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The present diploma thesis concentrates on the usage of inquiry based education in the primary stage of education in the course of teaching science. Attention is firstly given to the students' skills which this type of education utilizes and without which it would be impossible to apply it in practice. These skills are analyzed on a theoretical level and consequently, by means of a didactic test, are practically tested with pupils at primary school level. Another part of the thesis are materials for selected science topics which evolve from the inquiry based education principle. The topics are chosen in accord with the official educational programme of the Czech education systém and contribute towards a more effective educational process and the heightening of the interest of students in science. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

A presente tese trata-se de um estudo de caso, no qual valemo-nos de pesquisas bibliográfica, documental e de campo. Tendo como objeto de estudo as disciplinas filosóficas do Curso de Licenciatura em Geografia do Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia de São Paulo - campus São Paulo (IFSP-SP), objetivamos analisar o papel exercido por estas disciplinas no interior desta Licenciatura para avaliar em que medida elas contribuem no processo formativo de seus estudantes. Para exame dos dados colhidos no IFSP-SP, utilizamos a abordagem qualitativa e a análise de conteúdo dos questionários aplicados junto a um grupo de professores e estudantes deste Curso. Acreditamos que as disciplinas filosóficas propiciam o desenvolvimento não somente de uma cultura geral, que serve de base para a formação específica do professor de Geografia, mas também uma visão totalizante e o rigor metodológico necessário à compreensão do mundo, do papel do professor de Geografia na Educação Básica e o sentido formativo da Educação, a qual deve promover a humanização, a autonomia e a emancipação, recuperando, portanto, a concepção de uma educação política. Embora tenhamos visto que o Projeto de Curso de Licenciatura em Geografia, a matriz curricular e as disciplinas filosóficas contemplam o que é esperado para uma formação docente de qualidade, verificamos que há um comprometimento da finalidade do Curso em função da grande distância entre o Projeto Pedagógico e o Curso em exercício, o que obstaculariza as contribuições das disciplinas filosóficas, impedindo-as de exercer seu papel no processo formativo dos estudantes. / This thesis is a case study, using bibliographic, documentary and field research, which focuses on the philosophical disciplines in the Geography education program at Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia de São Paulo - São Paulo campus (IFSP-SP) and aims to analyze the role played by these disciplines within the teacher licensing program in order to assess the extent to which they contribute to the formation of the students. For examination of the data collected at IFSP-SP, we used a qualitative approach and content analysis of questionnaires completed by a group of professors and students in the Geography education course. We believe that the philosophical disciplines favor the development, not only of a general culture that underlies the specific formation of geography teachers, but also of an overall vision and the methodological rigor necessary for an understanding of the world, the role of the geography teacher in primary and secondary education and the formative role of education, which should promote humanization, autonomy and emancipation, thus recovering the concept of a political education. Although in the plan of for the Geography Education Course, the curriculum and the philosophical disciplines include what is expected for quality teacher formation, it appears that there is an impairment of the purpose of the course due to the great distance between plan for the course and the course as it is actually carried out, a fact which creates obstacles for the contributions of then philosophical disciplines, preventing them from performing their role in the formative process of the students.

O objetivo deste estudo foi verificar a correlação entre tempo de permanência semanal na escola, e o desempenho de crianças com Transtorno do Espectro do Autismo em teste de inteligência não verbal e em habilidades comunicativas e de comportamento. Participaram desse estudo 44 crianças e adolescentes, com idade entre 6 e 12 anos. O protocolo aplicado envolveu: um questionário para o levantamento do perfil escolar, um protocolo para levantamento da severidade das inabilidades comunicativas e de comportamento, e um teste de inteligência não verbal. Todos os participantes estão matriculados em escolas regulares. Dos 44 participantes, 20 não responderam ao teste de inteligência não verbal; assim, eles foram divididos em dois grupos: - Grupo A: 24 participantes avaliados quanto a desempenho em inteligência não verbal e habilidades comunicativas e de comportamento e Grupo B, com 20 participantes avaliados quanto às habilidades comunicativas e de comportamento. Os resultados mostraram, no Grupo A, correlação positiva significativa entre a frequência escolar e a inteligência não verbal, e correlação negativa significativa entre frequência escolar e as inabilidades em linguagem expressiva e pragmática/social. No que diz respeito ao Grupo B houve tendência a correlações negativas em todas as relações, mas significância apenas com relação às inabilidades pragmática/social. De forma geral os resultados de ambos os grupos indicam que crianças com melhores resultados em inteligência não verbal e melhores habilidades de comunicação e comportamento tendem a permanecer mais tempo na escola por semana. Apenas 41% dos participantes permaneciam na escola 100% do tempo previsto em cada semana. A discussão envolve a importância da efetiva inclusão para o desenvolvimento da criança e os instrumentos legais que garantem os direitos de todas as crianças a processos de escolarização adequados / The purpose of this study was to verify the association of the time spent at school per week and the performance of children and adolescents of the autism spectrum in non-verbal intelligence test and communicative and behavior abilities. Participants were 44 children and adolescents with ages between 6 and 12 years. The protocol applied was: a questionnaire to the determination of the school profile, a protocol to the assessment of the severity of the impairments in communication and behavior and a test of non-verbal intelligence. All participants were enrolled in regular schools. Of the 44 participants, 20 didn\'t respond to the non-verbal intelligence test, therefore they were divided in two groups: Group 1: 24 participants, assessed in non-verbal intelligence, behavior and communication abilities and Group B, assessed in communication and behavior abilities. Results have shown, in Group A significant positive correlation between the time spent at school per week and non-verbal intelligence and significant negative correlation regarding impairments in expressive language and social/pragmatic abilities. In what refers to Group B there was a tendency to negative correlations in all associations but it was significant just regarding social pragmatics. The overall results to both groups indicate that children with higher non-verbal intelligence scores and better communication and behavior abilities tend to spend more time at school per week. Only 41% of the participants spent 100% of the predicted time at school every week. Discussion brings the focus to the notions regarding the importance of schooling to the child\'s development and the legal instruments that guarantee the rights of all children to receive adequate schooling processes

O presente estudo tem como objetivo analisar o olhar do professor da Educação Básica sobre ações de promoção da saúde na escola desenvolvidas por licenciandos em enfermagem. Tais ações, atendendo as exigências do Sistema Único de Saúde e das Diretrizes Curriculares do Curso de Enfermagem, podem constituir-se como referência para a criação de espaços compartilhados entre educação e saúde na escola. Constituem-se objetivos específicos da pesquisa: identificar as concepções dos professores sobre promoção da saúde; analisar os significados atribuídos pelos professores às ações dos licenciandos em enfermagem na escola; analisar as relações apresentadas pelos professores entre educação e saúde na escola. Trata-se de um estudo qualitativo de abordagem teórica-metodológica histórico-cultural. Foi desenvolvido em três escolas públicas de uma cidade do interior paulista, denominadas aqui de Escola do Jardim, Escola do Lago e Escola do Bosque. Vinte e oito professores participaram dos encontros de grupo focal, sendo realizados dois em cada escola, com a presença em média de seis professores por encontro. Os dados foram analisados, resultando nas seguintes unidades temáticas: Concepção dos professores sobre promoção da saúde; Papel da escola versus papel dos profissionais da saúde; Práticas educativas dos professores versus práticas educativas dos licenciandos; Parceria possível: educação e saúde. Os resultados indicaram: o conceito de promoção da saúde não faz parte do cotidiano das práticas escolares e tem associação direta com o conceito de saúde ligado à prevenção de doenças, numa visão higienista, indicando necessidade de maior compreensão sobre a noção de saúde e a ampliação de conhecimento sobre seus cuidados; contribuições dos enfermeiros licenciandos em relação aos conhecimentos e metodologia para a educação em saúde; prática de promoção da saúde como uma complementariedade do conhecimento desenvolvido na escola pelos professores contribuindo com a aprendizagem e favorecendo a zona de desenvolvimento proximal dos envolvidos a partir ações pedagógicas planejadas e orientadas numa perspectiva histórico-crítica. Apontam para a importância de elementos mediadores de conhecimento sobre saúde para alunos, familiares e professores, possíveis de serem efetivados na parceria intersetorial de Saúde e Educação / The aim of the present study was to analyze the view of basic education teachers on the health promotion actions developed by nursing undergraduate students at schools. These actions, in compliance with the demands of the Brazilian Unified Health System and the Curricular Guidelines of the Nursing Program, can represent a reference for the creation of shared spaces for education and health at schools. The specific objectives of this study were to identify the conceptions of teachers on health promotion; analyze the meanings attributed by teachers to the actions of the nursing undergraduates at the studied schools; and analyze the relationships presented by the teachers between education and health at the schools. This was a qualitative study, using a historical-cultural theoretical and methodological approach, which was developed in three public schools in a city in the state of São Paulo, hereinafter called Escola do Jardim, Escola do Lago and Escola do Bosque. A total of 28 teachers participated in focus group meetings, with two meetings taking place in each school with the attendance of six teachers per meeting, on average. The data were analyzed, resulting in the following thematic units: Teachers\' conceptions on health promotion; Schools\' role versus health professionals\' role; Educational practices of teachers versus education practices of undergraduates; Possible partnership between education and health. The results showed that the concept of health promotion is not part of the routine of school practices and has a direct association with the health concept, related to the prevention of diseases, from a hygienist perspective, indicating the need for better understanding the notion of health and for broadening knowledge on care; the contributions of nursing undergraduates in relation to the knowledge and methodology of health education; health promotion practice as supplementary knowledge developed at school by the teachers, contributing to learning and favoring the zone of proximal development of those involved based on pedagogical actions that are planned and guided from a historical- critical perspective. Our findings point to the importance of mediating elements for knowledge on the health of students, family members and teachers, which can be developed in an intersectoral partnership between health and education

The aim of this thesis is to defend a reading of Descartes' theory of sensory perception in which, against a widespread interpretation, the mind is not a passive receiver of inputs from the environment, but an active decoder of neural information that contributes to the representational content of ideas. I call this the 'mental activity thesis' and, in the overall picture, I identify it as one of the philosophical implications of the seventeenth-century scientific revolution. Within Descartes' dualism, to offer a theory of sensory perception amounts to describing the interplay between the natural world, the brain, and the mind. Given his mechanistic, micro-corpuscular conception of matter, Descartes developed detailed physiological descriptions of the interaction between external objects and the brain. He envisaged it as an isomorphic relation in which the characteristics of objects are transmitted through the nerves to the brain as patterns of geometrically reduced properties. This process is often read as culminating with the mind being passively affected by a corporeal isomorph. Descartes' doctrine becomes elusive in its mental phase, but the passivity reading, so I contend, remains inadequate. I argue for the mental activity thesis through four claims. First, I subscribe the known view that Descartes is concerned about a version of the mind-body problem that is not equivalent to the problem of substance interaction. It is rather a problem of dissimilarity between mental representations and mechanistic explanations. The question is how the qualitative character of sensory experiences can arise from the quantitative notions of physical science. As a way of emphasising the weight that the problem of dissimilarity has for Descartes' philosophical decisions, I show that it motivates a metaphysically interesting distinction between types of causes for the case of brain-mind interaction. Second, I defend the position that, despite not holding a perfectly unambiguous doctrine, Descartes' introduction of natural signs is the closest that he got to formulating a full-fledged theory of sensory perception. The appeal to natural signs has been normally deemed as metaphorical in the literature. I argue that, on the contrary, it is possible to reconstruct a causal story for brain-mind interaction along the lines of a semantic model based on Descartes' identification of neural events with natural signs. A causal-semantic model emerges as a charitable, plausible reading that reveals the mind as an active interpreter. Third, in light of the mental activity thesis, I read Descartes' late appeal to the innateness of all ideas (notably in the Comments on a Certain Broadsheet) as a strategy to account for a type of representational content needed for sensory ideas that, while produced by the mind, is different from that of his paradigmatic innate ideas. I assist Descartes in exploring how the category of innateness captures mental activity within a causal-semantic theory. Fourth, in the course of this argumentation, and for further support, I address the role of the distinction between primary and secondary qualities in Descartes' theory. I tackle a pervasive objection stemming from his alleged association of the perception of primary qualities with the intellect. By reassessing Descartes' views on mental activity, this interpretation aims at a lucid description of sensory perception that goes beyond the rigid rationalism that is often credited to him.

La baisse de la production et la prolifération des maladies engendrées par le changement climatique dans la caféiculture, particulièrement pour Coffea arabica, conduit à chercher de nouvelles pratiques culturales et étudier la réponse adaptative des caféiers aux modifications environnementales. En se basant sur l’importance des composés phénoliques dans la réponse des plantes aux stress et sur la richesse des caféiers en ces composés antioxydants, la réponse adaptative des caféiers cultivés en plein champ a été étudiée en s’intéressant à l’évolution du contenu des feuilles en ces composés dans différentes conditions de culture simulées par un gradient altitudinal, des cultures sous ombrage ou l’obtention de plants greffés. Les analyses biochimiques montrent que certains composés phénoliques s’accumulent dans les feuilles en réponse à la modification d’un paramètre météorologique spécifique. Ainsi, acides chlorogéniques et flavanols sont plus accumulés en cas de sécheresse alors que les flavonols glycosylés s’accumulent sous forte radiation solaire. La comparaison avec C. canephora permet de valider ces marqueurs. Les analyses transcriptomiques indiquent une différence d’expression des gènes de biosynthèse de ces composés suivant le stade de croissance de la feuille. Elles montrent également que la réponse à la lumière passe par la surexpression de nombreux gènes codant des HSP ainsi que ceux impliqués dans la photosynthèse et la glycosylation des flavonoïdes. Enfin, ces résultats montrent l’intérêt, suivant l’altitude, de l’ombrage et du greffage pour la culture de C. arabica. / The decline in production and the proliferation of diseases caused by climate change in coffee growing, especially for Coffea arabica, leads to search new cultural practices and to study the adaptive response of coffee trees to environmental changes. Based on the importance of phenolic compounds in the response of plants to stress and the richness of coffee in these antioxidant compounds, the adaptive response of coffee grown in the field was studied by looking at the evolution of the leaf content in these compounds under different culture conditions simulated by an altitudinal gradient, shaded cultures or obtaining grafted plants. Biochemical analyzes show that certain phenolic compounds accumulate in the leaves in response to the modification of a specific meteorological parameter. Thus, chlorogenic acids and flavanols are more accumulated in case of drought while glycosylated flavonols accumulate under strong solar radiation. The comparison with C. canephora validates these markers. Transcriptomic analyzes indicate a difference in expression of the biosynthesis genes of these compounds according to the stage of growth of the leaf. They also show that the response to light is the overexpression of many genes encoding HSPs as well as those involved in photosynthesis and flavonoid glycosylation. Finally, these results show the interest, according to altitude, of shading and grafting for the cultivation of C. arabica.

In this paper we combine ideas from cutting plane and interior point methods in order to solve variational inequality problems efficiently. In particular, we introduce a general framework that incorporates nonlinear as well as linear "smarter" cuts. These cuts utilize second order information on the problem through the use of a gap function. We establish convergence as well as complexity results for this framework. Moreover, in order to devise more practical methods, we consider an affine scaling method as it applies to symmetric, monotone variationalinequality problems and demonstrate its convergence. Finally, in order to further improve the computational efficiency of the methods in this paper, we combine the cutting plane approach with the affine scaling approach.