A práxis Educativa no Contexto de Grupos de Discipulado na Igreja Comunidade da Graça

O texto é uma pesquisa teórica que busca apresentar as implicações da práxis educativa no contexto dos grupos de discipulado da Igreja Comunidade da Graça. O objetivo do estudo é analisar e identificar o discipulado como função educativa no contexto da Igreja Local. A abordagem da significação teológica e eclesiástica é oriunda das obras de Dietrich Bonhoeffer e Karl Barth. O enfoque educativo é fundamentado na obra de Thomas Groome. Dessa forma, se estabelece uma perspectiva teológica e outra educativa diante do objeto de estudo. Objetiva-se informar a respeito do diálogo entre a teoria do discipulado e sua prática na igreja local. Apresenta-se as teorias para a significação teológica do discipulado, bem como, uma teoria para sua contextualização no campo da educação cristã, buscando semelhanças e diferenças entre estas e a prática na Igreja Comunidade da Graça sede, em São Paulo. A metodologia usada é a comparativa, buscando desenvolver um diálogo entre teoria e prática, com o objetivo de salientar reflexões a respeito dessa práxis. Consta-se em síntese que, a prática dos grupos de discipulado na Igreja Comunidade da Graça apresenta limitações, bem como, contribuições para a práxis educativa cristã.(AU)

INTELIGÊNCIAS EMOCIONAIS E ENSINO SUPERIOR: uma leitura a partir da percepção de professores de um curso de administração.

As Inteligências Emocionais (IEs) têm sido objeto de estudo e discussão nos últimos quinze anos. Todavia, escassos são os estudos científicos, sobremaneira no campo da educação, voltados para o entendimento dos desafios e possibilidades das IEs no cenário do ensino superior. O modelo newtoniano-cartesiano, assumido por setores dominantes de nossa cultura de forma racionalista e reducionista, vem se estabelecendo desde tempos remotos, mais especificamente a partir do século XVI, avançando até os tempos atuais e trazendo muitas marcas para os diferentes campos da cultura ocidental, inclusive para a educação. Como características deste modelo, passíveis de crítica, estão a fragmentação do conhecimento, o foco na especialização e, a instituição de uma relação pedagógica dominadora e não dialogal que negligencia as múltiplas inteligências desenvolvidas e presentes nos indivíduos. Essas características contribuíram para o estabelecimento de uma sociedade de conhecimentos parcelares, para a disjunção entre sujeito e objeto, o descuido nas relações do homem para consigo mesmo, dele para com os demais homens e, dele para com os demais seres vivos que cohabitam o planeta, culminando numa intensa crise planetária. Urge discutir e rever o paradigma newtoniano-cartesiano, dado ao fato de que os resultados colhidos nestes últimos quinhentos anos, se por um lado nos beneficiaram do ponto de vista científico e tecnológico, não mais respondem aos problemas e necessidades com os quais nos deparamos, de modo especial na educação. Delimito esta pesquisa no âmbito do Ensino Superior e, no interior deste, no campo dos estudos de graduação em Administração. As perguntas que motivam o meu trabalho são: 1. Os professores do Curso de Administração consideram as dimensões emocionais em seu trabalho docente? 2. Eles sabem o que são IEs? 3. Que dificuldades eles vêem para desenvolver um trabalho com as dimensões emocionais? 4. Eles vêem possibilidades positivas no trabalho com as IEs? 5. Que pistas as respostas às perguntas acima sugerem à formação continuada de professores no campo da Administração? 6. Ao planejar e organizar suas aulas o professor tem vista o trabalho com a dimensão afetiva? Para fazer a crítica da educação construída na perspectiva newtoniano-cartesiana assumi como referências principais Morin (1995, 2000), Santos (1988) e Moraes (1997). Para estudar a construção do conhecimento considerando as IEs tomei como referências para esta pesquisa Gardner (1995), Izquierdo (2002) e Valle (2003). Foi realizada uma pesquisa de campo com seis (6) professores de um Curso de Administração, mediante um questionário estruturado. O objetivo desta pesquisa foi identificar as principais dificuldades dos docentes quando se pensa num trabalho pedagógico sensível às inteligências emocionais e, estudando estas dificuldades à luz dos teóricos por mim trazidos, construírem possíveis pistas para uma ação formativa, na perspectiva da formação continuada, que considere também o determinante das inteligências emocionais.(AU)

Cenário da produção acadêmica em história da matemática no ensino de matemática: uma análise reflexiva das teses e dissertações (1990-2010)

This research aims to make a reflective analysis about the academic production originated in the stricto sensu post graduation programs in the country, produced in the period of 1990 to 2010, in the field of History of Mathematics, especifically on works about the History of Mathematics in Mathematics education and that present pedagogical proposals that make use of the History of Mathematics in order to teach Mathematics. Defending the thesis that the researches on mathematics education with goals turned to the use of didactic proposals related to the history of mathematic that take in consideration the coherency between epistemological aspects inherent to mathematics history and anthological elements materialized on the conceptions of mathematics and mathematics history and of apprenticeship (implicitly or explicitly exposed) may originate significant contribution to the field of history of mathematics on education. Among these, nine were Master’s Degree dissertations and five PHD’s theses. The reflective analysis was accomplished from two matrixes; one from theoretical nature and the other, ontologic nature, elaborated from the pretexts of Sanches Gamboa, about the epistemological analysis from academic production in the field of Mathematics Education and the following theoretical perspectives in the field of History of Mathematics Education, that are: linear evolutionary theory, structural construtivist operative, evolutionary discontinuous, historical and socialcultural investigation and the use of activities estimulating the usage of verbal and nonverbal expressions. These perspectives were based on the works of Miguel and Miorim, Mendes and Radford. As results, we have detected some established dissonances between the categories related to theoretical and ontologic levels and the pedagogical proposal presented in these researches. On the other hand, we have discovered works that are able to establish consonances between the theoretical and ontological elements and the presented pedagogical proposal. These works carry significative contributions to the field of History of Mathematics applied to Mathematics pedagogical practice, inclusively presenting significative theoretical elements to the production of knowledge recognized as scientific in the Mathematics field

Do amanhecer ao crepúsculo: o ambiente inteiro por minhas narrativas

The matrix of this dissertation research permeates the design of complex environmental education. Its purpose is the realistic utopia of sustainability focused on the elucidation of a cultural model, a way of life that can guarantee the preservation of the living and non-living wight, to compose a world in which all coexist in harmony. To do so, thinking that model permeates the understanding that we are nature. This understanding can be evidenced both in Karl Marx in his book, the Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts says: "Nature is the essential body of the human being", and Joël de Rosnay, in his book The Symbiotic Man explains that we humans, "are the neurons of the earth." In this same perspective, Elisabet Sahtouris, in his book The Dance of the Earth, has pointed out how little is accurate to say that "there is life on Earth," because we are knowledgeable that our planet is a living organism, then there is the "life of the Earth ". Thus, we are part of this life, we are a part of the whole. With long experience in the environmental field, I seek the collective understanding that environmental education is a process belonging to all areas of knowledge, while margins for its subdivision occasion that begins the role of librarian I am, as a mediator of educational, cultural process, and disseminate information, is an environmental educator. Research conducted lead me to propose a revision of values and attitudes, from a certain reorganization of thought, an ecology of ideas and action, evidenced by readings of education and complexity, especially tuned to the writings of Edgar Morin. This thesis makes use of metaphor as a cognitive operator to emphasize the solar cycle, linking it to the development stages of this work. In summary, we have as a goal to emphasize the importance of the human condition, respect for nature and the principle of natural, cultural and social interdependence. In order for us to have a society that values relationships of solidarity with each other, respect and gratitude for living beings and Mother Earth. What leads me to converge, the reframing of the environment, understanding it as Integer Environment

A hora da alfabetização: atores, ideias e instituições na construção do PAIC-CE

The objective of this thesis is to understand how a certain social condition becomes relevant enough to be regarded as an issue worthy of government action and how certain proposed initiatives prevail while others are discarded. More specifically, the goal is to discuss public policy for education and check whether the analytical models employed are significant enough to explain how the literacy issue became part of the policy agenda of the government of the State of Ceará in Brazil, and how the Literacy Program at the Right Age (PAIC) developed over time. From the empirical perspective about public policy for education in Brazil, this is a relevant case when one takes into account that, historically, the literacy policies are focused on teenagers and adults, implying a lack of specific initiatives towards children at the proper age of learning to read and write. In order to understand what drove this issue to the top of the state government agenda, this thesis is primarily based on the literature about public policy analysis, with focus on the agenda setting process and development of proposals. A hybrid approach is used, combining analytical tools from Kingdon’s Multiple Streams Model (1995), the Advocacy Coalition Framework by Sabatier and Jenkins Smith (1993) and the historical new institutionalism lens. The research method is qualitative and based on the single case study method. The data set was assembled from institutional PAIC-related documents, tachygraphy notes from sessions at Ceará’s State House of Representatives, press clippings, academic studies and interviews with key participants from several organizations. The conclusion of this thesis is that, given the complexity of the case in point, the combination of the three analytical methods is adequate and necessary to understanding the multiple drivers for this issue to have entered Ceará’s state government agenda and the design of the PAIC itself. Particularly relevant are the ideas and the policy entrepreneurs, the processes of problem recognition for the composition of a wide coalition and for the specification of alternatives, and the path dependence of the education policy in Ceará. This study adds, as a result, to a better understanding of the stages that make up the agenda setting in public policy, in particular in the field of education.

A hora da alfabetização: atores, ideias e instituições na construção do PAIC-CE

The objective of this thesis is to understand how a certain social condition becomes relevant enough to be regarded as an issue worthy of government action and how certain proposed initiatives prevail while others are discarded. More specifically, the goal is to discuss public policy for education and check whether the analytical models employed are significant enough to explain how the literacy issue became part of the policy agenda of the government of the State of Ceará in Brazil, and how the Literacy Program at the Right Age (PAIC) developed over time. From the empirical perspective about public policy for education in Brazil, this is a relevant case when one takes into account that, historically, the literacy policies are focused on teenagers and adults, implying a lack of specific initiatives towards children at the proper age of learning to read and write. In order to understand what drove this issue to the top of the state government agenda, this thesis is primarily based on the literature about public policy analysis, with focus on the agenda setting process and development of proposals. A hybrid approach is used, combining analytical tools from Kingdon’s Multiple Streams Model (1995), the Advocacy Coalition Framework by Sabatier and Jenkins Smith (1993) and the historical new institutionalism lens. The research method is qualitative and based on the single case study method. The data set was assembled from institutional PAIC-related documents, tachygraphy notes from sessions at Ceará’s State House of Representatives, press clippings, academic studies and interviews with key participants from several organizations. The conclusion of this thesis is that, given the complexity of the case in point, the combination of the three analytical methods is adequate and necessary to understanding the multiple drivers for this issue to have entered Ceará’s state government agenda and the design of the PAIC itself. Particularly relevant are the ideas and the policy entrepreneurs, the processes of problem recognition for the composition of a wide coalition and for the specification of alternatives, and the path dependence of the education policy in Ceará. This study adds, as a result, to a better understanding of the stages that make up the agenda setting in public policy, in particular in the field of education.

Plano de desenvolvimento sustentável e articulação de políticas públicas: o controle de políticas ambientais pelo poder judiciário

The right to the preservation of a healthy environment is perceived as a Fundamental Right, inserted in the National Constitution and referring to present and future generations. The preservation of the environment is directly connected to the right to Health and Human Dignity and, therefore, must be treated as a personal right, unavailable, claiming for a positive response from the Brazilian State, through the development of related public policies, control of potentially harmful economic activities, with special focus on the principles of precaution and solidarity. The Brazilian judiciary must thus be attentive to the guardianship of the Fundamental Right. The judiciary control over the execution of public policies is based on obeying the principle of the separation, independence and harmony between the Powers, however it should never deviate from the constitutional obligation of caring for the effectivation of the rights and guarantees within the Magna Carta. In the balance between the principle of human dignity, from which springs the right to a healthy environment and the principle of separation of powers, the former should prevail, maintaining the latter to a core minimum.

Oficina educomunicativa de produção de vídeos: construção de significados sobre problemas socioambientais

This research aims to analyze the meaning making by Elementary Education students from public schools of Uberlândia (Minas Gerais, Brazil) about the social and environmental problems of their surroundings as of audiovisual reading and expression skills. The theoretical framework is based on constructivism, through the study of contributions about: cognitive development; meaningful learning; cognitive processes and types of knowledge; principles of learning with technology; educommunication focused on critical media literacy; and critical environmental education. The study object is a video production workshop organized in nine meetings, from September to November 2015, attended by 15 students. The following data collection instruments were used: the materials produced by the participants, specifically guided critical media literacy, agenda, script and final video; researcher observations from his role as a mediator; and focal interviews. The analysis was divided into two axes: procedural knowledge – technical skills of critical media literacy and production; and conceptual and metacognitive knowledge – representation of social and environmental problems and metacognitive skills of critical media literacy. Data were coded in the form of a skill evaluation rubric and also in the form of graphs. Thus, despite the time constraints, it is inferred that the workshop helped students to deepen their understanding about the discussed content, which is reinforced by observing in the graphs how the constant progressive differentiation of more inclusive concepts occurred along the meetings. It is further considered that the workshop contributed to the students reflect on their way of learning through critical use of techniques of media literacy and production, which can be seen from the satisfactory learners performance in most elements evaluated by the rubrics, as well as from the success in identifying interlocutors, values and actions in the read and built texts, something revealed by the graphs.

Narrativas em (re)construção : biografias de mulheres em processo de alfabetização e letramento no Instituto federal de Brasília

Dissertação apresentada para a obtenção do grau de mestre na especialidade de Educação Social e Intervenção Comunitária

Examples of “land stewarship” in Brazil. The “Projecto Sempre Viva” (Mucugê-Bahia)

In recent years the concept of "Land Stewardship" has gained a great importance. In short, it means that local entities and individuals can protect enclave of high ecological and cultural value. This vision has been effective in some places in the world with success. For example, the “Projeto Sempre Viva”, created in the town of Mucugê, a place located in one of Brazil´s most renowned Natural Protected Areas: the Chapada Diamantina (State of Bahia). We had looked over the available information about this project on the Internet, as well as a personal visit that was made to the site to know it and to have the possibility to talk to their managers. On this basis, it has been reached to the conclusion that this project, born to protect a Sempre Viva´s endemic species in danger of extinction, has turned into an important site for tourism and environmental education, completed with the preservation of the cultural identity of this region which is linked to diamond mining.

Serviço Social Escolar em Portugal

O Serviço Social Escolar é um campo de acção que ao longo de quase 40 anos tem uma trajectória significativa, tendo sofrido algumas vicissitudes no seu percurso influenciado pelo contexto social político e económico e pelas relações Estado/Mercado. Este estudo vai no sentido de fazer uma análise ao processo de institucionalização do Serviço Social Escolar em Portugal nas décadas de 60 e 70, em que se privilegiam as trajectórias e dinâmicas da prática profissional das Assistentes Sociais na área da Educação, ao nível dos ensinos primários, preparatórios e secundários, e mais especificamente da prática profissional das Assistentes Sociais do Ministério da Educação, da Zona Centro do País. Está dividido em duas partes fundamentais, acompanhando a primeira de1960 até 1974 e a segunda parte após o período da Revolução de 25 de Abril de 1974 até ao período de Normalização Democrática de 1976 a 1980. Procura-se apreender e compreender a relação entre o Serviço Social, políticas sociais, de acção social escolar, a sociedade portuguesa, as correntes de pensamento e as influências que se fizeram sentir no Serviço Social Escolar, identificando problemas e posicionamentos das Assistentes Sociais na dinâmica sócio-histórico e no Instituto de Acção Social Escolar, nos períodos em análise. Com este trabalho pretende-se abrir o debate sobre este campo de acção na actualidade e restituir ao Serviço Social Escolar o papel fundamental de mediador nos processos de regulação no campo da educação, num trabalho em parceria e numa transversalidade de competências e saberes com todos os parceiros da comunidade educativa e com a sociedade em geral, na defesa pelos direitos humanos e ampliação do estatuto de cidadania, por uma escola para todos e de qualidade.

O desenvolvimento profissional docente em discussão

This collection is the result of theoretical considerations made in the education field with emphasis on the teacher’s professional development. The diversity of authors, which came from distinctive higher education institutions located in Brazil and some arising from international context, reveals a multiplicity of relations between the themes that blend the centrality of “Rede de Aprendizado em Foco”. The studies and researches are organized around three themes: teacher’s learning in initial training and professional integration; teacher learning’s evaluations process and policies; and teacher’s professional development. The professionality’s formation in a period of deep and complex transformations in the social and educational scenarios is projected as a big challenge, especially when it is understood that a person is not born as a teacher, but it is constituted as such by processes that occur over a long period. The contact with the professional practice stands as an essential element in the context of teacher training, which in the course of professional learning experience different stages of training. The one that should be highlighted would be the learning moments that involve teaching’s practices. Thus, the main point of this work was based on the reflection of the teacher’s formative processes from the initial training to the professional development going through the teaching practice, which is considered as the beginning of the relationship between theoretical and practical knowledge in the context of educational reality and reporting formative experiences that have contributed to this training.

Narrativas em (re)construção : biografias de mulheres em processo de alfabetização e letramento no Instituto federal de Brasília

Dissertação apresentada para a obtenção do grau de mestre na especialidade de Educação Social e Intervenção Comunitária

Os visitantes do parque Biológico de Gaia

Nascido em 1983, o Parque Biológico de Gaia (PBG) é das primeiras instituições de Educação Ambiental (EA) criadas em Portugal que se tem dedicado a desenvolver atividades de EA de forma articulada com as escolas ou alargadas a públicos diversificados que visitam o parque de forma autónoma. O PBG tem restaurado espaços naturais e humanizados – como as antigas quintas – promovendo a conservação da paisagem e contribuindo para assegurar o equilíbrio ecológico ao mesmo tempo que desenvolve um plano educativo constante para sensibilizar a população para os problemas ambientais e estimular comportamentos mais sustentáveis. Foi nesta instituição que realizamos o nosso estágio curricular do mestrado em Educação Ambiental da Escola Superior de Educação do Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, entre 5 de fevereiro e 18 de maio de 2016. O presente Relatório apresenta o trabalho desenvolvido, com particular destaque para os resultados da investigação sobre as práticas de Educação Ambiental concretizadas pela instituição. As técnicas utilizadas na recolha de dados foram a observação, a análise documental e o inquérito por questionário. Consideraram-se os Relatórios de Contas desde 2010 e analisou-se um questionário de satisfação aplicado pelo PBG, referente aos anos de 2012 a 2015; além disso, criou-se um questionário para conhecer as perceções dos visitantes sobre as práticas de Educação Ambiental, que foi aplicado durante visitas livres ao PBG efetuado no período de estágio. Os dados foram tratados numa perspetiva estatística descritiva, tendo os dados qualitativos sido previamente sujeitos a análise de conteúdo. Recorreu-se à utilização do software Microsoft Excel. Os resultados mostram uma opinião francamente positiva sobre o PBG por parte dos visitantes, que os quais valorizam a qualidade ambiental do Parque, as atividades para crianças e reconhecem que ganharam interesse pelo Ambiente após o contacto com o PBG. Um bom indicador dessa apreciação é que uma larga maioria de visitantes pensa voltar e aconselha a visita. Outro dado interessante obtido foi que várias respostas referem o contacto com o PBG enquanto crianças e jovens. Do ponto de vista pessoal, o estágio foi um desafio importante, permitiu-nos confrontar os conhecimentos teóricos com a realidade e adquirir uma experiência profissional relevante.