o Fio e a Trama: as crianças nas malhas do poder

The subjectof this paper is the document named Referencial Curricular Nacional para aEducação Infantil - RCN - whose purpose is to serve as a national reference to curricularexperiences in early childhood education in Brazil. Using Michel Foucault's ideas,this article considers the proposition of curricular references as a disciplinary practiceof normalization and social control and analyzes how powerlknowledge strategies cometo be articulated to produce children's subjectivities. The study examines three themes:the questions about quality, citizenship and development of rationality. Stressing theconnections between the curriculum and what Foucault termed discipline, the studyidentifies the necessity to problematize the ways of thinking that constituted theseconcepts - quality, citizenship and rationality - and their meanings as expressed in theRCN.O objeto do presentetrabalho é o Referencial Curricular Nacional para a Educação Infantil. Utilizando oarsenal analítico legado por Michel Foucault, o texto considera a proposição de umreferencial curricular como uma prática disciplinar de normalização e de controle sociale analisa como as estratégias de poder/saber se articulam para a produção desubjetividades infantis. A delimitação do âmbito de estudo leva ao exame de três temas:as questões da qualidade, da cidadania e do desenvolvimento da racionalidade. Aodestacar a relação entre currículo e o que Foucault denominou disciplina, identifica-sea necessidade de tomar problemáticos os raciocínios que constituíram tais conceitos -qualidade, cidadania e racionalidade - presentes nos discursos do RCNlInfantil

Childhood and risk

A noção de risco aqui em discussão, está associada a temas como poder e governamento, considerados segundo uma perspectiva pós-estruturalista. Tomando como centrais os conceitos de sociedade disciplinar, sociedade e dispositivos de segurança, normalização e risco, o trabalho examina, preliminarmente, algumas transformações nos modos como determinados grupos de crianças vieram a ser objetificados e como se tornaram alvo de alguma forma de cuidado ou assistência social. A seguir, problematiza a noção de risco, presente tanto nos discursos do cotidiano quanto nas políticas para a infância, para indicar sua associação a um tipo de racionalidade que orienta formas específicas de exercício do poder que se endereçam ao campo infantil.The notion of risk discussed in this paper is associated to themes as power and government, understood under a post-structuralist approach. Taking as central concepts of disciplinary society, security society, normalization and risk the work analyzes how determined groups of children undergo some transformations related to the ways they are seen and how they become a target to specific modes of attention and social care. Afterwards, the idea of risk present in daily discourses and in childhood policies is problematized to indicate its relation to a kind of rationality that guides specifical procedures of power exercises directed to childhood

O recurso à fábula

Resenha da obra:LARROSA, Jorge. Pedagogia profana. Porto Alegre: Contrabando, 1998, trad. Alfredo Veiga-Neto

Entre a Tradição e a Tradução Cultural: a produção das identidades docentes entre os teuto-brasileiros-evangélicos

Resenha Crític

MENINAS X MENINOS

Este estudo tem por objetivo problematizar a constituição de identidades femininas e masculinas infantisna mídia impressa. A ênfase da análise recai sobre anúncios de fabricantes de roupas e acessórios paracrianças, em revistas de circulação nacional. Procura-se mostrar como a mídia estabelece e apresenta asdiferenças identitárias de gêneros, em propagandas publicitárias destinadas ao segmento infantil. Busca-seidentificar os sentidos que as imagens carregam, na representação das crianças de acordo com os modosde vestir, os comportamentos que apresentam e seus possíveis efeitos na constituição de determinados tiposde identidades, delimitando escolhas, indicando modelos e padrões, traçando caminhos no sentido deconfigurar suas identidades.Palavras-chave: mídia, infância, gêneros, identidades

Adipocyte morphometric evaluation and angiogenesis in the omentum transposed to the breast: a preliminary study

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to describe the probable mechanism of the volume increase of laparoscopically harvested omentum flaps used to treat breast deformities. METHODS: A histological analysis of omentum samples was performed to study the volume increase of laparoscopically harvested omentum flaps. Samples were harvested immediately after the transposition of the omentum from the abdominal cavity to the breast region and during the second surgical procedure for breast symmetrization of eight patients submitted to the transposition of the omentum flap. Changes in the morphometric measurements of the adipocytes (perimeter, diameter, and area), microvascular density (as measured by the CD31 endothelial marker), and immunohistochemical expression of VEGF were documented. RESULTS: The increases in adipocyte size and microvascular density were statistically significant (P < 0.012). The expression levels of VEGF were lower in the second set of samples when compared to the first set, but the differences were not statistically significant (P < 0.093). CONCLUSION: These results demonstrate an increase in cellular volume as measured by adipocyte perimeter, diameter, and area. Moreover, the increase in the number of vessels in the second set of samples suggests that neoangiogenesis was stimulated by the initial increase in VEGF expression levels observed in the first set of samples. The increase in VEGF expression in the flap may have been caused by adipocyte hypertrophy resulting from neoangiogenesis

Liesegang Rings in Xanthogranulomatous Pyelonephritis: A Case Report

Liesegang rings are concentric noncellular lamellar structures, rarely seen in vivo, occurring as a consequence of the accumulation of insoluble products in a colloidal matrix. These characteristic structures are a rare phenomenon usually found in association with cystic or inflammatory lesions and may be mistaken for parasites. The authors examined Liesegang rings from an inflammatory kidney lesion identified previously as a tumoral lesion on computerized tomography. On microscopic evaluation, Liesegang rings can be mistaken for eggs and larvae of parasites, psammoma bodies and calcification. Special stains like PAS, Grocott, von Kossa and Masson's trichrome facilitate the diagnosis

Laparoscopic treatment of Poland's syndrome using the omentum flap technique

OBJECTIVE: For patients with Poland’s syndrome, a transverse skin fold in the anterior axillary pillar, infra-clavicular depression and an anomalous breast contour are the most uncomfortable disfigurements. This study aims to demonstrate that superior aesthetic results can be achieved by using a laparoscopically harvested omentum flap to treat this condition. METHODS: From a prospectively maintained clinical database of patients undergoing a laparoscopic omentum flap procedure for breast reconstruction, all of the patients with Poland’s syndrome were identified and their outcomes were studied. RESULTS: Thirteen consecutive patients with Poland’s syndrome were treated and evaluated regarding breast contour, reconstruction of the anterior axillary pillar and filling of the infra-clavicular depression. Implants were employed beneath the flap in 76% of cases to improve symmetry. In 23% of cases, a contra-lateral mastopexy was performed, and in 15% of cases, a breast implant was used. The consistency of the flap is similar to natural breast tissue and only a small incision in the breast fold is needed. The majority of patients (85%) were female, with a mean age of 26 (18–53). The flap is extremely malleable, adapts to irregular surfaces, and has a long vascular pedicle. Additionally, its removal does not leave a scar at the donor site as the removal of muscular flaps does. For example, the removal of the latissimus dorsi flap causes a deformity in the dorsal contour. The mean operative time was 201 minutes (80–350) and the mean hospital stay was 2.3 days (1–5). CONCLUSIONS: The outcomes of these patients revealed that the omentum flap technique provided superior amelioration of the deformities caused by Poland’s syndrome when compared with other reconstructive options