Editorial

• Main Author: Gildenir Carolino Santos
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade Estadual de Campinas 2012-12-01
• Series: ETD: Educação Temática Digital
• Subjects: Editorial-Periodicals; Editorial-Education
• Online Access: http://www.fae.unicamp.br/revista/index.php/etd/article/view/4286/pdf

We are pleased to introduce another edition of ETD - Digital Thematic Education, issue covering July to December 2012 about "Perspectives of multidisciplinary education in various fields of learning and training".It brings eight (8) works in Articles Section; eight (8) works in Research Section and one (1) work in Essay Section.From 2013 on, the frequency of this journal will be quarterly, this mean that three (3) issues will be released per year, making the process of papers submission easier, and also, reducing the time for publication. Thus, ETD will be in accordance with the evaluation requirements of Qualis/CAPES: among the criteria for A1 qualification journals must be published quarterly. Seeking to pass from the stratum A2 to A1 the change in periodicity is essential, since in the last qualification Digital Thematic Education had not attended only this criterion of periodicity.Referring to the assessment of databases and directories: Scopus (Elsevier), Web of Science (Thomson Reuters/ISI), RedALyC and SciELO, the evaluation is in progress. The purpose is to follow the best editorial practices recommended by such databases and directories, so to achieve the goal of being part of one of them.Opening the Articles section the paper "Considerations on the use of the Academic Motivation Scale (AMS) with young students", in which Bettina Steren dos Santos, Jussara Bernardi and Helio Radke Bittencourt, all from Rio Grande do Sul Pontifical Catholic University, addresses the reasons why young people attend school, describing results collected through Academic Motivation Scale (AMS) tool, adapted version of Vallerand et al., consisting of a quantitative study in which statistical techniques commonly applied in Psychometric field are used.The second article, "Evaluation and quality of social education", written by Flávia Obino Corrêa Werle (Unisinos), Lisandra Schneider Scheffer and Marilan de Carvalho Moreira (Public Network of Basic Education - Esteio, RS), brings attention to a conceptual overview that emphasizes the importance of knowing the school reality as an element for school reorganization. Also, points out the use of institutional assessment as a subsidy for this reflexivity and for rearticulating actions. It situates public policies in different contexts, highlighting the practice as a locus of bureaucratic insubordination, in which counter regulation processes emerge, while the efforts of different actors of educational setting are articulated.A contribution from Mercosur, the third article, by Ana Maria Fernández Caraballo (Faculty of Psychology UdelaR), with the title "The academic tutorial in higher education: the case of UdelaR" deals with the ‘tutorial’ as it is classically used in university contexts - which is different from other tutorials of a pedagogical nature. This "academic tutorial" results from the knowledge production, unique effect of wisdom and ties between the tutor and the pupil. The focus is the tutoring at the University of the Republic (UdelaR).The following article, "Special education: distance pedagogical practices in teacher’s formation for Specialized Education Services (SES)", where Ana Claudia Pavão Siluk and Sílvia Maria de Oliveira Pavão, both from the Federal University of Santa Maria, analyze the dimensions of teaching methodology, evaluative criteria and the theoretical assumptions from which a Course of Specialized Educational Services-SES, is structured."Printed Instructional materials for distance education: interfaces with the language practices", the fifth article, written by Michele Rodrigues de Albuquerque and Ivanda Maria Martins Silva, teachers of Federal Rural University of Pernambuco, analyzes the production of printed educational material for distance education (EAD) - understanding distance education as a model in which students and teachers are physically separated, but joined together virtually through technological and pedagogical resources. It also discusses concepts such as: the dialogic practice in the production of teaching materials and the conception of the text as a mediator and interactive element for distance learning.Aiming to discuss the configuration of the Brazilian’s literacy history research field, Angelica Pall Oriani (UNESP), in her article "Considerations on the history of literacy in Brazil: the academic and scientific production and the establishment of the field research" focuses on the academic-scientific production on the subject, highlighting results of different Brazilian researchers groups. The author also presents an outline of what is being produced and emphasized about the topic; discusses the movement to set up a search field in the history of literacy that dialogue directly with historical research about education and school. Research on materials, practices, production, use and circulation of objects intended for such education in Brazilian primary school prevails.Cynthia Farina (South Federal Institute) brings us the seventh article, "Images closely: global economy and the formation of the sensitive", problematizes the political enlacement with market economy, to the extent that they have generated and instructed us to manage our own self-image. Thus, productivity is revealed as one of the strong amalgams and producer of sense between body and reality. The author also points out that the analysis of advertisements and television programs available on the internet; advertisements of distance courses distributed by e-mail, as well as an art project, also released on the network, comes to the evidence that image today has become a commodity by excellence. Therefore, the image does not sell just a product or itself, but sells a world’s experience to a "myself", allowing the image to educate us.In the last article of this section, "Rap as performance: an event of communication and musical expression," Andrea Cristina Cirino (Minas Gerais Federal University) aims to show the rap as a performance that spreads the speech of a periphery that cries out for freedom and social justice, through artistic language. The author concludes that rap is no longer a local reality, it have conquered its space worldwide.Search section, has as the first paper: "Drawings on learning and not learning: the construction of social knowledge under the Piagetian approach", by Eliane Giachetto Saravali and Taislene Guimarães from UNESP-Marília, Karina Perez Guimarães and Ana Paula Melchiori, from Integrated Faculty of Mirassol-SP. The article presents preliminary data from a study that investigated the beliefs of school children and adolescents aged 6 to 16 years, about not learning. The authors noted that, even at older ages, the subjects remain with elementary notions about the social world.As for the second work of this section, the authors Ana Paula Evaristo Guizarde Teodoro and Gisele Maria Schwartz, both from UNESP-Rio Claro, with "Usability of site on leisure for elderly", a qualitative study, aimed at evaluating the usability of a website that contains information about leisure for elderly, focusing on dimensions such as: layout, information and operation. The authors have used as evaluation tool “Survey Site Usability on Leisure (IAUSLA-21+)”, which have achieved good results in terms of user’ satisfaction.In "Approaches around the dumb zone of social representations of cycles learning among teachers", by Laeda Bezerra Machado (Federal University of Pernambuco), it is identified the likely mute zone of social representations of teachers’ learning cycles of the Recife’s municipal school network. The survey counted with the participation of 52 municipal schools teachers. It was concluded that educational policies, although promising, are confronted with the teachers’ social representations.The fourth study, "Images production and construction of meanings: a workshop with young people in school", Luciana Gageiro Coutinho and Lucia de Mello e Souza Lehmann, both from Fluminense Federal University, discuss the process of youth subjectivation and new ways of knowledge production. It also analyzes the creation and development of a workshop with students in a public school in the city of Niterói, in Rio de Janeiro state."Perceptions and actors’ practices in virtual communities" is the fifth work by the author Rejane Ramos Machado, from Oswaldo Cruz Foundation. The purpose of this article is to describe the main characteristics of a tool for managing virtual communities, the interaction processes, the conditions that favored or limited knowledge construction and how this practice occurred in virtual communities of a federal public institution.The next paper, "VITAE: learning objects retrieval based on Web 2.0," Geovália Oliveira Coelho (Federal Institute of Minas Gerais), Lucila Ishitani and Maria Augusta Vieira Nelson (Minas Gerais Pontifical Catholic University) propose a mechanism for retrieving learning objects, called VITAE, based on Web 2.0 principles.Search section, with the seventh work "Opinion of university students on distance education in the context of pharmaceutical Sciences", Aníbal de Freitas Santos Junior (University of Bahia State) and Hildonice de Souza Batista (Open University of Brazil) bring the discussion about the insertion of Distance Education (DE) in Pharmaceutical Sciences practice. The authors suggest that respondents are aware of the need of Distance Education in their formation, but at the same time they are concerned about the level of quality and complementarity of studies, due to the specificity of each practical activity that involves the patient and pharmaceutical professional.Ending this section, the work "The perception of the graduates about curricular changes occurred in the undergraduate nursing course", a contribution of Marcia Maria Ribera Lopes Spessoto (Mato Grosso do Sul State University), Giselle Cristina Martins Real (Grande Dourados Federal University) and Maria Helena Salgado Bagnato (State University of Campinas) analyze the perceptions of former Nursing students about curriculum changes occurred in the undergraduate Nursing courses, from the 1990s.Essay section concludes this ETD number with the text of Marina Patricio Arruda (Planalto Catarinense University): "The emerging paradigm of education: the teacher as mediator of emotions", which purpose is to reflect and update the concept of mediation, undermined by uncertainty and opacity. It requires a new exercise of understanding, in order to promote the renewal of our ability to act and educate in an environment where the teacher will assume himself as a mediator of emotions, within a world of ever more complex social relations.Then, we are ending another edition of Digital Thematic Education certain of our team accomplishment and we hope you, our readers, enjoy the works presented this time and make good of use of them. Our next appointment is scheduled for April/2013. See you!!