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Educar para a saúde, segundo a Organização Mundial da Saúde - OMS, é um processo baseado em regras científicas que utiliza oportunidades educacionais planejadas para capacitar os indivíduos a tomarem decisões fundamentadas sobre assuntos relacionados à saúde. A Base Nacional Comum Curricular assevera que educar para a saúde tem sido um desafio. Apresentamos uma sequência de ensino sobre hábitos alimentares, desenvolvida em uma turma do 5º ano, contemplando as fases do ciclo investigativo. Os estudantes preencheram individualmente um questionário e, em grupos, refletiram sobre seus hábitos alimentares. Com os dados construíram tabelas e gráficos e realizaram análises e reflexões que culminaram na conclusão de que a alimentação da turma era saudável e que a dos meninos era mais saudável do que a das meninas. A atividade interdisciplinar e contextualizada favoreceu o diálogo e o protagonismo deles, contribuiu para desenvolver elementos do letramento estatístico e conscientizar sobre a necessidade da tomada de decisões assertivas com relação aos hábitos alimentares.

Prazosin (PRZ) is a type of drug used to treat hypertension. It is found to contaminate the aquatic environment, therefore has substantial threats to the ecosystem and human health. PRZ has been found to contaminate rivers in Malaysia which is presumed due to excretion and inappropriate disposal. A tropical bacterium, PR5 has been isolated from a PRZ contaminated site in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It has demonstrated its capabilities to utilize PRZ as a nutrient source and efficiently degrade PRZ. UPLC-TUV is used to measure PRZ concentration during growing cell assay and the results showed that isolate PR5 able to degrade 78% of 0.01 mM PRZ within 7 days of incubation. Species identification based on the 16S rRNA gene sequence showed isolate PR5 has a 99.66% similarity with Bacillus velezensis. This study reports on the first finding of PRZ biodegradation by Bacillus velezensis.

The aim of this paper is to take issue with the opinion that, in sociology, the concept of ‘society’ was equated with the nation-state. Firstly, a diachronic analysis of the term ‘society’, as used by the general public, shall be attempted: ‘society as a whole’ and ‘the social’. Secondly, the article shall illustrate that sociology has developed its own analytical concept of society within the space between the two lay terms. Thirdly, the fact that the process of globalisation yet again problematizes the distinction between ‘society as a whole’ and ‘the social’ shall be shown. The conclusion of the paper is that, by yet again, becoming aware of the three dimensions of the concept of ‘society’, we can provide cues for a theoretical reconstruction of the sociological concept of ‘society’ that will contribute to research on ‘society’ in the age of globalisation.

The purpose of this paper is to show the new directions for reconstruction of the concept of society made possible by another concept – that of hybridity. First we shall argue that in the era of globalisation, the conventional view perceiving society as a self-fulfilling entity is no longer valid. Next, we will critically review the spatial and temporal frameworks, which have served as the basis for the concept of society so far, basing our analysis on the recent theories of space and time. We shall then focus on the concept of hybridity, showing that it can serve as a pivot providing us with the clue for reconstruction of society making the latter valid again. Although ‘hybridity’ is a term predominantly used in cultural research, here we shall try to look at it from a sociological perspective. We shall demonstrate that ‘social hybridity’ presents a new way to see society as a complex entity made of various interactions both within and across borders. Lastly, in order to show how this theory can be applied in empirical research, we shall introduce the concept of ‘zones of interactivity’. We will show that the ‘social hybridity’ approach built around a core of the ‘zone’ concept makes it possible to resurrect ‘society’ helping us to see the present social change from a completely new perspective.