Formação de professores e as novas tecnologias em educação: uma reflexão necessária


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A tecnologia na educação ainda se constitui em um tema polêmico, considerado, por vezes, desalentador nos processos de formação. No entanto, são frequentes as boas experiências desenvolvidas por educadores de todas as etapas e níveis de ensino, por todo o país. Entretanto, estas iniciativas localizadas não conseguem se expandir e, como “o que não cresce, retroage”, essas experiências, com o passar do tempo e com o afastamento daqueles que as implementaram, tendem a se enfraquecer e desaparecer. Realidades como essas são, fundamentalmente, consequência da falta de continuidade administrativa resultado da interferência político partidária e suas ideologias nas administrações públicas. O momento de profundas mudanças que vivenciamos exige organização e coerência para o uso da tecnologia na formulação de projetos de formação de professores, e metodologias pedagógicas como ferramentas possíveis no estabelecimento de uma política educacional que promova, efetivamente, a igualdade de oportunidades no interior da escola pública. As reflexões e propostas contidas neste livro contemplam um amplo leque de questões relacionadas à temática.




What Good is Punctuation?


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Autosegmental and Metrical Phonology


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Inleiding in de fonologie.




Brazilian Portuguese and the Null Subject Parameter


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Using the Null Subject Parameter theory in cross linguistic variation, Brazilian Portuguese is studied in this book from a diachronic and a synchronic perspective, and from the language acquisition point of view.




The Symbol Theory


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The Symbol Theory draws together three central themes. At the first level the book is concerned with symbols in relation to language, knowing and thinking. Secondly, Elias stresses that symbols are tangible sound-patterns of human communication. Finally, the book addresses theoretical issues about the ontological status of knowledge.




Functionalism and Grammar


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This book is Prof. Givon's long-awaited critical examination of the fundamental theoretical and methodological underpinnings of the functionalist approach to grammar. It challenges functionalists to take their own medicine and establish non-circular empirical definitions of both 'function' and 'structure'. Ideological hand-waving, however fervent and right-thinking, is seldom an adequate substitute for analytic rigor and empirical responsibility. If the reductionist extremism of the various structuralist schools is to be challenged on solid intellectual grounds, the challenge cannot itself be equally extreme in its reductionism. The book is divided into nine chapters: 1. Prospectus, somewhat jaundiced (overview) 2. Markedness as meta-iconicity: Distributional and cognitive correlates of syntactic structure 3. The functional basis of grammatical typology 4. Modal prototypes of truth and action 5. Taking structure seriously: Constituency and the VP node 6. Taking structure seriously II: Grammatical relations and clause union 7. The distribution of grammar in text: On interpreting conditional associations 8. Coming to terms with cognition: Coherence in text vs. coherence in mind 9. On the co-evolution of language, mind and brain.




Syllable Structure and Stress in Spanish


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In this book, James Harris outlines important new results that impose strong constraints on the theory of Spanish phonology, with consequences beyond Spanish and beyond the family of Romance languages.




Natural Syntax


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The view that language is in some way 'arbitrary', that there is no formal relationship between a linguistic message and the thought it is meant to convey, is long established and pervasive. The goal of John Haiman's study is to challenge the monopoly of arbitrariness, which he believes has affected in significant ways many models of linguistic description and analysis, notably those proposed by Saussure and more recently by Chomsky and his associates. Linguistic structures, Dr Hainian claims, may be compared to (non-linguistic) diagrams of our thoughts, and deviate from iconicity in many of the same ways and for much the same reasons as do diagrams in general. Arbitrariness develops as a result of the relatively familiar principles of economy, generalization and association. In relation to this thesis, Dr Haiman considers a wide variety of constructions, including conditionals and interrogatives, gapping, causative structures, auxiliaries and reflexives, and provides a wealth of exemplification from different languages that also points to typological differences in respect of iconicity.




Die Sprachwissenschaft


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Studies in Syntactic Typology


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The papers in this volume are revised versions of presentations at the conference on Language Universals and Language Typology in March 1985 at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. They include new proposals of universals, results of investigations to validate or refine previously proposed universal generalizations, and discussions concerning the explanation of universals. The volume will be of great interest to researchers in syntax and in language universals. In addition, scholars in pragmatics, philosophy of linguistics, psycholinguistics, anthropological linguistics and semantics will also find articles of interest in the book.