Andréa Maria Pires Azevedo

Formação continuada na prática pedagógica: a Educação Física em questão

The continuing education is an important way for teachers to re-evaluate teaching practice, and establish itself as an enabling environment for the exchange of different knowledge, to rethink and redo the teachers practice, reorganizing their skills and producing new knowledge. This research showed a concern for the enhancement and encouragement of continuing education for physical education for education teachers, involved dimensions of human nature, historical, cultural, economic, political, social and technical. This text sought to reflect the ongoing training in three areas: teachers knowledge, professional competence and pedagogical practice in the school context.

Esteróides anabólicos androgênicos - doi:10.5020/18061230.2007.p267

There are evidences of the increase in the consumption of anabolic steroids and the damages to health caused by their indiscriminate use, mainly among children and youngsters. The anabolic-androgenic steroids (AAS) consist in testosterone and its derivatives. They are produced endogenously in the testicles and adrenal cortex and are responsible for the secondary sexual characteristics associated to masculinity. Although the results of the exogenous use of AAS are still controversial, they have been used for the increase of physical strength and muscle mass. These substances are directly related to different clinical conditions such as: bladder cancer, coronary disease, gynecomastia, hepatic disorders and cancer, and sterility. This study aimed at approaching relevant topics related to the drugs action mechanisms, ways of use and metabolism, and side effects, besides the importance of the prevention in the use of those drugs in most diverse age groups. The abusive use of anabolic-androgenic steroids consists in a problem that has gradually occurred, which has given rise to laws, rules and support groups turned to the prevention, education and restriction of their use.