Bøger af Aurélio Ferreira Borges

Strategic actions are proposed to promote Science and Technology Education for teachers and students in the basic education network of the Southern Cone Citizenship Territory (Tccs) in Rondônia. The aim is to achieve inclusive, equitable and quality education by promoting lifelong learning and science opportunities at school for primary school students in the Tccs who are socially vulnerable. Formative initiatives will be promoted, contextualised in the 21st century, which enhance interaction and curiosity with world knowledge, inspiring scientific research with the support of technological tools. There will be the development of spaces to showcase experiences, disseminate scientific culture and stimulate students' creativity, motivating the development of autonomous thinking and the mastery of skills specific to the field of science, exercising the values of citizenship that are essential for understanding everyday life. The texts in the chapters of this book are based on the precept that, more and more, topics pertaining to speciality, technology and innovation are becoming part of people's daily lives.

This book, in the form of Chapters, is part of a process of reflection on the importance of educators, researchers and teachers turning their attention to the study of Teaching Technologies. This is because it is a field that allows for a better understanding of educational phenomena, the educational act and the school environment. The authors point out how day-to-day life guides the construction of information, in the shaping of meanings and in the analogies that are constituted in the context of teaching and learning. See how Teaching Technologies make it possible to discuss education under external innovations and unprecedented interconnections. How can Teaching Technologies be distinguished? What are the benefits of these technologies for education? How do these developments stimulate educational practice? These are the original measures of the reflections proposed in this book.

Microcephaly is a medical finding characterised by a cephalic demarcation that is smaller than that announced for age and gender. They can occur at birth (congenital microcephaly) or after birth (secondary microcephaly). When in microcephaly the growth of the brain does not follow the growth of the rest of the newborn's body (somatic development) it is then known as disproportionate microcephaly and when the head circumference is less than -3 standard deviations for the gestational date and gender it is signalled as severe microcephaly. There are many causes of microcephaly, but intrauterine infections are the most common, such as syphilis, rubella, cytomegalovirus, herpes simplex virus and, more recently, the Zika virus. At the end of 2015, there was an unforeseen increase in the number of microcephaly cases in newborns in Brazil, the main conjecture being the abrupt spread of the Zika virus.