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This article examines De cultu feminarum of the Tertullian and the imortance of weaving instruction as an admonition to modesty illustrating how during certain periods of Christianity women were also the object of educational activities.

This paper seeks to analyze the main issues concerning the main tensions to be resolved by the education, aiming to clear the theme of cultural diversity. Here in it is argued in the context of the emergence of concepts, such as cultural diversity, pluralism, multiculturalism, interculturality, identity, among others. This study is based on a research conducted by teachers of the area of public policy of the State University of Maringá, which examine important aspects of the history of Brazilian education, in particular documents of international organizations like UNESCO.

The objective of this study was to evaluate and apply the Bioinformatics theoretical contents and practical for the course students in Biological Sciences Degree Fully enrolled in the disciplines of General Genetics and Molecular Biology, State University of Ceara in 2010. The theoretical approach previously tested (RIBEIRO JUNIOR, 2011) consisted of a presentation of historical concepts, basic and specific to current advances in research involved the areas of molecular biology. The practice of "Building a Molecular Phylogeny in Silico" is designed to become functional in practice the concepts presented above, using the database of the National Center for Biotechnology Information, NCBI, and their sequence alignment tool, the BLASTp (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool Protein-Protein.) positive results obtained with the application of the lecture Introduction to Bioinformatics and practical activities were highlighted with the characterizations of molecular phylogenies of the sequences hypothetical proposals for the implementation of the alignments and the statements of students mentioned above. These activities were seen as essential so that students could experience step by step to a better understanding of the emerging field of life sciences: the Bioinformatics. 

Considerations and notes on the formation of future teachers and teaching in higher education are provided. The organization, proposals of post-graduate courses and the formation of university teachers to teach and train adequately undergraduates of different courses are analyzed. The phenomenological-hermeneutic approach of current research permeated the issue and triggered a meta-analytic investigation based on the interpretation, understanding and analysis of contents. The following question foregrounded current analysis: What do articles published in the Revistas Brasileiras de Educação reveal on the formation of future teachers? What were the themes discussed in the articles published in online Revistas Brasileiras de Educação during 1999-2009. The approach of these themes was highly significant, especially due to the need for knowing and developing discussions based on the teachers’ pedagogical training and the manner this is dealt with in several articles on Education.

This article reports on the partnership between the Group of Studies and Research in School Physical Education and Teacher Training (Gepefe/UEPG/CNPq) affiliated with the Graduate Program in Education (UEPG/PR), and the Nucleus of Studies and Teacher Training in Peace and Coexistence Education (NEP/UEPG). This partnership has contributed to the creation of the research line ‘Physical Education, Sport and Education for Peace: conceptual, methodological and teacher training dimensions’ in Gepefe. The goal of this article is to present more specific ideas for a convergence between the educational perspectives in sport and school physical education, mediated by the issue of teacher training. When considering aspects present in the discussion on the education for peace (coexistence, conflict, violence and peace), we find specifics to consider actions in teacher training. This process emerges as Brazil is experiencing a special moment in sports, with international events planned for the coming years, thereby expanding the need for thematic reflections regarding violence and coexistence in sports. This leads to reflections on the fundamental role of sports education in forming values of coexistence and debating teacher training in physical education for that reality. 

In this article we will talk about the relevance of dramatic texts in schools. Therefore we will approach the tragedies Hamlet, Macbeth, Otelo e King Lear de William Shakespeare and how teachers can explore them as a help in the teaching of languages without forgetting that they are dramatic and literary texts. When we refer to languages, we want to say any language, because Shakespearean texts are ageless, may have many meanings and deal with human nature. The theatre is in our lives and in this case it is relevant to quote William Shakespeare himself that said that “life is a stage and we are actors”. Starting from this, we will consider the best ways of using the tragedies Hamlet, Macbeth, Otelo e King Lear in the classroom.  

This excerpt (adapted) presents an analysis of interviews performed with three (3) deaf students about their perceptions and educational experiences in the context of educational institutions and special education. Through this study it is confirmed that students are aware of some difficulties of special schools, besides feeling prejudiced because of these flaws. The analysis of the interviews about some perceptions of deaf students on their educational experiences in special schools allowed identifying, through their reports, recurring events within the special school, which nfluence or even limit the quality of education for these students. 

This article presents the authors' reflections on important issues related to how change occurs in complex social environments. These explorations have led the authors to propose a way of thinking, based on games for the formulation of a planning method. Reflecting on this way of thinking has led in turn to explore the ‘meta-thinking’. 

This corpus-based, descriptive bibliography survey, part of my Master’s in Education Thesis - Schooling Processes and Social Inequalities - aims at increasing knowledge on the intersection between Physical Education and Education. The main challenge of this article is to survey the available academic production in the field of School Physical Education. The results seem to point at the scarceness of published material, both on Physical Education in schools and on Education. Such findings thus demonstrate the need for further investigation and dialogue between these two areas of study. 

The hierarchical perspective on Trinitarian theology, as bonaventure understands it, is decisive for the understanding of its intellectual orientation in metaphysic, because it allows to underline the elements of unity and diversity that are constitutive part of any explanation of the relationship between absolute unity and contingent plurality. Closely linked to the neo-platonic orientation and, because of that, in total dependence on its illuminating nature, is the explanation that Buenaventure develops of the metaphysical-theological as the basis for the spiritual reality of the homo viator. In this paper we analyze, based on the concept of transcendental truth, the deductive instances operating in this dynamism as it is presented in the booklet De triplici via with the intention to indicate the unity present in the three viae, unity that pushes the man in the ascension that go through the anthropological instances of the image, the likeness and finaly deiformity, in the conceptual framework of the doctrine of exemplarism.  

Within the actual debate on citizenship within democracy, admitting a crisis in educational matters is highly relevant (NUSSBAUM, 2010; BERKOWITZ, 2001). Thus, if we want to understand why the ancient educational image is problematic and unsatisfying to the citizens of democratic governments, it is unavoidable, from the history of philosophy point of view, to quote the teaching of preeminent political theorists. Needless to say, the power of education in forming people’s character and opinions is widely recognized. Nonetheless, by looking at the history of the institution, it seems obvious that its purpose is not only to form habits but to circumscribe the knowledge of the persons in such a way as to make one set of opinions always inevitable (RUSSELL, 1961). Current paper reveals the theoretical presuppositions of the political and educational doctrines of two main figures of Ancient and Modern times, namely, Aristotle and Locke, respectively. Further considerations will ensue on whether the ancient image of virtue, or its antagonism and possible use in liberalism, has any power to represent the present conditions of equity and justice sought after in civil life within Latin American democracies. 

Bonaventura de Bagnoregio (1221-1274) conceived the history of mankind and Church in basis of series of ages, and having Incarnation as the central happening – due basically to the patristic tradition of the Franciscan Order. Based in the christocentric ideal, the Doctor seraphicus idealized a way for mankind and the Church, in which both would achieve Redemption. The events of Saint Francis’ life as well as the events of the Franciscan Order’s life would be considered as the one. They represented a major step in human and ecclesial stairway to the perfection. So, by acting a founding role in the Christian history, Francis of Assisi, as well as the Franciscanism, may be compared to Christ from both external signs – the stigmata – and mainly from the renewal of the vita vere apostolica. 

This article has the objective of identifying how the logic of the private sphere has interfered at the public politics about the continuing teachers formation in Brazil, showing that in several cases, these partners are a reflex of the state reforms in the last decades and has intensified the merchantable education process, also try to comprehend what are the impacts of this phenomenon at the Brazilian education. Methodologically this article shows the thematic coming from a systematic bibliographic review and the authors’ reflections. However, it is important to emphasize that the continuing teachers formation is a huge theme and has occupied a privileged place in many discussions, academics or not, so, we aren’t trying to finish the discussions about the  concept of the continuing formation, neither deepen the several questions that permeate the present discussion about formation, as the objective of this article is to reflect about the influence of the private section at the offering of the continuing formation, in a merchantable perspective of teaching, showing how this relation changes the section public values. 

The Reading of documents of ecclesiastical source produced during Middle Ages provides the very clear percept of the presence of various categories of mediators between the natural world and mystical forces, in the daily routine of the western men. On the one hand, there were the wizards, expert supposedly endowed with special knowledge, who used as a resource various forms of exercise of divinatory arts and techniques of manipulation of elements of nature. During Middle Ages the ecclesiastical discourse searched opposing to their actions the knowledge and the achievements of the ‘true’ agents of sacred one, those who were organized in an ordo apart of the rest of society, ordoclericorum, enjoyed the privilege of access to the reading and writing of Latin. The concept of the clergy with which the Christian Church intended to qualify their members brought implicitly a cultural value which unified and distinguished them from the first ones. However, in the eyes of the people, the magical agents, as much as the clergies were endowed with specialized knowledge which granted to them the exercise of strange powers to the common mortals and made it possible for them controlling impersonal forces capable of altering the course of events. It is our intention to discuss the relationship between language, knowledge, and mystical Mediation in the current representations of magical agents and clergies in Middle Ages. 

Bonaventure of Bagnoregio (1221-1274) was one of the most influential thinkers of the minor friar’s Order, considered by the historians as the second founding of the movement owing to the his orthodoxy and the ‘reforms’ employed by him during his generalate. It is our objective to make a re-reading of the work Expositio super Regulam Fratrum Minorum that has the  interpretation’s question of Rule of 1223 as the conductor thread, departing from the normative poverty discussion and its expanding. When Bonaventure was a general Minister, he pledged fidelity at the religious proposal of Saint Francis and the Friar’s Rule. However, owing to his cathedratic culture, he expressed a new interpretation of the Norm, in which he emphasized the conceptual precision of all the words that transmited values or instructions to the monastic discipline at a key moment of the Friar’s history. This article intends to demonstrate that Bonaventure contributed with a lexicon interpretation of Norm and the poverty, both of them thought more than a fact which requested concrete behaviors in the convents; it turn out to be a problem of intellect, therefore, he collaborated for the growth of ecclesiastics and ecclesiology conflicts of juridical complexity in the Franciscan Order. 

This article discusses the connection between philosophy and education in Thomas Aquinas. In his Philosophical Anthropology there are three aspects very important for education today: the affirmation of matter as an essential in human being, the primacy of prudentia over the cardinal virtues and his philosophia negativa (and theologia negativa). The intrinsec union spirit-matter, anima forma corporis has important pedagogical consequences, both in intellectual and in moral education. And it is the basis for his Treatise On Prudence, which presupposes his negative perspective too.

This search shows an analysis about child representation and his childhoods in certain contexts and social Brazilian groups in the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century. It’s a literary study, about the historical and sociological biases of childhood, having as an objective the apprehension of the child’s individualization process and of his social categorization, through the process of formal and informal schooling that happens on family. The methodological procedure used the literature, choosing literary and autobiographical essays of Brazilian literature, represented by José Lins do Rego and Graciliano Ramos. The analysis showed on the character in this civilizing process of schooling the child represented by the disciplinary practices and the construction of school time as elements of standardization of rules, behaviors and civility for children. The final considerations shows to understand the specifics of childhood as a historical period and social education of individuals, considering their dependence relationships and interdependencies, according Norbert Elias. Thus as implicit relational power between adults and children in areas of formation social groups.  

This text is linked to the aspects of power relations in the Vita Sancti Aemiliani in Vita Sancti Fructuosi and autobiography of Valério of Bierzo: Christianization and ecclesiastical reorganization of the Visigothic kingdom in the seventh century, funded by CNPq. Among other assumptions, this research recognizes that the ecclesiastical authorities at the beginning of the Middle Ages worked for the promotion of a comprehensive education program, which was associated with standardization and education of lay and clergy. In this process, the hagiographic literature has assumed a prominent place. Considering the autobiography written by Valerius of Bierzo as an expression of the hagiographic genre, it is intended in this article, based on the historiographical reflections of ecclesiastical activity in the Hispanic peninsula in the sixth and seventh centuries, discussing the role played by the devil in such a report, sometimes more sharply expression a literary topos, now speaker of the specific situation of the author. 

This paper presents the results of a research which examined the perceptions of a group of teachers about the changes occurred in their pedagogical practices after taking part in the course called ‘Introduction to the Digital Education’ promoted by the Continued Formation National Program in Educational Technology – Integrated Proinfo and developed by the Educational Technology Center – NTE in Itajaí, Santa Catarina State, from 2008 to 2009. The data were collected through the application of two surveys calted pre-course and post-course. The results pointed out that after participating in the course some changes happened in the teacher´s pedagogical practice with an increase in the technical and pedagogical use of the computer and the inclusion of more advanced sources. Nevertheless the research also showed that the number of teachers who use the computer in student´s tasks is still small and this use is restricted to the school computer labs.  

This article brings to light the results of the research project ‘The meaning of becoming a pedagogue according to students in the course of Pedagogy (licentiateship)’ developed by a group of research in Public Policies and Management at the Education Faculty (PUC-USP) in three institutions of high education from August 2010 to July 2011.  The researchers probed into the pedagogic projects inspired by the Curricular Directives for Pedagogy Courses as these took shape in Resolution 1/2006 – both in intention and practice – and strove to pinpoint the real meaning of being a pedagogue in the student’s view. The methodology applied was the qualitative approach based on research of documental legislation and pedagogic projects of the three institutions, besides interviews and questionnaires to students, teachers, coordinators, and managers. Results outline that the pedagogue profile in Southeast Brazil focuses primarily on child education and that the formation of managers is virtually ignored. Similarly, it is clear to see the urge for a deeper involvement with teachers and subjects related to teaching methodologies from other colleges or departments.