Community-based conservation with formal protection provides large collateral benefits to Amazonian migratory waterbirds.

Populations of migratory waterbirds are facing dramatic declines worldwide due to illegal hunting, habitat loss and climate change. Conservation strategies to reverse these trends are imperative, especially in tropical developing countries, which almost invariably allocate insufficient levels of investment for environmental protection. Here, we compared the effectiveness of sustainable-use Protected Areas (PAs) and Community-based Conservation (CBC) arrangements for the conservation of migratory waterbirds that breed on seasonal riverine sandy beaches in Brazilian Amazonia. We modeled local population responses of four migratory waterbird species on 155 beaches along a ~1,600 km section of a major tributary of the Amazon, as a function of community enforcement, official protection status, human pressure and landscape features. We show that 21 community-protected beaches within the study area host more than 80% of all sampled birds. Black Skimmers showed the most dramatic response, with breeding numbers 135-fold larger in CBC arrangements compared to beaches with no official protection status. The same pattern was observed for nesting Large-Billed and Yellow-Billed Terns. For the Near Threatened Orinoco Goose, PA status was the strongest predictor of local population size. These dramatic results demonstrate the value of protected refugia, achieved through the concerted action of participating local communities, to support breeding populations of key waterbird species. This highly-effective and low-cost conservation model can potentially be replicated in other regions of the developing world experiencing increasingly intensive exploitation of riverine natural resources.

Participatory and action research as a transformative praxis: responding to humanitarian crises from the margins.

This article reports on a small set of community-based participatory projects designed collaboratively by and for survivors directly affected by armed conflict in Guatemala and some of their family members in the North (i.e., in New Orleans, Louisiana, and New England). Local protagonists deeply scarred by war and gross violations of human rights drew on indigenous beliefs and practices, creativity, visual performance arts, and participatory and action research strategies to develop and perform collaborative community-based actions. These initiatives constitute a people's psychosocial praxis. Through their individual and collective narratives and actions, Mayan and African American women and Latinas perform a psychology from the "two-thirds world," one that draws on postcolonial theory and methodology to retheorize trauma and resilience. These voices, creative representations, and actions of women from the Global South transform earlier, partial efforts to decenter EuroAmerican epistemologies underlying dominant models of trauma that reduce complex collective phenomena to individual pathology, refer to continuous trauma as past, are ahistorical, and universalize culturally particular realities.

Sala de professores em instalação: considerações sobre a vivência estética na formação de educadores / Teachers' lounge in installation: considerations on the aesthetic grasp of living experience in the formation of teachers / Sala de profesores en instalación: consideraciones sobre la vivencia estética enla formación de educadores

A oficina com recursos expressivos e apresentada neste artigo como um método de formação contínua para profissionais da educação. Através da vivência estética foram problematizadas questões organizacionais, técnico-profissionais e pessoais pertinentes à organizaçãodo trabalho educativo, relacionando-as à estruturação de práticas pedagógicas inseridas no contexto específico de cada escola. Para a análise desta temática, foi realizada pesquisa participante em grupo com diferentes segmentos de trabalhadores de uma escola pública municipal de São Paulo. A ontologia de Martin Heidegger ofereceu suporte teórico e metodológico para a estruturação das oficinas e análise das produções estéticas. As considerações de Hannah Arendt sobre a crise da educação na América nortearam a compreensão a respeito da diluição da tradição e seus reflexos sobre a desvalorização da profissão docente. A leitura de Bachelard e Baudrillard, dentre outros, abriu possibilidades de superação dessa problemática, através do desvelamento da dimensão poética do espaço de trabalho. Para os participantes, as oficinas com recursos expressivos constituiram-se em um trabalho de alicerce, a partir da reflexão e construção de novos sentidos para o fazer educativo, evidenciando-se o caráter político e pedagógico da vivência estética

The workshop with expressive recourses is herein presented as a method of continous formation of professionals in the field of education. Through the aesthetic grasp of livind experience, organizational, techcnical-professional and personal matters were questioned, pertaining to the organization of the educational chores, relating them to the structuralization of pedagogical practices inserted in the specific context of each school. For analyzing such theme, participant research was carried out in group of workes of different segments of the public-school net of the state of São Paulo. Marting Heidegger's ontology offered the theoretical and methodological supports of the aesthetical production. Hannah Arendt's considerations on the educational crisis in the Americas set north to understanding the dilution of the tradition and its consequences on the devaluation of the teaching professionals. The reading of Bachelard and Baudrillard, among others, opened the possibilities for overcoming this problem through the revelation of the poetic dimension of the working space. For the participants, the workshops with expressive recourses were a foundation-laying activity from the reflection and construction of new feelings towards the educational deeds, evidencing the political and pedagogical character of the aesthetic grasp of living experience.

Sala de professores em instalação: considerações sobre a vivência estética na formação de educadores / Teachers' lounge in installation: considerations on the aesthetic grasp of living experience in the formation of teachers / Sala de profesores en instalación: consideraciones sobre la vivencia estética enla formación de educadores

A oficina com recursos expressivos e apresentada neste artigo como um método de formação contínua para profissionais da educação. Através da vivência estética foram problematizadas questões organizacionais, técnico-profissionais e pessoais pertinentes à organizaçãodo trabalho educativo, relacionando-as à estruturação de práticas pedagógicas inseridas no contexto específico de cada escola. Para a análise desta temática, foi realizada pesquisa participante em grupo com diferentes segmentos de trabalhadores de uma escola pública municipal de São Paulo. A ontologia de Martin Heidegger ofereceu suporte teórico e metodológico para a estruturação das oficinas e análise das produções estéticas. As considerações de Hannah Arendt sobre a crise da educação na América nortearam a compreensão a respeito da diluição da tradição e seus reflexos sobre a desvalorização da profissão docente. A leitura de Bachelard e Baudrillard, dentre outros, abriu possibilidades de superação dessa problemática, através do desvelamento da dimensão poética do espaço de trabalho. Para os participantes, as oficinas com recursos expressivos constituiram-se em um trabalho de alicerce, a partir da reflexão e construção de novos sentidos para o fazer educativo, evidenciando-se o caráter político e pedagógico da vivência estética (AU)

The workshop with expressive recourses is herein presented as a method of continous formation of professionals in the field of education. Through the aesthetic grasp of livind experience, organizational, techcnical-professional and personal matters were questioned, pertaining to the organization of the educational chores, relating them to the structuralization of pedagogical practices inserted in the specific context of each school. For analyzing such theme, participant research was carried out in group of workes of different segments of the public-school net of the state of São Paulo. Marting Heidegger's ontology offered the theoretical and methodological supports of the aesthetical production. Hannah Arendt's considerations on the educational crisis in the Americas set north to understanding the dilution of the tradition and its consequences on the devaluation of the teaching professionals. The reading of Bachelard and Baudrillard, among others, opened the possibilities for overcoming this problem through the revelation of the poetic dimension of the working space. For the participants, the workshops with expressive recourses were a foundation-laying activity from the reflection and construction of new feelings towards the educational deeds, evidencing the political and pedagogical character of the aesthetic grasp of living experience. (AU)