Concepções e Práticas de Psicólogos Escolares acerca das Dificuldades de Aprendizagem

This exploratory study investigated the educational psychologists' conceptions on learning difficulties and theirpsychopedagogical practice regarding the evaluation, prevention and attendance of those difficulties. Sixty educationalpsychologists, 34 of whom were working in public schools and 26 in private ones, from the Federal District, Brazil wereinterviewed. A semi-struetured interview privileging the content-analysis results was applied. The results indicated a precariousand inconsistent training on educational psychology that manifests itself in the professionals' conception and practice regardinglearning difficulties.RESUMO - Esta pesquisa, de caráter exploratório, teve como objetivos principais investigar as concepções de psicólogos das redes de ensino oficial e particular do Distrito Federal acerca das chamadas dificuldades de aprendizagem e identificar as práticas psicopedagógicas dos mesmos na avaliação, prevenção e atendimento dessas dificuldades. Foram sujeitos da pesquisa 60 psicólogos atuantes no contexto educacional, sendo 34 pertencentes à rede pública e 26 à rede particular. O instrumento utilizado foi a entrevista semi-estruturada, tendo-se privilegiado a análise qualitativa dos dados, através do método da análise de conteúdo das respostas transcritas. Os resultados obtidos indicam uma formação teórico-prática precária e inconsistente na área da psicologia escolar, que se reflete nas concepções e práticas dos psicólogos acerca das dificuldades de aprendizagem

Pervasive gaps in Amazonian ecological research

Biodiversity loss is one of the main challenges of our time,1,2 and attempts to address it require a clear un derstanding of how ecological communities respond to environmental change across time and space.3,4 While the increasing availability of global databases on ecological communities has advanced our knowledge of biodiversity sensitivity to environmental changes,5–7 vast areas of the tropics remain understudied.8–11 In the American tropics, Amazonia stands out as the world’s most diverse rainforest and the primary source of Neotropical biodiversity,12 but it remains among the least known forests in America and is often underrepre sented in biodiversity databases.13–15 To worsen this situation, human-induced modifications16,17 may elim inate pieces of the Amazon’s biodiversity puzzle before we can use them to understand how ecological com munities are responding. To increase generalization and applicability of biodiversity knowledge,18,19 it is thus crucial to reduce biases in ecological research, particularly in regions projected to face the most pronounced environmental changes. We integrate ecological community metadata of 7,694 sampling sites for multiple or ganism groups in a machine learning model framework to map the research probability across the Brazilian Amazonia, while identifying the region’s vulnerability to environmental change. 15%–18% of the most ne glected areas in ecological research are expected to experience severe climate or land use changes by 2050. This means that unless we take immediate action, we will not be able to establish their current status, much less monitor how it is changing and what is being lostinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Pervasive gaps in Amazonian ecological research

Biodiversity loss is one of the main challenges of our time,1,2 and attempts to address it require a clear understanding of how ecological communities respond to environmental change across time and space.3,4 While the increasing availability of global databases on ecological communities has advanced our knowledge of biodiversity sensitivity to environmental changes,5,6,7 vast areas of the tropics remain understudied.8,9,10,11 In the American tropics, Amazonia stands out as the world's most diverse rainforest and the primary source of Neotropical biodiversity,12 but it remains among the least known forests in America and is often underrepresented in biodiversity databases.13,14,15 To worsen this situation, human-induced modifications16,17 may eliminate pieces of the Amazon's biodiversity puzzle before we can use them to understand how ecological communities are responding. To increase generalization and applicability of biodiversity knowledge,18,19 it is thus crucial to reduce biases in ecological research, particularly in regions projected to face the most pronounced environmental changes. We integrate ecological community metadata of 7,694 sampling sites for multiple organism groups in a machine learning model framework to map the research probability across the Brazilian Amazonia, while identifying the region's vulnerability to environmental change. 15%–18% of the most neglected areas in ecological research are expected to experience severe climate or land use changes by 2050. This means that unless we take immediate action, we will not be able to establish their current status, much less monitor how it is changing and what is being lost

Notícias de uma guerra: estratégias, ameaças e orações

Neste artigo pretendo abordar algumas questões observadas durante as eleições municipais de 2004 na Baixada Fluminense, fundamentalmente em Nova Iguaçu, focalizando como a religião, em um momento específico, foi apropriada pelo discurso político objetivando sua potencialidade eleitoral. Assim, descreverei alguns conflitos (políticos) em torno de algumas personalidades da/na Baixada e em que medida o auxílio à temática religiosa, fundamentalmente a evangélica, foi importante para reconfigurar o campo político na região durante o segundo turno das eleições municipais.<br>In this article I propose analyze some questions observed in Baixada Fluminense's 2004 election, basically in Nova Iguaçu, giving emphasis on the religion dimension and how it was appropriated by a political discourse with electoral purposes. Then, I will describe some conflicts (political conflicts) about some Baixada's politicians and how the religion was important to reconfigure the political camp during the election