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Estratégias de educação ambiental no enfrentamento à emergência climática: Um estudo de caso com mulheres de uma comunidade rural
Get PDFThis article presents a case study in a rural community in the region of Galicia, based on the development of an environmental education project aiming at a low-carbon ecosocial transition. For the case study, narratives were collected with women over 65 years old, living in the rural community of Lavacolla. Based on the analysis of women’s narratives, the ways in which the global climate emergency is experienced at the local and community level stand out, as well as their intersections with the challenges and daily experiences of the participating women. Memories of the past are narrated and reflected upon, in order to foster the construction of perspectives on sustainable climate futures. The results show the potential of projects based on activities and dynamics that start from the needs and experiences of communities towards a lifestyles’ decarbonization, fostering individual and collective change.
O presente artigo apresenta um estudo de caso numa comunidade rural na região da Galiza, a partir do desenvolvimento de um projeto de educação ambiental, com vista a uma transição ecossocial de baixo carbono. Para o presente estudo de caso, foram coletadas narrativas com mulheres maiores de 65 anos, residentes na comunidade rural de Lavacolla. Com base na análise das narrativas, foi possível refletir sobre o modo como a emergência climática global se experiencia a nível local e comunitário e se interseta com desafios e experiências quotidianas das mulheres participantes. Memórias do passado são narradas e refletidas, de modo a fomentar a construção de perspectivas sobre futuros climáticos sustentáveis. Os resultados mostram o potencial de projetos assentes em atividades e dinâmicas que partem das necessidades e vivências das comunidades, com vista a processos de descarbonização de estilos de vida, fomentando a mudança individual e coletiva.
Recebido: 9/2/2022
Aceite: 13/6/202
O ativismo climático na imprensa portuguesa: O caso do jornal PÚBLICO
Get PDFOver recent years, the Portuguese climate movement has been progressively consolidating its presence in the political sphere and media space. Featuring in news channels is frequently a goal actively pursued by social movements, especially due to their influence on the public perceptions. Given the media’s role in the creation and consolidation of social representations, and the lack of data available on climate activism coverage in the Portuguese media, this study aimed to assess the representations and contextualization of climate activists in the Portuguese press. Our contribution to this understanding relied on the quantitative and qualitative analysis of the evolution of climate activism coverage, the representation profiles of activists, and some (de)legitimisation indicators, such as those directly associated with the protest paradigm – namely the opportunity for self-representation, the characterization of activism as a nuisance, and the use of statements by authority figures. The analysis of 175 articles published online in the newspaper PÚBLICO revealed a preferential framing of the activist, who often has the opportunity for self-representation. Furthermore, and contrarily to what has been described in other international studies, the newspaper attributed negative representation profiles exclusively to foreign activists and the data revealed a predominance of the student-activist profile, instead of the nuisance framing. Nos últimos anos, o movimento social pelo clima português tem vindo a afirmar-se progressivamente no espaço político e mediático. A cobertura mediática é um objetivo intencional procurado pelos movimentos sociais, especialmente devido à sua influência nas representações que permeiam o pensamento coletivo. Devido ao poder que os media têm na criação e consolidação de representações sociais, e face ao conhecimento limitado sobre a cobertura mediática do ativismo climático em contexto nacional, este estudo teve como objetivo avaliar as representações e a contextualização dos ativistas pelo clima na imprensa. Para isto, foi realizada uma análise quantitativa e qualitativa da evolução da cobertura do ativismo climático, dos perfis de representação dos ativistas, e de alguns indicadores de (des)legitimação, tais como os diretamente associados ao paradigma do protesto — nomeadamente a autorrepresentação e o recurso a declarações de figuras de autoridade. A análise de 175 artigos publicados online no jornal PÚBLICO revelou um enquadramento preferencial do ativista, o qual tem frequentemente oportunidade de autorrepresentação. Adicionalmente, e ao contrário do que foi descrito por estudos internacionais, o jornal atribuiu exclusivamente perfis de representação negativa a ativistas estrangeiros e os dados revelaram uma predominância do perfil estudante-ativista, em detrimento de enquadramentos que salientam o incómodo causado pelos ativistas.
Recebido: 3/2/2022
Aceite: 13/6/202
Beyond the Whiteness: Environmental Concerns in the Visual Narratives of Carrara Marble Quarries
No full textMarble extraction in the Italian Apuan Alps has been known since Roman times, and its historical importance is symbolized by masterpieces of Western art history. However, the Carrara marble industry has recently received harsh criticism for operating in the protected area of the Apuan Alps Regional Park, recognized by UNESCO since 2015. Environmental and social concerns about mining have arisen from the extreme acceleration of all the productive phases of the extractive industry. From the mid-twentieth century, the exploitation of geological deposits of marble grew exponentially thanks to the development of powerful extraction technologies and a global export economy that creates only relatively few occupations in Carrara.
Within this context, photographic and cinematographic projects have increasingly focused on the environmental risks created by the marble mining industry. This article shows how visual representations of Carrara have changed in recent years via an analysis of three case studies: the internationally acclaimed documentary Anthropocene: The Human Epoch (2018), the climbing project and Italian short film Carie (Cavity 2019), and Lorenzo Shoubridge’s naturalistic photographs in Apuane: terre selvagge (Apuan Wildlands 2018).
These case studies offer an innovative perspective on the landscapes of marble extraction. Previously, these landscapes were represented following other visual trends emphasizing the technological sublime found in the geometric shapes of the white quarries, the working conditions of marble laborers, and the myth of the purity of marble used in artistic sculptures. The three examples analyzed in this paper attempt to go ‘beyond the whiteness’ by focusing on the scale of environmental destruction (Anthropocene: The Human Epoch), the more-thanhuman perspective (Apuane terre selvagge), and the social struggle for preserving a mountain region through creative solutions (Carie). In other words, new aesthetic and ethical sensibilities are challenging established twentieth-century narratives of the Carrara marble quarries by focusing on a new element: the environment.
Cover image: Saverio Salvioni, Cava di Ravaccione, 1810–1813 (Source: Archivio di Stato Massa e Pontremoli
Ensino remoto e aprendizagem: Um estudo comparado das situações paquistanesa e brasileira durante a pandemia de covid-19
Get PDFThe pandemic has caused high global inequities in the educational system; consequently, all educational institutions were closed immediately, and the teaching-learning process was moved online. This study proposes a reflection based on a comparison of remote teaching in high schools in Pakistan and Brazil. In addition, this study analyses opportunities and challenges faced by educational institutions during remote learning, such as the use and access of digital technologies, digital training, and internet facilities for online learning. This research has a bibliographical and documental analysis of available online literature, official websites, and news about education management in both countries. The study concludes with observations on the dynamics and similarities of the educational setup between Pakistan and remote learning, as well as possible challenges to be considered and interest groups involved in educational management.A pandemia causou grandes desigualdades no sistema educacional globalmente, consequentemente todas as instituições de ensino foram fechadas imediatamente e o processo de ensino aprendizagem foi transferido para o online. O objetivo deste estudo é propor uma reflexão a partir de uma comparação sobre o ensino remoto em escolas de ensino médio do Paquistão e do Brasil. Além disso, este estudo analisa oportunidades e desafios enfrentados por instituições de ensino durante o aprendizado remoto, como uso e acesso de tecnologias digitais, treinamento digital e facilidades de internet para aprendizado online. Esta pesquisa é composta por análise bibliográfica e documental da literatura disponível online, sites oficiais e notícias sobre gestão escolar em ambos os países. O estudo é concluído apresentando observações sobre as dinâmicas e semelhanças da configuração educacional entre Paquistão e Brasil durante o ensino remoto bem como possíveis desafios a serem considerados e grupos de interesses envolvidos na gestão educacional.
Recebido: 9/4/2022
Aceite: 16/7/202
Inter/transdisciplinaridade e Educação Sexual no ensino de Biologia: Problematizações a partir da Base Nacional Comum Curricular (BNCC)
Get PDFThis article aims to analyze in what ways the competencies and abilities proposed in the National Curricular Common Base (BNCC) would cover sociocultural themes, such as sexuality, body and gender. This is a section of qualitative research carried out in public schools in primary (final years) and secondary education of a municipality in Ceará. We carried out 11 semi-structured interviews with teachers via a digital platform, in addition to using Foucault’s discourse analysis. The results obtained show a deficit in knowledge about inter/transdisciplinarity on the part of teachers as well as about the concept of Sexual Education. We emphasize that we educators (and the entire school community) would be responsible for problematizing public educational policies, such as the BNCC, recognizing that skills and abilities go beyond conceptual dimensions, such as sociocultural and subjective themes, such as sexuality and gender, incorporated in Sexual Education, show the importance of inter/transdisciplinarity in the teaching of Science and Biology.Este artigo tem como principal objetivo analisar de que modos as competências e habilidades propostas na Base Nacional Comum Curricular (BNCC) abrangeriam as temáticas socioculturais, como sexualidade, corpo e gênero. Trata-se de um recorte de uma pesquisa qualitativa realizada em escolas públicas dos ensinos fundamental (anos finais) e médio de um município cearense. Realizamos 11 entrevistas semiestruturadas com docentes via plataforma digital, ademais empregamos a análise foucaultiana do discurso. Os resultados obtidos evidenciam um déficit no conhecimento sobre a inter/transdisciplinaridade por parte dos/as docentes, como também sobre o conceito de Educação Sexual. Salientamos que a nós, educadores/as (e toda comunidade escolar), caberia problematizar políticas públicas educacionais, como a BNCC, reconhecendo que as competências e habilidades vão além de dimensões conceituais, pois temáticas socioculturais e subjetivas, como sexualidade e gênero, incorporadas na Educação Sexual evidenciam a importância da inter/transdisciplinaridade no ensino de Ciências e Biologia.
Recebido: 1/10/2021
Aceite: 11/3/202
Perspectivas de inovação na formação docente em cursos de Pedagogia
Get PDFThe article aims to explain how the concepts and practices of innovation present in Pedagogy courses are characterized according to their coordinators. This is a qualitative field research, whose data production took place through interviews with coordinators and documental analysis of the pedagogical projects of the Pedagogy course at three universities located in the Amosc region, in the State of Santa Catarina, Brazil. For data analysis, content analysis was used, according to Bardin (1977). The results show that, in the courses surveyed, even with significant practices, which point towards pedagogical innovation, in the terms defined by Leite (2012) and Cunha (2016), pedagogical innovation is still under construction and this concept still does not mark innovative practices, since those that occur in the courses do not have the concept as a reference, which indicates that the research participants still have an elementary appropriation of the theme.O artigo tem por objetivo explicitar como se caracterizam as concepções e práticas de inovação presentes nos cursos de Pedagogia segundo os/as seus/suas coordenadores/as. Trata-se de pesquisa qualitativa, de campo, cuja produção de dados ocorreu por meio de entrevista com coordenadores/as e análise documental dos projetos pedagógicos dos cursos de Pedagogia de três universidades localizadas na região da Amosc, no Estado de Santa Catarina, Brasil. Para a análise dos dados utilizou-se a análise de conteúdo, conforme Bardin (1977). Os resultados evidenciam que, nos cursos pesquisados, mesmo contando com práticas significativas, que apontam no sentido da inovação pedagógica, nos termos definidos por Leite (2012) e Cunha (2016), a inovação pedagógica se encontra, ainda, em construção e esse conceito ainda não baliza práticas inovadoras, visto que as que ocorrem nos cursos não têm o conceito como referência, o que indica apropriação ainda elementar do tema pelas participantes da pesquisa.
Recebido: 17/12/2021
Aceite: 1/7/202
“O cabelo cuidadosamente arrumado para o uso da boina”: Interfaces entre disciplinamento e políticas curriculares
Get PDFpresent an analysis aiming to problematize the meanings of ‘disciplining’ linked to curricular policies for the purpose of a supposed quality of teaching-learning, in the contemporary school context in Brazil. It is a discussion focused on public school’s militarization, which has increased in several countries. Based on the analysis of teachers’ and students’ narratives from schools in the states of Pernambuco and Bahia/Brazil, I oppose the aforementioned link and defend discussions about the emergence of the meanings of radical democracy − pluralist and agonistic −, taking place within this institution. In the light of post-structuralist studies, with an emphasis on discursiveness, this essay seeks to reiterate the power of social relations in the context of school curriculum practice as mobilizers for thinking about difference in an unavoidable flow within a school. A defense of the school space as a space-time open to subjectivation processes, in multiple performances, contradicting, in this way, the attempts to standardize a rational consensus and the subjects/bodies that circulate in the school.Apresento uma reflexão que busca problematizar as vinculações entre sentidos de “disciplinamento” com políticas curriculares, para fins de uma pretensa melhoria da qualidade de ensino-aprendizagem no contexto escolar contemporâneo. A partir de análise de narrativas docentes e discentes de escolas do estado de Pernambuco e da Bahia, contraponho-me à referida vinculação e aposto nas discussões sobre a emergência dos sentidos de democracia radical -pluralista e agonística- , perfazendo-se no interior da escola. À luz de estudos pós-estruturalistas, com ênfase na discursividade, esse estudo busca reiterar a potência das relações sociais no contexto da prática curricularescolar enquanto mobilizadoras para pensarmos a diferença em um fluxo incontornável no interior de uma escola. Uma defesa do espaço escolar enquanto espaço-tempo aberto a processos de subjetivação, em múltiplas performances, resistindo, dessa forma, às tentativas de padronização dos sujeitos que circulam na escola
Construção de significados pelas crianças sobre as alterações climáticas através do photovoice: Empoderar as crianças através de um processo participativo para aprenderem, cuidarem e agirem: Empoderar as crianças através de um processo participativo para aprenderem, cuidarem e agirem
No full textMost studies of children and climate change focus on instilling literacy (a ‘top-down’ process), positioning children as passive recipients of climate change knowledge rather than active agents in shaping their lived realities. Photovoice, a form of participatory action research, can help explore how children make sense of climate change, while inviting their critical reflection, arts-based expression, and action (a ‘bottom-up’ process). By qualitatively examining children’s photovoice discussions from a fifteen-week after-school program, the present study explores how children made connections between their own lives and climate change through photovoice. Participants were 55 children (ages 10 to 12) who participated in Science, Camera, Action!, a program consisting of hands-on educational activities, photovoice process, and youth-led action across three neighboring cities in the U.S. Data consisted of nine audio-recorded photovoice discussions analyzed using thematic analysis. Findings suggest that photovoice helped children to learn about, care about, and take action on climate change. Moreover, these processes were interdependent and fueled by children’s enjoyment of the program and children’s engagement in collective meaning-making during group-based photovoice discussions. As climate change intensifies, photovoice can be an important pedagogical approach and enjoyable experience for children that simultaneously facilitates their learning, affective engagement, and agentic action.
Recebido: 3/2/2022
Aceite: 2/7/202
Reshaping the Island: architectures of extraction
No full textUrban environmental agency is visible through its materialization, nonetheless, the technological systems behind its production often remain concealed. Buildings and infrastructures, as technological products, are just a small visible part of a complex system – the excavation, exploitation, consumption, erosion, and transformation of basalt stones are among some of the technological procedures behind the physicality of landscapes. The extraction of raw materials from which the island is built leads to operations of material addition or subtraction – and the island reinvents itself, within a network of sites of exploitation and provision.
Through a photographic testimony of a basalt quarry in S. Miguel Island, this paper intends to explore the intertwinement between the extraction sites and its architectural manifestations. In this light, the acknowledgment of these invisible production sites is understood as a form of care for the possible futures of the island’s materialities.
Today, as the concern for the environmental impacts of construction is ever more present on the global agenda, along with a shortage of many resources for civil construction activities, a critical awareness of the territories’ building materials urges. In this sense, to interrogate the island’s dependencies through an urban lens seems to be essential for a control of architectural materials. These landscapes disclose part of the extractions that produce the island, and considering that material and environmental impacts are also located in the future, this analysis seeks to engage urban production with a practice of care.
Cover image: Quarry, S. Miguel Island, 2021. Author’s phot