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This paper aims to approach the conception of the discipline Solving Mathematical Problems (RPM) of the State Bureau of Education of Rio de Janeiro (SEEDUC), both in view of the Bureau and of a group belonging to the state network teachers. For this, it was analyzed the Bureau document that guides the implementation of RPM discipline and it was made a profile and opinion brief research with this group of teachers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In order to understand and take action in complex health and environmental issues, we intend to analyse the conditions that are needed for those at risk to participate in research and intervention projects. In this study, we describe and discuss an action research experience carried out with an indigenous community in the Brazilian Amazon that suffers from serious sanitary problems, where cultural aspects in the relationship with the environment and health are particularly relevant. Different types of tools were deployed and combined and were subsequently classified according to their dialectic efficacy and ability to both conduct and steer the research and encourage the participation of social actors within a process of feedback. Even tools that were considered to be non-dialectic proved to be important sources of feedback. We present a research flow as a model of analysis and a framework for implementing action research, in which challenges to the participation of social actors are classified according to their priority through a critical review of the methodology developed. These challenges are social mobilization, co-operation, appropriation and a proactive stance. We conclude that a cyclic combination of dialectic and non-dialectic tools can increase participation, which though difficult to achieve is nevertheless necessary. During the development of this process, social mobilization is a prerequisite, whereas a proactive stance, the highest level of participation, requires continuous effort and the successive deployment of a variety of tools. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

"Jeitinho brasileiro" (Brazilian way of dealing with problems) has been described, in anthropological studies, as a usual practice in Brazilian culture to circumvent bureaucratic and legal impasses. This article offers an interactional perspective on this practice. Focus here is on how mediators use jeitinho to conclude an agreement between the complainant and complained in conciliation hearings involving consumer relations, by analyzing recorded and transcribed oral speech data. In light of the contributions of studies of talk-in-interaction, we examine how this strategy be discursively accomplished in this type of activity. The results show that even in the legal context, the jeitinho emerges, within a continuum, as a kind of action that is sometimes seen close to corruption sometimes close to favor exchanges. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]