A competência informacional de graduandos de biblioteconomia da região sudeste: um enfoque nos processos de busca e uso ético da informação

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Um (in)visible College na América Latina: Cecília Meireles, Gabriela Mistral e Victoria Ocampo

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

Formação inicial de professores: uma análise da experiência do Campus da UFPA de Breves/Marajó

A presente Dissertação intitulada, „”Formação inicial de professores: uma análise da experiência do Campus da UFPA de Breves/Marajó” tem como finalidade investigar a política de formação de professores, tendo como questão de pesquisa: A formação inicial de professores do curso de Pedagogia da Universidade Federal do Pará, a partir da Interiorização em específico do Campus de Breves/Marajó estabelece uma conexão com a realidade dos sujeitos em formação, com vistas a sua atuação de forma crítica no exercício da docência? Partimos da perspectiva de que a análise sobre a formação de professores pressupõe considerarmos a conjuntura e estrutura social vigente. Assim sendo, fundamentou-se nas bases teórico-metodológicas do materialismo histórico dialético para relacionar o singular com a totalidade social, buscando compreender o objeto de pesquisa em questão, em suas determinações históricas contraditórias. A pesquisa se caracteriza como um estudo de caso tendo como lócus de investigação a Universidade Federal do Pará, Campus de Breves/Marajó. Para realização da pesquisa foi utilizado documentos que constituem a base legal que orientam as determinações para formação do professor da educação básica em nível superior. Também, para a apreensão da totalidade, utilizaram-se documentos elaborados pelo Grupo de Trabalho de Formação de Professores da ANPED, além de pesquisas produzidas no âmbito deste GT, bem como documentos institucionais da UFPA, como o Documento do Programa REUNI, Relatórios da Unidade pesquisada, entre os anos de 2009 a 2012 e o Projeto Curricular do Curso de Pedagogia. Com objetivo de analisar se a formação recebida estabelece uma conexão com a realidade dos sujeitos em formação, com vistas a sua atuação de forma crítica no exercício da docência, realizou-se entrevistas com egressos do curso de Pedagogia dos anos de 1995 a 2006. De forma não conclusiva, considera-se que a Formação Inicial de Professores a partir da Interiorização da UFPA foi ofertada sob condições precarizadas, provocada pelo falta de recursos para materialização das ações. Mesmo tendo sido redimensionada pelo Programa REUNI, a Formação Inicial de Professores da Interiorização apresenta dificuldades para ofertar um ensino de qualidade com vista à atuação crítica do egresso no campo de atuação do trabalho docente.

Um (in)visible college na América Latina: Cecília Meireles, Gabriela Mistral e Victoria Ocampo

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

Weight concerns scale applied to college students: comparison between pencil-and-paper and online formats

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)

Seroepidemiological analysis of toxoplasmosis in college students

Background Toxoplasmosis is a zoonosis caused by an obligate intracellular parasite, Toxoplasma gondii, which affects warm-blooded animals including humans. Its prevalence rates usually vary in different regions of the planet. Methods In this study, an analysis of the seroprevalence of toxoplasmosis among Brazilian students was proposed by means of IgG specific antibodies detection. The presence of anti-Toxoplasma gondiiantibodies by indirect fluorescent antibody test (IFAT) was also evaluated in order to compare it with enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) and to assess the use of 2,2′-azinobis(3-ethylbenzothiazoline-6-sulfonic acid) and o-phenylenediamine dihydrochloride chromogens. Results The IFAT method showed a seroprevalence of 22.3%. These results were similar to those obtained by ELISA (24.1%). The seroprevalence was directly estimated from the IgG avidity, which showed that in a sample of 112 students, three of them had acute infection, an incidence of 1.6% in the studied population. Conclusion In this study, the use of different chromogenic substrates in immunoenzymatic ELISA assays did not display different sensitivity in the detection of T. gondii-reagent serum. The extrapolation of results to this population must be carefully considered, since the investigation was conducted on a reduced sample. However, it allows us to emphasize the importance of careful and well prepared studies to identify risk factors for toxoplasmosis, to adopt preventive measures and to offer guidance to at-risk populations about the disease.

Undergraduate Scholarship in the College of Arts and Sciences Book of Abstracts 2010

The College of Arts and Sciences proudly presents the eighth issue of the Book of Abstracts, which highlights the work conducted by students in collaboration with faculty mentors. This collection of abstracts represents many hours of scholarly activity in which students further developed their research, critical thinking, and writing skills and engaged in learning well beyond the classroom.

Undergraduate Scholarship in the College of Arts and Sciences 2011 Book of Abstracts

The College of Arts and Sciences proudly presents Undergraduate Scholarship in the College of Arts and Sciences Book of Abstracts, our ninth annual issue documenting the work conducted by students in collaboration with their faculty mentors. As you will see by the depth and variety of the projects, these students successfully used their research, critical thinking, and writing skills to produce scholarship that has been recognized by the larger scholarly community.

Undergraduate Scholarship in the College of Arts and Sciences 2008 Book of Abstracts

The College of Arts and Sciences proudly presents Undergraduate Scholarship in the College of Arts and Sciences, our sixth Book of Abstracts that features the scholarship conducted in the college by our students in collaboration with faculty mentors. In the above quote, Ralph Waldo Emerson goes on to say the following: “The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself.” Indeed, the high level of scholarship reflected in this book is a testament to the students’ development as scholars and the effective mentorship provided by the Winthrop faculty as they share in the practice of their disciplines.

Undergraduate Scholarship in the College of Arts and Sciences Book of Abstracts 2009 Book of Abstracts

The College of Arts and Sciences proudly presents the seventh Book of Abstracts, highlighting the undergraduate scholarship conducted by students in collaboration with faculty mentors. This collection of abstracts represents many hours of scholarly activity in which students further developed their research, critical thinking, and writing skills and engaged in learning well beyond the classroom. We congratulate the students and their faculty mentors for the quality of their work and their willingness to share it with the academic community through publications in refereed journals and presentations at regional, national, and international meetings. We also thank Evan Adams for editing the abstracts and Chris Richter, a visual communication design major, for designing the cover and producing the book.