The Influence of European Racial Theories on the Formation of the Brazilian Historiographic Matrix and History Teaching

This article is part of the PhD research developed in the Post-Graduate Program in History (Federal University of Goiás) entitled "Intercultural historical learning from the knowledge conveyed in indigenous and non-indigenous educational contexts". Its aim is to present a critique of the Brazilian historiographic matrix, highlighting the influences of European racial theories during its formation process and to analyze the incidences of this matrix on the historical conceptions of the students from Dona Gercina Borges School, located in the Brazilian city of Formoso do Araguaia, in the state of Tocantins, which borders several indigenous villages of Javaé people. The theoretical methodological framework is linked, above all, to the studies and discussions developed by the modernity/coloniality/decoloniality movement, the historical perspectives of two great indigenous leaders, Gersem Baniwa and Daniel Munduruku, and the positioning of the students themselves heard in the research

The Brazilian Africa : population and territoriality

Uma das questões estruturais relacionada à cultura africana no Brasil que continua merecendo investigação e conhecimento, está relacionada aos aspectos historiográficos e geográficos da formação e distribuição da população de ancestralidade na África do território brasileiro. O paper resgata as principais referências da diáspora África-América-Brasil e configura a expressão espacial da população afro-brasileira contemporânea. O pensamento social preconceituoso e o desconhecimento da população do país, no que se refere ao continente africano, continuam sendo um dos entraves estruturais para uma perspectiva real de democracia racial, assim como, a criação no setor decisório, das condições necessárias para a implementação de políticas públicas mais articuladas e eficazes.One of the structural issues related to the African culture in Brazil that still deserves investigation and knowledge is related to the historiographic and geographic aspects of formation and distribution of the African descendent population in the Brazilian territory. This paper rescues the main references of the Africa-America-Brazil Diaspora and configures the spatial expression of the contemporary African-Brazilian population. The prejudiced social thinking and the lack of knowledge of the country´s population, in what refers to the African continent are still a structural barrier to a realistic perspective of racial democracy, as well as creatiing in the decision-making sectors the necessary conditions to implementing more articulate and efficient public policies

THE BRAZILIAN AFRICA ”“ POPULATION AND TERRITORIALITY

Uma das questões estruturais relacionada à cultura africana no Brasil que continua merecendo investigação e conhecimento, está relacionada aos aspectos historiográficos e geográficos da formação e distribuição da população de ancestralidade na África do território brasileiro. O paper resgata as principais referências da diáspora África-América-Brasil e configura a expressão espacial da população afro-brasileira contemporânea

EDUCAÇÃO AMBIENTAL PARA A CIDADANIA, INSTRUMENTO DE REALIZAÇÃO DO DIREITO A UM MEIO AMBIENTE EQUILIBRADO NO BRASIL E EM PORTUGAL

Este artigo enfrenta a importância da educação ambiental e seu reflexo para a sociedade, a execução do direito humano e fundamental a um meio ambiente equilibrado, incluindo os aspectos jurídicos, o necessário exercício da cidadania para este fim e sua relação com o acesso à informação sobre questões ambientais. Sustenta que o processo de formação ambiental complexa, transdisciplinar, dentro e fora da escola, pode ser uma ferramenta para o almejado princípio, objetivo e urgente paradigma do desenvolvimento sustentável. A participação cidadã é um valoroso instrumento a ser alcançado com uso de instrumentos jurídicos que podem ser utilizados por meios judiciais e administrativos, entre eles a ação popular e o acesso às informações ambientais em razão de garantias constitucionais e normas infraconstitucionais. Ademais, a Administração Pública tem a responsabilidade legal de executar programas e ações efetivas e eficientes para uma educação ambiental planetária com a colaboração do Estado e da sociedade civil. Este trabalho utilizou-se do método de abordagem dedutivo e do auxiliar comparativo, mediante revisão bibliográfico-documental de caráter qualitativo

An aesthetic for sustainable interactions in product-service systems?

Copyright @ 2012 Greenleaf PublishingEco-efficient Product-Service System (PSS) innovations represent a promising approach to sustainability. However the application of this concept is still very limited because its implementation and diffusion is hindered by several barriers (cultural, corporate and regulative ones). The paper investigates the barriers that affect the attractiveness and acceptation of eco-efficient PSS alternatives, and opens the debate on the aesthetic of eco-efficient PSS, and the way in which aesthetic could enhance some specific inner qualities of this kinds of innovations. Integrating insights from semiotics, the paper outlines some first research hypothesis on how the aesthetic elements of an eco-efficient PSS could facilitate user attraction, acceptation and satisfaction

Destroying old myths while building development : lessons from the Sisal Region

Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2008.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 64-67).In 1996, the Brazilian Government implemented the Child Labor Eradication Program - PETI, a conditional cash transfer program aimed at reducing child labor by paying a stipend to families who send their working children to an extended day program. After 12 years, PETI has had its most successful implementation in a poor semi-arid region of Brazil, the Sisal Region. The existence of an associational structure in which the federal, state and local government joined efforts with local civil society institutions, mainly a NGO and local rural labor unions, enabled each institution to contribute to the project in the best way possible. As a result the Sisal Region considerably reduced child labor, provided high quality extended day programs and assisted the families involved in PETI with projects aimed at their economic independence.by Marilia Castelo Magalhães.M.C.P

UCC Civic Engagement Plan 2017-2022.

This civic engagement plan was drafted by the University Civic and Community Engagement Committee, following extensive consultations with staff, students and community stakeholders. It is grounded in a benchmarking exercise, a review of international literature and best practices, and is informed by a self assessment of UCC’s engagement activity in 2016, which was supported by the Carnegie Foundation. A staff survey conducted in 2016 found that there was reasonable staff activity in the area of community engagement. However, staff cited barriers such as having insufficient time, a lack of recognition or valuing of engagement, and engagement needing to be integral to the mission of the University. They further referred to a fragmented organisational approach and needing better communication and information centrally. Recently Milward-Brown surveyed a representative sample of 400 people across the Munster region on behalf of UCC. The results showed that public understanding of the societal engagement mission of the University is low compared to other factors; underscoring the importance of more intently demonstrating and communicating the value of our engagement work to the public

Usability-enhanced coordination design of geovisualisations to communicate coastal flood risk information

For at least two millennia and probably much longer, the traditional vehicle for communicating geographical information to end-users has been the map. With the advent of computers, the means of both producing and consuming maps have radically been transformed, while the inherent nature of the information product has also expanded and diversified rapidly. This has given rise in recent years to the new concept of geovisualisation (GVIS), which draws on the skills of the traditional cartographer, but extends them into three spatial dimensions and may also add temporality, photorealistic representations and/or interactivity. Demand for GVIS technologies and their applications has increased significantly in recent years, driven by the need to study complex geographical events and in particular their associated consequences and to communicate the results of these studies to a diversity of audiences and stakeholder groups. GVIS has data integration, multi-dimensional spatial display advanced modelling techniques, dynamic design and development environments and field-specific application needs. To meet with these needs, GVIS tools should be both powerful and inherently usable, in order to facilitate their role in helping interpret and communicate geographic problems. However no framework currently exists for ensuring this usability. The research presented here seeks to fill this gap, by addressing the challenges of incorporating user requirements in GVIS tool design. It starts from the premise that usability in GVIS should be incorporated and implemented throughout the whole design and development process. To facilitate this, Subject Technology Matching (STM) is proposed as a new approach to assessing and interpreting user requirements. Based on STM, a new design framework called Usability Enhanced Coordination Design (UECD) is ten presented with the purpose of leveraging overall usability of the design outputs. UECD places GVIS experts in a new key role in the design process, to form a more coordinated and integrated workflow and a more focused and interactive usability testing. To prove the concept, these theoretical elements of the framework have been implemented in two test projects: one is the creation of a coastal inundation simulation for Whitegate, Cork, Ireland; the other is a flooding mapping tool for Zhushan Town, Jiangsu, China. The two case studies successfully demonstrated the potential merits of the UECD approach when GVIS techniques are applied to geographic problem solving and decision making. The thesis delivers a comprehensive understanding of the development and challenges of GVIS technology, its usability concerns, usability and associated UCD; it explores the possibility of putting UCD framework in GVIS design; it constructs a new theoretical design framework called UECD which aims to make the whole design process usability driven; it develops the key concept of STM into a template set to improve the performance of a GVIS design. These key conceptual and procedural foundations can be built on future research, aimed at further refining and developing UECD as a useful design methodology for GVIS scholars and practitioners