The environmental crisis in our contemporary, globalized world, is facing a paradigm: the company now has a major technological development, and is also a society that destroys most in history. All the achievements of our civilization provide various negative factors,…

SISPER é o protótipo de um sistema especialista para Psicologia. É um sistema de cunho acadêmico que foi desenvolvido para diagnosticar Distúrbios de Personalidade. As pessoas com Distúrbios de Personalidade, na terminologia técnica, apresentam sintomas aloplásticos e ego-sintônicos, ou seja,…

Our country has an enormous variety of ways of life and cultures which end up developing specific relations based on the dependence upon natural cycles, due to the fact that they are somewhat isolated. Among other characteristics, their symbols and…

Diving  in  the dynamic Amazonian social  life, ruled by  the temporality of  waters, the article follows, through dialogues between History and Literature, marajoara populations’ ways of  being and living,  highlighting  their African/Indigenous  heritage  and  local knowledge, which  resulted  from  cultural…

This paper aims at reflecting upon our participation in environmental conflicts through responsible attitudes concerning environmental education. Its main theoretical reference is the thought of Humberto Maturana, a Chilean thinker. The text exposes Maturana’s proposals, i. e., the core of…

Based on the Program for Environmental Educatioon, approved in "Tiblisi Conference", Environmental Education is now counting on important basic lines that, however, do not descry of a methodology which orientates to an interdisciplinary practice in schools. This article analyses the…

For more than a century, the Lagoa dos Patos estuary has become an important small-scale fishery in the south of Brazil. In the last twenty years, the environmental system of small-scale fishery has collapsed, with harmful reflexes on the region’s…

This essay is based on bibliographical references of Humanities and the Applied Social Sciences. It presents propositions for enlarging the understanding of Tourism. Tourism is defined as the study of the relationship between the human displacement and permanence based in…

The present work aims especially to study at the process of developing an environmental awareness among schoolchildren of elementary schools. The study was carried out in three schools located in Porto Alegre, Brazil, where we tried to identify the actions…

Este artigo problematiza a história da produção do conhecimento em Psicologia Social no Brasil. Tomamos como material de análise os resumos dos Grupos de Trabalho dos Simpósios da Associação Nacional de Pesquisa e Pós-Graduação em Psicologia, desde sua criação em…