Surdez, Cognição e Matemática


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O livro Surdez, Cognição e Matemática procura fazer uma análise teórica das investigações sobre os processos de ensino-aprendizagem de conteúdos matemáticos associados ao raciocínio lógico e à resolução de problemas por parte do estudante surdo, utilizando a Língua Brasileira de Sinais (Libras). Em termos gerais, analisa-se de que maneira os processos cognitivos (raciocínio e resolução de problemas em matemática) são estimulados e como eles são desenvolvidos pelos docentes durante a atividade interativa com estudantes surdos. A pesquisa de caráter qualitativo que deu origem a este livro envolveu 10 (dez) estudantes surdos da escola especializada em Educação de Surdos, em Parintins (AM), utilizando como instrumento didático provocador a criação e implementação didática de uma tabuada intitulada Minha Tabuada em Libras, que tem como intenção favorecer e potencializá-la como suporte para que educadores desenvolvam outros mecanismos que viabilizem ainda mais a aprendizagem desses estudantes. Nesse percurso, aplicou-se o pré e pós-teste para fundamentar o objetivo da pesquisa, e ao mesmo tempo, comprovar se a aprendizagem dos estudantes em questão acontece nos mesmos níveis do estudante ouvinte. A pesquisa resolve o problema científico embasado em: “como se dá a aprendizagem de conteúdos matemáticos associados ao raciocínio lógico e à resolução de problemas do estudante surdo utilizando a Libras?”. O referencial teórico que permite a elaboração do marco teórico para estruturar a pesquisa apresenta em primeiro lugar as ideias de Sternberg (2010) em relação aos processos cognitivos, língua, linguagem, língua de sinais e outros. Também é importante destacar os trabalhos de Gesser (2009), Chomsky (1975), Laborrit (1994) etc. São utilizados também materiais concretos que servem de aportes facilitadores à aprendizagem do estudante surdo, em especial, a Língua Brasileira de Sinais (Libras), necessária nos processos de comunicação, interação e desenvolvimento dos não ouvintes.




Entrepreneurship


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Entrepreneurship, by Robert Hisrich, Michael Peters and Dean Shepherd has been designed to clearly instruct students on the process of formulating, planning, and implementing a new venture. Students are exposed to detailed descriptions of ‘how to’ embark on a new venture in a logical manner. Comprehensive cases at the end of the text have been hand-picked by the authors to go hand-in-hand with chapter concepts. The superb author team of Hisrich, Peters, and Shepherd draw from their distinct backgrounds to create a book that addresses the dynamics of today’s entrepreneurial challenges. From Bob Hisrich’s expertise in global entrepreneurship to Mike Peter’s background as a both a real-life entrepreneur and academic to Dean Shepherd’s current research on cognition and entrepreneurial mindset, this book balances the crucial line between modern theory and practice.







Pedagogy of Praxis


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Presents a critical, Neo-Marxist philosophy of education.




Cultural Citizenship in India


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If the nation is an imagined community constructed through discourse, then belonging the feeling of being part of that nation - can only arise when citizens are empowered to enter the discourse and modify it. Linking political science and cultural studies to explore the mutually constitutive role of discourse and institutions, this volume argues that citizenship is an ongoing and evolving discursive project. Further, it studies the role of culture and different media in the process of citizen-making by taking postcolonial India as its case study. The volume explores discursive plurality and the monopolization of interpretation as the poles from which inclusion in and exclusion from the national community are negotiated. By interfacing political sciences interest in the power of institutions and cultural studies focus on the power of discourse, the author is able to investigate into the ways in which citizenship manifests itself - and is contested - outside the institutional realm, thus revealing conceptual relativity, ruptures, and creative re-interpretations of citizenship.




Education for Critical Consciousness


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Famous for his advocacy of 'critical pedagogy', Paulo Freire was Latin America's foremost educationalist, a thinker and writer whose work and ideas continue to exert enormous influence in education throughout the world today. Education for Critical Consciousness is the main statement of Freire's revolutionary method of education. It takes the life situation of the learner as its starting point and the raising of consciousness and the overcoming of obstacles as its goals. For Freire, man's striving for his own humanity requires the changing of structures which dehumanize both the oppressor and the oppressed. This edition includes a substantial new introduction by Carlos Alberto Torres, Distinguished Professor and Founding Director of the Paulo Freire Institute, UCLA, USA. Translated by Myra Bergman Ramos.




The Woods, Lakeboat, Edmond


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Three plays from the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award–winning author of Glengarry Glen Ross and American Buffalo. The Woods is a modern dramatic parable about, as Mamet put it, “why men and women have a hard time trying to get along with each other.” The story features a young man and woman spending a night in his family’s cabin where they experience passion, then disillusionment, but are in the end reconciled by mutual need. In Lakeboat, an Ivy League college student takes a summer job as a cook aboard a Great Lakes cargo ship where the crewmembers—men of all ages—share their wild fantasies about sex, gambling, and violence. Mamet also wrote the screenplay to the 2000 film starring Peter Falk and Denis Leary. In Edmond, a white-collar New York City man is set morally adrift after a visit to a fortune-teller. He soon leaves an unfulfilling marriage to find sex, adventure, companionship, and, ultimately, the meaning of his existence. Mamet also wrote the screenplay for the 2005 film starring William H. Macy. “[A] beautifully conceived love story.” —Chicago Daily News on The Woods “[Mamet’s] language has never been so precise, pure, and affecting.” —Richard Eder of The New York Times on The Woods “Richly overheard talk and loopy, funny construction.” —Michael Feingold in The Village Voice on Lakeboat “A riveting theatrical experience that illuminates the heart of darkness.” —Jack Kroll of Newsweek on Edmond




We Make the Road by Walking


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This dialogue between two of the most prominent thinkers on social change in the twentieth century was certainly a meeting of giants. Throughout their highly personal conversations recorded here, Horton and Freire discuss the nature of social change and empowerment and their individual literacy campaigns.