die bisher in dieser Hinsicht gemacht wurden, keine eindeutige Einordnung zu, au��er vielleicht der, dass die Klassiker von der englischen Lebensreform inspiriert wurden und Henry van de Velde und William Morris einen Einfluss auf ihre ��u��ere Form hatten. Gerade die Gedankenans��tze dieser Beiden nutzte Graf Kessler aber f��r eigene ��berlegungen, die ihn schlie��lich auch zu eigenen Vorstellungen von idealer Buchgestaltung brachten. Da f��r Kessler auch Gebrauchsgegenst��nde Kunst sein konnten, wird das Konzept der Klassikerausgabe bis zur Umsetzung in ihrer `bahnbrechenden�� Form in das ideengeschichtliche und ��sthetische Denken des Grafen eingeordnet. Die Klassiker werden zwar in buchhistorischen Einzeluntersuchungen bez��glich ihrer Komponenten, dem D��nndruckpapier, ihrem Einband oder der Schrifttype exponiert. In buchwissenschaftlichen ��berblicksdarstellungen wird ihr Einfluss hingegen weniger beachtet, denn verschiedene Kritiker bezogen sie seit ihrem ersten Erscheinen nicht als deutsches Kulturgut mit ein, denn sie lehnten sowohl die englischen Mitarbeiter Emery Walker, Edward Johnston, Eric Gill und Douglas Cockerell wie auch ihre Gestaltung als ���welsche��� Buchausgabe ab. Richtig ist, die Gro��herzog Wilhelm Ernst Ausgabe hatte dieselbe Funktion wie die von Graf Kessler in Weimar konzipierten Kunstausstellungen und die dortige Kunstschule unter der Leitung seines Freundes Henry van de Velde. Auch das f��r Weimar geplante Theater, das unter der Leitung von Hugo von Hofmannsthal h��tte stehen sollen und die Gro��herzog Wilhelm Ernst Schule, h��tten dieselben Ideen der Moderne mit anderen Mitteln transportieren sollen, wie die Gro��herzog Wilhelm Ernst Ausgabe deutscher Klassiker.