Sistema Regional de Información
en línea para Revistas Científicas de América Latina,
el Caribe, España y Portugal

Scientific Literacy is the ability to get involved with the issues related to science and the science itself, as a reflective citizen. There is a concern about scientific literacy levels of students and the general population, and the literature displays difficulties and shortage of studies that perform this type of approach. This study aimed to present the scientific literacy levels of a high school graduating class from the reading, writing and argumentation used in solving investigative cases. Thus, two investigative cases were created with the issues Diabetes Mellitus and Repellents, and applied in two classes of a Brazilian high school, for 60 students. For the analysis of the results, five scientific literacy indicators (perception of science and technology in daily life, working with scientific information, solving problems, scientific language and argumentation) were defined and four levels of scientific literacy were attributed to each of them. From the analysis of the oral presentation and texts produced by the students in solving the cases, we concluded that the majority of students analyzed are ending high school with inadequate levels of scientific literacy, besides having great difficulties in decision making, arguing and perceiving science in their daily lives.

La presencia de partículas de NaCl en el aerosol marino produce corrosión en esculturas de acero de interés patrimonial, valor artístico y arquitectónico. Es aquí donde la observación de la corrosión utilizando una cámara de neblina, sensores y un microscopio de bajo costo  podría permitir su estudio, junto con  la ventaja de poder desarrollar proyectos en conjunto entre carreras de Pedagogía en Química con carreras de Pedagogía en Historia y Geografía y Pedagogía en Matemáticas y Computación, además del estudio de las propiedades anticorrosivas de Metamizol frente al acero al carbono sometido al aerosol marino en la cámara de neblina mediante la utilización de fotomicrografías.

Neste artigo relata-se um trabalho de ensino, articulado à pesquisa e à extensão sob perspectivas CTSA e Química Verde (QV), desenvolvido por um grupo de professores e acadêmicos do curso de licenciatura em Química do IFPR. Procedeu-se com a arrecadação de óleo residual de fritura em diferentes pontos de coleta no município de Palmas, Paraná; produção de sabão ecológico pela substituição de 50% de gordura animal por óleo residual; otimização da formulação do sabão pela avaliação da verdura química, por meio de métricas holísticas e de massa; aulas teórico-experimentais e minicursos para licenciandos de Química e alunos da educação básica; além de oficinas para a comunidade local. As métricas de verdura permitiram indicar melhorias na formulação do sabão pelo cálculo do índice de saponificação da matéria graxa, resultando na incorporação de 100% dos átomos reagentes no produto de saponificação e redução de 63% do excesso de hidróxido de sódio da fórmula. Esse trabalho possibilitou aos estudantes em formação docente colocar em prática a alfabetização científica com enfoque CTSA aliado à QV e à Educação Ambiental, remetendo à conscientização sobre a ideia de conservação do meio ambiente e da sustentabilidade socioambiental.

Em tempos de crise política, social e econômica, e diante das múltiplas críticas estabelecidas na comunidade jurídica acerca da qualidade das decisões judiciais e de certa judicialização da política, este estudo procura buscar no conceito de vontade de poder alguns mecanismos interpretativos acerca do decisionismo. Tal estudo é formulado não somente no âmbito do constitucionalismo, mas sobretudo por meio da filosofia política, e por meio da reflexão filosófica para discutir até que ponto tal decisionismo, impulsionado por uma vontade de poder, estabelece os contornos ou mesmo o desenvolvimento de um ativismo no aparato judicial brasileiro. Desta forma, observa-se até que ponto o movimento iniciado em setores da magistratura nacional não se configura como afirmação dessa vontade enquanto uma vontade de decisão, bem como no debate protagonizado pelos juízes, estes, paulatinamente, vêm ocupando o espaço outrora relegado aos legisladores.

This work aims to analyze the jurisprudence of STF and STJ regarding the right of access to information and environmental information, provided for in Laws 12.527/2011 and 10.650/2003, respectively. How the Brazilian Courts interpret the subject of access to information? What are the main arguments used in these decisions? Methodologically it was a case law search in the STF and in the STJ from search terms, or keywords on the topic and Boolean operators. The institutional cut of the choice of organs arose from the need to study the issue of access to information through the Judiciary, in addition to being superior instances with influence and strength of precedents in our legal system, whose decisions once delivered result in the transit judgment of the action. There were five judgments, which were tabled based on the following categories: origin, resource, destination, parties involved in the dispute and arguments of the decision and subsequent qualitative analysis. It is noticed that the tendency of the judges is to assure the access to the information to the parties that pleaded it. The main reasoning of the judges, in turn, is that the right of access to information needs protection to promote citizenship.

The study aims to expose the differences between the curatela presented in the civil code of 2002, in its original wording, and curatela exposed by the law nº 13.146 / 2015, Statute of the Person with Disabilities. It addresses the civil capacity of persons with disabilities in the course of Brazilian Civil Codes, as well as the treatment of such subjects in codification. It reports on the origins of the Disability Statute, revealing part of the doctrinal understanding of curatorship and civil capacity in the way they were treated prior to law 13,146 / 2015. It exposes the decision making supported, innovation of the protective system. The Dialectic method was used, with historical and comparative secondary procedures, since we sought the genesis of the institute of curatela in the Brazilian order, to later carry out the confrontation between the model previously established and that valid from 2016. Finally we arrived to the conclusion that the curatorship, in its new contours, as well as the decision-making supported, provides for the person with mental disability greater autonomy as well as promotes for the same the effectiveness of the principle of the dignity of the human person.

In view of the concerns about the use of airplanes in criminal activities, different countries have legally authorized the use of military force against suspicious aircraft. This authorization, however, leads to a conflict among principles, namely, the fundamental rights to life and human dignity of the passengers on board. This paper seeks to analyze the decision of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany regarding the authorization to shoot down airplanes (BVerfGE 115, 118), exposing its reasoning and explaining it by the theory of balancing. The German experience serves as a point of reference to the analysis of Brazilian legislation on that subject, with the necessary inquiries about its constitutionality.

This is a fragment of the opening conference of the First International Meeting of Cultural Rights of UFERSA, held in Mossoró, 2017. The purpose of this presentation was to address a general notion of cultural asset in comparison with the different normative plans concretized both in Portugal and in Brazil, identifying their protection zones and subsequent emphasis on underwater cultural heritage. After reviewing and updating, the conference was formatted as an article to be shared with Brazilian readers.

This article aims to analyze the reception, in legal circles, of the ideas proposed by Francisco Campos to legitimize the authoritarian government of Getúlio Vargas. For the analysis of Campos's proposals, cynicism was used as an analytical category capable of revealing the strategic use of law for political purposes. It is argued that, at first, the jurist used discursive strategies based on a mythical discourse revealing a cynical way of conceiving the legitimation of power. It is argued that its proposals were not successful among jurists because of the acceptance of a legitimized discourse based not on the force of political myth but on scientific and sociological foundations of a historical and sociological.

In "Legal Literature?", the author develops his impressions on the polysemic meanings of the “literature” word to approximate the points of connection between Law and Literature. With clear and engaging language, the author promotes a contribution to understand the meanings of Law from literary texts.