Ricardo García Mira

Psicologia Ambiental e Política Ambiental: questões teóricas e práticas

O artigo indaga como contribuir para construir uma ponte entre os psicologos ambientais e os politicos dado que os psicologos ambientais estiveram mais preocupados com o desenvolvimento teorico e academico da disciplina do que com conectar areas aplicadas da Psicologia Ambiental ao mundo complexo da Politica Ambiental Aponta que, embora as pontes variem quanto a escala, ha outras suposicoes igualmente importantes a serem consideradas como o contexto democratico e participativo. Apresenta a comunicacao uni-direcional versus a bi-direcional e discute o modo como a PA tem visto esta ponte. Finaliza propondo a PA como processo dentro de uma visao alternativa de participacao.

Influence of Physical Learning Environment in Student’s Behavior and Social Relations

Abstract One of the current challenges of education is to promote active learning, interaction and participation in the classroom. This challenge might find physical barriers along the way, which hinder or fully prevent it from success. Environmental psychology has been commissioned to study these relationships and behavior of individuals and how they can be influenced by the design of the physical learning environment. The analysis of the more traditional educational environments shows strong patterns of the power of teachers over students. Therefore, the aim of this work is to investigate the physical design factors that influence the learning environment in social relations and the behavior of students in order to help professionals regarding the design and management of educational spaces. Among these factors are those related to the spatial organization and the determining factors of environmental psychology.

Global Challenges for Environmental Psychology : The Place of Labor and Production

While we can find much evidence to suggest that environmental psychology has strengthened itself as a social institution, as Proshansky advocated some 30 years ago, this concluding chapter critically reviews continued shortcomings and strategies to overcome these.