Interest in new empiricisms and transdisciplinary methods has led many social inquirers to engage with 20th-century post-classical physical science. Many of these projects have focused on alternative ...matter–mind mixtures and in/organic variation, concerned that past theories of sociality have dismissed the vibrancy and animacy of the nonhuman material world. This paper explores the power of speculative fiction to help us rethink empiricism in posthuman ecologies of the Anthropocene, in the midst of post-truth conditions and growing science denialism. We foreground speculative fiction as a way to open up scientific imaginaries, rethinking the relationship between nature, technics, and human “sense” making. We show how such texts offer alternative images of research methods for studying pluralist ecologies and new forms of worldly belonging.
This article keeps tuned to the ritual of scholarly gathering, an activity continued somewhat differently today in the online meeting. We aim to speak to current concerns about place and belonging ...under new climatic and digital regimes. We pose the question, “What will be the spatial logic and shape of scholarly collaboration after lockdown and ‘zoomtopia’?” The article recounts our decade-long collaboration and is structured around 10 sketches of singular meetings—intensive encounters—where we met for 3 to 5 days and developed various theories about form, space, number, affect, body and the imagination.
This article focuses on Karen Barad’s quantum ontology and her attempts to reformulate the concept of relationality. The aim is to show how Barad’s work articulates a new kind of empiricism for the ...social sciences, by reclaiming the creative and speculative force of experimental practice and by recentering the philosophical problem as a source of inquiry. Relationality is redefined through discussions of diffractive apparatus, more-than-human performativity, and the “polymorphous perversity” of the matter-meaning mixture.
This paper undertakes an analysis of the “smart school” as a building that both senses and manages bodies through sensory data. The authors argue that smart schools produce a situation of ubiquitous ...sensation in which learning environments are continuously sensed, regulated, and controlled through complex sensory ecosystems and data infrastructures. This includes the consideration of ethical and political issues associated with the collection of biometric and environmental data in schools and the implications for the design and operation of learning environments which are increasingly regulated through decentralized sensor networks. Working through a relational and adaptive theory of architecture, the authors explore ways of intervening in smart schools through the reconceptualization of sensor technologies as “atmospheric media” that operate within a distributed ecology of sensation that exceeds the limited bandwidth of the human senses. Drawing on recent projects in contemporary art, architecture, and interaction design, the authors discuss specific architectural interventions that foreground the atmospheric qualities and ethical problematics of sensor technologies in school buildings.
Traditional philosophy of mathematics has been concerned with the nature of mathematical objects rather than events. This traditional focus on reified objects is reflected in dominant theories of ...learning mathematics whereby the learner is meant to acquire familiarity with ideal mathematical objects, such as number, polygon, or tangent. I argue that the concept of event—rather than object—better captures the vitality of mathematics, and offers new ways of thinking about mathematics education. In this paper I draw on two different but related theories of event articulated in the philosophies of Alain Badiou and Gilles Deleuze to argue that the central activity of ‘problem solving’ in mathematics education should be recast in terms of a problematic of events.
Based on Châtelet’s insights into the nature of mathematical inventiveness, drawn from historical analyses, we propose a new way of framing creativity in the mathematics classroom. The approach we ...develop emphasizes the social and material nature of creative acts. Our analysis of creative acts in two case studies involving primary school classrooms also reveals the characteristic ways in which digital technologies can occasion such acts.
Nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) are environmental and ubiquitous, but only a few species are associated with disease, often presented as nodular/bronchiectatic or cavitary pulmonary forms. ...Bronchiectasis, airways dilatations characterized by chronic productive cough, is the main presentation of NTM pulmonary disease. The current Cole's vicious circle model for bronchiectasis proposes that it progresses from a damaging insult, such as pneumonia, that affects the respiratory epithelium and compromises mucociliary clearance mechanisms, allowing microorganisms to colonize the airways. An important bronchiectasis risk factor is primary ciliary dyskinesia, but other ciliopathies, such as those associated with connective tissue diseases, also seem to facilitate bronchiectasis, as may occur in Lady Windermere syndrome, caused by
infection. Inhaled NTM may become part of the lung microbiome. If the dose is too large, they may grow excessively as a biofilm and lead to disease. The incidence of NTM pulmonary disease has increased in the last two decades, which may have influenced the parallel increase in bronchiectasis incidence. We propose that ciliary dyskinesia is the main promoter of bronchiectasis, and that the bacteria most frequently involved are NTM. Restoration of ciliary function and impairment of mycobacterial biofilm formation may provide effective therapeutic alternatives to antibiotics.
Introdução/Problematização: Além de ser disciplina obrigatória para os cursos de Administração, Estágio supervisionado permite que o aluno execute todos os conhecimentos adquiridos ao longo de sua ...formação na universidade. Entender a contribuição desta prática na formação dos alunos deve ter papel de destaque pois viabiliza acompanhar se as ações das empresas vão de encontro ao apregoada pela Lei do Estágio Nº 11.788, DE 25 DE SETEMBRO DE 2008., assim como entender qual o grau de contribuição da IES na formação do discente.Objetivo/proposta: Este artigo visa (1) identificar o perfil dos estudantes e os setores que mais ofertam estágio para a amostra objeto deste estudo; (2) entender a percepção dos estudantes quanto ao curso de Administração de uma IES federal no Rio de Janeiro; e, ainda, (3) oportunidades de aprimoramento a esta disciplina, principalmente em um momento de pandemia que o mundo está enfrentando.Procedimentos Metodológicos: Este trabalho tem abordagem qualitativa, sendo uma pesquisa descritiva. Este tipo de pesquisa, segundo Flick (2009) envolve o uso de técnicas padronizadas de coleta de dados, como o uso do questionário, os quais foram aplicado aos alunos inscritos na disciplina Estágio Supervisionado de uma IES Federal do Rio de Janeiro. O corte temporal do estudo delimita-se aos anos de 2020 e 2021 e teve como amostragem os alunos do curso superior de Administração. O estudo conta ainda com a observação direta da professora orientadora da disciplina de Estágio Supervisionado.Principais Resultados: Através desta pesquisa foi possível traçar um perfil dos estágios mais demandados para os alunos do curso de Administração e ainda apresentar um diagnóstico de como o curso vem atuando, assim como as possíveis oportunidades de aprimoramento apresentadas pelos alunos. O resultado que a pandemia vem causando nos processos de estágio também é abordado neste trabalho e demonstra que as práticas das empresas precisam ser adaptadas constantemente para viabilizar uma melhor ambientação/adaptação dos estagiários nas empresas.Considerações Finais/Conclusão: A partir dos resultados obtidos por meio da pesquisa, ficou confirmada a correta condução do colegiado do curso de Administração no CEFET/RJ ao promover atualização na grade curricular em 2017. Ao longo dos anos seguintes foram incluídas disciplinas eletivas que tratavam de temas contemporâneas e alinhadas com as demandas do mercado. O estudo comprovou ainda que as empresas em que os respondentes estagiaram, em sua maioria, seguiam o que está estabelecido na Lei nº 11.788 de 25 de setembro de 2008 (Brasil, 2008). reforçando o alinhamento com as necessidades básicas na formação do estudante.Contribuições do Trabalho: O período em que os estudantes começam a procurar estágio é assolado por diversas dúvidas acerca do que lhe será exigido nesta etapa. Sob a ótica dos estudantes o curso de Administração do CEFET/RJ está em conformidade com o que é demandado dos estagiários no mercado e, promove, através de suas disciplinas e atividades, a oportunidade do desenvolvimento de competências que vão de encontro às elencadas na Resolução CNE/CES 5/2021. É mister que outras instituições de ensino e o próprio CEFET-RJ tornem esse acompanhamento uma prática contínua para o aprimoramento e adequação de seus cursos.
This article explores the complex relational landscape of international partnerships where local and transnational education objectives are entangled. We present a methodological practice for ...experimenting with diagrams and maps. Our emphasis on spatial rendering of local/global relationality is intended to invite discussion about the postcolonial context of international education work and the geopolitics of transnational curriculum. We pursue a diagrammatic and archipelagic form of creative abstraction, which we present as a posthuman cartographic practice. To illustrate this practice, we focus on a specific international curriculum development project funded by the World Universities Network.
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