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Brazilian agricultural productive process has increasingly become more dependent of agrotoxic use. In 2009, Brazil reached the spot of world's largest consumer of such products. The present research intends to investigate the perception of students from senior year of a rural high school placed on the Lerrovile district, city of Londrina-PR, upon the use of agrotoxic on food production and social-environmental issues caused due to it, as well as alternatives on the production of healthier food. On the execution of this paper, two work fronts were taken: on office and on field. Preliminarily, bibliographic survey, documental and electronic research, reading and selection of literature that characterize technified agriculture on one side, and agrotoxic consumption, on the other; organizing a set of questions and applying previously planned and scheduled interviews for data gathering through the development of a focal group. Therefore, although this research has approached economic and politic aspects intrinsic to agriculture modernization, it also addressed the recognition and the appreciation of cultural processes present on rural agricultural production experiences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to evaluate the use of the instructional material Welcome to Brazil - Level 1 (Fenton and McLarty, 2011) in a technological course in Tourism Management in the city of São Paulo. The textbook content was evaluated according to Ramos (2009) and a questionnaire was used to collect the students’ impressions. It was concluded that the textbook needs to be complemented for an effective result with the students. The theoretical foundation is based on Cunningsworth (1984), Hutchinson and Waters (1987), Dudley-Evans and St. John (1998), Tomlinson (1998, 2001), Ramos (2009). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents some results of a R+D project entitled “e Learning system for Practical Training of University students in Education Faculties (ForELearn)”, developed in Spain by the Universidad de Granada and the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and funded by the Spanish Ministry of Education. In a first phase, through the use of AulaWeb Learning Management System, a set of adaptations and improvements of this software application have been done for the design and development of an experimental course of Practicum supervision. Next, the implementation of this course by means of a group of face to face and online seminars provides experimental data for the analysis and discussion about the point of view of users (preservice teachers) that have tracked their practice supervision with AulaWeb.