Repositório RCAAP

The mediumistic relationship between W. B. Yeats and his wife George (née Hyde Lees) is an important guide to the creative work produced by the Irish poet after their marriage in 1917. Their unusual collaboration illuminates the esoteric philosophy expounded in the two very different versions of Yeats’s book A Vision (1925 and 1937). It is also theoretically interesting in itself, not only in the early period when the automatic experiments produced the ‘system’ expounded in A Vision, but also in the 1920s and 1930s, when the Yeatses' relationship had matured into an astonishingly productive mature partnership. By analysing symbols the Yeatses themselves used to conceive of their joint work, particularly the symbolic structures and constructed selves of the collaborators, and particularly in the later period, this essay attempts to engage with the authors’ own terminology and understanding as a method for reading their joint authorship.

In this article, I argue that whereas Lewis Carroll builds the fantastic world of Alice’s dreams primarily through narration, Hans Christian Andersen uses patterns of lexical choices that recur throughout his opus to build a universe divided solely in terms of a distinction between what is genuine and what is artificial; and this distinction is a central player in all of his work. Arguably, therefore, attention to Andersen’s wider corpus, and to his use of lexis in it, are key to producing translations of Andersen’s work that reflect its essence.

In this paper I explore the potential of a corpus stylistic approach to the study of literary translation. The study focuses on translation of children’s literature with its specific constrains, and illustrates with two corpus linguistic techniques: keyword and cluster analysis — specific cases of repetition. So in a broader sense the paper discusses the phenomenon of repetition in different literary (stylistic) traditions. These are illustrated by examples from two children’s classics aimed at two different age groups: the Harry Potter and the Winnie the Pooh books — and their translations into Czech. Various shifts in translation, especially in the translation of children’s literature, are often explained by the operation of so-called ‘translation universals’. Though ‘repetition’ as such does not belong to the commonly discussed set of translation universals, the stylistic norms opposing repetition seem to be a strong explanation for the translation shifts identified.  

The objective of this paper is to provide the reader a meeting with a fictional situation composed in the shape of intermezzo, that is, improvised interval between two musical pieces. Through a cut-off in an unfolding of the so-called Russell's paradox, the intention is to get the reader to dismantle himself between the lines of this crooked and dissonant musical piece, in order to compose with it his/her own interpretations about the mathematics teacher training math, as well as all the ramifications that this theme can unfold. A meeting with fingers, trying to capture notes at the infinite speed of an ever-unfinished work. A dip in tangled lines, vibrating notes, wish-seekers, always lurking for escape lines.

In the mid-2000s, Federal Universities, through their own resolutions, began a process of reserving vacancies for students from public schools. The federal government enacted law 12,711/2012 which reserves 50% of vacancies in public Universities to students of public schools. So, this research aims to analyze if the public policy of quotas brought material equality to competitors to a vacancy in federal universities. Therefore, a qualitative and descriptive research was done through the data provided by the Ministry of Education and Culture (MEC), the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) and the National Institute of Studies and Educational Research Anísio Teixeira (INEP). The data confirmed the significant increase in the university banks of students graduating from the public school system. As a result, law 12,711/2012 has proved to be an instrument of inclusion for public school students in Brazil.

A research in Mathematical Education bet on an inventive cognitive policy and on non-dogmatic thinking as a way of looking at the variance present in the immanence of living. It brought an experimentation as a circus device - aerial tissue trapped in an avocado tree - that made geometries and existences arise. Strings and notebooks and photos made the language and mathematics drag, which stuttered. Modes of operating with invented geometries were born in the disarrangement of the arrangement. Alongside this, formative processes in invention with fabric, with string, with laughter, with risks, with knowledge-taste were produced with geometries. Adolescents and graduating teachers risking to lose themselves in their territories, in the falling of their faces and their many meanings in the processual forming, invent themselves with invented geometries. The mapping of the vivid processing of these formative processes was compounded by a policy of narrativity that was inspired by the attachment game of the white clown and Auguste and the philosophies of differences.

In this article, using a phenomenological approach, looking through the affective traits of the characters in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, possible relations with Mathematics are sought. The peculiarities of each character and their particular quests make it clear, in this classic story of mass culture, the personification of certain affects, putting them in a prominent position which justifies the consideration of a coexistence in the ambit of teaching and learning Mathematics. Perceptions, fears, concepts and beliefs emerge from the reading of each of the characters – Oz and his different facets; Dorothy and the purpose; Scarecrow and Being Unintelligent; Tinman and the Feelings; Cowardly Lion and Fear – and unite to a plot of theoretical discussions that allow thoughts over questions regarding Mathematics.

This article has as scope to entangle in the strangeness of a dissertation titled: Stories of a (re)research in a school of the field with teachers who teach Mathematics. To do so, the article rubs the fiction of some parts of the dissertation: in the first act there are four episodes with interventions and in the second act, documents are presented on Field Education and it is discussed how Mathematics Education has rubbed itself from/with/with/for Field Education. In this way, the strands drawn here are entangled in the tangle of a Dissertation that finds in fiction a way of rubbing some events/strangles experienced by a (re)search in the existential territories of lives.

potentialities of mobilizing fictional narratives in (and to the) research in Mathematics Education, showing how these narratives were present in our researches, allowing problematization and theorization as much as reflect and materialize a form of writing that communicate what was said in the text. To do this, we analyze understandings that a research group defends and exercises about scientific aesthetics, the forms of presentations of the work, and the ways as the arts, particularly the literature, may be present viscerally in research in Mathematics Education, taking as an example an exercise in writing of a (fictional) narrative.

This article analyzes the relationship between cross-border pacts and protocols in the area of health and the performance of political actors in two sets of twin cities that are on the Brazil-Uruguay border. The study aims to understand the role of the public health care managers and their leadership in providing services at the local level, considering binational acts. The managers of the local health care system were interviewed and among the results are the difficulties in the local materialization of the binational agreements, and the consequent stagnation in providing access to rights related to health, due to lack of leadership of the local political actors. Crossborder cooperative management models are not consolidated, which requires competence to obtain minimum consensus on controversial points when the management perspective is democratic and universalistic.

Este texto enfatiza a questão da construção de um referencial de memória influenciada pelas mudanças de um ambiente cotidiano. Trata o tema das ruínas urbanas, usando alguns exemplos arquitetônicos no cenário de Florianópolis. A ponte Hercílio Luz em seu estado atual, interditada é o caso mais importante. Mesmo em desuso, continua sendo um grande elemento referencial urbano.

In this paper we present a reflection upon the hands-on approach in a set of acoustics experiments built for a thematic room in a university scientific show. We discuss the intentions behind the experiment under the influence of one of the pioneers hands-on museum and how this approach demands from the explainer a particular attitude towards the audience. We also bring empirical data from the audience feedback on the experiments.

Paul Karl Feyerabend was one of the most influential epistemologists of science in the twentieth century and his influence seems only to increase in the 21st century. Author of classics of the modern philosophy of science as Against Method and Farewell to Reason, the philosopher left for his posthumous book, The Conquest of Abundance, an in-depth discussion of the theme of realism. The present article is prepared to bring precisely this approach made in Conquest of abundance, as well as in essays, about the reality, that Feyerabend published in the period that wrote the book, in a didactic and clear way. Also, one will try to discuss how from Feyerabend's understanding of the theme of realism one can glimpse possible implications of these questions, both in scientific education and in research in physics teaching. Where a possible conclusion is that belief in a fixed, immutable, universal and independent reality of the subject may be inadequate with the assumptions of Theory of Meaningful Learning Critical.

Within the scope of the Republican Revival, there is a renewed interest in Roman political thought. Formulations based on the republican tradition of political thought have entered the field of Political Theory since the neo-Roman argument was included in the debate on the concept of freedom. Correlated to this initial movement, republicanism is being employed to tackle an increasing of theoretical dilemmas. One currently debated topic is the role republicanism assigns to the democratic element in its political models. The aim of this paper is to analyze three key authors of Roman political thought – Cicero, Sallust and Lyvi – and their respective understandings of the role of the people and the democratic element in the political dynamics of Rome. I intend to convince the reader that modern interpretations may be making a mistake by seeking among these authors a clear justification for establishing the people as the protagonists of the political process.

The university rankings have gained importance in the international and national scenario and constitute one of the performance analysis mechanisms of the universities. This research analyzes the performance of 29 Brazilian universities rated at the Leiden, Shanghai, QS and THE rankings. The results obtained allowed to conclude that the Brazilian universities performances is very good, especially in terms of the amount of scientific output, however, the impact, measured by the citations, still constitutes a vast challenge. The amount of papers at the journals Nature and Science, as well as the international collaboration, are strategies that can expand the impact and pave the way for reaching better positions at these rankings.

Este artigo configura-se como um arcabouço de intenções. É a ossatura principal de uma pesquisa que se inicia. Nele estão esboçadas as preocupações primeiras, as pertinências, inquietações que me conduzem para a temática, o recorte e a abordagem. Procuro então lançar “luzes” sobre a imagem da cidade histórica que o município de Laguna apresenta na atualidade, caminhando pelos discursos que constroem esta identidade e sua interface que vê, nessa imagem, o espelho do atraso, a falta do desenvolvimento econômico. Assim busco um contraponto noutro período, o limiar do século XX, que sugere ter sido um momento de prosperidade, ou pelo menos, de uma discursividade que a vislumbrava, para analisar como se produziu a inversão de sua imagem, de um pólo econômico para uma “cidade histórica”.

There is a lack of academic research on international law with interdisciplinary methodological tools, particularly on international legal compliance from the theories of international relations. In view of this, we sought to analyze the phenomenon of the international legal compliance, according to the central arguments of the realist paradigm of international relations. It was observed that for realism the international legal compliance depends on the level of coercion of its mechanisms determined by the relations of power and the asymmetries of international relations.

This paper presents a discussion on the political formation in a German immigrants community in southern Brazil, more precisely in the city of Santa Cruz do Sul, which is located 200 km away from Porto Alegre, the capital of Rio Grande do Sul. The period analyzed is from 1889, which represents the Republic implementation, to 1965, the year when the second Institutional Act was instituted, within the Military Regime context. Based on a literature review on the local political history, supported by journalistic and institutional sources as well as electoral database of Santa Cruz do Sul, it is intended to describe the local politics dynamic into four parts: the first, analyses the fragility of the local democratic culture and its tendency to authoritarianism and conservatism; the second, approaches the relations between politics and religion in the First Republic; the third, characterizes the electoral continuity and conservatism , which was perpetuated after the Revolution of 1930; the fourth, describes the local elite position towards the legality movement as well as in relation to the military regime implementation.

Einstein’s cosmological constant, introduced by him as a strategy to keep his model of the universe as static, has been considered one of the biggest blunders throughout his career. In 1922, Einstein evaluated the paper submitted by Friedmann to a German journal, in which he showed that there is one solution to the general relativity field equations in which the size of the universe increases with time. Einstein initially considered Friedmann would have made mistakes during calculations, but after discussing this issue with one of Friedmann's colleagues, Einstein admitted he was wrong and accepted the expansion of the universe as a mathematical possibility. However, he believed it hardly could have any physical meaning. This historical episode was adapted to high school physics classes through the creation of a didactic game. In this paper, we analyze arguments about the opposition between Einstein and Friedmann and students conceptions about the role of errors in science. There was equilibrium between supporters of Einstein and Friedmann. Many of Einsteins fans had a naive admiration, believing that such a smart scientist could not make mistakes. On the other hand, Friedmann fans valued his critical attitude, challenging the authority of famous scientist. Students debated whether the fact that Einstein admitted his mistake should be valued. Therefore we noted interesting students' arguments about the role of errors in science, which motivated the problematization of the myth of genius who never make mistakes and whose authority shall never be questioned.

The safety condition on knowledge, in the spirit of anti-luck epistemology, has become one of the most popular approaches to the Gettier problem. In the first part of this essay, I intend to show one of the reasons the anti-luck epistemologist presents for thinking that the safety theory, and not the sensitivity theory, offers the proper anti-luck condition on knowledge. In the second part of this essay, I intend to show that the anti-luck epistemologist does not succeed, because the safety theory fails to capture a necessary requirement for the possession of knowledge. I will attack safety on two fronts. First, I will raise doubts about whether there is any principled safety condition capable of handling a kind of case, involving inductive knowledge, that it was designed to handle. Second, I will consider two cases in which the safety condition is not met but the protagonist seems to have knowledge nonetheless, and I will vindicate my intuitions for thinking that those are in fact cases of knowledge by contrasting them with traditional, well-known Gettier cases. I want to conclude, finally, that safety failures do not necessarily prevent one from acquiring knowledge.