Editorial

Television is a powerful vehicle of mass communication and several cartoons, specifically made for children and adolescents, have ‘scientific’ themes. Preteens and teens devote many hours in front of TV, attracted by cartoons, some of which portray, in a caricature…

Current study socializes analyses on the programs of a twenty-year-old theater group in a technical school in Aquidauana MS Brazil, by discussing the discourse of written and rehearsed plays, underscoring the stance of young people who participated as actors. Studies…

Current analysis discusses and reflects on the tension points between the professor as researcher and the researcher as professor within the university professorship and also analyzes the dilemmas of the complex situation in the professionalization of teaching in higher education.…

Current paper rethinks the history of Sociology as a school discipline, by reconstituting its trajectory marked by absences and presences in the school curriculum, and by reflecting on the reasons for its intermittence, with other arguments as yet not developed…

Current paper analyzes an important teaching instrument, at university level, produced during the First Brazilian Republic, called History of Brazil (1900) by João Ribeiro, a professor at the Pedro II College. The functions undertaken by the compendium within educational relationships…

The pedagogical and conceptual bases of the teachers´ formation program in Literacy and Language (Pro-literacy) for the early years of elementary education are problematized. The reduction in schooling knowledge to basic abilities found in the current evaluation reference for literacy…

Current discussion deals with an understanding of childhood asan analytical category that visualizes the child within early childhood education and elementary education to provide reflections and challenges for the school in its endeavor to organize time and space as from…

Current essay intends to be a sharing for a greater knowledge about the situation of school libraries in Brazil, more specifically in Caxias do Sul, Estado do Rio Grande do Sul and in Portugal. The description of the situation of…

Relationships between the challenges of Basic Education, especially those related to contemporary school, and the research-linked educational challenges are investigated, based on theoretical reflections on the employment of research in the classroom as an educational principle. The arguments are foregrounded…