Production Of Educational Materials Research Articles

Consensus and division in Australian citizenship education

Citizenship education has been pursued in Australia for nearly two decades. Following similar efforts in the United Kingdom, the United States and other countries, a national curriculum was prepared and implemented in the late 1990s, along with the production of educational materials and a program of professional development for teachers. The teaching of citizenship was widely supported but the initiative suffered from the divided jurisdiction over education in Australia. The curriculum was criticised by social educators for its narrow ambit, and caught up in arguments over the teaching of history. More fundamentally, it was subject to heated public debates over the nation's history that were taken up by politicians and worked into new tests of citizenship. This article examines how these circumstances worked on citizenship education in Australia, and suggests how they illuminate Australian understandings of citizenship.

A culinária na promoção da alimentação saudável: delineamento e experimentação de método educativo dirigido a adolescentes e a profissionais das redes de saúde e de educação

OBJETIVO: Apresentar o delineamento e a experimentação de método educativo para promoção da alimentação saudável, tendo a culinária como seu eixo estruturante. MÉTODOS: Os referenciais teóricos adotados foram: preceitos da promoção da saúde, concepção crítica de educação em saúde, direito humano à alimentação adequada e segurança alimentar e nutricional e reflexões sobre cultura alimentar no contexto da contemporaneidade. As etapas de desenvolvimento do projeto contemplaram: identificação de representantes dos grupos de interesse (merendeiras, professores de ensino fundamental, adolescentes e profissionais de saúde da atenção básica, incluindo equipes de Saúde da Família); estruturação e experimentação, na cidade do Rio de Janeiro, do modelo de ação educativa; análise dos materiais coletados e confecção de materiais educativos. RESULTADOS: O modelo proposto e experimentado consistiu em oficina educativa estruturada em: vivência culinária; debate entre os participantes; encontro denominado Temperando Conceitos, no qual foram aprofundados os temas surgidos no debate; e encontro de avaliação de todo o projeto. Foram realizadas oito oficinas educativas envolvendo 116 participantes, que avaliaram o modelo proposto como capaz de os sensibilizar sobre o tema e incentivar para mudanças em relação à sua prática profissional e pessoal. CONCLUSÃO: O modelo experimentado configura-se em inovação metodológica no campo das práticas educativas para promoção da alimentação saudável e mostrou-se factível de ser aplicado. Como forma de continuidade do estudo, está em curso projeto de pesquisa para desenvolvimento de método educativo voltado à formação de multiplicadores para a promoção da alimentação saudável, utilizando o modelo aqui apresentado como uma de suas estratégias educativas.

Educative actions in health promotion for aging: the experience of UNATI/UERJ elderly assistance nucleus

This paper presents the experience of the Program of Educative Actions in Health Promotion for Aging, maintained by the Elderly AssistanceNucleus, an outpatient clinic of UERJ’s (Rio de Janeiro State University) Third Age Open University. It is an interdisciplinary program that includes severaleducational activities, open to the elderly and users in general. Its activities include waiting room groups, closed groups (Meetings with Health), open groups(Health “Wheel”) and the production of educational material, such as folders and boards. The work is based on a view of health integrated to quality oflife, and sees education as a dialogue, interchange of experiences, partnership, respect to others, reflection, the questioning of reality and the search forpossible alternatives and choices. Elderly needs are considered in the educational process, boosting their capacity to learn, create, decide, respecting theparticularities of the aging process. The experience honors and brings to discussion the complexity and richness of the educational dimension of health,consolidating itself as a strategic field for professional training and development of a model of assistance based on comprehensive care and practicaltheoreticalarticulation for health promotion. On a teaching level, the work stimulates a new sensibility on the professional culture, capable of includingothers and their knowledge, considering the social, economic and cultural conditions and their relationships with health. On a service level, the programrepresents a “door opening” to participation, bringing together professionals and the population, strengthening the vow to quality assistance, centeredon human bonding, on responsibility and on sharing the challenges to quality of life and health on aging.

From the echocardiography machine to the lecture room: a simple method for transferring echocardiographic frames and loops to a personal computer.

The use of computers in scientific and educational presentations is rapidly increasing. As a digital presentation is ideal for showing moving images, the use of multimedia files, e.g., echocardiographic loops within these presentations, is common. Even though recent echocardiography machines store acquired data in a digital format, these data are often not readily accessible to be transferred to a personal computer. We present an easy and cost-efficient method for transferring frames and loops from any echocardiography machine into a personal computer using a digital video camera equipped with a standard analog input and flash memory. Still images and movies are stored in the camera to be subsequently transferred to a personal computer. In the computer, still images and movies are post-processed with graphical and video editing software. Finally, the still images and movies can be projected from the video camera or presented with specialized software such as PowerPoint. The images can also be used for Web-based publications and production of educational material or books on electronic media such as CD-ROM. The described method can also be used to transfer images from other proprietary devices and programs, as long as the devices are equipped with an analog video outlet. The transfer of frames and loops from echocardiographic machines to personal computers is often useful for publication, teaching, and educational purposes. We present an easy and cost-effective method for transferring frames and loops from any echocardiography machine into a personal computer using a digital video camera.

The Association of Earth Science Editors and Precollege Geoscience Education

Members of the Association of Earth Science Editors are prepared to contribute their skills and resources to the effort to improve precollege geoscience education. Promotion of scientific literacy and communication is our profession, and many of us are already involved in public education. As a first step, a newly formed AESE precollege education committee will focus on educating our own membership about opportunities to assist teachers and students through involvement with schools and production of educational materials.

Young Children's Perception of Colour on a School Microcomputer

Abstract It is known that colour influences childen's performance on both perceptual and cognitive tasks. The present study investigates colour combination preferences on a VDU by young children performing a simple perceptual task. A comparison with Swedish research indicates a number of important correlations between colour combination preferences by the subjects of this study and reported improved legibility of text on a VDU by the much older Swedish cohort. Some of the ramifications for the production of educational materials for use by young children working with microcomputers are discussed. Suggestions are provided for further research in the area which might provide evidence for correlations between perceptual preference and improved learning.