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This paper analyzes some aspects of Latin American social movements, especially their notion of participatory democracy. In order to explain what they are and how they solve the problem of political organization, following Zibechi, two countries are studied: Brazil and Bolivia. In the first, powerful rural social movements have emerged, but they have lost part of their political role during the years of the PT's progressive government. In the second, urban social movements have emerged that have transformed a country whose government lias decided to carry out an antiliberal political-economic reform. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This work studies the emergence of Environmental Education in Brazil based on an analysis of dissertations and theses produced in this area by different graduate programs, identifying the authors of the works, the educational institutions, the graduate programs, the areas of knowledge and the themes dealt with in the studies. Using the summaries, the dissertations and theses, it has been possible to classify them according to geographic region, teaching level, the public involved in this research, according to environmental education categories. Data demonstrate the relevance of research in environmental education and its relation to great events in the field such as Rio-92 and dissemination of the National Curricular Parameters-PCNs that have Environment and Health as transversal themes. The paper points out the need to carry out other studies to obtain more data and deeper information about the characteristics of research performed in field of Environmental Education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to identify the conceptions of nature existing in Brazilian educational ideas in the 1920s and 1930s. As part of this documentary study, diverse sources in the educational area were analyzed, such as: periodicals, textbooks on reading, geography, physics and natural sciences, published and used in our schools during those decades. Based on the readings and data analysis, the following concepts about nature were identified: anthropocentric, utilitarian, anthropomorphic, such as "common mother and/or all that was not made by man," or "all that exists, all that God created," or "book" and finally, the aesthetic or romantic conception. These conceptions appear explicitly in the textbooks, although they are also present in the other documents analyzed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]