Cleuza Maria Sobral Dias

Meninos versus meninas: representações de gênero em desenhos animados e seriados televisivos sob olhares infantis

This article presents insights raised by an investigative experience concerning the television consumption in childhood. Such study aimed at learning the interactions established by children with such shows, identifying what is learned by them as viewers as they get the message and content from the media. Twenty-four children took part in this study, all of whom were students from public schools in the city of Rio Grande-RS. Under the orientation of qualitative approach’s assumptions, observations and interviews were carried out, in order to understand how the access to TV was processed within the family environment, as well a to find out the preferences of children concerning TV shows. As the study went on, reflective situations were proposed, debated and produced in the classroom, focusing on the cartoon Totally Spies (Tres Espias Demais) and TV series Power Rangers Wild Force (Power Rangers Forca Animal), which enabled us to unveil the interpretations of the group concerning to the plots and characters of such shows. Throughout the text, specifically, gender is focused as a category of analysis, highlighting that TV shows tailored to children build constructs based on oppositions and dualisms, teaching differentiated ways of being for girls and boys based on hegemonic cultural meanings.

Pós-Estruturalismo e Educação Ambiental: aproximações inusitadas

O presente artigo intenta discorrer acerca da vertente Pos-Estruturalista e, sobretudo, realizar algumas aproximacoes com o campo da Educacao Ambiental (EA). Para subsidiar a escrita, utilizamos como referencial teorico, autores como: Foucault (2010, 2011 e 2012), Guattari (1990), Henning (2012 e 2013) e Veiga-Neto (2011). Organizamos, para tanto, em um primeiro momento, algumas questoes concernentes a perspectiva pos-estruturalista, com o objetivo nao so de situa-la, mas, antes, de dar visibilidade a sua contribuicao no que tange as pesquisas em educacao. Apos, traremos a EA como uma ferramenta potente para pensarmos a crise ambiental instalada na atualidade e assim, junto com os autores, ensaiarmos algumas possibilidades de provocar o pensamento, de balancar as certezas que nos movimentam, de desestabilizar as afirmacoes genericas que encontram consonância no biocentrismo e no antropocentrismo como formas unicas de se relacionar com o mundo.