As boas práticas da Biblioteca Lúcio Craveiro da Silva como espaço público inclusivo

O presente artigo pretende expor as práticas levadas a cabo pela Biblioteca Lúcio Craveiro da Silva, em Braga, no desenvolvimento de diferentes literacias na comunidade local. Sabemos que estas importantes literacias ajudam a aumentar os níveis de informação e conhecimento, a desenvolver o pensamento crítico e a combater a infoexclusão. Articulada com a educação dos cidadãos, a educação não-formal volta-se para a formação de cidadãos livres, emancipados, portadores de um leque diversificado de direitos, assim como de deveres. A Biblioteca funciona como espaço público de inclusão e de cidadania. Apresentam-se neste artigo casos de boas práticas levadas a cabo na Biblioteca Lúcio Craveiro da Silva, dando destaque ao serviço Biblioteca no Apoio à Inclusão, o qual foca as suas iniciativas nas pessoas com necessidades especiais. As ações desenvolvidas na Biblioteca passam pelo acolhimento e atendimento personalizado a este público, pela disponibilização e formação em equipamentos e softwares que apoiam o desenvolvimento de competências de escrita, de leitura, em formatos digitais multimédia. O serviço Biblioteca no Apoio à Inclusão contribui para a construção de espaços de socialização e integração de saberes, desenvolvimento de capacidades comunicativas e de autonomização. Para estas ações exigem-se recursos e equipamentos específicos (tecnologias de apoio), bem como pessoal qualificado. Para que tal seja possível, é premente proporcionar espaços de reflexão e sensibilização junto da comunidade científica e técnica para mostrar que as bibliotecas são e podem ser ainda mais espaços inclusivos, desde que desenvolvido o seu potencial educador, fortalecido o seu papel social e reforçadas as redes de parceria. Todos os cidadãos são desafiados nas bibliotecas à promoção de uma educação cidadã, participativa e emancipatória

Let there be light...

“Let there be light...” is a project in the scope of the International Year of Light 2015 (IYL 2015) targeted at children of the first school grade. Basically, it comprises nine recreational - scientific workshops that last for approximately 90 minutes. Each workshop is dedicated to a different topic, namely: bioluminescence, mineral observation, the rainbow, light-shadow contrast, battery production, just to name a few, and is designed, in differ- ent approaches, by a distinct team of scientists familiar to the scientific area focused. The activity starts with the dramatized storytelling of a children’s story related to the scientific subject and performed by the team of the public library expert in this area. This moment takes place in an almost magical environment opening the door to the science topic light-related that would be focused later on. In the third part of the workshop, the children are invited to produce plastic works (e.g. drawings, constructions and models) inspired in what they have learned, and that are to be collected in a public exhibition held at the same institution at the end of the project. In the present work, besides the description of the experience, you can find the critical analysis of the activity and the evaluation of the action by all the actors involved (project team and children/teachers that attended the workshops).info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Ciência p´ra que te quero: aprender de modo não formal/informal

A cultura científica é hoje inseparável de uma cidadania de qualidade e esclarecida. Cremos que esta pode ser maximizada com projetos de ensinoaprendizagem levados a cabo em ambientes de educação não formal e informal, onde crianças e jovens lidam com problemas reais potenciando o desenvolvimento da literacia científica como elemento fundamental e crucial para uma cidadania plena, esclarecida e ativa na sociedade. Ciência p´ra que te quero é um projeto de divulgação de Biologia e Matemática, que convida crianças dos 6 aos 10 anos a realizar atividades hands-on num local inesperado em Braga: a Biblioteca.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Hands-on science activities for children aged from 6 to 10: perspectives from partners of the outreach project

The outreach project Scientia.com.pt has been implementing regularly hands-on activities for children from 6 to 10 years under the venture “Ciência p’ra que te quero”. The project aims to show that science is everywhere and in everyday life, alerting children to how science happensand to how we can use, learn and/ or adapt it to our daily routine. In 2018 “Ciência p ́ra que te quero” is conceived and designed on behalf of the “European Year of Cultural Heritage” and has sustainability and patrimony as the main themes. The addressed topics for the current year cover subjects such as “Is your house sustainable? Let’s save the Cultural Heritage”; “The sustainability of liquids that are also patrimony” or “Food – from sustainability to patrimony”,among others. Usually, a set of 5 – 6 simple and small hands-on experiments is performed monthly in a public library environment. Each session begins with a theoretical but informal presentation that allows to know children’s ́ perceptions, believes and knowledge about certain topics while explaining and/ or clarifying the important scientific concepts. Subsequently, volunteers start the hands-on activities with small groups of children. These volunteers, mostly undergraduate biology and biochemistry students, have an essential role in this project, once they are the key and the connection between science & scientists and the participating children. At the end of each session, children and volunteers are asked to fill a questionnaire regarding their opinion about the session, which gives useful information that can lead to changes and improvements in further activities. This work aims to show another perspective of the “Ciência p ́ra que te quero” project, namely the point of view of (i) the volunteer PhD science student that accepted to make and present the topics during each session presentation, (ii) the volunteer students that conducted the practical activities, (iii) the project mentors, (iv) the library staff and also the (v) feedback from the children engaged in the activities as well as from their parents. Science communication is getting more and more importance nowadays as the media use loads of unfiltered and untreated information, and shows therefore unreal or non-understandable information to a non-conscientious public. Overall, the team feels that showing science to children with hands-on activities is a way of approaching important and current subjects in a pleasurable, appellative and efficient manner, making children more aware of their surroundings.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Ciência p´ra que te Quero: making science accessible and exciting to young people

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Let there be light...

“Let there be light..." is a project in the scope of the International Year of Light 2015 (IYL 2015) targeted at children of the first school grade. Basically, it comprises nine recreational - scientific workshops that last for approximately 90 minutes. Each workshop is dedicated to a different topic, namely: bioluminescence, mineral observation, the rainbow, light-shadow contrast, battery production, just to name a few, and is designed, in different approaches, by a distinct team of scientists familiar to the scientific area focused. The activity starts with the dramatized storytelling of a children’s story related to the scientific subject and performed by the team of the public library expert in this area. This moment takes place in an almost magical environment opening the door to the science topic light-related that would be focused later on. In the third part of the workshop, the children are invited to produce plastic works (e.g. drawings, constructions and models) inspired in what they have learned, and that are to be collected in a public exhibition held at the same institution at the end of the project. In the present work, besides the description of the experience, you can find the critical analysis of the activity and the evaluation of the action by all the actors involved (project team and children/teachers that attended the workshops).info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Characterisation of microbial attack on archaeological bone

As part of an EU funded project to investigate the factors influencing bone preservation in the archaeological record, more than 250 bones from 41 archaeological sites in five countries spanning four climatic regions were studied for diagenetic alteration. Sites were selected to cover a range of environmental conditions and archaeological contexts. Microscopic and physical (mercury intrusion porosimetry) analyses of these bones revealed that the majority (68%) had suffered microbial attack. Furthermore, significant differences were found between animal and human bone in both the state of preservation and the type of microbial attack present. These differences in preservation might result from differences in early taphonomy of the bones. © 2003 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved

Proceedings Of The 23Rd Paediatric Rheumatology European Society Congress: Part Two

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