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Formação docente e natureza: sentidos e silêncios na interface ambiente e sociedade
Full text linkThis article presents the results of a qualitative study, descriptive and exploratory in nature, that examined Early Childhood Education teachers’ perceptions of how the theme of nature is addressed in their professional training. Grounded in the contributions of Tardif (2014) and Nóvoa (1992), the study engages with contemporary challenges related to the environmental crisis and the growing confinement of childhood, underscoring the importance of nature for children’s holistic development (Louv, 2016; Tiriba, 2018). Open-ended questionnaires were administered to twenty educators, and the data were analyzed through Content Analysis (Bardin, 1977). Four categories emerged: the absence or superficial treatment of the theme in initial teacher education; sporadic or fragmented initiatives; the valuing of personal experience as a source of knowledge; and the desire for more robust continuing education opportunities. The findings highlight significant gaps in teacher education processes and point to the need for educational policies that strengthen environmentally engaged pedagogical practices capable of fostering ecological literacy from early childhood.Este artigo apresenta os resultados de uma investigação qualitativa, de natureza descritiva e exploratória, que analisou as percepções de professoras da Educação Infantil sobre a presença da temática natureza em sua formação profissional. Fundamentado nos aportes de Tardif (2014) e Nóvoa (1992), o estudo dialoga com os desafios contemporâneos da crise ambiental e do emparedamento da infância, evidenciando a importância da natureza para o desenvolvimento integral das crianças (Louv, 2016; Tiriba, 2018). Foram aplicados questionários com questões abertas a vinte educadoras, e os dados analisados por Análise de Conteúdo (Bardin, 1977). Emergiram quatro categorias: ausência ou superficialidade da temática na formação inicial; iniciativas pontuais ou esparsas; valorização da experiência pessoal como fonte de saber; e desejo por formações continuadas mais efetivas. Os resultados revelam lacunas nos processos formativos e apontam a necessidade de políticas educacionais que fortaleçam práticas pedagógicas ambientalmente comprometidas, capazes de promover uma alfabetização ecológica desde a infância
Infância e natureza: leituras de Rousseau para a Educação Infantil
Full text linkThis article offers reflections on childhood and nature, aiming to reveal recent Brazilian scholarship on the topic in light of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. A State of Knowledge review was conducted based on Morosini, Kohls-Santos, and Bittencourt (2021), covering 2015–2025, in the BDTD/IBICT and CAPES databases, using combined descriptors (child/childhood; nature; Rousseau). Fourteen studies were located; after applying criteria, three master’s dissertations composed the corpus. Two categories emerged: (i) Rousseauian conceptions of childhood and nature (philosophical–hermeneutic base) and (ii) pedagogical experiences in Early Childhood Education in contact with nature (empirical base). Findings indicate a scarcity of studies explicitly integrating child, nature, and Rousseau, with a concentration in 2020–2021. The study proposes closer theory–practice articulations, broader descriptors, and the inclusion of journals. It concludes by underscoring the relevance of revisiting Rousseau as a critical interlocutor to reopen time and spaces of nature in childhood.O presente artigo aborda reflexões sobre infância e natureza, com o objetivo de desvelar a produção brasileira recente sobre infância e natureza à luz de Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Realizou-se um Estado do Conhecimento partindo das abordagens de Morosini, Kohls-Santos e Bittencourt (2021), no recorte temporal 2015 a 2025, nas bases BDTD/IBICT e CAPES, com descritores combinados (criança/infância; natureza; Rousseau). Localizaram-se 14 trabalhos; após os critérios, três dissertações compuseram o corpus. Emergiram duas categorias: (i) concepções rousseaunianas de infância e natureza (base filosófico-hermenêutica) e (ii) experiências pedagógicas na Educação Infantil em contato com a natureza (base empírica). Os achados indicam escassez de estudos que integrem explicitamente criança, natureza e Rousseau, com concentração em 2020–2021. Propõem-se aproximações mais orgânicas entre teoria e prática, ampliação de descritores e inclusão de periódicos. Conclui-se pela relevância de revisitar Rousseau como interlocutor crítico para reabrir tempos e espaço de natureza na infância
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Desemparedar a infância: espaços e práticas pedagógicas para o brincar na natureza na Educação Infantil
Full text linkEste artigo analisa de que modo os espaços e as práticas pedagógicas em instituições de Educação Infantil podem favorecer o contato da criança com a natureza, por meio do brincar. Partiu-se de referenciais que evidenciam a importância da biofilia e denunciam o distanciamento crescente entre infância e a natureza (Tiriba, 2018; Louv, 2016). Adotou-se uma abordagem de pesquisa de campo qualitativa, envolvendo observações, registros fotográficos e questionários aplicados a professoras. O material foi interpretado à luz da análise de conteúdo (Bardin, 1977), gerando duas categorias centrais: (1) “Os espaços e a natureza: limitações e/ou possibilidades”, e (2) “Práticas pedagógicas para o contato com a Natureza: desafios e possibilidades no desemparedamento da infância”. Os resultados apontam que embora existam áreas externas seu uso é esporádico e instrumentalizado, bem como as práticas pedagógicas inexistentes ou improvisadas no tange o contato com a natureza. Conclui-se que os espaços e as práticas pedagógicas podem favorecer o contato da criança com a natureza e, consequentemente, superar a cultura do emparedamento, quando são intencionalmente organizados para valorizar o brincar ao ar livre, vinculados a propostas formativas que sensibilizem os docentes, e integrados a ações colaborativas com a comunidade escolar. Nessa perspectiva, reorganizar os espaços, investir em formação continuada e escutar os interesses das crianças são caminhos que podem viabilizar a garantia do direito à vivência plena da natureza
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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