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‘Green Boots’ Cave’
Authors: Hinks Jim
Published: November 2014

The short story ‘Green Boots’ Cave’ introduces an inexplicable phenomenon – that one might experience the events of an entire lifetime within a few moments – and plays this idea against recognizable, ‘real’ historical events. It follows Todorov’s notion of the process of reader adaptation to the inexplicable (as opposed to hesitation), described in The Fantastic: A Structural Approach to a Literary Genre.
Proud woman, pearl necklace, twenty years
Authors: Rose C. D.
Published: November 2014

This story-article takes its title from three key elements in Maupassant’s canonical story ‘The Necklace’. A teacher invites a class to put the story together, having given them only these clues, and then eventually tells the story. As this process unfolds, he appropriates the story and its telling in a self-reflexive attempt to investigate narrativity and the mechanics of the short story, reflecting on Maupassant’s life and career and on the reception of the story by its varied listeners.
Review
Authors: Baldwin Dean
Published: November 2014

Three short story collections from America

Come by Here: A Novella and Stories, Tom Noyes (2014) Pittsburgh, PA: Autumn House Press, 159 pp., ISBN: 7981932870930, p/bk, US$17.95

The Man who Noticed Everything, Adrian Van Young (2013) Pittsburgh, PA: Black Lawrence Press, 179 pp., ISBN: 7981937854263, p/bk, US$16.00

Starting Over: Stories, Elizabeth Spencer (2014) New York: Liveright, 202 pp., ISBN: 9780871406811, h/bk, US$24.95
‘Sometimes Two People like Each Other Who Shouldn’t’: Díaz, Schickler and Bradbury stories that defamiliarize the teacher–student relationship
Authors: Ellerhoff Steve Gronert
Published: November 2014

Charles E. May’s assertion that Junot Díaz’s ‘Miss Lora’, 2013 winner of The Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award, is not outstanding is challenged. The current discourse on teacher–student sex scandals is used to inform a reading of Díaz’s story that reveals its success under critical scrutiny. Sheila L. Cavanagh’s sociological work on the sex scandals surrounding white female teachers is incorporated alongside James Knoll’s work as a psychologist on profiling sexually predatory female teachers. ‘The Smoker’ by David Schickler and ‘These Things Happen’ by Ray Bradbury are also analysed as fitting into the trope of students and teachers developing relationships that fall outside the bounds of the white heteronormative master narrative. May’s claim that short stories succeed in ‘defamiliarizing’ our everyday constructs of reality is shown to occur in each story in relation to our expectations of the sexual boundaries between teachers and students.
Navigating the research/practice divide
Authors: White John Howell
Published: November 2014

This article provides an introduction to the development of the 2012 NAEA Research Commission and its mandate to bridge the divide between art education research and practice. Art education and its most significant generator of professional identity, the National Art Education Association (NAEA), contain an extensive range of practices played out in a wide range of sites. Art educators include PK-12 classroom teachers, community organizers, museum educators and curators, pre-service instructors, researchers, research professors, instructional materials manufacturers and arts administrators. In 2012 the Board of the NAEA reestablished an NAEA Research Commission with the expressed goal of attending to relationships between research and practice in art education. The initiative, emerging out of this member-driven association populated primarily by PK-12 practitioners, required a shift in orientation to adequately address the needs of that audience. This article provides insight into the documents, policies and discussions that have lead to the crafting of the Commissions’ existing form and to the changing orientations towards leadership that occurred as a result of the mandate of the commission. The article will propose that an attention to aesthetic leadership provided a useful sensibility for navigating complex conditions with multiple variables. Aesthetic leadership draws upon disciplinary and personal habits that inform awareness and action. Aesthetic leadership also emerges out of improvisational responses to unanticipated phenomena. Leadership can be a latent capacity underdetermined or overdetermined by groups, fields or individuals. Invested participants subsequently come to speak differently about their interrelationships as a consequence of emerging conditions. This way of speaking about leadership is conducted in relation to a field’s ability to reconstruct a research/practice model that is shaped by both present conditions and theories.
Extending Thurber’s and Zimmerman’s models for developing feminist leadership in art education through collaboration, community building, and creativity
Authors: Zimmerman Enid
Published: November 2014

In this article, I describe how Frances Thurber (1946–2012) and I began in the early 1990s to conduct research concerning empowerment and leadership themes in art teacher education. Over the next decade, we were involved in researching leadership issues in art teacher education and conducted a series of studies that focused on both theory and practice related to developing voice, collaboration, and social action as components of feminist leadership in art education. Our goal was to educate in-service art teachers to become empowered and take leadership roles in programmes in Nebraska and Indiana. By 2002, we had constructed several pedagogical models as a result of our studies of various components of leadership and empowerment. I describe how I then used these models from 2003 to 2012 to study three different populations of undergraduate and graduate students in the United States. Finally, I make a case for extending the leadership models to include creativity as a new component for considering leadership and art education. Rethinking my past decade of work about building leadership models for art education, from a more extended lens than the one through which the two leadership models were originally constructed, provides an avenue for new collaboration, community building, and consideration of the role of creativity in empowerment and leadership in art education and considers a variety of populations and organizations that can be enriched by using these extended leadership models in the future.
Leading through giving and collaborating: Considerations for socially engaged arts-based practice and collaborative leadership
Authors: Carpenter, II B. Stephen
Published: November 2014

This article considers how arts-based and other practices inform creative leadership capacities. This consideration is grounded primarily in a reflection on previous work of artists and their colleagues on the production, advocacy and education of colloidal silver-enhanced ceramic water filters as a response to the global water crisis. Central to this reflection is consideration of how this work informs creative leadership capacities through theoretical lenses of collaborative leadership, socially engaged practice and art practice as giving. Ultimately, the intention is to suggest that creative leadership as praxis takes form through cultural production beyond object-making, favouring the facilitation of meaningful relationships among people, ideas and contexts, as they arise from collaboration and social engagement.
Leading from behind to see ahead: The poverty and promise of institutional change
Authors: Sullivan Graeme
Published: November 2014

This article explores how those involved in leadership roles in institutional settings can make effective use of strategies, methods and processes common to visual arts practice and arts-based research as a means to participate in an authentic way in a culture of change. It is argued that, to claim institutional agency leaders of academic arts units need to create an alternative discourse to counter the fatigue of business rhetoric. This can be accomplished using a participatory approach that makes use of tactical action and the open-ended search structures of artistic enquiry. To move beyond the business of education, three notions of leadership are proposed that involve creating fluid working structures, participating so as to gain institutional agency, and putting initiatives into practice that enable others to thrive.
Transforming education through art-centred integrated learning
Authors: Marshall Julia
Published: November 2014

Art-centred integrated learning is a version of art integration that uses art enquiry processes to promote deep and holistic understanding of concepts and ideas that matter to our students while fostering their abilities to handle complexity and think flexibly, capacities they will need in order to prosper in a complex and uncertain world and become leaders in shaping that world. To meet these needs of their students, the Alameda County Office of Education in Northern California has adopted Integrated Learning, an approach to education that promotes integrative thinking and integrated knowledge through art-centred learning. Because Integrated Learning presents solutions for education across the board, it provides a model that leaders in general education could consider when formulating pedagogy. And since this model draws from contemporary art practices, it provides both education in the arts and a strong rationale that art education leaders can use to argue for a robust presence of the arts in education. Moreover, the Integrated Learning approach delineates a set of principles and practices that are germane to creative leadership and could be integrated into leadership education.
The best of intentions: Leading us beyond the unfulfilled promises of arts integration
Authors: Thompson Christine Marmé
Published: November 2014

The concept of integrating the visual arts with other school subjects resurfaces periodically in educational discourse, but the classroom practices that follow are often disappointing, as implementations dilute the rich possibilities envisioned by theoreticians. Leadership is needed in order to clarify the nature of truly integrated pedagogies, and to prepare teachers to collaborate with specialists in other disciplines to initiate projects that call upon multiple languages to accomplish and document learning. Structural changes in the nature of teachers’ work and the structure of the school day are needed if truly integrated project-based learning is to occur. Leadership is required, in schools and teacher preparation programmes, to accomplish these ends.
Wake Up call: Advocacy in the arts education ecosystem
Authors: Reeder Laura K.
Published: November 2014

This manuscript appeals to arts education leaders to consider how their current advocacy messages may be missing an emphasis on learners who are excluded from access to any artistic learning in public education. I make a personal call for more critical and human-centered messages by drawing on exchanges among artists, learners and teachers. Maxine Greene’s theory of wide-awakeness is animated as an accessible advocacy theme in the form of four letters: one to the editors of this journal, one to a school board commissioner in a struggling urban district, one to a national arts advocacy leader and one to Maxine Greene. Issues of messaging are examined as part of a dynamic ecosystem among academic, policy and practice-based perspectives.
Do we really collaborate effectively in the operating theatre? A cross- sectional study in two hospitals in Greece
Authors: Patelarou Athina , Laliotis Aggelos , Sifaki Pistola Dimitra , Marinaki Sofia , Androulaki Zacharenia , Tsiou Chrysoula , Brokalaki Hero
Published: November 2014

The aim of this study was to translate the Disagreement and Aggression in the Operating Theatre Scale (DAOTS) into Greek and investigate the frequency of perceived conflicts, the sources of disagreement and the suggested methods of coping with them within and among professional groups in operating theatres in Greece. The results of this study support the reliability and validity of the DAOTS. The majority of the respondents had witnessed episodes of aggressive behaviour and/or disagreement during the last six months. Physicians more frequently revealed an aggressive behaviour towards a colleague, while nurses were found to be witnesses of a conflict between different professional teams. Daily/weekly disagreements among respondents about availability of equipment, theatre time, changes in the list order and availability of surgical staff were reported. Additionally, hospital type and years of professional experience are considered to affect the prevalence of exposure to a disagreement.
Intrapreneurship amongst unit nurse managers at public hospitals
Authors: Letsie Thandiwe , Van der Merwe Anita , Botha Delene
Published: November 2014

AIM: To improve conceptual clarity of the term commonly used in business intrapreneurshipâ€, as it has potential for application in the public health care facility.Background: Intrapreurship is a term commonly used in the business world. However, the term is poorly understood within the nursing fraternity, yet there is potential for application in health care facilities. The daunting challenges facing public care organizations call for incorporation of innovative initiatives embodied within intrapreneurial principles. Therefore, the intrapreneurial unit nurse managers as frontline runners in the delivery of health care services are well positioned to influence the accomplishment of positive health outcomes.Design: A concept analysis.Data sources: The meaning of intrapreneurship was searched from different sources inclusive of dictionaries and thesauri. Literature from a range of disciplines was explored to better understand the concept, this included; business economics, psychology, and public management. Similarities and differences with other similar concepts such as â€˜entrepreneurshipâ€™ were also established. Other surrogate terms that are usually confused with intrapreneurship, were also isolated and defined so that more clarity on the concept of interest can surface.Review method: Walker and Avantâ€™s methodology guided the concept analysisDiscussion of findings: Attributes which best define intrapreneurship include; innovation, creativity and risk taking. Created model, borderline and contrary cases brought clarity on the expected intrapreneurial behavior by a unit nurse manager. The antecedents of intrapreneurship were categorized into three aspects namely; the external environment, intra-organizational and the individual factors. Consequences of intrapreneurship include; new business venture, innovative initiatives leading to self- renewal. The empirical referents of an intrapreneurial organization include aspects such as; effective cost management strategies, positive response to change, application of new skills and client/employee satisfaction.
PROCESSOS SUPERVISIVOS E AVALIAÇÃO DE PROFESSORES: TENSÕES E EXPECTATIVAS EM PORTUGAL
Authors: Sousa Francisco , Leal Susana Mira , Cabral Ana Paula
Published: November 2014

As sucessivas alterações de que tem sido alvo o estatuto da carreira docente criado em Portugal no ano de 1990 e, num plano mais específico, as iniciativas políticas relativas à avaliação do desempenho docente no mesmo país intensificaram a discussão acerca dos objetivos, protagonistas, métodos e procedimentos associados a essa mesma avaliação. No presente artigo, procuramos contribuir para o aprofundamento dessa discussão, refletindo sobre os desenvolvimentos recentes das políticas de avaliação do desempenho docente em Portugal à luz de dois conceitos centrais: avaliação formativa e supervisão. Essa reflexão sustenta-se nos resultados de alguma investigação empírica e na análise de um conjunto de documentos oficiais relevantes, relativos ora à realidade observada no Continente português ora à situação específica da Região Autónoma dos Açores. Começamos por situar a discussão da avaliação do desempenho docente no quadro concetual das funções da avaliação, enfatizando a função formativa e discutindo até que ponto esta última tem sido considerada no contexto das políticas educativas em causa. Discutimos igualmente algumas possibilidades de desenvolvimento da supervisão pedagógica ao serviço da avaliação formativa dos professores no contexto português, analisando o papel da inspeção enquanto entidade com responsabilidades nos domínios do acompanhamento da ação pedagógica e da avaliação do desempenho docente.http://dx.doi.org/10.14572/nuances.v20i21.1088
OS ESTÁGIOS DE ENSINO: NOVAS QUESTÕES PARA VELHOS PROBLEMAS
Authors: França Dimair De Souza
Published: November 2014

O objetivo desse trabalho é analisar como o estágio tem se constituído no curso de formação de professores, a partir de seus desafios, limites e possibilidades, na perspectiva de refletir sobre as novas questões que se colocam hoje para o desenvolvimento desse componente curricular na escola de educação básica. Para tanto, foram retomados aspectos que envolvem a realização dessa prática na escola de Educação Básica com a finalidade de repensar as propostas de estágio de forma que possam contemplar diferentes aspectos da aprendizagem do ofício docente, ainda na formação inicial, estendendo-se ao espaço escolar mediante o envolvimento de seus profissionais com essa atividade, sem desconsiderar os “velhos problemas” que há muito tempo perpassam a efetivação do estágio. Em razão desses velhos problemas que essa atividade ainda enfrenta, é preciso aprofundar a discussão acerca dessa temática para que seja possível construir um referencial que dê conta de explicitar as condições de constituição do ofício docente vivenciado pelos futuros professores quando de suas inserções pela prática nas escolas de educação básica, de forma a contemplar as novas questões se colocam como referência para alavancar esse debate.http://dx.doi.org/10.14572/nuances.v20i21.1100
PROPUESTA DE EVALUACIÓN DE LA EQUIDAD DE GÉNERO: UN INSTRUMENTO DE MEJORA DE LA CALIDAD EN EDUCACIÓN INFANTIL
Authors: Mañós Roser Vendrell , Trens Marian Baquès i , Capdevila Reina , Balagué Àngels Geis i , Matas Sofia Gallego i , Margenat Montserrat , Ferreira Paula Frapiccini , Ciller Laura
Published: November 2014

Nuestra experiencia como formadores universitarios en el Magisterio, y como asesores en los centros de educación infantil, justifica en gran medida los objetivos y el planteamiento del trabajo que presentamos. Así mismo nuestra trayectoria en investigación aplicada nos empuja a realizar planteamientos que sean operativos y realistas. Así pues la interrelación entre investigación y la intervención profesional es un factor que contemplamos en este trabajo de forma continuada hecho que nos identifica con la metodología de Investigación-Acción (I-A). Presentamos un protocolo de aplicación en los centros educativos que posibilita tanto la evaluación de la gestión, como de los planteamientos pedagógicos del mismo como también las actitudes personales de los adultos. Los resultados obtenidos hasta el momento indican la importancia de que se realice una evaluación de la equidad de género de forma frecuente en los equipos docentes a fin de favorecer cambios positivos al respecto. Sabemos que los modelos ofrecidos por los adultos a lo largo del desarrollo de los niños tienen un gran valor. Por lo tanto más que vigilar los discursos verbales debemos controlar nuestra conducta a fin de poder ofrecer modelos que favorezcan la educación en valores, concretamente en la equidad de género.http://dx.doi.org/10.14572/nuances.v20i21.1101
LEITURA: ACEPÇÕES, SENTIDOS E VALOR
Authors: Britto Luiz Percival Leme
Published: November 2014

Neste ensaio, trato de verificar as acepções correntes do termo leitura, identificando suas especificidades e particularidades, de modo a poder estabelecer um referencial político-pedagógico para o ensino e a promoção da leitura. Sustento, com base na análise desenvolvida, que, não obstante o uso polissêmico de leitura autorizar expressões tais como leitura do mundo, leitura de imagem, leitura da situação, entre outras, há evidente especificidade quando se fala de leitura do texto e que tal distin-ção é particularmente importante para a ação educativa. Finalmente, apresento algumas considerações sobre o sentido da promoção da leitura – tomada como valor humanizador –, destacando o papel for-mativo e ético que lhe é implícito.http://dx.doi.org/10.14572/nuances.v21i22.1619
LA SOCIALIZACIÓN DE LA LECTURA: HACIA UN NUEVO CONCEPTO DE LIBRO, DE AUTOR Y DE LECTOR
Authors: Cordón-García José Antonio
Published: November 2014

Las tecnologías de la información han transformado las tipologías documentales a lo largo de los últimos diez años, dando lugar a la aparición de medios y formatos nuevos. Los cambios experimentados por obras de referencia y revistas científicas han tenido su continuidad en los libros electrónicos que van consolidando un mercado cada vez mas amplio lingüística y geográficamente. Los cambios no afectan únicamente al soporte sino que también se han modificado las formas de lectura y las practicas y recepción de la misma. Fruto de todo ello es la aparición de un nuevo concepto de libro, más abierto, colaborativo y multimedia, de nuevas formas de lectura, socializadas y en red, y de nuevos lectores, participativos y proclives a la integración reticular de los contenidos que generan. Las bibliotecas, por otra parte, se han involucrado en todo este proceso ampliando las redes de intercambio y de comunicación de obras y dando acceso a miles de libros antes inaccesibles, propiciando el préstamo de los mismos y la difusión de los nuevos dispositivos de lectura.http://dx.doi.org/10.14572/nuances.v21i22.1621
O ENSINO DA LEITURA LITERÁRIA NA ESCOLA, EM PORTUGAL: DO DISCURSO OFICIAL ÀS PRÁTICAS
Authors: Balça Ângela , Pires Maria da Natividade Carvalho
Published: November 2014

Neste artigo pretendemos dar uma panorâmica do ensino da leitura literária na escola, em Portugal. Centramo-nos, numa fase inicial, no discurso oficial, materializado nos inúmeros programas e iniciativas ministeriais - a Rede de Bibliotecas Escolares, o Plano Nacional de Leitura, o Programa Nacional de Ensino do Português e os atuais Programas do Ensino Básico – e nele vamos analisar como todas estas iniciativas se articulam no ensino da leitura e da formação de leitores literários. Posteriormente, passaremos deste discurso pedagógico oficial para a sua recontextualização na escola e nas salas de aula do 1.º ciclo do ensino básico. Neste ponto, vamos descrever as práticas articuladas ao texto literário, observadas pelas investigadoras, na condição de formadoras do Programa Nacional de Ensino do Português.http://dx.doi.org/10.14572/nuances.v21i22.1624
CREATING COMMUNITIES OF POETRY READERS
Authors: Patrick Lisa
Published: November 2014

Neste artigo, nós apresentamos aos leitores a arte de ler poesia com as crianças. Começando com uma breve definição de poesia e como ela funciona, seguido por uma discussão sobre os benefícios da leitura de poesia com as crianças. Em seguida, examinamos a negligência do uso da poesia em escolas, bem como recomendações para lidar com essa negligência. Estas recomendações têm como foco principal orientar um trabalho de imersão com o texto poético para alunos em uma base diária, lendo poesia em voz alta para os alunos e incentivando-os a ler poesia autonomamente. Nós compartilhamos uma pesquisa sobre as preferências das crianças por poesia, a fim de orientar os professores na escolha de textos poéticos para a partilha em sala de aula. Finalmente, explicamos como ler poesia pode levar a escrever poesia. O nosso principal objetivo é fornecer aos professores e aos formadores de professores com conhecimento sobre como convidar os alunos para o mundo da poesia.http://dx.doi.org/10.14572/nuances.v21i22.1625
ÉTICA E LIVRE ARBITRIO
Authors: Pedro Ana Paula Da Silveira Simões
Published: November 2014

Será que as nossas decisões e ações são pautadas pelo livre arbítrio ou, pelo contrário, são causalmente determinadas? Por outro lado, poderão ainda as nossas ações serem simultaneamente causadas quer pelo livre arbítrio quer pelo determinismo? Na eventualidade de as nossas decisões e ações não serem pautadas pelo livre arbítrio, poderemos ser responsabilizados por elas? Se não, então, qual o sentido da ética? Estas são algumas das questões fundamentais que este artigo procura analisar através da discussão dos principais argumentos das teorias compatibilistas (FRANKFURT, 1969) e incompatibilistas (VAN INWAGEN, 1983) acerca da natureza da ação moral. Em última análise, trata-se de avaliar até que ponto podemos ser moralmente responsáveis pelos nossos atos independentemente de termos livre arbítrio, ou não, e de repensar o lugar da ética neste novo cenário. As consequências que se podem extrair deste debate serão, pois, de enorme relevância, por exemplo, para o agir educacional.http://dx.doi.org/10.14572/nuances.v23i24.1887
LA INVESTIGACIÓN PSICOLÓGICA DEL DESARROLLO DE LA JUSTICIA:¿RACIONALIDAD INMANENTE O POLIFASIA COGNITIVA?
Authors: Barreiro Alicia , Castorina José Antonio
Published: November 2014

En la filosofía ética han competido diversas perspectivas acerca de la justicia, desde Platón y Aristóteles hasta el pensamiento contemporáneo. Sin embargo, la psicología del desarrollo cognitivo clásicamente ha basado susinvestigaciones empíricas en la concepción kantiana de la justicia distributiva. Este trabajo analiza las consecuencias de la asunción de ese supuesto para la investigación psicológica, contrastándola con la tesis de la polifasia cognitiva, propia de la psicología social, y sus resultados empíricos. De esta manera se comparan las situaciones morales descontextualizadas en las que se basan las investigaciones psicogenéticas y aquellas que los sujetos vivencian cotidianamente. Finalmente, se rechazan la unicidad y la universalidad del desarrollo inmanente de un pensamiento racional y se afirma la necesidad de reconsiderar los procesos constructivos individuales de los juicios morales, en el marco de las representaciones sociales que los posibilitan y limitan.http://dx.doi.org/10.14572/nuances.v23i24.1890
OPINIÃO DOS PROFESSORES E RESOLUÇÃO DE CONFLITOS POR PRÉ-ADOLESCENTES
Authors: Leme Maria Isabel da Silva , Carvalho Alysson Massote
Published: November 2014

A violência escolar tem sido atribuída a uma crise de autoridade na família e na escola, que segundo esta concepção, seriam omissas ou permissivas na formação dos jovens. O estudo visou verificar a pertinência de tal concepção buscando investigar a percepção que pré-adolescentes tem das opiniões e motivos de seus professores sobre suas estratégias de resolução de conflitos. Participaram 369 alunos do sexto e sétimo anos do Ensino Fundamental de três escolas, uma pública e duas privadas, que responderam a um questionário sobre a resolução de dez situações de conflito com colegas, amigos e pais. Foram acrescentadas questões em dois conflitos sobre opinião docente acerca da estratégia apresentada pelo participante, assim como perguntas sobre relação com a escola, situação familiar, conselho parental em caso de exposição a bullying. Os resultados mostraram que no total da amostra as estratégias predominantes de resolução foram submissão, coerção, mistas de coerção e submissão, e negociação, verificando-se diferenças entre tipo de escola quanto à predominância de cada uma. A submissão, e a negociação foram apontadas como aprovadas pelos professores. A agressão e as mistas de submissão com coerção foram apontadas como desaprovadas. Verificou-se relação positiva entre estratégia relatada e percepção da opinião dos professores, assim como entre opinião e motivo. Neste sentido, a conclusão propiciada por esses resultados foi de que não há indicações de omissão por parte dos professores, mas provavelmente orientações que precisam ser ajustadas no sentido da formação dos educandos para resolver satisfatoriamente seus conflitos.http://dx.doi.org/10.14572/nuances.v23i24.1891
TIPOS DE SANÇÃO ESCOLHIDOS POR ADOLESCENTES QUE CUIDAM E EDUCAM SEUS IRMÃOS MENORES
Authors: Dellazzana-Zanon Letícia Lovato , Freitas Lia Beatriz de Lucca
Published: November 2014

Em algumas famílias, são os irmãos mais velhos que se encarregam de cuidar, proteger e educar os mais novos, assumindo tarefas que, em geral, são realizadas pelos progenitores. Assim, sancionar atos e dar castigos é algo que faz parte de suas vidas. O objetivo deste estudo foi examinar os tipos de sanção escolhidos por adolescentes de nível socioeconômico baixo, que cuidam e educam regularmente seus irmãos. Entrevistaram-se individualmente 16 adolescentes entre 12 e 16 anos, de ambos os sexos, a partir de três histórias sobre justiça retributiva. Os dados foram submetidos à análise de conteúdo, a partir da qual se construíram categorias considerando-se: (a) o conteúdo das sanções prescritas, (b) as justificativas apresentadas pelos participantes e (c) os tipos de sanção: expiatória ou por reciprocidade. A maioria dos participantes preferiu sanções por reciprocidade, embora alguns ainda pensem que a expiação é uma boa forma de corrigir alguém que fez algo errado. Observou-se uma descrença na eficácia do castigo mais que uma crença no diálogo. Considerando-se que esses adolescentes participam ativamente da educação de seus irmãos menores, seria importante promover junto a esses jovens uma reflexão sobre o seu papel educativo. Espera-se que os resultados apresentados possam contribuir para que pesquisadores e profissionais compreendam a importância desses adolescentes enquanto educadores de seus irmãos mais novos.http://dx.doi.org/10.14572/nuances.v23i24.1892
UMA ANÁLISE SOBRE ESTUDOS QUE RELACIONAM A LITERATURA INFANTIL E A MORALIDADE NA PERSPECTIVA CONSTRUTIVISTA PIAGETIANA
Authors: Ramos Adriana De Melo , Campos Soraia Souza , Freitas Lisandra Cristina Gonçalves de
Published: November 2014

O presente trabalho é um ensaio teórico, que teve como finalidade analisar as contribuições pedagógicas de pesquisas que relacionam a Literatura Infantil e os estudos sobre a moralidade na perspectiva construtivista piagetiana. O objetivo foi o de identificar e discutir quais as possíveis relações estabelecidas, nos trabalhos pesquisados, entre Literatura Infantil e desenvolvimento moral. Foram analisados quatro artigos científicos que abordam a temática, selecionados a partir dos títulos, linha teórica e palavras-chave. Utilizou-se a análise qualitativa dos dados. Em cada artigo selecionado, procedeu-se a discussão da abordagem teórica, a descrição dos procedimentos metodológicos e das propostas de intervenções pedagógicas (quando presentes). Esta pesquisa pretendeu contribuir para a discussão sobre a importância do uso de textos da Literatura Infantil para o desenvolvimento da moralidade e a constatação da escassez de trabalhos nesta linha de pesquisa.http://dx.doi.org/10.14572/nuances.v23i24.1895
UM ESTUDO DA MEDIAÇÃO DA INFORMAÇÃO NA PRODUÇÃO CIENTÍFICA DA PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO EM EDUCAÇÃO DA UNESP/CAMPUS DE MARÍLIA: ANÁLISE DAS CITAÇÕES E COCITAÇÕES
Authors: Custódio Pollyana Ágata Gomes da Rocha
Published: November 2014

Trata-se de um estudo interdisciplinar entre a Ciência da Informação e a Educação, que busca inicialmente oferecer subsídios teóricos acerca do objeto da Ciência da Informação, mais precisamente, para muitos, a própria informação – a informação registrada -, e propor a discussão de modificação do objeto para a mediação da informação, perpassando pelos preceitos teóricos do uso da informação à aquisição do conhecimento, assunto tão discutido na área da Educação. Para fundamentar esta discussão utiliza-se a proposta de Paulo Freire, sobre a análise da construção do conhecimento mediatizada pelas relações, que, apesar de ser construída individualmente, se dá tão somente na relação, na interação com o outro. Em segunda instância, analisam-se as dissertações e teses da pós-graduação em Educação da Unesp – Campus de Marília, na linha de pesquisa de “Ensino, Aprendizagem Escolar e Desenvolvimento Humano”, através de um estudo das citações e cocitações, visto que a interação se faz necessária até para a construção de um corpus ou literatura relevante para qualquer área de conhecimento. O foco de argumentação se sustenta, considerando que a produção da informação ou do conhecimento como mediação ou articulação entre atores sociais num contexto propicia a construção e o desenvolvimento de um pensamento a partir de outros.http://dx.doi.org/10.14572/nuances.v23i24.1898
Level-set image processing methods in medical image segmentation
Authors: Maciejewski Marcin , Surtel Wojciech , Maciejewska Barbara , Małecka-Massalska Teresa
Published: November 2014

In this paper, two image processing methods for use in medical image processing based on the level set method are described. The theoretical bases are described and the methods are applied to a set of sample computed tomography images. The results are then compared. The results indicate that the Chan-Vese method is more useful for image segmentation in medicine than the distance-regulated method owing to both the significant differences in calculation time and the quality of results obtained for noisy images.
Minnesang diesseits des Frauendienstes und der Kanzonenstrophe
Authors: Benz Maximilian
Published: November 2014

In this paper, the author contests Helmut de Boor’s widespread labelling of the early Minnesang verses as the ›Danubian tradition‹ by revealing his unfortunate blending of topographical, textual, formal and genre-related aspects. The argument is based on a selection of early stanzas that have not absorbed Franco-Provençal influences such as the strophic form of the canzone or the idea of love service. In the manuscript tradition, some of these in the first place anonymous verses have been attributed to
Introduction to the Special Section
Authors: Pearson Charls
Published: November 2014

These pages introduce the three papers on the works of Charles Peirce and their authors. The authors and their papers are: Eliseo Fernández, “Semiosis between Action and Passion”; Charls Pearson, “Paradigm Inversion: An Important Principle of Experimental Semiotics”; and Xu Peng, “Application of the Pragmatic Maxim to Mathematical Concepts”.
How To Make Pure Mathematical Ideas Clear
Authors: Xu Peng
Published: November 2014

Peirce expressed his pragmatic maxim in the 1870s. If, as Peirce maintained, this original definition is a maxim of logic, it is mainly a maxim of the logic of science, as the title “Illustrations of the Logic of Science” indicates. Pure mathematical conceptions, and the logic of mathematics, if not totally excluded, have at least not been emphasized. During his years at Johns Hopkins University, pure mathematics became his subject of most concern, while logic was also conceived as semiotics during this time. So around the turn of the century, when the popular movement of pragmatism began with James’ “Berkeley Address”, Peirce found that the main difficulty with his original definition of the pragmatic maxim was how to make pure mathematical conceptions clear. He mentioned this problem repeatedly but only gave a tentative solution admitting that, at least according to his original definition, some meanings of pure mathematical conceptions cannot be clarified. This, I believe, is the most important reason for Peirce’s renaming and redefining the pragmatic maxim in semiotic terms. If other pragmatists, and scholars of pragmatism, had noticed this, then most criticisms of pragmatism could have been avoided and the history of pragmatism may have taken a different direction.
On the fraction of matrices with maximal additive complexity
Authors: Malyshev Fedor M.
Published: November 2014

The additive complexity of a nondegenerate matrix of size n is the minimum number of additions in a chain of elementary transformations over rows required to reduce the matrix to the identity one. It is shown that if the order of the field tends to infinity, then almost all matrices are of maximum possible additive complexity (n−1)n. The matrices of additive complexity (n − 1)n are shown to be MDS-matrices.
On the maximum size of a tree in the Galton–Watson forest with a bounded number of vertices
Authors: Pavlov Yuriy L. , Hvorostyanskaya Elena V.
Published: November 2014

This work is concerned with the random forest formed by the trajectories of a homogeneous Galton- Watson branching process with the Poisson distribution of the number of offsprings that begins with N particles. For the subset of trajectories containing at most non-root n nodes, the limit distributions of the maximum size of a tree as N, n → ∞ are obtained for various types of the behaviour of the offsprings distribution parameter.
Not und die Grenzen der Moral
Authors: Derpmann Simon
Published: November 2014

A philosophical inquiry into the ethics or the morals of distress has to address a distinction regarding its very own scope. On the one hand, situations of distress can be understood to involve particular moral considerations. On the other hand, distress can be understood as the presence of specific characteristics that may allow for a divergence from what is obliged from the moral point of view. The article reflects on the idea of distress as setting limits to moral reflection and obligation, considering particular examples that illustrate the meaning of integrity and personal ties and their practical relevance in situations of distress. In the light of these reflections it seems inadequate to claim that distress exempts one from relying on moral reasoning altogether, but rather that situations of distress engender specific moral considerations.
Elliptic equations with critical nonlinearities and Hardy terms
Authors: Bouchekif Mohammed , Nasri Yasmina
Published: November 2014

Using variational methods, we prove the existence of positive solutions to an elliptic equation involving critical nonlinearities and multiple inverse
square potentials.
Chebyshev spectral-collocation method for a class of weakly singular Volterra integral equations with proportional delay
Authors: Gu Z. , Chen Y.
Published: November 2014

-The main purpose of this paper is to propose the Chebyshev spectral-collocation method for a class of the weakly singular Volterra integral equations (VIEs) with proportional delay. The proposed method also are applicable to a class of the weakly singular VIEs with proportional delay possessing unsmooth solution. To provide a rigorous error analysis for the proposed method, we prove the the uniqueness and smoothness of the solution. The error analysis shows that the numerical errors decay exponentially in the infinity norm and the Chebyshev weighted Hilbert space norms. Numerical results are presented to confirm the theoretical prediction of the exponential rate of convergence.
Supercritical fluid extraction of uranium and thorium from nitric acid medium using organophosphorous compounds
Authors: Pitchaiah K. C. , Sujatha K. , Brahmmananda Rao C. V. S. , Subramaniam S. , Sivaraman N. , Vasudeva Rao P. R.
Published: November 2014

In recent years, Supercritical Fluid Extraction (SFE) technique has been widely used for the extraction of metal ions. In the present
study, extraction of uranium from nitric acid medium was investigated using supercritical carbon dioxide (Sc-CO2) containing
various organophosphorous compounds such as trialkyl phosphates e.g. tri-iso-amyl phosphate (TiAP),
tri-sec-butyl phosphate (TsBP) and tri-n-butyl phosphate (TBP), dialkylalkyl phosphonates, e.g. diamylamyl
phosphonate (DAAP) and dibutyl butyl phosphonate (DBBP), dialkyl hydrogen phosphonates, e.g. dioctyl hydrogen phosphonate
(DOHP), dioctylphosphineoxide (DOPO), trioctyl phosphine oxide (TOPO), n-octylphenyl N,N-diisobutyl carbamoylmethylphosphine oxide
(CMPO) and di-2-ethyl-hexyl phosphoric acid (HDEHP). Some of these ligands have been investigated for the first time in the
supercritical phase for the extraction of uranium. The extraction efficiency of uranium was studied with TiAP, DAAP and DBBP as
a function of nitric acid concentration; the kinetics of the equilibration period (static extraction) and transportation of the metal
complex (dynamic extraction) was investigated. The influence of pressure and temperature on the extraction behaviour of uranium with
DAAP was studied from 4 N HNO3. The extraction efficiency of uranium from 4 N nitric acid medium was
found to increase in the order of phosphates < phosphonates < HDEHP < TOPO < CMPO. In the case of phosphates and phosphonates,
the maximum extraction of uranium was found to be from 4 N HNO3 medium. The acidic extractants, HDEHP and DOHP
showed relatively higher extraction at lower acidities. The relative extraction of uranium and thorium from their mixture was also
examined using Sc-CO2 containing phosphates, phosphonates and TOPO. The ligand, TsBP provided better fractionation between
uranium and thorium compared to trialkyl phosphates, dialkyl alkyl phosphonates and TOPO.
New algorithms of numerical–statistical modelling of radiative transfer through stochastic mediums and radiation models homogenization
Authors: Ambos Andrey Yu. , Mikhailov Gennady A.
Published: November 2014

New algorithms for statistical modelling of radiation transfer through stochastic exponentially correlated media are constructed. For this purpose, a special geometrical implementation of the ‘maximum cross-section method’ is developed, which allows us to take into account the absorption of radiation with a weight exponential factor. Asymptotic estimates of the parameters of the homogenized radiation model are constructed relative to the size of the medium. A special ‘distributive’ method of pseudo-random numbers generation used in the paper allows us to perform a comparative analysis of simulation results on the base of the corresponding correlation of statistical estimates.
Splitting algorithms for numerical solution of Euler and Navier–Stokes problems
Authors: Kovenya Victor M.
Published: November 2014

An optimal splitting technique is proposed for numerical solution of the Euler and Navier-Stokes equations for a compressible heat-conducting gas. This technique is common for original equations in the divergent and nondivergent form. Based on this splitting, a class of economical (in the number of operations per a grid node) difference schemes is proposed so that those schemes are implemented on fractional steps by the scalar sweep methods and have a large stability margin, but have a lesser number of sweep steps in their implementation.
A triple-threshold leverage stochastic volatility model
Authors: Wu Xin-Yu , Zhou Hai-Lin
Published: November 2014

In this paper we introduce a triple-threshold leverage stochastic volatility (TTLSV) model for financial return time series. The main feature of the model is to allow asymmetries in the leverage effect as well as mean and volatility. In the model the asymmetric effect is modeled by a threshold nonlinear structure that the two regimes are determined by the sign of the past returns. The model parameters are estimated using maximum likelihood (ML) method based on the efficient importance sampling (EIS) technique. Monte Carlo simulations are presented to examine the accuracy and finite sample properties of the proposed methodology. The EIS-based ML (EIS-ML) method shows good performance according to the Monte Carlo results. The proposed model and methodology are applied to two stock market indices for China. Strong evidence of the mean and volatility asymmetries is detected in Chinese stock market. Moreover, asymmetries in the volatility persistence and leverage effect are also discovered. The log-likelihood and Akaike information criterion (AIC) suggest evidence in favor of the proposed model. In addition, model diagnostics suggest that the proposed model performs relatively well in capturing the key features of the data. Finally, we compare models in a Value at Risk (VaR) study. The results show that the proposed model can yield more accurate VaR estimates than the alternatives.
Der Dativus ethicus im Deutschen aus konstruktionsgrammatischer Sicht
Authors: Mollica Fabio
Published: November 2014

The central topic of the study is a construction-based description of the ethical dative in German. Structures with a dativus ethicus are constructions in the sense of Goldberg’s Construction Grammar (1995; 2006), they are not predictable semantically or formally. Prototypically, they presuppose some familiarity or closeness between the discussion partners, they express the emotional position of the speaker towards the event. That is why the ethical dative more frequently appears in oral speech or in fictional text types which simulate orality. Following Wegener (1985; 1989) we distinguish between the Aufforderungs-Ethicus ‘request ethicus’ and the Ausrufe-Ethicus ‘exclamation ethicus’ which together constitute the ethicus-construction. The request ethicus with the pronoun mir ‘to me’ can be considered to be the prototype as it is characterized by high frequency and a clear meaning of involvement (the prototypical ethicus semantics). Constructions with the exclamation ethicus are more peripheral as they are not as frequent as the request ethicus and they are characterized by polysemy. I.e. they are often at the border between the ethicus- and the iudicantis-constructions. The study focuses on the syntactic and semantico-pragmatic properties of the ethicus realization.
Korpusbasierte Exploration der Variation der nominalen Genitivmarkierung
Authors: Bubenhofer Noah , Hansen-Morath Sandra , Konopka Marek
Published: November 2014

The variation of the strong genitive marker of the singular noun has been treated by diverse accounts. Still there is a consensus that it is to a large extent systematic but can be approached appropriately only if many heterogeneous factors are taken into account. Over thirty variables influencing this variation have been proposed. However, it is actually unclear how effective they can be, and above all, how they interact. In this paper, the potential influencing variables are evaluated statistically in a machine learning approach and modelled in decision trees in order to predict the genitive marking variants. Working with decision trees based exclusively on statistically significant data enables us to determine what combination of factors is decisive in the choice of a marking variant of a given noun. Consequently the variation factors can be assessed with respect to their explanatory power for corpus data and put in a hierarchized order.
Multi‐input CRISPR/Cas genetic circuits that interface host regulatory networks
Authors: Nielsen Alec AK , Voigt Christopher A
Published: November 2014

Genetic circuits require many regulatory parts in order to implement signal processing or execute algorithms in cells. A potentially scalable approach is to use dCas9, which employs small guide RNAs (sgRNAs) to repress genetic loci via the programmability of RNA:DNA base pairing. To this end, we use dCas9 and designed sgRNAs to build transcriptional logic gates and connect them to perform computation in living cells. We constructed a set of NOT gates by designing five synthetic Escherichia coli σ70 promoters that are repressed by corresponding sgRNAs, and these interactions do not exhibit crosstalk between each other. These sgRNAs exhibit high on‐target repression (56‐ to 440‐fold) and negligible off‐target interactions (< 1.3‐fold). These gates were connected to build larger circuits, including the Boolean‐complete NOR gate and a 3‐gate circuit consisting of four layered sgRNAs. The synthetic circuits were connected to the native E. coli regulatory network by designing output sgRNAs to target an E. coli transcription factor (malT). This converts the output of a synthetic circuit to a switch in cellular phenotype (sugar utilization, chemotaxis, phage resistance).