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A dimensão ambiental talvez seja uma das mais complexas da educação como um todo, justamente porque é preciso entendê-la e abordá-la sem escapar de sua interseção com outras disciplinas e sem se furtar de seu caráter interdisciplinar – conceito que a autora deixa transparecer como sendo a maior dificuldade a ser transposta pela escola e pelos educadores. Aqui encontramos um dos aspectos mais interessantes na viagem que o livro proporciona. A autora, em todas as abordagens que levanta, expõe a necessidade de um olhar apurado para a Educação Ambiental que possibilite vê-la em seu aspecto multi, inter e transdisciplinar.
A obra oferece introspecções intelectuais e extrospecções didáticas dos autores nas diversas áreas do conhecimento imersos nos fazeres docentes e aprendizagens discentes enquanto resultados de pesquisas e experiências educacionais. Com isso, o estudo exarado nos capítulos, a presente publicação contribui com textos que versam de algum modo, direta ou indiretamente, a educação e o ensino numa perspectiva da teoria ou pela prática pedagógica com a intenção de trazer ideias interdisciplinares e questionamentos para incentivar o debate a respeito do ensino e da aprendizagem. Tudo isso se revela por meio de novos e múltiplos olhares interdisciplinares na educação e articulados pelos conhecimentos teóricos aos práticos, possibilitando ampliar e significar os múltiplos saberes para Pensar e Fazer a Educação.
A ground breaking study of primates that live in flooded habitats around the world.
INTRODUCTION This reference is a detailed guide to the world of food additives commonly used in the food processing and manufacturing industry. Edited by experts in the field, invited scholars enrich the book with relevant chapter contributions. Chapters provide readers with knowledge on a broad range of food additives (anti-browning agents, essential oils, flavour enhancers, preservatives, stabilizers, sweeteners, among others), their safe use and a summary of their effects on human health. Key Features: - Covers a wide range of natural and synthetic food additives - Covers health related topics relevant to food additives - Chapters are organized into specific, easy-to-read topics - Provides bibliographic references for further reading This book serves a valuable instrument for a broad spectrum of readers: researchers, health professionals, students, food science enthusiasts, and working professionals in industry and government regulatory agencies interested in the science of food additives.
A major objective of this volume is to create and share knowledge about the socio-economic, political and cultural dimensions of climate change. The authors analyze the effects of climate change on the social and environmental determinants of the health and well-being of communities (i.e. poverty, clean air, safe drinking water, food supplies) and on extreme events such as floods and hurricanes. The book covers topics such as the social and political dimensions of the ebola response, inequalities in urban migrant communities, as well as water-related health effects of climate change. The contributors recommend political and social-cultural strategies for mitigate, adapt and prevent the impacts of climate change to human and environmental health. The book will be of interest to scholars and practitioners interested in new methods and tools to reduce risks and to increase health resilience to climate change.
A groundbreaking look at marriage, one of the most basic and universal of all human institutions, which reveals the emotional, physical, economic, and sexual benefits that marriage brings to individuals and society as a whole. The Case for Marriage is a critically important intervention in the national debate about the future of family. Based on the authoritative research of family sociologist Linda J. Waite, journalist Maggie Gallagher, and a number of other scholars, this book’s findings dramatically contradict the anti-marriage myths that have become the common sense of most Americans. Today a broad consensus holds that marriage is a bad deal for women, that divorce is better for childr...
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