This article analyzes Mark Haddon’s 2003 novel, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, using a combination of both disability studies theory and ecocriticism.  The author argues that the novel’s main character, Christopher Boone, presents a social model…

Abstract: I describe a recent touch tour I took at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and suggest that since sighted visitors do not enjoy the opportunity to touch works of art, museums should collect the observations of…

Palestra proferida na Sociedade Cultural "Joaquim Nabuco", em sessão de 6 de junho de 1956, em Florianópolis.

From the perspective of Michel Foucault’s conceptualizations of biopower and technologies of normalization, disability activism emerges as a collective protest against the form of power/knowledge that produces disability as an abject identity. Yet, disability activists also claim a “right to…

Ao ler a Dissertação de Mestrado "Das regiões Lombarda e Vêneta ao Núcleo de São Bernardo: acompanhando o imigrante italiano", de Constantino Agazzi que a defendeu, em 1985, na Universidade de São Paulo na área de História Social, deparei-me, já…

The tingid Leptopharsa heveae, known as the lace bug, occurs in large populations in rubber tree plantations, limiting the production of latex due to losses of photosynthetic area and weakening of the infested trees. The alternative for the use of…

APRESENTAÇÃO   A vida oportuniza momentos para leituras, reflexões e ações! Durante o percurso profissional acadêmico e social, enfrentamos os desafios de continuar a jornada, de acolher novos membros na trajetória (autores, avaliadores, revisores e editores), com os quais aprendemos que…

This document is a proposal that will allow the implementation of power projects. Furthermore, within the execution of these projects, it will optimize the monitoring and control of actions, and promote compliance with the objectives set by specific management methods…

La evaluación de los aprendizajes desde la óptica de las construcciones personales y sociales del docente, hace hincapié en la concepción teórica que el proyecto de vida y las creencias pedagógicas que tienen el docente, actúan conjuntamente con el proyecto…

Earlier versions of this paper were presented at the conference
of the Australian Association for Professional & Applied Ethics
in June 2008, and at the Quality in Postgraduate Research
conference held in Adelaide in April 2008., Although postgraduate research is