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 The paper aimed to investigate the importance of using educational games for teaching science in the early years, through the development and evaluation of a playful, dynamic and multidisciplinary methodology, involving an educational game. The strategy consists of a game called "Tijuana Jones and the raiders of the lost pyramids". The activity starts from a story that mixes facts and real information with dummy data, associating the pyramids of Egypt and their history with the Food Pyramid and its importance to the maintenance of healthy eating and living. The educational game has been tested with students of the 4th grade of elementary education in a public school in Cachoeira do Sul, state of Rio Grande do Sul, and in a qualitative analysis, it was very highly rated. In practice, the students were able to engage in a challenging and stimulating pursuit in order to unravel one of the mysteries left by the young pharaoh Tutankhamun, which resulted in great interest, participation and learning. 

Acta Scientiarum. Education v. 38, n. 1, 2016

Referees for Volume 38, n. 1 of the Acta Scientiarium. Education, 2016

This article aimed to answer how the use of computers and the Internet, directly and indirectly, has affected the time of teaching work and how these tool have determined the experience of teachers. Sources of research consisted of doctoral and master theses, as well as official documents that referring to these concepts and instruments. The survey instrument was developed as a form, using a software for the collection and analysis of data; for the assessment of the results we used the content analysis technique. The results show the relationship between time and experience under different cultural conventions that permeate the school, consolidating awareness under contradictions supported by the potential of new technologies in a condition of atrophying the experience to which the training process and the work of the teacher would tend to be reduced. The method is achieved from critical theory, especially the concepts of experience indicated by Adorno and Benjamin, ideology of technological rationality and industrial society, by Marcuse, and key concepts of dialectical materialism, such as alienated labor, commodity and machinery, from Marx. 

 This article analyzes three collections of Brazilian Didactic Books for Early Childhood Education, aiming to understand how the children’s game and the interactions, basis of the National Curricular Guidelines for Early Childhood Education (Resolução n. 5, 2009), are included in the teaching material. The research is theoretically based on the childhood and children’s game studies of authors as Brougère (1995), Kishimoto (2010) and Moyles et al. (2006), among others. The methodological process developed was through the analysis of the book’s content, focusing on the children’s games and the interactions proposed by the material. The children’s game and to a lesser extent the interactions, although present in the material appear only in supervised activities, aiming the teaching of strict contents and not the contextualized experiences, complex, playful, interactive and cognitive. In this way, the children’s games and the interactions, as presented in Didactic Books, assume a limite dand poor sense, and do not constitute the basis of the collections and distancing from that legitimized by the National Curricular Guidelines for Early Childhood Education. 

 Recently, a group of meanings about literacy has been consolidated. They refer to a dominant conception of an autonomous model of writing, connected to an individualist and cognitive background. Through a theoretical discussion based on the discursive perspective, which rescues the essential social and historical aspects of the issue, this article points that this consolidation aims at a political position. Therefore, this is about choosing a certain path and rejecting another. We question the ways this dominant meaning prevails in material discourses, such as schoolbooks produced by government programs, likeProletramento. Results report a ‘misunderstanding’ about literacy, which marks a way of signing in a discursive match of political value. 

 Presenting a clinical diagnosis (CD) in the context of special education can be interpretedby two ways: on the one hand, it can be used as a way to build strategies for attention to the student; on the other hand, beingthe reason of prejudice and exclusion, resulting indelimitation of educational practices. These are reflections that base the discussion in this paper, whose objective is to reflect upon the inherence of CD as a producer of inclusion/exclusion in the perspective of Inclusive Education. In order to meet the objective, theresearch method consisted of integrative review, and as source of analysis the studies produced by two important journals in the area of Special Education: the Brazilian Journal of Special Education and the Journal Special Education. It can be concluded that the CD is an ally in the building strategies for pedagogical action, reason why it can be structured by health and education, while cross-sectional concept, with the purpose of improving educational conditions. Exclusion, in turn, is a process inherent to the production of a CD. 

This paper intends to briefly analyze the course of the transcendentals concepts of being in its several historical-philosophical instances of systematization, highlighting the transition from a formal ontology by Aristotle to an existential ontology in the Neoplatonism and the first Scholastic until Tomas Aquinas. It will also emphasize the emergence of a new formal perspective in the Duns Scotus’s theory of univocity of being and its followers up to Suarez. This study aims to demonstrate which place transcendentals take in the pursuit of the universal principles of the foundation of knowledge, and seeks to encourage wider projects in which different perspectives would be deeply developed.

This study aims to highlight two milestones of the complex progressive process within the sovereign power from the Christian Middle Ages: First, the beginning of the fourteenth century, where the prior clear signs of a split in sovereignty within the doctrine of sacerdotalism appear. The second one, at the end of the sixteenth century, where the legal factor is accentuated and it accelerates the process of secularization dividing the powers of Church and State to the point of accepting the doctrine of popular sovereignty. In my view, the process concerns the issue of relations between the sovereign power of the Church and the State, just before Jean Bodin and others formulate a theory of sovereign authority, that is, before the birth of the Modern State.

Acta Scientiarum. Education v. 38, n. 2, 2016

Referees for Volume 38, n. 2 of the Acta Scientiarium. Education, 2016

Considering the trajectory of social movements in defense and in the construction of education for peasant populations, this article aimed to point out and discuss the possibilities and limitations of field education concept, to the extent that we believe that this discussion becomes even more important when we consider that the capitalist society is organized into social classes, with a strong domain of the class that holds the means of production on the class that sells workforce to ensure thelivelihood. The methodological guideline consisted of components of the technical-documentary analysis, as it admits scientific books and writings, laws, resolutions, ordinances, federal, state and local opinions as sources.We opted for the technical-documentary analysis, since the documents are stable and perennial source of information, persisting over time and can be consulted repeatedly, which provides greater stability to the conclusions.We realized the recognition of the social movements in defense of education in the field, the importance of knowledge in the formation process for peasant populations, camping and settled down, as well as a more objective understanding of the relevance in the fight for the transposition of the capitalist society. 

This paper aimed to discuss the relationship between education and slavery in the Captaincy of Sergipe del Rey, as well as investigate the executrix Anna PaesTelles(1771)to evidence her profile in the seventeenth century society. To understand the legal order that governed the colonial society, we consulted the Philippines Laws (1870), First Constitutions of the Archbishopric of Bahia. (2010). Through these documentary sources, it was possible to go through the 18th century and analyze it under different perspectives. The authors who support this analysis are: Costa (1999), Freyre (1986-1990) Faria (1998), Silva (2008), among others. 

 This article aimed to analyze production of texts by children at the beginning of nine year-elementary emphasizing the positioning of children on the proposals and recipients chosen to their texts. It reflects the possibilities of the children to produce texts in early literacy. This is a qualitative research with socio-historical approach and uses, as a technique of data production, proposals of textual production with children. It can be concluded that, in the production of texts, children build their speech from their interlocutors, indicating that production of texts has to become essential in the teaching learning process of reading and writing in early literacy. 

 This study is the result of a master’s thesis of the Graduate Program in Education for Science and Mathematics, PCM-UEM. The goal was to historically investigate the process of creating the course of mathematics at the State University of Maringa and the development of the course in the first years in the period between 1969 and 1982. In this article, we aimed to present the historical narrative of the course of mathematics of UEM, built in the master’s thesis. This work is inserted in the subject of History of Mathematics in Brazil and the presented narrative is structured through three intertwinedperspectives: documentary, oral and literature. Our analyses showed that the course of Mathematics at UEM was created to help in the development and visibility of the city of Maringá, to create an opening for the engineering courses and to remedy gaps of teachers in secondary education in the region at that time. 

This article presents the initial theme Math teacher education and inclusion of students with disabilities in regular education. It aims to analyze a practice in the initial formation of teachers of Mathematics with a view to the future teaching exercise that promotes the school and social inclusion of students with disabilities,  in a private institution of Higher Education of Parana. This research presents a qualitative approach, using applied research strategy. Were proposed to interview students with professionals working in the Special Education and Mathematics teachers who have students included in their regular groups; soroban classes and braille materials and adaptations. The results show that teachers provide insights into the future roadmap inclusion of people with disabilities can contribute to the discussion of pedagogical practice in front of the differences and thus promote a truly inclusive education. 

In face of education challenges, social and legal changes considering social inclusion, the objective of this article was to present results obtained in Master degree in Education, which analyzed the process of educational inclusion of visually impaired people in undergraduate distance education courses in Brazil, using communication and information digital technologies and assistive technology. The research analyzed twelve articles from five categories of pre-defined analysis: contributions from Distance education to students with visual impairment; mediation using communication and information digital technology and assistive technology; fragility between distance education and student with visual impairment; challenges in pedagogical practice and also the learning process to achieve educational inclusion. The results show that studies on this topic are recent, but the existing processes says the learning distance contribute with educational inclusion of these students, when provide the access to a quality education and guarantees the student’s right established by law. The main challenges are teacher’s mediation, training, accessibility of learning virtual environments and the control of technologies by teachers and students. 

The objective of this study was to analyze the education and poverty conceptions present in material published from 2006 and 2014 that speak directly to beneficiaries of the ProgramaBolsaFamília (PBF), a Brazilian federal cash transfer program. The assumption of the survey was that the wordings are composed of material, cultural, historical and socialaspects. Publications understand poverty by multiple dimensions, such as lack of access to healthy food and denial of rights.Education has been recognized as an important means to overcome the socio-economic vulnerabilities. The discursive genre of the material includes a prescriptive and disciplinarian character; however, this feature has been losing strength over the publications. 

The considerations on the book “VirtuosaBenfeitoria” aim atevaluating the relevance of a social project to guide the actions of the ruler and theindividuals, with a view to practical actions that converge to the common good. The infant D. Pedro, also known as the Duke of Coimbra, wrote the work. The central focus of the book is to address the sense of improvement and how the prince should practice and bestow it and how the subjects would receive and practice it. The arguments of D. Pedro to deal with the good and the society are strongly influenced by classical authorities and authors of scholasticism, especially Thomas Aquinas. In this sense, on the one hand our study seeks to show that such knowledge was essential for him to understand the plots that build human relationships, whose premises, to him, should be the ones leading society towards the common good;on the other hand, the goal is to analyze the work we regard as essential theoretical and methodological principles of history that allow us to recover, through memory, historical events that potentially guide us through paths that show the relevance of the Master of the University, as a vector in the organization of a given society. 

 This study aims to understand the strategy definition processes in faculty development movements of five Brazilian public universities. Specifically, we wanted to know about the articulation of university pedagogy with different areas of knowledge, describe the strategies developed and realize conditions that facilitate and/or hinder their development. Seven academic administrators involved in the organization and planning of these strategies collaborated in this research. The results revealed that the main strategies used are lectures, seminars and workshops; and that only one of the institutions uses activities mediated by information and communication technologies such as teleducation. The interviewees mentioned that the universities have difficulties in establishing and strengthening pedagogical advisory groups to bring together teachers and staff to address teaching practice issues, given the specificities of the institution. In fact, little was mentioned about organizing and enhancing internal groups for this purpose, which may suggest that they are not relying on specialized researchers or sufficiently considering the literature and experiences in this field. At the end, we point out that further studies could provide more insight into the impasses and their conditioning factors, thus, could help in the development of organizational and programmatic alternatives or innovations to improve teaching and learning processes in Brazilian higher education.