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This article aims to study how historical documentaries handle the development of a tale. The initial premise is that documentaries are not a mere compilation and recounting of data but rather a narration constructed based on the perspective of the audiovisual language. To understand how filmmakers create the story, we studied documentary feature-length films on the Spanish Civil War between 2000 and 2014. The sequence has been taken as the unit of analysis, and a breakdown has been made of the types of images and sounds used according to duration, order, and predominance of plot or characters. The research bears on the concept of narrative strategy, which helps to understand the format's internal mechanism, considering three issues: the production approach, the visual solution, and the narrative decision. The study of the selected corpus detected eleven narrative strategies-eleven ways to portray the same event from the past, with different purposes and intentions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Brazil is an emerging country with tremendous potential and the ambition to become a major player in global politics. Achieving high international status, however, depends not only on aspiration, but on the intersubjective perceptions of states that are already established as great powers. Brazil’s rise is connected not only to its attributes of power but to how the country is perceived by others. This article advances the study of Brazil’s status by analyzing the image of the country according to the perceptions of the foreign policy community of the permanent members of the United Nations Security Council. It contributes to International Relations scholarship by addressing the relation between images of a nation and its level of prestige. The article argues that knowledge about Brazil is limited even among global elites and is mostly associated with superficial stereotypes [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The images, in their various forms of representation, act as promoters of social, political and educational meanings. In the school context, they are widely used in the approach of contents, aiming to collaborate in the student's understanding of concepts. However, in many cases, this has resulted in vicissitudes in the way they are presented in the classroom. The teacher, when using illustrations present in books, technologies and multimedia, needs criteria that can help them to better develop their practice, providing adequate dissemination of knowledge. This qualitative-descriptive study aimed to analyze the multimedia principles in teaching-learning in Chemistry, in images posted on an Instagram educational profile. For this, a profile was selected that addressed and discussed chemical content, based on static images of chemical bonds. The illustrations were classified and later analyzed, based on the Principles of Coherence, Spatial Contiguity and Signaling, related to the Reduction Load of Extraneous Processing, of the Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning. The Spatial Contiguity was satisfactory, following the relationship of proximity between text and image. The Principle of Signaling and Coherence need to be more delineated, regarding the presence of elements that can cause wrong/inappropriate understandings about chemical concepts. Posts on Social Networks such as Instagram can help in learning school content, but care is essential in the process of elaboration and insertion, aiming to collaborate with teaching. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents the research results based on an inquiry into the relationship between visuality and the right to the city for the particular case of Quito-Ecuador. The audiovisual communicative work on the social protests of the years 2019 and 2022 of the Acapana organization was taken as a case study, paying attention to the way in which its productions collaborated with the urban evolution, and in that sense, with the relationship between visuality and right to the city. It is conceived that the right to the city in relation to visuality defines realities and possibilities for cases such as the city of Quito, where certain audiovisual practices and narratives may be contributing to this. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay aims to evaluate four image representations made by students from a public school in Rio de Janeiro. These representations are usually called “scribbles” or “graffiti” because they are made in multiple spaces of the school. We will discuss, in these reflections, from the images, gender and sexualities, as well as problematize the bodies and desires in transit in the school environment. The images that will be presented are part of a group of 22 photographs taken by us in twelve classrooms. To develop the discussion, we will draw on the contributions of gender researchers and Cultural Studies. Our choice for analyzing images was due to our belief in the non-verbal discursive potential of graphic representations. We conclude that every text - whether imagetic or verbal - is not only reproduction, but also the production of factual meanings by the author / a or someone else. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

When a community university enables the creation of environmental education processes through collaborative educommunication activities (with images) that involve several social groups in order to provide them with access to their right to communication, the question that arises is how can the communicational perspective, which values collective knowledge, point towards a poetic possibility for community development? The objective of this study is to reflect upon the contribution of collaborative communication to development processes. Bibliographical research provides support to the reflections upon the research-intervention that generated the co-creation 28 amateur films. The contributions of Cultural Studies, Community Communication, and Educommunication are used as theoretical references. The processes built collaboratively have enabled community development in the field of Communication, exploring the creative possibilities offered by audiovisual media, which led to new perspectives about the participants themselves and the use of media, about being and acting in groups, and about the environment we inhabit. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyzes the ambiguity of an imaginary homecoming in Poema de Chile and Lagar by Gabriela Mistral, written while the Chilean poet was living abroad. In these works, her longing for Chile materializes through highly detailed perceptual scenes. Hinged on a neuroscience perspective, the analysis applies a vision of memory as a creative rather than reproductive process, the category of imagery and fmri observation of neural networks in memory and poetry creation. The hypothesis states that the creation of a poem, for Mistral and under certain circumstances, would translate into the activation of a multiperceptual mental imagery that allows her to travel through time and space to relive atmospheres, situations, and natural elements of her longed-for homeland. However, in Mistral's case this imaginary journey is quite ambivalent, since it carries the intuition of its own impossibility and converges in the subject's drive to disintegrate within the sensory elements remembered in the poems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims at investigating signs of memory in the movie Click (2006), directed by Frank Coraci, reflecting upon the timeline that links past, present and future, transiting across Didi-Huberman's concepts regarding visual experience, still approaching the past in Nietzsche's perspective and bringing images to reflection. Taking as an object a content that comes from fantasy and a character who travels in time, the study considers the temporality that passes through a creative memory. The process of looking at time and being more than an audience is the theme of this film's narrative. Exploring new territories is what Michael does every time he tries to get closer to the past, thus fabricating stories through this look that is updated in the here and now. The power of images, the film resources (lighting, sound, camera position) and the narrative building are also under analysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the following article, we have sought to highlight Cortázar's concept of the author-work-reader relationship. From his earliest novels, Cortázar revealed his intent to break with the established canon, with his most important work, Hopscotch, demonstrating this very rupture with respect to the traditional concept of the novel. Such an idea of fragmented stories that alternate with other types of discourse did, however, respond to what we believe is a more active type of participation from the reader who is beseiged by a variety of motives. This approach even leads the author to articulate different forms of discourse in which he can include "stories" k through frames, as is the case in Último round. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduced into Cape Verde in the late 1970s, tapestry was nationalised by the drawings of the cartoons, now called "portraits of the people's day-to-day life". These images have been incorporated into other artifacts such as pictures with collages, turning handicrafts into a fertile field of analysis regarding the country's visual construction processes. Starting with a survey of the main lines and points of inflection of the evolution of tapestry in Europe that favoured its advent in Cape Verde, the present paper examines the drawings seen on the 46 tapestries and 282 pictures with collages exhibited in November 2019 in Mindelo's souvenir shops, putting forward a set of hypotheses resulting from a first attempt at articulating these images and the leading propositions about the Cape Verdian identity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The images that individuals create of languages, people and cultures tend to refl ect their own communication and educational behaviours. These images can originate stereotypes, i.e., static, decontextualized, simplifi ed, and abbreviated images, present in common memory and accepted by particular groups (Castellotti & Moore 2002). Therefore, the diagnosis of images and perceptions that heritage language speakers associate with language and culture can enhance educational activity, particularly the comprehension of their directions and motivations, the adaptation of the teacher's speech in classroom, as well as the creation and selection of didactic materials that aim to contribute to the (re)perspectivation of negative images or stereotype deconstruction. The main purpose of the present study is to diagnose and analyse quantitatively and qualitatively the images that heritage speakers of Portuguese language in North America possess of the Portuguese language and culture. To collect data, we created an anonymous online questionnaire composed of 19 questions signifi cantly related to the respondents' contact with the language and Portuguese communities, as well as their perceptions of Portuguese population, language and culture. The questionnaire was taken by 10 heritage speakers (belonging to the second and third generation of Portuguese emigrants) who reside in the United States and Canada, countries with a signifi cant presence of Portuguese communities. The data reveals a collective thought of the respondents, composed of homogenous, crystallized, and stereotyped images regarding the Portuguese language and its utility, as well as its people and culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article discusses the curricular conceptions of three images that occupy a central place in school culture. The images are comic strips created by the illustrator Alexandre Beck, starring by the character Armandinho, which are central here, as the production of speeches about the school curriculum is discussed and analyzed. In this way, the strips in this text are triggered by the concept of cultural pedagogies, which educate, forge and question curricular concepts. The analysis is based on the curricular organization through disciplines and the selected and excluded content from school curricula is questioned. Finally, curriculum school policies are considered from a market perspective and the curriculum is defended as a cultural practice that is in constant motion, valuing differences and diversities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article is a case study of the exchanges and relationships that arose from the circulation of images in the Arhuaco community of Kutunzama in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. The circulation of photographs, which show the present and past history of the Arhuaco people, led to an exchange between the mamos, the community and myself --as ethnographer--. The purpose of this text is to show how the circulation of these photographs can be understood as a gift in a process of redistribution based on the evocative, material and sensual capacities of the images. This article consists of an ethnographic approach, developed between 2017 and 2019, on the basis which the community's forms of organization and kinship are understood via the elicitation of photographs and films, interviews and participant observation. This circulation also made it possible to activate narratives of the recent history of the village, related to the settlement and the context of territorial disputes in the area. Ethnographic photography allowed us to approach notions of time and space, and to broaden the Arhuaco notion of makruma. Rather than conceiving of this notion as a gift, it is understood as a process of redistribution in which the given object possesses the characteristics of the person who gives it and the return of the object (in this case the images) becomes a way of settling a spiritual debt. The text shows the image as a means of interaction, a means of encounter, a place of circulation and sensory experience. It approaches the image as a multisensory object and the photograph not only as a representational object, but also as one that traces social relations based on the indigenous notion of makruma. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Strongly inspired by the mysterious exercise of recording, protecting, and revealing the images in Luis Poirot's photographic archive, this article experiments with a mode of ethnographic writing that, rather than trying to convince the reader about the correctness of its conceptual propositions, it simply suggests certain secrets of light. These are images appearing in multiple temporalities as vivid evidence of the presence of absences. Attempting to avoid the sterilization of 'lived experience' and its multiple temporalities, often produced by the anthropological discipline itself, this article imagines an exposed anthropology. Rather than being interested in the creation and analysis of concepts, this exposed anthropology focuses on opening up suggestive spaces of coexistence with the presence of absence. Thus, it offers singular evidence of the encounter of worlds occurring beyond concepts. In particular, this work gives an account of how Poirot's photographic archive, and the present absences that inhabit his images affect, resonate and even incorporate the ethnographic writing itself within the same living archive. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this study was to determine the effect of imagery use by the professional football players in Turkey on their self-confidence levels. The study group comprised of 423 professional football players from 24 football clubs from different leagues in 2016-2017 season, Turkey. As data collection tools, in addition to the personal information form, "Sports Imagery Questionnaire" developed by Hall et al. (1998), adapted to Turkish by Vurgun (2010) and "Self-Confidence Scale" developed by Akın (2007) were used. Results showed a positive correlation between internal and external self-confidence and all sub-scales of imagery in the professional football players. Moreover, the cognitive general imagery, cognitive specific imagery, and motivational specific imagery predicted 21.4% of the internal self-confidence. Similarly, the cognitive general imagery and motivational specific imagery predicted 17.7% of external self-confidence for the professional football players. Finally, it was determined that the professional football players' self-confidence levels will increase as the level of imagery use increases. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: to identify the interests and orientations of studies on visual representations and the production of childhood images through cultural objects, with special emphasis on photography, which have become sources of information in the fields of history, cultural studies and education. Methodology: a qualitative documentary review, that focusses on the studies of society and culture of Latin America and Spain during the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries, with some allusions to works located in the pre-Hispanic world. Results: childhood was found to be a matter of interdisciplinary interest, for example, for health sciences, especially neurology, pediatrics, epidemiology. There were also found works on childhood from the human sciences, social sciences, education and the arts; In the last four areas of knowledge, in addition to a marked interest of studies in the perception of images of boys and girls, there is a preoccupation with children's representations in education through images. Conclusions: from a balance of the results of the studies addressed, opportunities for research on the social construction of children in education with visual sources are identified. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: To map areas of discussion about use of seclusion and restraint in healthcare, as expressed in motifs posted on Twitter. Materials and method: We adopted a qualitative approach with an archival and cross-sectional observational design. 188 images from Twitter postings were analyzed. Results: Five categories were identified: Informative and educational messages; Equipment as artifacts; Spatiality; The restrained subjects; Sociopolitical connotations of restraint. Conclusions: Based on our results we conclude that Twitter included several aspects; the intention to educate others, show the spatiality in relation to restraint, imagining characterized by objects and persons, and a sociopolitical connotation. This in turn means that Twitter posts offer nurses a chance to engage in social marketing and connoting an ethical dimension to a person associated with measures used to exert power over others. This is because communication surrounding certain controversial issues in healthcare is free from hierarchies on Twitter. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In recent years, many cases of religious intolerance and, consequently, religious racism, have been reported in Organs competent bodies and shared in the social networks of the internet, and in the media. Among countless cases, the religions that suffer the greatest attack are those of African origin such as Umbanda and Candomblé. This text, based on a doctoral thesis that aimed to study the difference through images, sought to think about the religious difference with an image and the student narratives posted on pages of the social network of the Internet Facebook, created for the purposes of this research (# difference). In this context, we aim to observe the developments of religious racism in the school environment and outside. How do students relate to racism and religious intolerance within the school and from their networks? Our analyzes start from reports and content shared by the media and on social networks, in an attempt to reflect on these and other issues in our contemporaneity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyzes the use of documentary photography in the photographic project of the Farm Security Administration (FSA) Historical Section carried out between 1935 and 1943. It was part of the propaganda program of Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration during the New Deal and responded to the social and economic crisis caused by the Great Depression. The main objective is to delve into the discussion about a kind of aesthetic point of view that is crystallized in a dramatic humanism and supported by a pictorial historical archive structure. Contradictorily, throughout the 20th century, this became the parameter for the prevailing definition of documentary, despite its nationalist-populist political and ideological origin. Building on a relational analysis, documentary photography is studied as a category, social practice and knowledge device that conveys a specific vision and social representation within a complex arrangement of particular economic, political and cultural components. A qualitative documentary method is employed based on primary sources, including an aesthetic and discursive relational analysis of the program's photographs. The article reveals --and this revelation is what makes it novel-- the weave of definitions of documentary that had to be developed and brought together, combining factual, dramatic and artistic elements, around the idea of a pictorial history whose humanistic promise would restore the social ties of American unity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Space is not an a priori. Your apprehension occurs in function of geographical spatialities. How do we construct spatial conceptions? Why do we categorize it between sacralities and profanities? The concepts of manna, charisma and hierophany, referring to the manifestation of the sacred, direct us to the understanding of the geographical space as a contribution of the religious phenomenon. Thus, our intention is to analyze how formulations of these concepts were significant to the consolidation of the Geography of Religion. To do so, we turn to the comparative studies of Émile Durkheim's classics: "Elemental Forms of Religious Life" (2008); of Marx Weber: "Society and Religion" (2009); of Mircea Eliade: "The sacred and Profane" (2010) and Zeny Rosendahl: "Hierópolis" (2009), among others. In a first approximation we point out your existence, the differentiation and qualification of the sacred and profane spaces defended by these authors. Only with these cognitive classifications did man of primordial times manage to locate and configure space. From now one we can formulate some geographical knowledge towards a Geography of Religion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Through this contribution we intend to develop a case study that challenges the field of serial audiovisual productions in Argentina in 2010. We will relate the audiovisual device that gives rise to practices of freedom as well as shifts of subjectivities through the visibility of practices of difference. The documentary series Nosotros, campesinos (El calefón cine, 2010), invites us to reflect on the role played by subjectivities and their agency in the distribution of otherness positions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Despite the fact that, in Brazil, teaching is a profession followed mostly by women, a lack of knowledge in feminist and gender studies among them is actually perceptible. This may have repercussions in the classroom, since textbooks often present stereotypical gender representations, which can influence on the construction of female students' identities. In this paper, we verify how women are portrayed and what their representativeness is in the images found in the Portuguese and Foreign Language textbooks chosen for Youth and Adult Education (in Portuguese, EJA) by the municipal school network of Pelotas. Our aim is to provide an example of how teachers can do this critical observation, as well as some basis for work in the classroom seeking to deconstruct stereotypical representations, the invisibility and discredit of women. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

During the First Portuguese Colonial Exhibition in 1934, in the city of Porto between June and September 1934, there was a black woman named Rosinha, from the Balinese ethnic group of Guinea, who became an attraction in the colony's pavilion. Registered in a eroticized pose by Domingos Alvão's lenses, Rosinha inspired sculptures, prints, postcards, advertisements, magazine covers and cartoons that saw in her a muse - a "Portuguese" - that personified the integrating project. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Summary: This article describes the importance of the Guided Imagery Technique for the management of maternity associated anxiety during pregnancy. Goal: To understand the scientific evidence regarding the Guided Imagery Technique for the management of maternity associated anxiety during pregnancy. Method: Integrative revision of the literature from the Cochrane Library database, using the platform EBSCO Host. From a total of 30 articles on the subject, 10 were included on this article. Results/Discussion: The scientific evidence analysis translates on the following topics: anxiety, stress management and physiological impact; relaxation and well-being; adherence to the Guided Imagery Technique; positive perception of the pregnancy; difficulties to its use. Conclusion: The Guided Imagery Technique seems to promote the relaxation and well being of the women and also, aids with the reduction of anxiety levels and perceived discomfort during pregnancy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article, I discuss the use of the Assyrian palace reliefs as sources, reviewing their linkage to an Assyrian kingship ideology. For this purpose, a contextualization of the Neo-Assyrian period (934-610 BCE) is made, revisiting the policy of imperial expansion, some foundations of the so-called real ideology and its historiographic uses in this research topic. The contextual aspects of the Assyrian palace reliefs require a consideration of what is attributed as their social function. I emphasize the spatiality of the reliefs and their accessibility to an audience, which are neglected elements in the treatment of these objects. A criticism of the notion of ideology can be constructed, which promotes approaches of the Assyrian palace reliefs as sources in context and an expanded comprehension of their social role. Instead of vehicles of an ideology, the reliefs can be considered as a materiality practiced for the sake of a memory in the palace environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article is devoted to the analysis of the construction of new system of gender images in the sociopolitical conditions in Russia during the last thirty ages. Based on Kress and Van Leeuwen multisemiotic theory and the ideas A. Dudareva, I.Groshev and M. Petrova, we conducted a research of gender images of women in the Soviet Union and modern Russian advertising. The data comes from 300 images of the Russian men and women in advertising. These 300 images were specifically chosen by the author in order to be acceptable for coding. As the result of the study, we developed the typology of gender images of woman in Russian advertisement. Our conclusion was that economic, political and socio-cultural factors were the main factors in the transformation of gender images in modern Russia. The gender of a woman, her body and figures as shown in the media, very often were object of sexual exploitation, when the impact of using the image and play with human sexual passion forces her to commit certain actions, such as buying goods. This characteristic of our commercialization of gender images turns a person, both men and women, into a commodity. Gender is becoming the object that can be purchased and can be enjoyed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper analyzes the construction of individual and collective self-images by the landowners and enslaved, public workers, authorities, liberal professionals and merchants of Miranda, Santa Rita de Nioaque, Campos de Vacaria and Campo Grande during the pastoral visit of the bishop of Cuiabá, D. Carlos Luiz D'Amour, in the south of the province of Mato Grosso in 1886. This elite sought to impose positive selfimages about the region and themselves, among them the idea that they participated in civilization, culture, refinement, sciences, humanities and the arts of good behavior. In order to do so, they attempted to construct an ostentatious self-presentation to exalt their role as pioneers, civilizers of backwoods, patriots and promoters of progress. This performance had symbolic, economic, social and political features not only to combat the stigmas of Mato Grosso as "frontier-sertão" and change its definition and identity but also to affirm its power of command in society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents the results of a research performed in the first volumes of the 14 Physics textbooks recommended by the Brazilian Textbook Program (PNLD) -- 2015, which aimed to analyze how sports images are addressed in Mechanics concepts. Categories created by Perales and Jiménez (2002) were used as analysis criteria and allowed understanding the characteristics of the images presented in the textbooks. Therefore, the results showed that although sports images are present in these books, the adoption of methods is required so this didactic tool is used efficiently, thus promoting the construction of the knowledge intended to be taught. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We examine, from a historiographic analysis, the graphic representation of vices and virtues in the Nueva corónica y buen gobierno by Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala. We contrast the representations of vices and virtues, both of the Indians and of the Spaniards, throughout the work, based on the canons in force at the time, which conceived history as an indispensable didactic tool for the education and moralization of society, and under the influence that Tridentine politics exerted on the author. Likewise, we observe the relationship that the author establishes between the notion of justice and the fear of punishment; thus, we propose to distinguish the violence associated with the order and the good Inca government from the scenes that denounce the sin of arrogance thought the portrayal of the abuses perpetrated by Spaniards and by some Indians in the colony. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In view of the relevance of the discussion on culture in Applied Linguistics, both in the field of mother tongue education as well as in foreign language teaching, we address the dialogue on the subject to the teaching of Spanish in Distance Education (DE). With an eye on the Spanish Language Program of the Federal University of Santa Catarina, in the DE mode, we aim to discuss the cultural representations of the Spanish-speaking countries in the images of the virtual environment of the Spanish Language I course. In accordance with the objective, we establish the following question: to what extent do the cultural representations in the analyzed images contribute to the deconstruction of reductionist and stereotyped conceptions about Spanishspeaking countries? The answer to this question comes from the analysis of the introductory images of the topics of the aforementioned course, based on theoretical bases of cultural studies, with special attention to the concepts of culture, identity and difference. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Cet article relate deux expériences vécues dans deux contextes différents: la première se réfère à notre position d'enseignant-chercheur responsable d'un dispositif de formation à distance durant un regroupement présentiel en 2013, au sein de l'Université de Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, pays d'Afrique subsaharienne. La seconde expérience est en lien avec les photographies réalisées lors de ce regroupement, présentées en tant que chercheur invité d'une université brésilienne lors d'une communication portant sur cette expérience de formation à distance. Le 8ème Séminaire du Laboratoire Educação e Imagemde l'UERJ, Brésil, s'est tenu en novembre 2014 avec pour thème général: L'usage des images dans les recherches en éducation: questions éthiques, production de connaissances et significations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article discusses the relationship between caricatures and its potential in the writing process of history. We will discuss issues related to the study of images as historical sources, the construction of laughter as historiographical object and specifically their integration in the caricature drawing. In a second step, we will present arguments in favor of a holistic view of caricatures considering them contiguously as instruments of humor and criticism. The Bruno Paul, Louis Raemaekers and Emmanuel Poiré works served us as case studies to elucidate some questions and show the operational capabilities of the presented theoretical assumptions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of the following bibliographical paper is to present an analysis of comic books images and their uses and restrictions when applied to education. It discuss the concept of image when it comes to Comic Books. It displays the relationship between comic books and the teaching and learning process. It assumes that education uses all experiences inherent to society in order to enhance knowledge. When it is assumed that such process is part of everyday life, reading comic books can be seen as a way to mediate, transmit, and appropriate culture and therefore implement education. It analyzes the use of Comic books at National High School Exam (ENEM) and compares it to the School Census. In addition, it shows the importance of using Comic Books within Education and the potential of images when it comes to cognitive processes. Finally, it shows the variance of official opinions regarding the use of Comic Books within education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The literature indicates that families of children and adolescents in sheltered care may be socially stigmatized and this has a negative impact on their well-being, the construction of their identity, and the success of family interventions. However, only a few studies have empirically investigated this social image. This study aimed to analyse the social image of the families of children and adolescents in different contexts in Portugal and Brazil. A sample of 378 participants (176 Portuguese and 202 Brazilian) was asked to indicate five attributes of families of children and adolescents in shelter care, and other five attributes of families of children and adolescents in the family context, varying from low to middle socioeconomic status. The data indicate that in both countries there is a predominance of negative attributes associated with families of children and adolescents in shelter care and low socioeconomic status, whereas a predominance of positive attributes was associated with families of children and adolescents in family context and middle socioeconomic status. It is highlighted the need of interventions, especially with professionals who work with this population, to bring out awareness of these social images. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

From an historical approach, this article focuses on the conditions under which images become schooling objects. By looking at the practices and conditions that support the categorization of images as a teaching device we aim to discuss the traditional distinction between didactic and artistic images. Three conditions that define images as schooling objects are identified and analyzed: the material display of images used at schools, the contexts of visualization and the conventions that shape the ways of seeing. We hope to offer some keys to promote other ways of approaching to images at contemporary schooling practices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It turns to be more and more challenging to place ourselves beyond our own words, which are often repeated and emptied. This text presents and thinks two new possibilities related to experiences of the Group of Studies and Researches "Philosophy for Children" (GEPFC/FCLAr/CNPq) which intends to face this challenge by "mixing up the thinking" and reading of the world. The first invents another way of reading "The Alphabet of Deleuze", dealing with words and images (drawings). The second one puts children and adults making philosophy together. "Mixing up thinking" is to look for different ways, making it possible to open ourselves to the new, to what the other is, doing exercises that permit us to conduct experiences with/of thinking, consequently widening the senses of our existence. Based on Benjamin we can see the philosophical experience consisting of three steps (moving): musical (in which it is composed), arquitectural (in which it is constructed) and textile (in which it is woven). Walking up the steps of the philosophical experience is conjugating with what the other is. A subject who philosophizes must be capable of being the other (not to be a word of power for the other), and get to know the other, be the other and be with the other (not to make the other smaller with our knowledge because this way we make us smaller as well). However, there are endless conjugations from which gestures come out as ways of saying (language). As far as it is loving, this gesture-language creates a new space between two non-coincident points and this is novelty that opens room for the philosophical experience taking us for from knowledge and power which make us smaller. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Despite the fact of being admired by writers such as Franz Kafka and Walter Benjamin among others, Robert Walser is still little known and published in Brazil. He was an author of poetry, novels, and micro- narratives. This article discusses how the writer deals in his texts with some images that are between the narratives of literary and plastic -visual fields. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Leisure in Africa under German colonial rule has a short history of three decades. The leisure was almost a privilege of whites during the colonial era. But some Africans were supporting the sports practices or leisure of white. Without the assistance of "natives" would not be possible to practice some sports or forms of recreation in the colonial context. Leisure also fostered aspirations among Africans and varied by region, ethnic, social or religious group, as well as the age or gender of individuals. The practice of sporting or leisure activities had an aggregate efect on the subaltern groups. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

THIS ARTICLE BRINGS REFLECTIONS AND OBSERVATIONS CONCERNING THE USE OF DIFFERENT TYPES OF VISUAL SOURCES TO CONSIDER SOME POSSIBILITIES OF INTERPRETATION ON URBAN GROUPS AND SECTORS OF THE CITY OF IMPERATRIZ-MA. THROUGH A NARRATIVE GUIDED BY THEORIES THAT EMPHASIZE THERE LATIONSHIP BETWEEN SPATIAL AND SOCIAL VARIABLES, WE USED A SET OF PHOTOGRAPHS, DIALOGUES WITH LOCALS AND DIRECT OBSERVATIONS TO INTERPRET APPROACHES, DISTANCES AND CONCENTRATIONS THAT MAKE UP THE URBAN DYNAMICS OF THIS CITY, CONSIDERED THE SECOND LARGEST IN THE STATE OF MARANHÃO. THINKING THE CITY ACCORDING TO THREE SITUATIONS, SCALES AND LEVELS, THERE IS A NEED TO THINK GEOMETRIZATION LOOK FOR MANY DIFFERENT TYPES OF SOURCES AND SITUATIONS PUT IN ETHNOGRAPHIC DO. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The film The Nightcrawler, 2014, discusses ethics and sensationalism in the news policemen present in television journalism. The cinematography under the exaggeration and bloody images that catch the eye and increase the audience, are part of the work Louis Bloom, played by actor Jake Gyllenhaal. This paper aims to analyze the film The Vulture under the ethics of logic in journalism and how it articulates a critique of today's society in its relationship with television. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The research aimed to analyze the didactic value (VD) of the images related to the concept of cell in biology books of High School and Higher Education, supported by Cognitivist Theory of Multimedia Learning (TCAM). With the technological advent there was a better development of the layout of production techniques and layout of the images in books, in order to help the study of abstract concepts and often complex, such as the cell. However sometimes it not happens. From the application of TCAM principles, we noted that the images related to cell concept presented VD elements with deviations on the principles of Consistency, Signaling and Spatial Contiguity, with great emphasis to the last one. It is necessary to establish eligibility criteria and inclusion of images in books, because the images represent potential resource to reduce abstraction and to facilitate conceptual learning. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article, we intend to reflect on the use of imagistic elements and their sources in colonial Brazil, especially in the poetry of Gregório de Matos, seventeenth century Brazilian poet. Moreover, we intend to demonstrate that, despite the distance from the Metropole (Portugal), the colony was also, in a certain way, immersed in the same sea of images and topical of that, as well as of the imagistic European tradition of the period, making large use of them in his poetics work, regardless of whether or not the artist has written the poems that are attributed to him. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The devotion to the souls in purgatory is a key element of the catholic societies. Currently, rhythms, beliefs and gestures that throughout the years made the connection between the worlds of alive and dead from the belief on this third place of the hereafter, keep being reproduced. As devotional objects from the everyday life, alminhas and altarpieces for the souls rarely appear on the historical sources. Since the nineties, there has been a historiographical renewal: there has been questioned the centrality of the written sources, and re-thinked the methodologies and study objects. Using trends like the history of images -- which connects history, history of art and anthropology together -- historians, start to build up a new history without texts. Using an historical and anthropological analysis, we will start from the images to understand the lines of permanency of the belief in purgatory in the long duration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article discusses the relationship between caricatures and its potential in the writing process of history. We will discuss issues related to the study of images as historical sources, the construction of laughter as historiographical object and specifically their integration in the caricature drawing. In a second step, we will present arguments in favor of a holistic view of caricatures considering them contiguously as instruments of humor and criticism. The Bruno Paul, Louis Raemaekers and Emmanuel Poiré works served us as case studies to elucidate some questions and show the operational capabilities of the presented theoretical assumptions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Born in Braga in January 1932, where she also died (March 2003), the Portuguese writer and translator Maria Ondina Braga travelled to several countries, lived in England, France, India (Goa), Angola, Macau and China. Those existential journeys to different corners of the world are fictionalized into her narratives, as in Estátua de Sal (Braga, 1965b) and A Passagem do Cabo (Braga, 1994) - which will be analyzed in this work. By drawing on imagology we shall discuss the mechanisms used by the narrator in the process of identity reconstruction, through the memory in the midst of alterity and the exotic 'Other', having Macao as a scenario. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Between the mid-sixteenth century and the eighteenth century, images were often present in publications dealing with monsters and served multiple purposes. First, they enabled a vivid visual description of the singular and monstrous body and its validation. Visual representations also played a relevant role in the interpretation of monstrous beings as prodigies interpretation of the birth of monstrous beings considered as prodigies, as they have a high symbolic content. By the end of the seventeenth century and especially in the first half of the eighteenth century, images acquire an important role in medical and scientific study and understanding of monsters. This new function was particularly significant in the activities and publications of two of the main scientific institutions of the period, the Royal Society of London and the Académie Royale des Sciences de Paris. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article conducted an analysis on the multiple images of the Devil, based on three illuminations of the 15th century. It is possible to observe the following elements: 1-the evil one as a head, with a huge open mouth, known as the Hellmouth; 2-as a human being, but with animalistic characteristics, carrying claws, the tail, among other things, still with devouring aspect; 3-represented in beautiful shape, as the rebel angel, Lucifer, expelled from heaven by God. Three images were analyzed; one from the narrative Vision of Tondal, which it is represented as the Beast Acheron, in the form of Hellmouth, and two images of the book Les Très Riches Heures of the Duc de Berry (The Very Rich Hours of the Duke of Berry), when figured with animalistic features in the image entitled "Inferno" (fl.108r) and with his angelic features in "The fall of the Rebel Angels" (fl. 64v). In the last two illuminations the Devil presents ruler of Hell elements. Moreover, it is clear that this has ambiguous features in Christian imagination. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

IN ORDER TO OUTLINE A PRELIMINARY RESEARCH AGENDA, FIRSTLY THE "GEOPOLITICS OF KNOWLEDGE", ACCORDING TO DECOLONIAL CONCEPTS, WILL BE COMPARED WITH TWO GEOGRAPHICAL APPROACHES INTERESTED IN IMAGES: THE DEBATE PRODUCED BY INTELLECTUALS OF THE CRITICAL GEOPOLITICS ON "POPULAR GEOPOLITICS" AND THE DISCUSSION ABOUT "POP GEOGRAPHIES". THEN, SOME OF THE DECOLONIAL APPROACHES THAT MORE RECENTLY HAVE EMPHASIZED THE IMAGE ANALYSIS WILL BE PRESENTORG. FACED WITH THE EXPOSITION OF THIS RANGE OF CONTRIBUTIONS, GEOGRAPHIES IN THE IMAGES AND GEOGRAPHIES OF THE IMAGES READY TO UNCOVER EUROCENTRISM AND THE COLONIALITY OF THE POWER THAT DESIGN AND MOVE REPRESENTATIONS GEO-HISTORICALLY REPRODUCED REGARDING THE OTHER AND ITS SPACES WILL BE FINALLY DELINEATED. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Urban planning is an hegemonic discourse in the process of production, reproduction and institutionalization of images of the city and its spatiality. In this article we are interested in establishing the way these discursive artifacts define public space, the way they represent its patterns, how do they imagine their addressees and which expectations rest on coastal areas of the city. The methodological approach combines the analysis of urban imageries through specific practices promoted over the city area along with a discursive analysis on prevailing signifiers at the documentary corpus which make evident the changes in strategic and urban planning in Rosario (Argentina). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]